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  • ExtremeDullard@piefed.socialEnglish
    83·
    7 days ago

    How is it called again when bunch of states feel the need to sidestep the Union and band together to form a sort of separate union, I wonder? Cessation? Excession? Circumcision? I just can’t remember…

    It’s high time California became its own state. And if other like-minded states want to join the party, so much the better. The current Union is just shitting the bed at this point.

    • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      10·
      7 days ago

      Republicans would love it if a bunch of blue states took their electoral votes with them. The US would never go blue again.

        • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
          5·
          7 days ago

          For sure. States need to pursue de facto autonomy but avoid the word or concept of secession, at least for now. This is exactly what they should be doing but for every issue.

      • ExtremeDullard@piefed.socialEnglish
        111·
        7 days ago

        The red states are like the far-flung French overseas territories in the carribeans and in the Indian ocean: they complain loudly about France and keep talking about independence all the time, but the last thing they want is to actually get it, because then they’d become the ultra-poor shithole countries they truly are.

        A union of red states only would be a third-rate nation. And it’s not hypothetical: the Confederacy was notably poorer than the North, even though they had slavery. A new confederacy today would be even poorer.

      • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
        9·
        7 days ago

        We are the states that contribute the most into the feds pocket books. If we go, less army, less programs, less everything.