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Yea I'd thought if that too. But honestly I don't see how this goes in any other direction aside from sedition and then eventually being attacked by the seditionists :/

I hope you're right. It's not like the military power would allow no territorial bridges from one side of the coast to another.

I think this would work until a state started to get gobbled up and enough states don't want to render aid :/

Didn't Russia lose land and people from the perimeter of its nation leaving a fairly intact centralized nation? Our case isn't as simple as north and south anymore.

And I'm resigned with blood being spilt over this. MTG was right about one thing: this is an abusive relationship. And the abusers would be leaving. We're not gonna have peace when one side has built their entire tribal identity on war with the other side. So they can leave.

It's better than dealing with their domestic terror I'm and whittling away at specific peoples rights just because they don't like them.

It is brutal. But don't for one fucking second blame the left. This would be literally what they're clamoring for now.

I'm sorry I thought you meant the seditious states joining NATO. I would have thought america would retain membership since were the bulk of its resources to begin with, no?

But we keep the name America, not new america, or anything else. The seditionists can find a new name.

Oh thats a good point. I wonder how much military hardware would be parked along that border then.

You don't think there's a difference between those with nothing living in destitution pushing back on the machine that forced them there compared to calling for dissolution of the union? One of these groups is fairly marginalized, the other seems... to want to enshrine a theocratic form of government with even more guns to harm the people they don't like? Just comparing the rhetoric between AOC and MTG.

Like if you don't appreciate the violence of the article you linked, I guess I can get that (unite the right violence aside), but it seems a false equivalence to me.

I hadn't considered them joining NATO. Seems unlikely to me though :/

I'd hesitate to call her our AOC. AOC hasn't ever to my knowledge called for violence, or denigrated people because of who they are. If I'm wrong I'm happy to see a link.

But comparing them only provides legitimacy to theocratic fascist domestic terrorist right.

My concern here is Russia and China manipulating those smaller states/unions and slowly taking over the former states of America one by one. But you're dam right about finding them. I'm also in a liberal net positive state and not interested in funding them.

I don't think this is even remotely close to how it would go irrelevant of leanings.

Whoever secedes gets nothing. They become enemy number 1 to the US government. There's no "keep this or that because it was in my former state". It's "the US military strolled up in an M1A1 Super Abraham's and told you there taking their stuff back. Those states, or whatever they'd like to call themselves at that point, would be a pariah to America. And easy pickings for another nation to influence and trade with, to manipulate.

Maybe there would be trade deals but I wouldn't count on it.

And once Texas realizes they'll be financially carrying all those people, they'll just secede from those seditionists.

I can. She's exactly who those people want representing them. We don't take her seriously at our own risk.

To make sure I'm interpreting the graph correctly, there is more snow pack than the median for this time of the year?

If so, I'd think that'd be a good thing to help offset drought to some extent/degree/amount?