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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago (1 children)

God I would love the blue states to pull away so we can watch the red states cannibalize each other.

They need us. We definitely don't need them.

[–] okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The ones in the middle are so few and far between, it makes sense for a Fallout: New Vegas military expansion from the east, west, and south. Carve up the middle so each gets a slice of the bread basket.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Hoover Dam will be ours! - an NCR citizen

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago (5 children)

What's up with her saying things I agree with lately?

We need at least to be split into two countries if not more. There is no reconciliation possible at this point.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 10 points 10 months ago

Long live Cascadia!

[–] SanctimoniousApe@piefed.social 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'll need a new family, then. sigh

EDIT: Okay, I need one now, but it'll be official post-split.

[–] Kacarott@aussie.zone 2 points 10 months ago

It's a new country, not a new planet. Families can live across borders

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah? What's the split you have in mind?

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Basically middle america and the south could be a country and then the eastern seaboard and the west coast could be their own countries as well.

[–] abir_v@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Please don't lump me in with the South, thanks

~ Coloradan

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Haha. I think Colorado would be a part of the western country.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think when they said “middle America” they meant the straight line of states directly east of us, fellow Coloradan.

[–] abir_v@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My hypothetical worry lies with Utah, then. How do they work in what I'm calling the Craft Beer Union?

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

They’re like Lesotho, or the Vatican. lol

[–] fadingembers@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Isn't almost every state basically a 50/50 split only slightly leaning one way or the other with the majority of each faction separated by urban and rural/suburban living? Hell, Texas has the second largest LGBT population in the country.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

No, there are plenty of states that are very much blue or very much red.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'd love to see that and laugh my ass off

Red states aren't capable of feeding their own population without cash from the blue states. A split would immediately result in a world power and a theocratic third world country which would make African countries organize a "we are the world" to help and feed the hungry there.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Red states sole economy is usually only Tourism, and soybeans/alfalfa and maybe milk/chicken, and this heavily relies on Immigrant labor 100%, and its prone and susceptible to disruption.

[–] uss_entrepreneur@startrek.website 15 points 10 months ago

That’s bonkers. But release the Epstein files.

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

She should start and GTFO.

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 months ago

Use the mississippi river, then go straight east to D.C. Anyone that identifies as Republican leaders are anti-American. Everyone else is American. Easy fix

[–] jwt@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago

If the confederacy gets to keep the military industrial complex in the divorce (which I guess they will because it gives them a hard peepee) they'll be invading the union in no time, because they have no income to speak of.

[–] thegr8goldfish@startrek.website 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Dibs on the name USA. They can be Donlandia or the Kingdom of Magastan or Dumbass Island.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

WSA, ESA, NSA, SSA. No one gets USA.

Yes, NSA for the top half of the middle wasteland. Overload that TLA.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@piefed.social 2 points 10 months ago

What? No respect for the Social Security Administration?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 10 months ago

SOUTHERN oblast. florida will have to be rename MAR-ALOGO LANDIA.