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Is... there any precedent or process for... un-granting statehood, and returning it to being a territory?
As someone who can't stop playing EUV: oh yes.
Hah!
I never got into EU or HOI (beyond just watching youtubers paint maps, with commentary), but I have definitely had moments in Stellaris when I realized:
Fuck, this other empire doesn't like me and is going to out economy me in a few years, if I don't overhaul my own entire economy.
So then I sit down and rework the whole uh, sector type governance structure, re-specialize various planetary economies... and that does essentially mean that some systems that used to be their own sector or the functional regional capitol, well, now they're smaller fish in a reorganizrd, bigger pond.
I'll have to try Stellaris again. I didn't really play it a ton, so I never really wrapped my brain around it.
EUV has been really fun. A lot more fun than I've had in previous Paradox grand strategy games. It's also somehow both more complex and more accessible than EUIV.
Well, I have a love hate/relationship with Paradox.
On the one hand, they make basically perfect games for autists, such as myself.
On the other hand, their business model is fucking atrocious.
Oh, you want to play the modern version of the game? Well, now it costs 3 or 4 times as much, with all the DLC you'll either need, or be tempted to buy.
So... as much as I enjoyed Stellaris, I'd honestly have to recommend you not try it, unless you've got a few hundred dollars that you're ok with evaporating.
Oh, I already own it lol... I don't know which (if any) dlc I have though.
Well, best of luck with the potential addiction problem, lol.
Would be useful if those fed dollars the author is decrying was much more than military jobs and general entitlements like ag grants, Medicaid, and SNAP. Like yeah, their legislators don't care about those folks either. But we ain't exactly pulling a TVA anymore here so playing like neolib Clinton era bare minimum spending on poverty is a grand handout is pretty silly. For the most part nobody in the South or the Rust belt has gotten shit post NAFTA. The new deal has been dead for a long time but we're sure they owe us for managing poverty.
I've said it before, but we need to start shutting down all these miniscule towns that have no reason for existing. They are nothing but an economic and social drain on the country.
Kick someone out of their home because they aren’t profitable enough wtf?
Hey, if they want to stay when the water, electric, sewage, roads, fire department, police, and all other publicly subsidized services are removed they are welcome to it. We all shouldn't have to pay because a handful of people can't adjust to the century they live in.
Uoj going to pay for my housing? How will your state handle the refugee crisis?
I don't know why they gotta show that photo. I see opportunity there. A good neighborhood is one where I can take my welder and grinder to the backyard and do whatever the whole day and nobody is bothered by the noise. Not that they accept the noise but that they live far enough from me to not hear or be bothered by the noise. If you can do that, that's a good engineering neighborhood.
I fact checked the ratios of federal spending to federal tax receipts, for the three states mentioned in the substack. https://smartasset.com/data-studies/states-most-dependent-on-the-federal-government-2022
Could I have help with more fact checking? The reasoning is sound, but I've been burnt before by poorly sourced opinion pieces
The West Coast and the North East states need to leave these useless bloodsuckers behind.