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This is such an interesting article, thanks for sharing :)
In general, i'm pro-balkanization mostly because i don't see a common future for the people in the US anymore, and splitting up the region into smaller communities might have the advantage that people can hold their representatives more directly liable, because they live closer-by.
It would be good if the government actually protected the american people from economic hardship. A quarter of americans can't find jobs who cover life's needs, and the situation is gonna get much worse over the next 10 years due to automation and AI.
In that sense, implementing a universal basic income would be good, though i'm not sure what the conservative speakers had in mind with that.
You might have to.
If the USA will split up in the evangelical right and liberal left then you'll end up with one super power, now unburdened by the anchor weight of the red states, and one theocratic third world banana republic dictatorship that will be unable to feed its own population
At this point, is any red states even able to take care of itself without federal support?
Either way, I'm all for it too, let these antisocial religious idiots suffer in their own little north korea corner, but be sure they won't get any nukes as they're very Apocalypse culty
Part of the problem is that the divide is more urban vs rural than state by state. We might end up with dozens of city states with all the tech and money, but none of the staples of life and vast tracts of impoverished rural thocracies that can only survive by selling food and raw materials to the city states.
It's gonna be real interesting the first time those rural fuckers needs an MRI or complicated surgery, cause that's all in blueland.
The Bible says medicine is wicked
Can I get a chapter and verse?
Eh, it's somewhere in the back
I read the Bible, I must have missed that. I recall "is there no balm in Gilead?"
Oh yeah, it's way way after the Gilead stuff. Near the back
I've searched, both when I first asked and after your last reply. I can't find anything. Maybe my search terms are faulty. I know Jesus referenced physicians, but after that, I don't know, can't find anything.
I don't mean to be rude, but I think your critical reading and media literacy skills are faulty if you are still taking my comment seriously
Poe's law is a thing, mate.
That's also written somewhere in the back of the Bible
Jesus is your MRI! Pray and He will reveal!
Just like Jesus pays child support and like Jesus heals people...oh wait. Right
Is that really any different from the way it is now?
Sounds like you're describing Panam. Let the hunger games begin I guess.
Will there be refugee programs for those of us in red states? The second you give these fuckers Gilead, they’ll start culling LGBT people and life will get a lot worse for anyone with the wrong amount of melanin in their skin.
If it happens, I'm going full Tubman. I'll be the underground railroad to whomever needs to escape.
There are many of us that will help get you all to sanity....not enough yet but hopefully we will act right when we need to.
i dunno texas and ohio make a LOT of food
I imagine Texas, maybe, but it’s a gas station at that point I’d imagine as things that are different to that would probably want to leave.
A lot of everywhere else would be a whole mess with progressive cities being screwed by the rest of the state with many of them leaving before the borders close and those that couldn’t being trapped in hell.
I'll take NE & NY together.
I'm sure West Coast can figure out their group.
I don't give a flying fuck about anyone else.
is NE north east?
GNU England
NE is Nebraska. Dude doesn't know what they're saying.