• Alaskaball [comrade/them]@hexbear.netM
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    can’t really actually secede up here unless we get industrialized and developed enough to either produce the food we need to sustain ourselves or process our raw resources into commodities for sale, or else we’re gonna either have an immediate famine or be turned into a resource colony that’ll get absolutely pillaged by finance capital. Of course the third option is to secede then swear fealty to another country which would be interesting as long as it isn’t canada

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      You think the crackers seeing seceding as remedy for all their problems know that? Their knowledge about economy is just “throw money until things magically improve” and it’s hardly rare since if you look at entire Ukraine war and crisis handling, federal govt think the same.

      That said, pokes with stick do it, balkanize

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        Its even funnier to me because a whole lot of the dumbass hoity-toity moderately wealthier than average dipshits that live out in Eagle River, an outskirt community district to the municipality of Anchorage, are constantly bickering to secede from Anchorage and become their own independent town regardless of the fact that they literally share resource infrastructure with the Municipality.

        Here’s an article from a few years back on it and heres an audio clip from Chapo Trap House that talks about another bunch of white dipshits trying to do the exact same thing a few years prior to that called - out of fucking everything possible - Eagles Landing! At least we have the fucking bird up here to justify naming shit after it.

    • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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      The lathe is having a weird one.

      BREAKING NEWS: ALASKA HAS SECEDED FROM THE UNITED STATES “Local authorities are a pledging a union with the country of Nepal. They say say ‘For too long have we suffered under the American yoke, and for too long has Nepal been a land-locked nation. We figured we’d solve two birds with one stone.’ Canada is more than a little offended but courteously accepting of its new Nepalese neighbor.”

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]@hexbear.netM
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        And have the people upstream of the Colorado River pour in vats of VX to own the commiefornians? Joking on that last bit, but the reliance on the Colorado River isn’t.

        Cali nerds need to get their water situation under control if they really want to set themselves on the path to autarky

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          Yes. That shit is fucked up. Mind you, if California operated desalinization plants and shut down all golf courses and fake-ass suburban lawns, it would be more viable.

          I should also add that as a Midwesterner, I am prepared to fight Californians to the death in the Water Wars. They can take Minnesota over my cold, dead body.

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            Minnesota will from henceforth be “Northern California”. We will drain lake Superior for our lawns and carwashes.

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    If it weren’t for all the abject human suffering it would be funny to see Texas Republicans act like they’re Dam Houston for 12 hours until the entire state becam “Cartel-sylvania”

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    As a Californian, I critically support all secession movements in the imperial core based on the assumption that they would further weaken US imperial hegemony.

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    I know that the surveyors probably anticipate and account for this, but I always believe these surveys show the average American answers stuff randomly. I don’t think the average person really understands what secession would entail nor would they want to try to achieve it.

    And this isn’t something based on evidence I’ve done, this is more of a goosebumps feeling I get: I really think most Americans who promote secession want a white ethnostate and that’s what they think secession means. That’s definitely what most Texan secessionists I’ve met want. They think an independent Texas would immediately become entirely white. What it would actually become is a Saudi Arabian vassal state since the KSA would want to keep all their refineries, ports, and shipping lanes along the gulf coast

    the only Americans I believe when it comes to secession are indigenous people. I don’t trust crackers for a second unless it’s one of you people trying to balkanize the great satan

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      I very much agree with all that. I think another part of it is that a lot of people buy into the whole myth of rugged individualism that Americans are brought up into, and have deep mistrust for having a central government. As material conditions continue to decline, people are increasingly blaming the federal government for all their problems. They don’t understand how a modern economy works, they don’t know where the goods they consume come from. The have this romanticized frontier mindset that if their state splits off then they’ll just be completely self sufficient.