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Should there be a national secession?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Reeko, Feb 21, 2023.

  1. DonnyMost

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    Most of the articles I posted said as such. The west coast has a strong secessionist bent to it, especially during the Trump years. Generally the left wants to leave, the right wants to fight. Not a big surprise.

    You can bet your ass that if Georgia keeps turning blue she's gonna cry about an intrastate civil war there too, lulz.
     
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  2. tinman

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    How anyone takes MTG seriously is beyond me, she spews crap to rile up the base and raise money, hell, she now has a BFF in the speaker and even Hannity agrees with her..............the lady is a joke and the people who voted her in and then reelected her are a joke to.
     
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    LOL, go to any city in America and you'll figure out quickly who needs the support. It's not the people who typically vote Republican.
     
  5. rocketsjudoka

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    Just pointing out again that this isn't some "anarchist" in Seattle. She is not only an elected US Representative she also sits on the Homeland Security Committee.
     
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    BOTH SIDES!
     
  7. Mr.Scarface

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    LOL. Just go down to SEC country. It is Republicans who get the VAST majority of aid. There are more poor white people than total black population in this country.
     
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    But the bright red areas are the taker areas.....
     
  9. Amiga

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    She's 160 years too late for secession. But it wouldn't be a bad experiment to test out the Hong Kong model with a single US State for a decade. Let the most reddish (or bluish) state secede and be its own independent country for a decade. Allow two years for people to decide to move in or out, and then lock down the border. After 12 years, reintegrate.
     
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    Just throwing this out there. If there was ever a hypothetical ideological civil war between the right and left in this country, the right would easily win in a heartbeat. Their decades of military tactical gear fetish would pay off. The right disproportionately own land and guns compared to the left.

    So this is something the vast majority of leftists already know and are more adverse to wanting that type of smoke compared to the right.
     
  11. Reeko

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    u severely overestimate how many people would actually participate in a Civil War

    not every right winger is gonna go along with that bullsh*t, and most of them don’t know a damn thing about fighting

    just as people left the Republican party after Jan 6th and over abortion rights, u will see many leave in droves if they went to the extreme of instigating a Civil War because there is no going back from that
     
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  12. rocketsjudoka

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    While Republicans might have more guns than Democrats most of the economy is controlled by Democratic leaning areas. Short of using weapons of mass destruction a new civil war the Seccesionist side will have the same problem that the original Confederacy had. A lack of population and industrial base.
     
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  13. tinman

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    Mexico really needs to be a separate country
    It’s weird how they don’t have to pay taxes
    Plus they have more gangs and drug dealers it’s like a second California
    @ROXRAN @Commodore @basso
     
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    Can we not agree that when in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
     
  15. Commodore

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    The American Civil War is a misnomer. It was two regions in conflict.

    Rwanda was a civil war, with neighbors fighting neighbors.
     
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    Are you saying that the Blacks are keeping the Whites down?

    Just asking questions.
     
  18. rocketsjudoka

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    Sure except this isn’t 1776. Even Red areas actually have taxation with representation. In fact the federal structure of the Constitution gives low population red states percapita more representation than high population blue states.
     
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    Y’all know that MTG is getting divorced, right?

    There is this saying. When the only tool you own is a hammer, all your problems start to look like nails.
     
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    This is the funniest thing to talk to Republicans about. If you talk to any Republicans in real life @basso @Commodore these folks are brainwashed into thinking that red leaning states are independent and don't rely on the federal government. They don't realize its new york and California that subsidies their crappy infrastructure and public utilities.

    8 of the top 10 states that receive funding are all red states yet these folks have audacity to tell others to "lift themselves up by the boot strap."

    https://balancingeverything.com/most-federally-dependent-states/

    I challenge every single of you to talk a republican in real life about this. They've all been brainwashed into thinking how California and new york are bankrupt and they're fiscally responsible.

    Idiots
     

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