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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 45 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I mean... as long as California takes Colorado and New Mexico with it, I see no real issues with that. We get the economy, the nature, and the nukes.

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We'll bring along Oregon and Washington, at least the west halves, and call the country the Collective of American States.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Sounds good to my rainy ears here in Seattle 😎

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lets go for the Fallout 2 version I want to annoy everyone.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have never seen this version before. This flag makes even less sense than the standard NCR flag.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Its from Fallout 2 and was used in some Fallout New Vegas concept art.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Something that I learned recently makes this flag make absolutely no sense.

The bear on the flag of The Republic of California, is extinct, and has been since the 1920s. Therefore in the Fallout universe, that bear is also extinct. None of them could have mutated into the two headed version. Where the heck did this flag come from?

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They still would have had the original California flag; the NCR flag would have been based on it, probably to deliberately harken back to the time before the restructuring of the country into the 13 Commonwealths divided the state in two

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

Yep. Best Christmas present they could offer.

Do it. Push her harder.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Aren’t the nukes in Montana and the dakotas? Though I’m under the impression we also keep some silos in the rural northeast.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Here is a handy map of some of our nukes as of 2006 https://uploads.fas.org/sites/4/NotebookMap.pdf

But also? The expertise to maintain and build nukes are very much California and New Mexico as that is where the three major NNSA labs and their support facilities are.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did not expect the distribution to be like that, especially with blue states having nearly as many as red and swing states combined. For anyone curious: Blue state nukes-4324 Red state nukes-2266 Swing state nukes-2454

Washington really surprised me but it makes a lot of sense actually. I knew there were none at Wright patt because you learn that growing up in Dayton, they can’t risk the aliens.

And yeah I knew albequerque is one of the most critical cities for our ability to project nuclear force and that we make and test them in New Mexico and that Colorado is home to norad command. I just had also thought there were some hidden in Appalachia in upstate New York or something or one of the other eastern mountain ranges

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Swing states might have voted Trump, but those coward tards would follow the money in a secession situation, so I think the majority and their nukes would be on the sane blue side

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Please don't use ableist hate speech.

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Eh, k. Coward garbage humans.* FTFY.