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All hail The New California Republic. But in all seriousness, it wouldn't surprise me if the United States has a balkanization event happen in the near future.
The US does not need balkanization.
We have a single region that has been rebellious and trying to corrupt and destroy the rest of the union since the founding, because they cannot see any governmental or religious structure as legitimate unless it is founded on the principles of racism. This is their own words.
Lincoln was wrong to readmit the south, we should have let Sherman finish then build a wall around them, while letting any slaves who wanted to escape do so.
Either that or we need to restart reconstruction today with absolute brutality.
Before they committed treason against the US alone, this time they allied with Russia to bring us down.
Isn't a ton of the current Trump administration rot coming from Silicon Valley?
Isn't Silicon Valley in California?
The South was under the Reconstruction plan, complete with Marshall Law and Freedman's Bureaus and all sorts of additional federal oversight, untilThe Compromise of 1877 gave Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency at the cost of his soul.
Lincoln didn't simply readmit the South. He readmitted 9 million enslaved Americans as proper first class citizens. And the initial wave of democratization gave birth to a brief but generally optimistic egalitarian glimpse of a potential future.
Lincoln's big mistake was not putting Smedly Butler into his VP seat. Letting the country revert to Andrew Johnson was the big blunder. One that Grant had to spend two terms mopping up.
But that's all distant history. The modern fascist presidency is born out of Manhattan Island. The modern Texas/Florida/Ohio Axis of Evil is a product of Yale Business School. Stanford Alumni are fucking us up far more today than some Daughters of the Confederacy could have dreamed.
This isn't a North/South problem. It's a turf war between extractive industry and the professional class.
Yeah, because if there's two things we know silicon valley loves it's the core issues of the Trump administrafion:
Immigration restrictions
Tariffs
He was voted in purely about the south, who are not only fascists to the core (if what they consider to be Christo-fascists).
The thing is: their religion, the southern Baptist church, was founded because they wanted a religion whose core dogma was that slavery was a commandment from God. Hence their basing the Sbc around the curse of Ham justifying slavery. The nazis themselves based the Nuremberg Laws off Jim crow, only without the 1 drop rule.
This is 100% the south, the restriction of women's rights, the anti-lgbt, racism, isolation ism.
They've been sold that Russia is their best ally because it is the last True (read: white) Christian Nation fighting against the atheist and Muslim hordes who have infested Europe.
Silicon valley doesn't want any of this bullshit, they just want less regulation. This has been a nightmare for them, Europe is starting their own competitors and regulating the cloud providers.
Silicon valley is smart, this whole thing has the backwards inbred balls-over-brains energy of the south.
Show me one Manhattan anyone who thinks those tariffs are a good idea.
Super popular in the south though, finally those rich northerners will have to pay them to do the work, instead of buying stuff from the dirty Mexicans.
Go pick up a copy of The Network State
Are you fucking insane?
The ceos of most tech companies are Asian!
Google, Microsoft, Nvidia.
trump is literally an immigrant, so.
As is musk, and he stood up against the h1b thing pretty hard for 5 minutes.
They don't want to lose their slaves.
yeah lmao
*Benjamin Butler
Ack, excuse me
It's cool, I love Smedley as well, greatest Marine ever.
I dont think the lines are the same anymore. Social media and 24/7 news has given people in plenty of northern regions the same viewpoints. A civil war would not be north vs. south. it would be neighbor vs neighbor
I always hear this.
I am brown and grew up in the Midwest.
Then my family moved to the south.
This is like comparing Canadians who care about hockey with the Khmer Rouge exterminating much of their population.
The south is just infinitely worse in literally every way.
there are a lot of nice people in the south. there are a lot of brown people in the south. you think everyone needs to suffer brutality for what the worst do?
It seems to be the norm that the many suffer for the actions of the few.
we can attack and punish each other as the few would like or work together. that requires us to acknowledge common humanity and rally together for our shared well-being.
You're asking us to nourish monsters who have only ever shown brutal violent hate.
Go find a wild tiger and try to win them over with kindness and nurturing, see how well that works.
I'm sure a lot of people thought they could win the nazis over with kindness. Sure a lot of slaves hoped letting the rapes happen would somehow make them stop.
Some people just have darkness in their hearts, and society must be protected from them for everyone's sake.
In the Midwest there are bad people too.
The difference?
In the Midwest when a racist is being a racist, people say shit, they stand up to them!
In the south the bystanders just laugh, at worst they laugh nervously.
Which is why it's a vile and corrupt society.
Police yourself, or don't be surprised to be judged as evil.
in the midwest, it's political brainrot, not racism or things like that.
I agree.
But that's vastly better.
The deep, DEEP seated racial hatred of the south is a terrifying thing and is something that has lasted literal centuries, they switched parties over that.
The Midwest at least has some hope.
idk how bad the south is, i've never been around that area of the US, just don't know anybody down there, or really have a reason to go there anyway. But i don't think it's irreversible, i'm sure there are problematic areas, as there are in any area, but idk what the whole of it looks like.
I think you might be wrong.
They switched parties after they'd been with democrats since the founding, because democrats started supporting civil rights.
Its just baked so deep for them.
there are bad and good people everywhere. i do not endorse painting millions as deserving suffering; there's plenty of that already.
ordinary americans can find their way out of this mess together or tear each other apart. which do you imagine suits those in power?
you are no longer here. stop trying to sow further hatred and division. i don't want my children, my friends, my colleagues, my clients to suffer because they live on the wrong side of an arbitrary line.
BTW... The fact that you make it clear you don't want to be caught up in this makes one thing ckear:
You know they are evil and violent, and you are terrified to face them because of this.
This is what neutral Germans must have felt as they watched jews get rounded up in camps.
You don't understand that dealing with the monsters yourself is actually the better choice for everyone.
I'm sure there were a lot of poor Germans who didn't deserve what they got.
But it doesn't matter, that's how it goes, if you can't stop your neighbors from doing evil you suffer for that evil.
A table with 4 people where one is a nazi is a table with 4 nazis.
Your people are still trying to hurt everyone, and you're not stopping them.
I fully expect to put a lot of effort to hurt your people in the near future in self-defense, because their history of monstrous evil and cruelty speaks for itself.
I'm no longer there because I had to escape the south, and I thank God every day that I could.
Then the filth chased me to the coasts and I had to escape to Europe.
I can't escape earth. This far, no farther.
why didn't you stop your neighbors from evil when you lived here?
are each of your countrymen, wherever you are now, without fault?
you justify your own hatred and desire to harm, and so you will perpetuate the harm you experienced.
I'm not white.
They tried to kill me a few times, I know how evil and violent they are.
Oh god yes, my current country is amazing, it's basically like the Midwest but better, because these are the people who populated the Midwest. They saved thousands of jews during the holocaust, they're famous for it, and still humble.
I believe the golden rule needs to be reinterpreted as 'do unto others as they do unto you'. And by those rules the south deserve repayment for all their horrific crimes.
Reminds me of east and west germany, even still today, one side is poorer than the other, which fostered new radicalism.
And also where i live, Quebec, poorer rural regions control the elections.
Exactly, the difference is in east Germany after the war they mostly dealt with the nazis.
In the south they gave them a timeout for 10 years then let them take power again.
Lol no they didn't deal with the nazis in East Germany. They were pretty quickly persecuted if they came out, but as long as they stayed quiet and clamied they wanted socialism, nothing happened to them.
And then after the fall of the east block, all of the nazis in eastern Germany no longer had to be quiet and there were also many nazis from the west who helped spread it even further while there was a power vacuum and nothing was done against it.
Well they were quiet for a while.
Damn, they're coming back? And of course with Russian funding.
And so it moves closer to the handmaids tale every day
I lived in the south, if they could read they'd consider it a fantasy utopia.
I don't get why Oregon and Washington haven't jumped on that bandwagon. Imagine the entire west coast working together. All Western seaports.
There is a Cascadia Independence movement but it's not widely talked about.
It's fairly widely known along the west coast. No one treats it like a serious movement, but like a "man, that would be nice" kind of thing.
It's also fairly right wing, last I looked into it.
That's the State of Jefferson movement, most likely. Cascadia is about the coastal regions, State of Jefferson is about the inland (right-wing) regions of Washington, Oregon, and Norcal.
The two heads representing the east and west coasts, obviously (please let us join you, California, when you go).