• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    22 hours ago

    It’ll mess up the flag (51 or 52 stars don’t go into a regular grid), so they’ll need a one-in-one-out policy. A start could be merging the Dakotas and Carolinas.

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        15 hours ago

        Having 2 festering heeps of authoritarianism next to your country is less than ideal. A strong handed attempt to reform them would be better, like an external board to determine their districts (though it’d require an amendment to the constitution)

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          15 hours ago

          Disagree entirely. Reform is less possible than eviction. If the federal government said “we will allow it” then Florida and Texas would overwhelmingly vote to Amerexit.

          And shit, let’s just let the south have all of it back. Let them reform themselves. Slavery? Not my problem.

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                  9 hours ago

                  No, for not wanting those nut jobs to split off and do their own thing, leaving the rest of us to enjoy life… that is why. Am I wrong?

                  “Empathy” hah.

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                    6 hours ago

                    Their own thing is oppressing people. We should stop that much as far as we have power to , and if we can force them out of the union that’s likely from a position where we would.

                    You would allow the people in those states to be oppressed just to make your own life easier. Yes, you are wrong