Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 18 hours agoUS question: Would you approve of your state seceding from the Union, declaring independence from the United States? I think California, Oregon, and Washington would, and probably Colorado too.message-squaremessage-square105fedilinkarrow-up1143arrow-down113
arrow-up1130arrow-down1message-squareUS question: Would you approve of your state seceding from the Union, declaring independence from the United States? I think California, Oregon, and Washington would, and probably Colorado too.Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 18 hours agomessage-square105fedilink
minus-squareBlueCollarRockstar@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up10·edit-213 hours agoIndiana. We’d fail so hard and so fast that I literally cannot imagine it. People are nuts. It’d be instant MAGA-flavored Mad Max if they felt like they had an excuse to preemptively defend themselves with their guns across the countryside.
minus-squareMelatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·12 hours agoAlabama. Not enough federal money in the world to keep that state afloat. If they split from the Union, everyone starves.
Indiana. We’d fail so hard and so fast that I literally cannot imagine it. People are nuts. It’d be instant MAGA-flavored Mad Max if they felt like they had an excuse to preemptively defend themselves with their guns across the countryside.
Alabama. Not enough federal money in the world to keep that state afloat.
If they split from the Union, everyone starves.