Omg if even the EU hinted at helping the blue states secede, I will cry in excitement.
Something worth fighting for.
Colorado and New Mexico deserve better. They get to come too.
Please no. That would instantly give control of the government to Americans since the entire population of Canada is around the same as California alone. They can secede and be their own thing, but they’re not joining Canada.
If France helps the East Coast secede from yet another empire I’m gonna laugh my ass off. Us Californians did it to Mexico once we can sure as shit so it to America.
In all honesty with all the red hate for blue states I’m hella over helping them. It’s like being in an abusive relationship and our leadership just rolls over and takes it.
We should demand concessions to keep sending these welfare queens our money.
Agreed though most of it comes from the increased federalism centralization over the last 150 years or so, if we could do something as simple as cut off trade or otherwise demand concessions for trade to flow I can almost guarantee that the red states would learn to play nice. Either that or ban their pathetic politicians from stepping foot in blue states.
Also it may for them to become more functional over all, when fucking Idaho is one of the more functional and economically balanced red states ya done fucked up.
The last few months I’ve been going through all the different groceries, products, and services I buy regularly. Surprised to say, most of it was already from Europe, and a few things from otherwise friendly nations. The few things I buy regularly from the US or US owned European companies are easily replaced by competing products.
Although it is a small amount on a grand scale, it feels good to work on cutting off American companies completely and make them lose from a few hundred up to a thousand dollars in sales ever year. If enough of us do this over time they’ll lose millions in sales.
Yeah and people don’t have to do everything right away. Just change one service and delete accounts one by one. Request your data as per GDPR where possible and then close. Try to look at labels, chose American companies and products less and less. Don’t let perfection stop you from taking some action
Exactly! Taking groceries as an example, as something has been running out I’ve checked the label and if the company is American or US owned. Slowly, over time the few American groceries will be replaced in my house. Will I be unable to replace some products? Probably. But so far it hasn’t been a problem. Something is better than nothing, every lost sale will only hurt them in the long run.
The amount of Americans who have told me I should keep my opinions to myself about their politics is hilarious. They don’t see the hypocrisy in it. These people blew up half my country to keep Russia out of this continent and now their president is a Russian stooge. They have spent the last 50 years moralizing and telling every country on earth how to manage their affairs but now we have to keep our opinions to ourselves
I can’t even pinpoint your country with those informations. That says a lot.
Exactly, that’s why I like to leave it vague, cause it really brings the point home. I’m from Central America, lots of American funded death squads and cia “communist” hunters just disappearing entire families and turning my country into a neo colony. Those same war hawks who used my country as a proxy battlefield now suck Putin dick
I wasn’t even on the right continent…
Same. Was there even a single continent the US left alone, except perhaps for Australia? (Not counting military bases there)
US helped and encouraged Indonesian occupation of East Timor. I think that’s as close as we got to Australia, other than some military bases.
We have left Antarctica alone militarily speaking, but I don’t think that counts. We wouldn’t even start a war with
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Tragically comical, I’d say.
And they don’t understand why everyone hates them 🙄
Did my groceries today. Made sure not to buy a single American product. Going to try this Freeway Cola instead
From the U.S., please keep it up. Maybe the only damn thing that will put any brakes on this buffoon is blowback from businesses. Hit them in the pocketbook as much as you can!
Not bad that Freeway Cola. Sure, it’s not the same as that American brand, but it’s very tasty… And so much cheaper!
Classic Russia behavior…oh wait, it is the US.
Do it! Please!
Sorry.
- American
it would genuinely help the most vulnerable amongst us to quarantine us
I’m trying to think of a precedent for this in the internet age, of a country screwing up and the online response being “Sorry! Please screw us over ASAP.”
It’s the FAFO strategy; if someone fucks around but doesn’t find out they will continue to fuck around.
We need Mr Adler to come in and tell them to stop screwing around. They screw around too much!
i guess its a bit similar when Garry Kasparov talks about Putins Russia.
Are you willing to elaborate? I’m not seeing it, seems to me that the most vulnerable will suffer from higher prices and such.
I seem to remember your handle, think I’ve appreciated your takes in the past.
our most vulnerable are at risk of physical violence right now. our government is completely captured by corporations. our best hope is to hurt the companies that profit from our pain
The companies that brought forward project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation and the ones who donated millions to the Republican party.
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Okay gotcha. My only hangup is this weights the second-order (and unfortunately somewhat hypothetical) effects over the first-order (and unfortunately guaranteed) ones.
Status quo is going from untenable to “fuckin ???” though, so I’m with you.
not as hypothetical as you’re thinking. much more already present, just not hopping waves into the mainstream. it’s just that who’s getting killed and jailed doesn’t have an international voice, so people like me gotta say how much danger there is in america right now, especially for queers, people with accents, and people with darker skin tones.
the thing to understand tho is that the cops and military are both simultaneously of us and against us. the people carrying out this genocide largely think that the people saying there’s a genocide are exaggerating. i guess what i would say, if you were Jewish in Germany in 1935, would you want international governments placing trade embargoes on Germany, or would you rather people abroad still buy the products your overlords made.
the other way to think of it. we’re boycotting a lot of companies right now for harming us. join us in the boycotts. just like we joined Ukraine in boycotting russian goods starting in 2013. we understand not everyone will be able to afford to participate, but our best bet is to give the corporations giving us fascism as many consequences as we can.
That’s my idea too. I’m no accelerationist, but Trump is already dousing the country with gasoline, so let’s light it up and get it over with. Trump was elected because Biden failed to improve the situation for most voters. The next Dem will win by a landslide as Trump makes life so much worse.
Maybe after that we’ll try someone third party and see if we can make the country better
Cute that you think we’ll have free and fair elections ever again.
I’m sure some parts of the former United States will have fair elections. Others, not so much
Ah well. Better give up, then.
Don’t underestimate the uneducated a third time. Man, the US is a crazy place.
I predict Elon Musk will be the next president.
I think Musk is too ambitious and egotistical to settle for being the president of the kind of backwater country that the United States will be by the time Trump’s term is over.
Article II, Section 1, Clause 5:
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
The Framers appear to have adopted the requirement that citizens be natural born citizens to ensure that the President’s loyalties would lie strictly with the United States.
Oh, the irony
By barring naturalized citizens from the presidency, the requirement of being a natural born citizen, as Justice Story explained, protects the United States from “ambitious foreigners, who might otherwise be intriguing for the office; and interposes a barrier against those corrupt interferences of foreign governments in executive elections, which have inflicted the most serious evils upon the elected monarchies of Europe.”
Not possible, wasn’t born in the US
I don’t have much faith anyone in power will care. Just not bothering with questions of legality seems to be their modus operandii.
Yeh I mean to be fair orange cheeto Mussolini is already talking about a third term so you might have a point here
There’s a good chance he’ll already have croaked by the end of this term. I wouldn’t put apotheosizing him below the republican party
I hate our president, I’m doing my best to NOT buy American right now.
Spread the word to others to vote out the Republicans in other states. There are some state and federal elections being held in several states including Oklahoma, Iowa, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Virginia.
As an American I concur. Economic protest on one day? Fuck that, I’m reducing all spending as much as possible every damn day.
Spread the word to vote out the Republicans in state and federal elections in Oklahoma, Iowa, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Ditto. This is a shit show performed in a garbage fire inside of an exploding rocket, with every actor dumber than the one before, vying for the acceptance of their would be king/zaddy who is actually a puppet with so many fists up his ass he’s lost count (not a difficult task as he only has 20 digits), and we, the audience, can do nothing to stop it, with half cheering for our demise.
Wait! Not like that!
Don’t forget the part where we then blame them for starting it.
Don’t threaten us with a good time.
Gotta teach us somehow. You Europeans are far better at this sort of thing than Americans are. And you aren’t losing out on much, I can pretty much guarantee that.
