• VerbFlow@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    I don’t care. The United States has been the main perpetrator of countless war crimes across the world. It has been born out of slavery, its land is built on the Natives that were once thriving, it has forced territories under its laws without representation, it has been an apartheid state with white people ruling over colored people, it has installed countless dictatorships to protect its economic interests, its “democracy” is a sham and the Netherlands did it first, it is chiefly responsible for crimes against peace and humanity in Vietnam and Iraq, its citizens are subject to total surveillance while many of them have a lack of water, food, and shelter, its government is bribed constantly by price-gouging corporations, it will gladly use military equipment on its own citizens, and it has strived against democratic elections that are inconvenient. The United States ought to be split up into all of its independent states so the world may be free of its tyranny.

    • AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee
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      9 days ago

      Do you think 50 mini USAs with nukes would be better? Or would there be a couple decades of war until one state more or less took the same place?

      I mean right off the bat the old CSA club will get back together. And Imagine the Pacific Northwest and California will work together. No individual state in the Midwest has the economy to stand on its own so they’ll probably work together, leaving the remaining states to work together or be conquered.

      Plus entities like the CIA and FBI and corporations will still exist and exert their influence.

  • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Or (and bear with me, I’m high as fuck on ketamine, so this might be all complete bonkers) the US could go into a revolution, decentralizing states, remove the rich and the controlling corps, set up support so anyone has access to food, drinking water, a roof, heathcare, education so people actually have a chance in life instead of being doomed from birth because being born poor.

    Or you could fund the police, protect the rich, exploit the poor, fuck the world. Which is basically what the US has been doing so far. Maybe doing that with more states will break a record or something? Go for it! You go girl!

    • repungnant_canary@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      Revolutions tend to maintain the status quo just changing the rulers to those who can keep the friendly facade a little bit better

      Those problems must be solved but revolution will probably hardly gonna help

  • Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 days ago

    Or, or! You drop 3 to become 47 states in their prime. Which would you pick?

    Texas, Florida, South Dakota (just to fuck around).

  • GreenAppleTree@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Or, hear me out, take those 3 and drop 6 states to make 47. I’ll leave it to the readers to decide which 6.