• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      This happens literally every four years. I still remember the folks insisting Vermont was going to join Canada back when Bush won in 2004. And all the Texans who rediscovered their secessionist roots four years later under Obama.

      We are always and forever plagued by news stories about the random asshats insisting The Independent State of California or a new CSA will definitely resolve the problem of a President they don’t personally like.

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    Yeah we will pass. Not interested in having Americans be able to move freely through our borders thanks.

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    This is not a possibility. You can’t break away from the USA as a whole.

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      Not even sure why you’re being downvoted. Ignore the historical precedent of Lincoln v Davis and the 698,000 Americans who died arguing the issue. Neglect the practical legalism of a national schism or the large rump caucus within your state that is diametrically opposed to the idea.

      Even assuming a velvet divorce, the land still isn’t going anywhere. New York will be the same distance from DC as its always been. You’ll still be joined at the hip to the petrodollar, the interstate highway and airport and rail networks, and the English language. The policies a President Trump implements will still cascade into the New York economy, whether he’s your President or Eric Adams or Andrew Cuomo gets to be The Liberated Republic of New York’s new Glorious Leader.

      What exactly have you solved? You’re now two Senators and Twenty-Six House Reps less influential in the world’s most powerful governing body, and you’ve ceded the corresponding EC votes… all so your new national leadership can, what? Suck up to Trump like Trudeu, Macron, Keir Starmer, and every other world leader have been for the last month? Or is the plan to realign with Iran, Cuba, and China?

      Give me a fucking break.

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    Canada can annex all the liberal states, and then we can buy all the red states for pennies on the dollar when they collapse.