• TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneM
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      4 months ago

      I’m less optimistic about Balkanization. If the Democrats who dominate politics in the west are anything to go by, we’re in for authoritarian feudalism that dresses itself if up as progressive. This is without mentioning the wars that would be inevitable in a federal collapse; wars in which at least some of the players have nukes.

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        4 months ago

        I, for one, would like to become part of Canada. Pennsylvania (and the rest of the northeast) isn’t that awful, it’s once you get south of the Mason-Dixon or west of the Mississippi (and before you hit the coastal states) that the country gets really awful and backwards, surely Canada would be able to tolerate us. They tolerate Quebec, anyways.

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            4 months ago

            See I’d always been told/had heard in passing it was the residents of Quebec that other Canadians found the most… shall we say contentious, but I’ve also heard plenty about Danielle Smith and her Trump sycophancy shitfuckery the past few years. Is Quebec no longer considered the red-headed stepchild of the provinces?