• Zink@programming.dev
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    28 days ago

    Ok so instead of breaking the US up into the United states of Canada and Jesusland, I am totally cool with something like The Green States of America Land.

    We could be a good neighbor to Canada and slowly transition Jesusland off of all the welfare money.

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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      28 days ago

      slowly transition Jesusland off of all the welfare money

      Jesusland is exceedingly ungrateful for the generosity of California. (and New York.)

  • 5too@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    Wh- hey! What about the rest of us?!

    How much time do we have to move before this goes through?!

  • Kalon@feddit.online
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    28 days ago

    With all the right-wing memes I’ve seen in the past, I’d think they would be happy to see it go.

    at least until they realize how much California and other “blue” states fund their “red” states.

    • MJKee9@lemmy.world
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      28 days ago

      They would be invading California to steal their resources and labor… Faster than JD Vance can fuck a couch.

    • krashmo@lemmy.world
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      28 days ago

      Republican voters don’t learn lessons from experience. That’s why they’re Republican voters.

    • EldritchFemininity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      28 days ago

      I propose all of New England. Maybe then we can get that highspeed rail line that NYC and Boston were trying to build back in the 2000s. Between that, the two international airports of both cities, the multiple major ports across all of coastal New England, the high rates of college educated workers (a whopping 80% of the workforce in Boston, highest percentage in the country), and the wealth of residents across the area, there’s a lot of benefits there.

      Denmark (or any other EU country, really), is there any way that I can make this deal more appealing? How about if I told you that Rockstar has a studio north of Boston and that by taking New England you could get GTA 6 faster?

  • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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    28 days ago

    Please, Prime Minister Fredricksen. My people yearn for freedom. We will welcome you as liberators.

    • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today
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      28 days ago

      Realistically? Never.

      California is literally almost 10x the size and 7x the population of Denmark. And just the logistics of having to manage a dependency this large that’s at least a 12 hour flight away would be a nightmare, both economic and organizational.

      This would likely be one of the biggest dogs any tail has ever attempted to wag (certainly in modern times) besides the British rule of India, perhaps, and we all know how that turned out.

      • wewbull@feddit.uk
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        28 days ago

        You can be like Greenland and have autonomy. I think Denmark would be fine with a similar arrangement.

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          28 days ago

          The problem is that Denmark would be responsible for defending it, and logistically, that would be a nightmare. There is basically no efficient way to ship an army there without crossing US-controlled territory, be it via land (impossible), sea (US took back control of the Panama canal, remember?), or air (minimum 12 hour nonstop flight, and that’s only if you’re crossing US airspace).

          On top of that, Denmark only has 6 Million people, so even if they shipped literally all of their soldiers there it probably wouldn’t be enough to realistically hold it against a US invasion. Trump could simply order the US military to take it back and they’d likely finish the job in less than a week. Sure, Denmark could draw from the local population and invest in massive military training programs, but that would take years to accomplish and likely cost a good chunk of even their combined GDP (which they’ve already pledged to universal healthcare and a free Danish cookies).

      • Aeao@lemmy.world
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        28 days ago

        I thought that India thing was going well. I’ve been reading news papers in order of date from the first one so I’m current on June 23rd 1757. Let’s just have a look-see

        Oh… my god…

  • robocall@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    California’s constitution considers California as inseparable from the United States. Congress would have to want to get rid of California.