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Oh, I feel dumb--I should have thought of West Virginia since I knew Virginia split during the Civil war. But I never knew the details of why so TIL! Thanks for the link!

Are you talking about certain areas/counties in some of the seceding states (e.g AL, MS, TN) where people opposed secession and rebelled or otherwise refused to participate in the Confederacy? I haven't heard of a state seceding from the confederacy.

On people moving: As things are today, it's too expensive for many people to be able to relocate as a practical matter, but if things ever deteriorated to the degree we're talking about, the stakes change drastically. If there's a war, or some people are about to get trapped where they don't want to or are afraid to be, it's no longer "can I find a decent job and place to live there and afford moving expenses?" but becomes "I've got to get out of here any way I can even if I can't take anything with me and don't know how I'll get by once I'm there." Especially people who fear for their lives or safety in a country where they are hated or considered less than human by the majority.

"…there will be no stopping me from punishing your executives by murdering their families for refusing to improve the accuracy of your website search function."

Wut

Of course. I live in a red state myself so I know what you mean about urban vs. rural. But Trump didn't think about that when he withheld federal aid from California for the 2018 wildfires. He had to be told that he had lots of supporters in CA; they even had to show him the voter rolls to prove it to him and only then did he approve the aid. See https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/03/helene-trump-politics-natural-disaster-00182419

“We went as far as looking up how many votes he got in those impacted areas … to show him these are people who voted for you,” Harvey told Politico.

But like I said, it's just interesting to think about how things could go. There would necessarily be a pretty massive population redistribution both into and out of the seceding states. There would likely be a war or at least many battles over territory so many of the states' boundaries would change as well. Then there's all the military bases, missile silos, and other national-level facilities spread among many states to be dealt with.

Back when they were first able to federate (if you can even call their one-way dissemination of propaganda into the fediverse "federating"), my Mastodon instance didn't block them so I moved to another instance that blocked them from the get-go. I wanted an instance-level block to keep their shit off the server completely, not just an individual-level "block" which is more like ignoring than blocking.

I've been able to reproduce some, like the "how to carry

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But generally on anything that's gone viral, by the time you try to reproduce it someone has already gone in and hard-coded a fix to prevent it from giving the same stupid answer going forward.

If there's a dynasty, it'd probably be at MaraLago, but my bet would be on Texas.

It's interesting to think about. If the blue states, which are not contiguous, seceded and joined together as a nation, they'd be scattered groups of states and easily defeated. But if they formed a union with Canada (the NAU?), then at least the territory of the NAU would be contiguous because most of the blue clumps are adjacent to Canada: the NE states, west coast states, Minnesota, probably Michigan, and then Illinois, which might be isolated depending on how Wisconsin would go. Colorado and New Mexico would still be isolated. Maybe they could defeat Arizona and be linked up with the west coast.

Then there'd be the issue of the US capital being D.C which along with its surroundings is overwhelmingly blue, so it would just have to be taken as part of the NE section, and Trumpistan would have to have its capital elsewhere.

Once trump cuts off all government funding from the blue states as he keeps threatening to do, maybe they could join Canada as provinces. It should be win-win considering the blue states contribute more to the federal govt. than they receive from it; while red states receive more than they contribute. So they would make Canada stronger and Trumpistan weaker. Trump wants to expand US lands to impress his idol putin and be like him, but instead he would lose territory.

"But all the other lemmings are there! I can't leave or I'll be left at the top of the cliff by myself!" 🙄 Guess what, there's more of us up here who aren't jumping than you realize.

Sorry to be harsh, but that's how I feel about it when people say they have no choice but to enrich these social media oligarchs by participating in their exploitation machines. By contributing their "content" to be collected, sold, used for training their generative AIs, by viewing their ads, and by making themselves targets to be manipulated by propaganda of all kinds.

They already exploit us enough in ways we can't control, without us willingly participating in their schemes.

I just did a quick image search and luckily it came up.

In the first term I thought well at least he doesn't want to start wars or invade someone like the previous R's who always had to do it to look macho and increase their popularity (which worked).

But now that it's no holds barred, Mangolini is not hiding how much he wants to be like his hero Putin. So on top of all the other dictator stuff he wants to acquire more territory and/or invade somewhere. Greenland hasn't worked out so far, so he's looking around and sees Panama, thinking yeah that would be easy. I'm expecting him to do something somewhere this term, for sure.

Based on the style of clothing, hair, and truck, I was thinking wait, is this about Justin's father Pierre Trudeau, the previous PM? 🙂 Found the image, though, it's a 1976 ad for a '77 GMC Sierra Classic pickup.

Basically their goal is to delay the release until Jan. 20th (inauguration), when Trump's DOJ will bury it for him. The legal system is chock full of ways to delay things, just ask for a ruling on something and BAM, automatic delay. So they filed a motion asking the release to be delayed until the federal appeals court in Atlanta makes a decision on what will happen to Trump's two co-defendants:

That court is considering whether to resurrect the classified documents case against Trump’s two co-defendants, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira. They argued in legal motions Monday and Tuesday that releasing Smith’s report could unfairly prejudice them if they are ever brought to trial. Trump tacked onto their request, arguing that releasing the report is not in the public interest and that the negative attention it would receive could impede his presidency.

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Next U.S. District Judge Supreme Court Justice Aileen Cannon temporarily blocked the release ...

FTFY

Should their couple name be Trusk or Mump?

I can't even figure out what you're trying to say here.

So the woman who in frustration said the "DDD, you're next" words to insurance company denying her claim is charged with terrorism, but this is fine? even though a lot more non-CEOs have been killed this way on multiple occasions including last week, compared to that one CEO killed in an act that wasn't even terrorism.

They did vote for it and they are going to get what they voted for, good and hard.

I think "how we got here" is more because of the massive and powerful opposition to health care reform by the Powers That Be, not because of regular people being grateful that we made a small amount of progress in spite of them.