I used to be very patriotic and believed in America. I'm now ready for it to shatter and for the states to go our own separate ways. The American experiment is over.
Musk blasted the pay decision and has encouraged other companies to follow Tesla and SpaceX and reincorporate out of Delaware. A handful have left the state or said they might, including Meta Platforms, opens new tab(META.O), opens new tab, TripAdvisor (TRIP.O), opens new tab and Trump's media company.
Fears that a trickle of companies will turn into a stampede, which has been dubbed "DExit," prompted the state's legislature to consider amending its corporate law to better protect controlling shareholders from lawsuits.
As usual, the government rolls over and presents it's soft underbelly to the billionaires.
We are not one people. We never were. We were always disparate populations.
And we need to be allowed to do our own thing. We are "one people" in the same way that Britain and France are "one people". You can still accept the humanity of others and visit other countries. Secession doesn't necessarily mean we become North and South Korea. But pretending the American identity is some sacred thing that shouldn't be broken is childish imo. This country has only existed for 200 years. It's not sacred. And it's rotten and deserves to be dismantled.
America as a whole can't be fixed. But parts of it can. To put it in Lemmy terms, blue states need to defederate from the US. The US system is broken and it's too large to be fixed. It will always be dragged down by the lowest common denominators. In the West, we can have Cascadia, and the NorthEast can become it's own thing. It just takee the balls of leadership to decide to actually secede and stop playing this failed experiment.
Let the conservatives have middle America and the South.
I am American and I give blame where blame is due. A lot of our citizens are fucking idiots and close to half of them are okay with and/or voted what we have in.
Sure there's some blame to go around to lack of media literacy and conservative efforts to dismantle public education but we all have the entirety of human knowledge at our fingertips and most of us still can't be bothered to not be outright hateful fuckwits.
However your point that America isn't the only place where the problem of the rise of fascism exists is true as well. I think Americans will rightfully get a lot of flak for it though since this movement largely and recently originates from us. We export our culture to the entire world so it's not surprising that when we play with fascism other countries do as well. And it doesn't help that we have billionaires with global empires pushing for the same policies and warping of mainstream media to fit conservative/libertarian viewpoints in several different countries.
Not to mention, what we do impacts the world far more than a dictator rising in bum-fuckistan because we put our fingers in so many pies and in many ways made many countries utterly reliant on us. This is partially their fault though too because maybe they shouldn't have become utterly reliant on us.
All in all, we deserve the shit we get, but also yes others are being hypocrites as well. Congrats, we're all fucked!
I got too used to Fusion 360 and now I'm stuck with it since I can make stuff fast, easy, and parameterized with full change history and it's too much effort to learn something new to replace my workflow. Also its the CAM software for my CNC.
I'll probably play around with SCAD/Build123d though for fun.
peregrin5 @ peregrin5 @lemm.ee Posts 9Comments 470Joined 7 mo. ago
They don't want us. I already asked. But CA, OR, and WA can secede and make Cascadia minus the Canadian portion.