New "Calexit" bid for California secession approved for signature gathering in effort to put measure on ballot
New "Calexit" bid for California secession approved for signature gathering in effort to put measure on ballot
A new bid to place a measure on the ballot that would ask California voters to approve the state's secession from the U.S. has been cleared for signature gathering.
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Remember how the federal government treated the south when they tried to secede. And people still celebrate it, not without good reason. But they didn't just go to war to stop it, they burned the south to the ground.
Well, there are two big differences.
The ethical one, the South wanted to secede to keep their slaves, and to clarify because the term slavery has been run ragged by propaganda, they wanted to keep their forced labour/death camps where they could kill, maim, rape, buy and sell people, also children, and have them do backbreaking, crippling work to enrich themselves.
On the other hand, California is contemplating this because the South, after losing their war, did a 200 year psyop to get a rapist and a bona-fide sieg heiling Nazi in power to force California to drop initiatives that would keep the Earth inhabitable and let their citizens live in peace.
The pragmatic one is that while the South was what it was, California is still an economic powerhouse accounting for 20% of the US economy. If they would secede, and bring a few like-minded states with them, it's not the least bit implausible that the South would be doing the burning again.
All that said, the Russians and the Chinese are salivating at this idea I'm sure.
But they didn't just go to war to stop it, they burned the south to the ground.
Do that to CA and you're shooting yourself in the foot as the US
Destroying your most important ports and where more than 50% of your agriculture nationwide comes from is not a good idea
Absolutely nobody can accuse the right of being smart
Which is exactly why they would burn it to the ground. The federal government would never let California, let alone any state, secede peacfully. They can't risk losing those resources and would destroy them before allowing them to be competition.
CA is already burning due to mismanagement. So....
TIL wind=mismanagement
Climate change = mismanagement on the part of pretty much the whole world. So technically correct.
Question: what things were done in the 80's to prep for wildfires? Do they do any of those things today?
So you don't actually know what you're talking about and yet you commented anyway?
Fuck off you empty headed dumb fucking sea lion sack of shit.
The South was an economic powerhouse prior to the civil war. Didn't stop the government.
Was it really? I was under the impression that they mostly were agricultural, while the north had all the light and heavy industries... (sorry, I'm not american)
You are correct. It heavily contributed to their loss. Without international support, or the industries to leverage that support they were isolated, poor and out of manpower.
If Union leadership was better in the beginning we would have seen them rolled much faster.
This was RIGHT before the industrial revolution in America. The timing of industrialization going north because the south was utterly burned to the ground was a massive shock that is still felt today. They couldn't switch to industrialization in time
A huge reason the south lost was because they were NOT an economic powerhouse...
Much like today.
And they were right to. Sherman and John Brown are national heros and we could use them again.