• 47 Alpha Tango@lemmy.zip
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    4.5 million residents are living in hell

    I thought the population of the United States was much more than 4.5 million. Oh well, live and learn.

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      1 year ago

      Not all of the US is hell; I hear the future New California Republic (once they balkanize, expect it within our lifetimes) is nice.

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        There is no chance of balkinzation or secession of California unless the entire USA falls or splits. CA is the 5th largest economy in the world. That amount of wealth would never be allowed to leave. It'd make the entire South seceding look like a trial run.

        Not that they'd really try without a dissolution of the Constitution first. They'd probably just start passing laws that ignore the Constitution and federal laws and then dare the fed to intervene. Would still need a massively weaker fed, though.

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          unless the entire USA falls or splits

          That would be what balkanization means.

          I agree that they'd never be allowed to seceed, and I don't think they'd ever try. But America is a burning building; eventually it will collapse

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            People keep saying this. They've been saying this for decades. Other countries keep having bigger problems first, I think it's just because you see all of America's dirty laundry while virtually all other countries governments take more steps to control the flow of information.

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          I googled it and it looks like ~80% of their water comes from within the state, and the rest mostly comes from Colorado, and I guess those guys wouldn’t object to a water deal even in case of secession. Not sure if secession is even possible in US though.

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          You realize California is on the ocean, right? Desalination is a solvable engineering problem, and one that becomes more viable the worse things get. Especially if they’re no longer beholden to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission