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‘S what Putin wants. He’s never gotten over the breakup of the USSR, carries a grudge.

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Plus it’s playing into Putin’s hands. It’s been his dream to fragment America the way the USSR broke up for years.

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Not, alas, a one.

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There are a lot of PoC and other historically disadvantaged people in the red states. We let those states leave, we’re abandoning those people, many of whom reliably vote for sane government (though their votes are gerrymandered to mean little). We owe it to them as citizens to enact controls and actually finish Reconstruction this time.

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That’s not much spam....

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And it abandons the sane citizens in those states. If we let the secessionists secede, we’re abandoning American citizen in those states to literal slavery and worse.

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Rethuglican.

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On pay-per-view....

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Always did like the term “buggery.” It’s quite evocative.

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...and the Russians have a hell of an education system. Most MAGAts couldn’t pass a grade-school Russian math test....

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Someday I’ll chase down the etymology. But for now it’s enough to know that it’s a proud American xian tradition....

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So the “law abiding states” are the ones that don’t believe in elections and want to ignore the fact that their claims have been thrown out of court fifty-odd times?

You know what, Texas, just go already. If you think you get to keep the military bases, or NASA, or any of that shit you’re wrong.

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A moment. He got over it.

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You just can’t go around writing words like solipsism at a guy like Clay Higgins.He might take offense.

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They need to drill the secession issue down to individual counties or deeper. If a state can secede from the USA, then a county or a city should be able to secede from the state, and remain with the rest of the US. And the places which would stay with us are all the most populous, educated, prosperous and diverse parts of their otherwise shithole states (with all apologies to any Wonkers who live there). They would be left with a fine selection of toothless idjits living in squalor, drinking Bud Lite and shooting the cans off their pickup, fucking their livestock and married to their cousins. They’d die out in a generation, and we could quietly reabsorb the empty real estate.

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Maybe they can go live on some island in the middle of the ocean. Hell, I’d kick in money to help. (Remember, these are the same people that couldn’t last two weeks into the pandemic without crying about haircuts and Cheezits)

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