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Not very close, despite the online rhetoric. Life continues and our feudal lords play their games.

If things continue to get worse and another lunatic succeeds Trump, I think talk of secession will start to gain more traction in the West. But even then, it would take something really major (and not something the Lemmy politics crowd considers major, but something that actually snaps average liberals out of their comas) to garner enough support for it to actually occur.

Western secession would be an uphill battle; it's just as likely we'd lose an armed conflict with the rest of the country, and an all-out war would be absolutely terrifying.

The politics of minimizing potential loss is a losing strategy. Be for something instead.

Oh, thank god. More than anything else happening now, selling off our public lands was what I feared most, because it would be irreversible. Everything else from the Trump era, aside from the cruel loss of life, can be undone, rebuilt, and countered with enough hard work and willpower. But not this.

No. This is the American public's. None of it should be sold.

And involved in the California DNC since the '70s

Incoherent conspiracy theory and conjecture with not a single supporting fact in the entire article.

Who is "they"? What you wrote doesn't describe anyone I know. The people I know are deeply afraid, angry, and at times despondent. They try not to think too much about what's happening and just live their lives hoping that this will pass in 2027 or 2029 because they can't come to terms emotionally or mentally with what will happen otherwise.

And this is why the U.S. government would start a civil war if the West and Northeast tried to secede. The fascists hate us, but like abusers they think they own us, and most importantly they need our money.

I'm glad The NY Times is at least regularly calling these racist now in their news department, instead of "racially charged" or whatever.

But his shock win put him on the national radar, and some Republicans in Congress are now seeking to undermine him using a strategy similar to the racist one that Donald J. Trump employed against former President Barack Obama by questioning whether he was born in the United States. [...]

Some Democrats condemned the comments and expressed outrage, although they have learned not to expect any response. And their denunciations of racist attacks typically disappear into a morass of polarized content on social media. [...]

[Senator Tommy Tuberville, Republican of Alabama] made racist comments in response, lamenting New York City’s high concentration of undocumented immigrants and referring to them as vermin who “live off the federal government.”

Jon Hamm will never recover.

But also don't post AI slop, please.

Copying and pasting my comment from the earlier thread.

Did anyone actually read the article or did y'all just read the headline?

He says probably not, but it doesn't matter, because it's up to the people to rise up and push them out like they've started to as part of the Sanders/AOC rallies, the No Kings protest, and Mamdani's primary victory.

Did anyone actually read the article or did y'all just read the headline?

He says probably not, but it doesn't matter, because it's up to the people to rise up and push them out like they've started to as part of the Sanders/AOC rallies, the No Kings protest, and Mamdani's primary victory.