• FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
      2·
      52 minutes ago

      Sorry, but Colorado can’t join because otherwise we’d have border gore. Exclaves are too messy, what can you do. 🤷🏼‍♂️

      • frog_brawler@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        21 minutes ago

        So what you’re telling me is that Colorado is going to have to expand our northern borders in order to connect.

    • Sunflier@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      So, you don’t want to absorb what would be the 4th largest economy on the world if it was on its own?

      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
        1·
        17 minutes ago

        If we kicked out all the Americans that live there it wouldn’t be the 4th largest economy. While it would solve our winter food shortages it’s not worth it.

        Also I oppose the economy as an institution as it represents how much exploitation a given area has.

    • downvote_hunter@midwest.socialEnglish
      5·
      5 hours ago

      Sadly the part of Illinois South of I80 would prefer to not be included. Source: me. Grew up there, have some relatives that still live there. The number of times I’ve heard them refer to themselves as Forgottentoian is to many.

  • KingPorkChop@lemmy.caEnglish
    101·
    22 hours ago

    This Canadian says fuck no unless we export all the MAGA and purge all the handguns.

    I’ve been in parts of rural Oregon before. They grow them dumb and mean there. Some of the worst people I’ve ever met in my life were in rural Oregon.

    Way different than weird Portland.

    • RogueAozame@programming.dev
      2·
      15 hours ago

      I live in southern oregon and work in a conservative dominated industry. These people are actually insane. They are the embodiment of the memes and supposed strawmans about MAGA. Anytime somebody says conservatives don’t actually believe something stupid they should have to spend a month with these guys. The year has been infuriating watching these guys complain about how bad shits going and then blaming everything but what they voted for.

    • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      21 hours ago

      Californian here.

      It’s the same with California. Once you get out of population centers it doesn’t take too long before you’re in “I Fuck My Cousin” territory.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      1·
      16 hours ago

      planning to expel all gop from office, and any of thier supporters. considering gop states already trying to expel Dem voters anyways.

  • craigers@lemmy.world
    11·
    23 hours ago

    As someone who lives in Wisconsin I’m thankful for bordering Illinois and Minnesota. Otherwise I don’t think we would’ve made the cut to get into the USC

    • nomy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      As a resident of a neighboring state, I’m crossing the border.

  • YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub
    71·
    24 hours ago

    Stop lumping everyone in neat little buckets. Even in the most red of states you’d be abandoning 40% of voters to these fascists. This there are a lot of non voters.

    And there are plenty of fascists in blue states and Canada.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      23 hours ago

      Stop lumping everyone in neat little buckets

      It’s not like you can swoop in and take just Austin. But if you storm in and take all of Texas, you’ll be overrun by the majority of fascists.

      I would say you need to take the blue and perhaps the purple states, get them self-sufficient with proper healthcare, raise the quality of life up to par, fix education, the judicial system, and elder care. The blue cities within the red states will gladly immigrate, leaving behind a broken and desolated hellscape in their wake that the rural residents wouldn’t touch. Taxes will go through the roof with population drain. The blue cities and suburbs will grow. You’ll get more of the red to convert. Your own housing crisis will just evaporate.

      If you try to eat the red shit-sandwhich whole, the red will just add to your own red and we’ll be drinking our poison from the same vine.