A 2025 Retrospective.
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He makes a good point here, Jolly, doncha think?
As Lincoln had long insisted, the controversy that brought on the Civil War was the question of whether slavery was right or wrong. The seceding states took a stand for its rightness, and the Union states took a stand for its wrongness.
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I tell you what, if the same crack team organizes the secession as organized the lawsuits, you're going to be drinking your own urine before Easter.
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Personally, I prefer fantasizing that I'm B J Blazkowicz. Killing Nazis is way more fun than killing Americans.
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Kind of fun "what if " article, but that is all it is.
Each part of the US contributes to the success of the US, and without each other, the rurals and the cities would not be able to survive.
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@Larry said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
I wouldn't mind it if California and the New England area got kicked out.
You'd probably want to lose New York too, if it wasn't the birthplace of the Great Man.
I was only joking
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Kind of fun "what if " article, but that is all it is.
Each part of the US contributes to the success of the US, and without each other, the rurals and the cities would not be able to survive.
@taiwan_girl said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
Kind of fun "what if " article, but that is all it is.
Each part of the US contributes to the success of the US, and without each other, the rurals and the cities would not be able to survive.
Not really.
There's more industrial capacity than you might think in smaller cities and towns, far away from the coasts. And a lot depends on how the more rural areas of California .
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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@Larry said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
I wouldn't mind it if California and the New England area got kicked out.
You'd probably want to lose New York too, if it wasn't the birthplace of the Great Man.
@Doctor-Phibes said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
@Larry said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
I wouldn't mind it if California and the New England area got kicked out.
You'd probably want to lose New York too, if it wasn't the birthplace of the Great Man.
Sacrifices must be made.
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The idea that New England doesn't contribute significantly to the success of the US as a whole is a pretty foolish one.
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The idea that New England doesn't contribute significantly to the success of the US as a whole is a pretty foolish one.
@Doctor-Phibes said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
The idea that New England doesn't contribute significantly to the success of the US as a whole is a pretty foolish one.
Didn't say that.
Read the scenario again.
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I realise that's not what the scenario says.
"Tom Trenchard is an American professor"
I wonder what he's a professor of. I'm guessing it's not history.
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@taiwan_girl said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
Kind of fun "what if " article, but that is all it is.
Each part of the US contributes to the success of the US, and without each other, the rurals and the cities would not be able to survive.
Not really.
There's more industrial capacity than you might think in smaller cities and towns, far away from the coasts. And a lot depends on how the more rural areas of California .
@Jolly said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
@taiwan_girl said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
Kind of fun "what if " article, but that is all it is.
Each part of the US contributes to the success of the US, and without each other, the rurals and the cities would not be able to survive.
Not really.
There's more industrial capacity than you might think in smaller cities and towns, far away from the coasts. And a lot depends on how the more rural areas of California .
I am sure they is true, but I think it is also true that independent rural US + independent city US is much less than the two combined as one actual country.
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@Jolly said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
@taiwan_girl said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
Kind of fun "what if " article, but that is all it is.
Each part of the US contributes to the success of the US, and without each other, the rurals and the cities would not be able to survive.
Not really.
There's more industrial capacity than you might think in smaller cities and towns, far away from the coasts. And a lot depends on how the more rural areas of California .
I am sure they is true, but I think it is also true that independent rural US + independent city US is much less than the two combined as one actual country.
@taiwan_girl said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
@Jolly said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
@taiwan_girl said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
Kind of fun "what if " article, but that is all it is.
Each part of the US contributes to the success of the US, and without each other, the rurals and the cities would not be able to survive.
Not really.
There's more industrial capacity than you might think in smaller cities and towns, far away from the coasts. And a lot depends on how the more rural areas of California .
I am sure they is true, but I think it is also true that independent rural US + independent city US is much less than the two combined as one actual country.
But the question is which one can do without the other?
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@taiwan_girl said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
@Jolly said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
@taiwan_girl said in A 2025 Retrospective.:
Kind of fun "what if " article, but that is all it is.
Each part of the US contributes to the success of the US, and without each other, the rurals and the cities would not be able to survive.
Not really.
There's more industrial capacity than you might think in smaller cities and towns, far away from the coasts. And a lot depends on how the more rural areas of California .
I am sure they is true, but I think it is also true that independent rural US + independent city US is much less than the two combined as one actual country.
But the question is which one can do without the other?
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@Jolly Neither.
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Without people to pay for and eat their food, farmers aren't actually going to survive for very long.
So, you can split the country in two, but they're still going to be totally reliant on one another.
