• starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    As well it should be. Even if we get our act together and elect another sane president, we’ve demonstrated that we’re happy to burn every single bridge we’ve spent so long building, and that it isn’t some one-off fuckup either

    • samus12345@lemm.ee
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      8 days ago

      The US will have to crawl through the door on the right if they ever want to have any kind of decent relationship with other countries again. And we will NOT be getting our favored status that we’ve enjoyed since the end of WWII back. As the British Empire went, so too does the American Empire.

      • Soggy@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        The US shouldn’t even continue to exist as the single entity it is today. I think five to eight large states is probably ideal. Cascadia, Rocky Mountains, Great Plains, New England, the South, the Great Lakes region, and something needs to be done with the Alaska, Hawaii, and our various non-state territories like Puerto Rico and American Samoa.

        It’s simply too big and diverse to effectively govern.

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          8 days ago

          The problem is that the cultural divide is largely urban vs. rural, which is spread out all over the country.