What would it take to split up the country?

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What would it take to split up the country?

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It's disgraceful that I live under the same government as those who voted for Bush.

Everyone should have seen by now how the electoral map came out. Blue in the northeast and west coast, and red all through the middle.

I wish that the blue regions could bust off of the massive idiot swarm and form separate countries, so that we could all live happily instead of being in a situation where 50% of the population is eternally pissed off.

any possible way for this to go down?
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Post by Pablo Sanchez »

That's an insane and horrible idea. There is no way for that to happen, not the least because such an arrangement would probably lead to a total economic collapse in the USA, triggering a worldwide depression.
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Seggybop, no. This is what the entire Civil War was fought over, idiots thinking that the country should split when the losers didn't like the winner's candidate. If that happened after every hotly contested election, we'd be sitting in a lot of little city-states right now.
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Re: What would it take to split up the country?

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Seggybop wrote:It's disgraceful that I live under the same government as those who voted for Bush.

Everyone should have seen by now how the electoral map came out. Blue in the northeast and west coast, and red all through the middle.

I wish that the blue regions could bust off of the massive idiot swarm and form separate countries, so that we could all live happily instead of being in a situation where 50% of the population is eternally pissed off.

any possible way for this to go down?
It has been tried before...and look how that turned out.
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Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew
From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue;
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Seggybop wrote:It's disgraceful that I live under the same government as those who voted for Bush.

Everyone should have seen by now how the electoral map came out. Blue in the northeast and west coast, and red all through the middle.

I wish that the blue regions could bust off of the massive idiot swarm and form separate countries, so that we could all live happily instead of being in a situation where 50% of the population is eternally pissed off.

any possible way for this to go down?
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theski wrote:Well there is always Canada for you......... Don't let the door hit ya in the ass
America: Love it or leave it.

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America: Love it or leave it.
What if I love the founding principles but hate the current incarnation? I have a strange love-hate relationship with my country right now. So much potential squandered by so many idiots.

Not that all Bush supporters are idiots, mind. Just enough of them.
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As if I don't know how it turned out last time... /

The fundies are not going away. If anything, they're going to multiply. I don't want to live in a place that's on the path to becoming an authoritarian theocracy. And yes, I going to be leaving this place. I really can't take it much longer. But I'm pretty pissed off that these morons in the middle of the country where no one ever goes are able to impose their pathetic will upon regions where they have absolutely no support.
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Lazy Raptor wrote:
theski wrote:Well there is always Canada for you......... Don't let the door hit ya in the ass
America: Love it or leave it.

*wank, wank, spooge*

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theski wrote:
Lazy Raptor wrote:
theski wrote:Well there is always Canada for you......... Don't let the door hit ya in the ass
America: Love it or leave it.

*wank, wank, spooge*

:roll:
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Hamel wrote:
theski wrote:
Lazy Raptor wrote: America: Love it or leave it.

*wank, wank, spooge*

:roll:
Was wondering when you would show up.... DU is locked down ...
Freeperville is still open. Why don't you go there and masturbate with those lunatics?
Gosh the Love Hamel.. In fact FR is a joke... not my style..
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From the looks of things, you'll be able to find out in a couple of years.
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Jesus fuck, this thread desperately needs a lock.

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Closing this flamefest.

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