Aaron Ross Powell ☸️Feb 20, 2023
The whole national divorce thing is pretty stupid, and while most of the people arguing for it are right-wingers mad that most of us think it’s wrong to hate trans people, the fact that our electoral map is broken up by states, which are then colored either solid red or solid blue, tricks even some reasonable people into thinking it makes sense. When in reality, this is what the country looks like, making clear there are basically no red or blue states.
Show threadLt.Cpl Хуёвый ПчеловодFeb 20, 2023

@arossp I can absolutely guarantee that "Pro-Divorce" politicians will start mysteriously disappearing (figurately and literally) the moment "divorce" becomes a serious topic.

There's too much interstate commerce and money tied up between red and blue states for them to just go their separate ways.

Show threadIwillyeahFeb 20, 2023
@hu_logic I feel like many have failed to learn what I think is the single biggest lesson from Brexit: people will vote against their own self-interest in almost any situation if you can give them something to be mad about and promise to solve it for them. They are either too lazy or too incurious to think beyond banner issues. Commerce agreements are boring, immigration fear is exciting.
Show threadLt.Cpl Хуёвый ПчеловодFeb 20, 2023

@Iwillyeah I get your point but in all of the recent cases of #LeopardsAteMyFace it was beneficial to the top 1%. Or at the very least shielded them from the fallout.

That's not the case when it comes to the "national divorce" because any capital tied up to the red states would be absolutely decimated. Imagine a bank run, but on not-so-liquid assets...

For many in red states the choice is going to be either "lose $50B overnight" or "have a couple people disappeared"

Show threadIwillyeahFeb 21, 2023
@hu_logic again, you are ignoring the pertinent lessons of recent history. Rich people don't get poor because of crises. More wealth has been have been created in the past 5 years than in any other time in history. The billionaires will profit, even if it's just by betting against markets a lá Jacob Reece Mogg. Ordinary people, even businesses with ties to Europe were seduced by promises of more freedoms and less government interference. They genuinely believed they would thrive. Sound familiar?
Show threadLt.Cpl Хуёвый ПчеловодFeb 21, 2023

@Iwillyeah The only recent precedent to what's being proposed here is the collapse of the Soviet Union, not Brexit.

Comparing it to Brexit is like comparing a papercut to a fatal stab wound. Technically, they are similar, but end results are widely different.

And people smarter/richer than me understand this. And there will be a string of spontaneous car combustions should the topic of "national divorce" take on a serious note.

Show threadIwillyeah
@hu_logic I get what you're saying about severity. What I'm saying is that you cannot trust people to weigh consequences accurately. Nor can you trust the higher ups to be honest about consequences. If you don't think the GOP would find ways to profit from a Redxit, you aren't being imaginative enough. How much profit you could make from pretending the environment is something God just takes care of? No laws. No more unions. And people will let that happen if you promise immigration control.
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