Thus undermining the first word in the name of our nation. Look, I understand we're all frustrated, but throwing our video game controllers across the room and storming off because we're losing will only prove that democracies eventually end up dissolving.
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If NY and NJ joined together and separated, we would be the 5th highest GDP in the world (if CA followed suit, as the 4th largest) and cover more square miles than Greece.
Time to go.
Time to go.
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We left England because we had no representation or agency. These continue to be arbitrarily taken from us (ask Maine about federal funding) and the checks and balances are no longer effectual.
By definition, states are nations. I would fight for my nation of NJ.
I'll see your Civil War reference and raise you the Revolutionary War (respectfully). :-)
MAGA states violate the Constitution & want a theocracy/plutocracy. I'd love to see the "U.S." be the states that actually want to be united.
How about we unplug their computer instead and let them have their tantrum in their bedroom until they tire themselves out?
Believing you have to cause someone harm in order to accomplish a task is agreeing with the ones dismantling our founding principles.
The ends NEVER justifies the means.
This is two roommates. One is burning the place to the ground and suffering no consequences for it. They've embedded themselves there and are happy to burn.
Time to get a new place.
I am with MAGA men a lot in my social life. I hear their side as well, and respectfully ask questions about it.
Coincidentally enough, the most terrifying villains in stories always think they're doing the right thing, but are so embedded they cannot see past their own world view.
But it’s not like there is “national identity in Nj and Ny”
But there is something to be said strategy for concentrating buying power & leverage it