• gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    But they didn’t just go to war to stop it, they burned the south to the ground.

    Do that to CA and you’re shooting yourself in the foot as the US

    Destroying your most important ports and where more than 50% of your agriculture nationwide comes from is not a good idea

    • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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      Which is exactly why they would burn it to the ground. The federal government would never let California, let alone any state, secede peacfully. They can’t risk losing those resources and would destroy them before allowing them to be competition.

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          Question: what things were done in the 80’s to prep for wildfires? Do they do any of those things today?

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              I was alive in the 80s, I definitely know what I’m talking about. If you can’t answer the question though, then you obviously do not.

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                That’s cute of you, but I can answer the question

                That’s why I know you don’t actually know, because your implication that the way things were done in the 80s was perfect and correct and should still be done is wrong, we’ve learned, and so shit differently now using more modern understandings and tech

                But you’re an idiot conservative who thinks how things were done when you were young is still exactly the only correct way it seems, so fuck off

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                  You’re still not listing any of the things. One thing??

                  You know what didn’t happen? Firefighters not showing up. Water not in hydrants. Shrubbery left alone so kindling builds up.

                  Lots of things were done different that tech has never made better.

                  Also, I’m not a conservative, I’m a liberal constitutionalist.

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                    God you’re such a dipshit. Anyone who defines themselves as a constitutionalist is simply trying to rationalize a regressive worldview. Barely above a libertarian.

                    Climate change is the x factor you idiot. The fire doesn’t spread with out the wind. The demand for water doesn’t exceed the capacity of the pumps if the fires don’t spread to that scale. “Kindling doesn’t build up” you fucking dumbass that’s totally irrelevant when there’s hurricane level winds. The dots connect themselves you fucking dunce.

                    People like you are why, both the left and right, hate liberals.

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          Climate change = mismanagement on the part of pretty much the whole world. So technically correct.

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        A huge reason the south lost was because they were NOT an economic powerhouse…

        Much like today.

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        3 days ago

        Was it really? I was under the impression that they mostly were agricultural, while the north had all the light and heavy industries… (sorry, I’m not american)

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          You are correct. It heavily contributed to their loss. Without international support, or the industries to leverage that support they were isolated, poor and out of manpower.

          If Union leadership was better in the beginning we would have seen them rolled much faster.