• cmbabul@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        A upsettingly large portion of the country doesn’t understand how the world works in any meaningful capacity

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        8 months ago

        At this point I’d rather see California split off and become it’s own country (not gonna happen, but I can dream).

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              8 months ago

              Unfortunately yes. There are some exceptions, like French Guyana in South America being in the European Union, but that’s because it’s under the republic of France.

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            8 months ago

            That’d be pretty rad. Hell, I’d be down to be Canadian at this point. I just want to live a quiet, peaceful life dammit. I’m not looking forward to the next few years.

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          8 months ago

          That would be great, but what would prevent the fascist country next door with the most powerful military in the world from annexing it back?

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      8 months ago

      I read somewhere that someone spoke about how it might take 40 years to get rid of Mr. Trump’s wild ride