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readoncontradiction [none/use name]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year ago

Does anyone have any maps of what US Balkanization would look like?

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Does anyone have any maps of what US Balkanization would look like?

readoncontradiction [none/use name]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year ago
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      The most American balkanization

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      Lmao this took me way to long to process.

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      How is California the only Sailor Moon state?

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        https://www.pcmag.com/news/most-popular-anime-series-by-state

        Just top search ranking.

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      I can get behind this. From now on, I live in Naruto.

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    I don’t know about balkanization but here are some maps that show states divided by political policies. These maps show an interesting pattern.

    States which ban gender affirming care

    States which have “right to work” law. Unions are banned from forming employment agreements with companies.

    States which ban same sex marriage in their state constitution

    States where abortion is currently illegal

    States which have laws against boycotting Israel

    States with legal marijuana, inverse compared to the other maps

    • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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      So basically, balkanization is gonna look something like this:

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        What is this

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          Something I made up based on how consistently shitty each state is in the political divide maps

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    No because it’s always some chauvinist bullshit.

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      What about a drainage map? Hard to Mad Max without potable water.

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      What’s this from?

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        it’s that shitty Civil War movie that just came out

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          I figured as much, because it doesn’t exactly strike me as realistic.

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            The Texas and California alliance is especially funny

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              alt/spec fiction writers understanding even basic politics challenge: impossible

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        I’m guessing the movie Civil War? Some of the names vaguely ring a bell

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      How is South Carolina in the Loyalist States, lmfao

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    The only realistic answer IMHO

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      the airplane exists. waterways have not been the arteries of rapid trade for over a century.

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        good luck shipping water for irrigation in an airplane

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    Well, I don’t have a map, exactly, but what I will say is that the Balkanization of the United States only happens after it annexes Canada and that the first state to secede is Quebec. Trust me on this, I’m a certified time traveler with a license to meddle with the timeline.

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    just take a crayon and keep drawing squiggles until you get bored

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      The way western Ukraine is cut off and part of central europe amuses me knowing how it’s the most fascist-ised area of the country.

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        that’s probably what makes it central europe then

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    I doubt a proper “Balkanization” would ever happen, too much capital tied up in the US Federal Govt for the hate-bourgeois to ever let that happen.

    What you’re probably gonna see is states just slowly drifting way legally and economically from Washington. Never fully succeeding, but just disregarding the Federal government with increasing blatancy, beefing up their State Police forces to the point they almost function as a local small military, taking more direct control over their local natural resources, maybe even regulating travel and trade between themselves and other States. The Kingdom will stay intact but the Provincial Lords will gain increasing autonomy.

    This will make Red States hell on Earth for a lot of people, but while I don’t have any faith in the Dems, more left leaning states may actually become more progressive in response.

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    Nobody has any fucking idea at all what it will look like—except that it will be fucking Hell on Earth.

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