• pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafeOP
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      I don’t, you’re right, and for that I am glad. My friends are reasonable people and that’s more than most can say.

      If you are around people like that, you seriously need to cut them out of your life temporarily so they don’t end up hurting you in the next few years, and I am being 100% serious about that. Everything the extremists are saying and doing mirrors what the German people did during the rise of Hitler in the 1930’s, and they can and will report your ass and have you sent off to a concentration camp by the end of the decade if you’re stupid enough to hang around trash like that.

      The family members who were like that back then were the worst, and it’s the same now.

      I would even go so far as to recommend LGBTQ+ folk who live amongst fascist types to not come out to them at all and to do everything possible to save money and move far away from them, and to sanctuary cities, before the shit hits the fan. And those turds are awfully close to the blades…

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        Sure, but as the comic specifically says, this is about neighbors, not friends. You don’t necessarily have a choice regarding your neighbors’ beliefs.

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        I’m all for people staying safe and taking care of themselves, but the problem is moving makes the entire situation worse. Concentrating ourselves into small geographic areas inside cities is what allowed them to gerrymander the shit out of things and get the minority political party locked into outsized political influence.

        Every blue voter that leaves a rural area makes the divide worse. So I praise those who are brave enough to stay.

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          Then get everyone in those cities to vote to become separate states. That way your vote not only counts for more but can’t be controlled by them anymore.

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              No it isn’t. What makes a state a state is historical precedent. There is nothing stopping a local legislature from having a vote and the people voting to declare a city, or probably more accurately a county, a separate state.

              Even if it actually did violate the law, they should just secede and do it anyway, and send representatives to Congress as if it was a state and just emotionally bludgeon everyone else into accepting it as it always has been done.

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                What makes a state a state is being ratified in Congress. I’m not sure you understand how this works. You don’t just get to make a new state because people vote for it.

                "Is West Virginia Constitutional?

                On the creation of new states, the Constitution is pretty clear. Article IV, Section 3, reads that “no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State … without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.”

                https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2010/11/08/is-west-virginia-constitutional/

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                Try reading The Constitution. What makes a state a state is ratification by Congress. After the Civil War every single state (except Texas, kinda) was forced to sign a treaty that states that secession is illegal.