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    My favorite part of this is that despite this “border crisis, ”Gregory Wayne Abbott is galavanting around fkn India like he’s Anthony fkn Bourdain. Meanwhile, we have all sorts of shit convoys and armed goofies coming there to “volunteer in Texas.” Eagle Pass is only 97% Hispanic, so I’m sure nobody will get confused and murder some nice citizen or anything.

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    Imagine Lady Liberty in an ice-blue dress, singing “Let them go, let them go…”

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    Someone should tell these guys it’s not 1861 anymore. They might find themselves on the business end of a hellfire missile if they keep running their yaps with impunity or take actionable steps towards actually seceding. Also known in modern vernacular as “Fuck around and find out”.

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    The United States is too big and needs to fail. And I say this as the United States citizen, I would like to see it broken up into smaller independent countries. With less military so that we can stay the fuck out of other people’s business.

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      The United States is too big and needs to fail

      Yeah, I don’t think you understand what that statement means. A government failure would absolutely lead to a significant part of the the population dying. And that would be the good outcome for a lot of folks. A whole lot more would starve to death very slowly.

      I would like to see it broken up into smaller independent countries

      Very, very, very few States have the experience at this moment to operate as an independent nation. Like maybe four or five. The rest would either devolve into complete chaos and with it take a significant part of the population, or be invaded which would very likely have similar outcome.

      With less military so that we can stay the fuck out of other people’s business.

      Yeah, there’s a lot of people like it or not that have an axe to grind. And wouldn’t really matter to them if the US fell apart, in fact it would encourage them to settle that chip on their shoulder.

      So I’m just going to tell you, your proposal would very likely get yourself killed and everyone you love killed and pretty much everyone commenting on this story killed as well. There would be a lot of dead bodies. Just literally look at any country that began falling apart and you can see that the body count starts increasing at a rapid pace when the Government completely falls apart.

      I don’t understand why people think that government falling apart or civil war means that a significant part of the country’s population doesn’t die? There’s over 8,000 years of evidence of societies collapsing equaling a shit ton of people dying. If there’s people wanting to die that badly, there are better ways that do not involve 10% to 20% of the civilian population.

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        A lot of people will die, but probably nowhere near a majority, but the reason for unity is the same as the reason 250 years ago: if we split up each small part will become the puppet to some foreign country.

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    The only issue I have with secession talk is there are lots of Texas citizens who aren’t the problem. Every red state has people with common sense, they just don’t have the ability at the moment to shut up the idiots. Plus secession at this point is ludicrous, leaving with your toys isn’t how you fix problems. Oh wait, it’s Republicans, they don’t ever have solutions anymore anyway it’s all a political game.

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      The pro-seccession crowd here isn’t even the majority of Republicans. They brought a petition to out a measure on the primary ballot and the state GOP said no. Then the state Supreme Court declined to intervene.

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    Obviously he’ll flip into “federal authority is absolute” against states like California if a Republican (read: Trump) is president.

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      No need to wait, look at what they did for the article 14 stuff. They don’t give a fuck about anything unless it somehow directly impacts them, states rights included