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While I see US balkanization as a highly likely possibility, I think that it would require a full blown collapse to actually take place. I mean no electricity in some areas for an extended period of time collapse. There is too much sunken cost on transportation, supply chains, and government for it to just be gone easily. And that is not factoring in the government being completely opposed to any sort of separation.

Which means any "national divorce" is not going to happen.

@sj_zero The numbers on a balance sheet are also not able to provide the full picture of the quality of your life. Housing/rent prices are a great example. Many houses in expensive areas make it so that any extra income living in an area is canceled out by just paying for your mortgage or rent.

I remember seeing a place in LA in Zillow that cost 500K. It was in terrible condition, and most certainly would need renovation and cleaning. 500K can get you a very nice place in many other areas.

@kaiservenom @Tfmonkey Still can't read that text in the bottom left. Though it is not necessary as it implies a whole lot of mental gymnastics to assume that you can be "libertarian left." Equality (or more accurately the attempt at it) can only come about with overt force from the top. This is why I have more respect for Auth-Lefts that Lib-Lefts, at least they are honest about what they would need to do in order to pursue their goals.

@DW2 Advertising this on Advil products is just plain moronic, as the premise of this claim is rooted at hospitals, not for over the counter pain medication.

I have to wonder if there is more going on to this claim than what we are being told. Such as when it comes to things like dosages for pain killers at hospitals where using too much could cause overdose issues, but blacks not realizing this and claiming racism when they are not given more than this limit would allow.

Just a theory though.

@WashedOutGundamPilot @PraxisOfEvil Pretty much all of these "number go up" graphs can be summed up by inflation and the artificial strangelhold of "the pandemic" that the government forced on everyone.

The graphs all conveniently start at 2020. These journalists know exactly what they are doing, and for that they deserve every bit of contempt that comes there way.

I had a realization when it comes to the whole "trust the experts" meme. There is nothing wrong with experts themselves. Even those who despise the slogan have experts they trust.

The problem is that the "experts" we are told we need to trust are preselected by the government to parrot whatever narrative they want. Other experts who may disagree are never the ones we are given permission to trust.

@Ghislaine Some relevant screenshots on why the left fails at memeing. If want to go over things in great detail with a lot of words, you should be writing essays and articles, not memes. What makes a meme effective is that the idea can be conveyed in a short amount of time with few words or extra "context" required.

@DW2 In non-sexual examples, I know of guys who become violent when they are drunk. It turns out that such men are violent. Some men get very sad when they are drunk. It turns out, they have major problems and are indeed sad but not hiding it.

Some are more harmless and just silly. Those are not as big of a concern, though they can be obnoxious.

@DW2 Alcohol just lowers your inhibitions, opening you up to do things that you do want to do but would otherwise hold yourself back from. So anytime someone says "I was drunk, I did not mean that," they are wrong. They really meant it, it just came out of hiding.

So anytime a woman claims she had sex, cheated, or did any other thing but did not really want to do it and only did it because she was drunk, she is lying. Because she did want to do that.

@DW2 Just another sign of a booming economy, you pathethic chud! Bidenomics is totally working!

@Humpleupagus In all seriousness, the reason this would happen is how sensors would detect light differently from darker skin. Darker skin would more likely not reflect as much light as lighter skin. There is not a great way to work around this, as detecting light bouncing off of anything is limited. I had to do some work in something tangeantly similar, so I know full well that this is not something that can be programmatically solved either.

In short, physics is RACIST!

@sickburnbro But given the current trajectory, I don't expect the military to give up their DEI initiatives or the defense contractors to clean house and get serious. This sort of institutional rot cannot be easily reversed, as the rot has been going on for far too long.

Much of the world will heal, and much of Europe will suffer without having the US to be their military. A whole lot of countries might be able to have authentic elections once more.