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readoncontradiction [none/use name] 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] to politics@hexbear.netEnglish • 1 year ago
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  • allthetimesivedied [they/them, she/her]
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    6•1 year ago

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

  • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    19•1 year ago

  • Spike [none/use name]
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    • TrashGoblin [he/him, they/them]
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      6•1 year ago

      How is South Carolina in the Loyalist States, lmfao

    • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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      6•1 year ago

      What’s this from?

      • PointAndClique [they/them]
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        3•1 year ago

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

      • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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        13•1 year ago

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

        • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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          9•1 year ago

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

          • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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            13•1 year ago

            The Texas and California alliance is especially funny

            • Crucible [he/him, comrade/them]
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              7•1 year ago

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

  • shipwreck [comrade/them]
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  • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]
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    6•1 year ago

    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.

  • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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    17•1 year ago

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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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.

  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    8•1 year ago

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

  • Beetle_O_Rourke [she/her, comrade/them]
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    The only realistic answer IMHO

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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      3•1 year ago

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

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        9•1 year ago

        good luck shipping water for irrigation in an airplane

  • Noven [any]
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    • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]
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      9•1 year ago

      Lmao this took me way to long to process.

    • propter_hog [any, any]
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      13•1 year ago

      The most American balkanization

  • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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    • propter_hog [any, any]
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      3•1 year ago

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

    • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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      5•1 year ago

      How is California the only Sailor Moon state?

      • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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        https://www.pcmag.com/news/most-popular-anime-series-by-state

        Just top search ranking.

  • huf [he/him]
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    • Awoo [she/her]
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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.

      • huf [he/him]
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        14•1 year ago

        that’s probably what makes it central europe then

  • Nakoichi [they/them]
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    12•1 year ago

    No because it’s always some chauvinist bullshit.

    • Beetle_O_Rourke [she/her, comrade/them]
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      5•1 year ago

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

  • dead [he/him]
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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]
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      5•1 year ago

      So basically, balkanization is gonna look something like this:

      • Kestrel [comrade/them]
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        2•1 year ago

        What is this

        • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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          4•1 year ago

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

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