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Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Shear Modulus posted:

The democrats will never repeat this level of success lol

It was the last chance we had lmao

i say swears online posted:

indiana in 2008 was a shocker, i don't think anyone saw it coming

It's not just that voters loved obama; people hated the GOP.

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Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008

by Athanatos
if obama had delivered on literally any of his promises he would've had an fdr-level landslide in '12 lol lmao

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



Peanut President posted:

if obama had delivered on literally any of his promises he would've had an fdr-level landslide in '12 lol lmao

actually if you stop reading fake news and look at what the fact checkers say you'll see he fulfilled 47% of his campaign promises!!!!

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/

like this one: https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/502/get-his-daughters-a-puppy/

spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008






modern republicans just set realistic goals, like "vote for me and ill gass the gays" and it works.

i think the democrats can learn something from that

CODChimera
Jan 29, 2009

so where are we on this plan? any progress being made?

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
It's going all according to keikaku

Masculine Thrust
Apr 23, 2022
This is a bad idea that would lead to war and make any chance of socialism impossible.

Masculine Thrust
Apr 23, 2022
America needs to be bigger and stronger, we need to annex Canada, like Engels recommended.

Rah!
Feb 21, 2006


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr8ljRgcJNM

jetz0r
May 10, 2003

Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world. This is not a figment of the imagination, but a fact. Tomorrow we will lead the world, Allah willing.



Peanut President posted:


this map instagibs liberals

vyelkin posted:

Balkanize this:



bunch of dumb liberal poo poo that ignores material reasons places would want to balk, and the resources they'd need to do it.

party color doesn't matter when a city is desperate for water, or a rural county is no longer getting gasoline because they're too poor for the deliveries to be profitable.

jetz0r has issued a correction as of 08:50 on May 24, 2022

Jon Pod Van Damm
Apr 6, 2009

THE POSSESSION OF WEALTH IS IN AND OF ITSELF A SIGN OF POOR VIRTUE. AS SUCH:
1 NEVER TRUST ANY RICH PERSON.
2 NEVER HIRE ANY RICH PERSON.
BY RULE 1, IT IS APPROPRIATE TO PRESUME THAT ALL DEGREES AND CREDENTIALS HELD BY A WEALTHY PERSON ARE FRAUDULENT. THIS JUSTIFIES RULE 2--RULE 1 NEEDS NO JUSTIFIC



Show the map of people who don't vote for no party.

anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool
yeah balking would basically be "whoever can take control of the nearby resources needed to survive wins"

in this scenario california would basically dominate the entire southwest because theyd take over the hoover dam

turns out fo:nv was prophetic

despite how chuddy the PNW is in some areas, theres like three to one advantage west of the mountains. our biggest issue is we are terminally reliant on a single passageway into california and canada so chuds can probably do bad things to that highway and take themselves out with us, i guess.

the northeast would be fine.

midwest hard to say beacuse guns but bluer. lots of freshwater availability everywhere and nothing is super interconnected so a lot of mini populations could form.

south is similar but its chudland. would go distinctly red.

anime was right has issued a correction as of 07:55 on May 24, 2022

mazzi Chart Czar
Sep 24, 2005

ted hitler hunter posted:

Show the map of people who don't vote for no party.






Bonus ugly link, a bunch of population by county maps via google images

https://www.google.com/search?q=Us+...t=firefox-b-1-d

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

anime was right posted:

yeah balking would basically be "whoever can take control of the nearby resources needed to survive wins"

in this scenario california would basically dominate the entire southwest because theyd take over the hoover dam


this Hoover dam?

https://twitter.com/bbcweather/status/1524713016780021760?s=21&t=HVozYT8QiV9dLGDCLIbRNg

mazzi Chart Czar
Sep 24, 2005


Phoenix, Arizona flood irrigation
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Phoenix%2C+Arizona+flood+irrigation

https://theconversation.com/as-clim...do-river-168723


Nobody should care how much saber rattling people in libertas (and east WA, OR, and central CA) do. Those libertarians need organization to fight the west coast, north, and south. And their random towns every 10 miles, (that only exist by way of government funded roads) don't have the organizational power and that does not bode well for their survival.

Also Texas is Texas. They will go at it alone, or descend into civil war.


That is why when push comes to shove, they will never balk. They are in powerful Senate based position, and if people leave their state, that's great! It means the people who can afford to live in those states, will gain more senatorial power.

mazzi Chart Czar has issued a correction as of 09:50 on May 24, 2022

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

mazzi Chart Czar posted:


Also Texas is Texas. They will go at it alone, or descend into civil war.


Nah. That map was drawn by a texan. Libertas is what texans think is rightfully theirs.

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

this sucks. i don't wanna be part of the united states when everyone else gets a new country. also all of the great lakes surrounding area is gonna need to band together to fight off everyone else.

Lord of Pie
Mar 2, 2007


Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

this sucks. i don't wanna be part of the united states when everyone else gets a new country. also all of the great lakes surrounding area is gonna need to band together to fight off everyone else.

lmao like Michigan and Ohio wouldn't immediately be in a forever war in a balk situation

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




Lord of Pie posted:

lmao like Michigan and Ohio wouldn't immediately be in a forever war in a balk situation

yah they already fought one afterall

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007
Michigan's central location to all that water means Detroit is gonna be MegaCity One or the entire state will be a scarred wasteland from invasions on every side

projecthalaxy
Dec 27, 2008

Yes hello it is I Kurt's Secret Son




What if... mlb blackout map balk? Balk's even a baseball term, for added fun.

Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


Sports team maps seem to be the most accurate balk maps because they show what major cities places identify with, which seems to be almost 1 for 1 with economic influence.

projecthalaxy
Dec 27, 2008

Yes hello it is I Kurt's Secret Son


Agean90 posted:

Sports team maps seem to be the most accurate balk maps because they show what major cities places identify with, which seems to be almost 1 for 1 with economic influence.

Yeah but thats boring. Wouldn't it be better if we balked along clean straight lines based on vague and possibly extremely racist lines i had in my head and wrote an article about?

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit
Which faction has the best strip clubs?

Mokelumne Trekka
Nov 22, 2015

Soon.

it's unclear to me what balkanization look like if a right-wing authoritarian has control of the U.S. military. wouldn't a bunch of right-wing coups be likely in that case? for example, California has essential resources and military, police, armed-militia forces could take over its government.

Ronwayne
Nov 20, 2007

That warm and fuzzy feeling.

mazzi Chart Czar posted:




Also Texas is Texas. They will go at it alone, or descend into civil war.

That is why when push comes to shove, they will never balk. They are in powerful Senate based position, and if people leave their state, that's great! It means the people who can afford to live in those states, will gain more senatorial power.

I despair when people talk of Texas secession and start posting Billy Sherman memes because that's not what they intend. Texas 'secession' specifically means ignoring federal law while continuing to receive federal money and protection and ALSO dictating state policy to other states, and they're succeeding. Every time someone brings up redstates being tiny economically irrelevant backwaters with no power beyond disproportionate senate seating, I look over at Texas, throbbing like senator armstrong's giant nanite infused heart. This place is Bavaria circa 1921, but with a lot more industry and political weight.

Sometimes when I'm especially depressed I picture a twitter photo of texas rangers arresting a blue state's government in the middle of the other state's capitol and getting away with it and dragging them back in chains for trial, especially one of those states on the other side of the country now offering sanctuary for people trying to get abortions and transfolks.

Ronwayne has issued a correction as of 17:25 on May 24, 2022

Femur
Jan 10, 2004
I REALLY NEED TO SHUT THE FUCK UP
I throught Texas gonna get skullfuked by the cartels? Dallas is all they got

Ronwayne
Nov 20, 2007

That warm and fuzzy feeling.
That's what I meant by the federal protection thing. The cartels, I assume, don't want to trigger a landwar with the u.s. military, even if it'd most likely turn into a bloodier redo of the pershing expedition.

Also Dallas and Houston is where most of this evil inventive reactionary poo poo is plotted and where the lily white exurbs full of upper middle class fash fester.

JesustheDarkLord
May 22, 2006

#VolsDeep
Lipstick Apathy
I'm pretty sure that Texas and Oklahoma are joining the SEC so that the State bigwigs have cover to discuss secession in Birmingham

War and Pieces
Apr 24, 2022

DID NOT VOTE FOR FETTERMAN

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

Michigan's central location to all that water means Detroit is gonna be MegaCity One or the entire state will be a scarred wasteland from invasions on every side

Michigan will become a major Sea Power

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

War and Pieces posted:

Michigan will become a major Sea Power

climate change opening up a new NorthWest passage that Michigan sits directly at the center of, lol

Dr. Kyle Farnsworth
Apr 23, 2004

spankmeister posted:

modern republicans just set realistic goals, like "vote for me and ill gass the gays" and it works.

i think the democrats can learn something from that

liberals regard actually doing something as cheating which is why they hate republicans so much. that and they are crass and say the quiet part out loud.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

projecthalaxy posted:



What if... mlb blackout map balk? Balk's even a baseball term, for added fun.

What's TBO in Mobile?

Iron Crowned posted:

Which faction has the best strip clubs?

Haven't crowned a king (queen?) since the expos left montreal

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

War and Pieces posted:

Michigan will become a major Sea Power

Buying a boomer sub and just having it swim circles around the lakes as deterrence

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



Milo and POTUS posted:

What's TBO in Mobile?


it's probably Tampa Bay Devil Rays (and the abbreviation is actually TBD). It has another couple old team names like FLA for the Florida Marlins (now Miami Marlins) and ANA for whatever the angels were calling themselves at the time

projecthalaxy
Dec 27, 2008

Yes hello it is I Kurt's Secret Son


Milo and POTUS posted:

What's TBO in Mobile?

Haven't crowned a king (queen?) since the expos left montreal

TBD, actually, a slightly out of date term for the Tampa Bay [Devil was dropped from the name] Rays

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




what does it say next to miami?

projecthalaxy
Dec 27, 2008

Yes hello it is I Kurt's Secret Son


Real hurthling! posted:

what does it say next to miami?

Not sure but judging by the font and the fact that the miami dot is double wide, it seems to be a town name? Is there something near Miami that starts with H and seems to end with perhaps EA?

Shear Modulus posted:

it's Hialeah

:ms:

projecthalaxy has issued a correction as of 21:20 on May 24, 2022

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



it's Hialeah

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Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




hialeah to you too

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