If We Let The Secessionists Go, What Would Their 'Nation' Be Like?

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  1. SpaceCricket79

    SpaceCricket79 New Member Past Donor

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    So how'd New York or California be if they succeeded?
     
  2. Johnny-C

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    I'm not talking about "States" seceding... I'm talking about INDIVIDUALS who happen to be secessionists. As far as States which want to go... let's start with Texas; the secessionists can move there, initially.
     
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    Can basically go to your local zoo to find out.
     
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    Authoritarianism is ALWAYS conservative in nature. That is a separate issue from economic models. In the Soviet Union the conservatives were communist while the liberals wanted capitalism. The first people the Nazis went after were the liberals. Authoritarianism REQUIRES a right wing mind set.

    As to the original question watch

    One thing is sure. If they had succeeded in their original secession they would have sided with Hitler against the North during WW II. And if they secede now we'll be at war with them within a decade. They would fail MISERABLY and blame us. Just as they have ALWAYS done.
     
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    Better than what they'd be leaving.

    ... At least if the angry Neo Unionists didn't nuke them for having the audacity to secede.
     
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    Ahem! . . . Aaaaaaaaaahahahahahahaha!
     
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    This cries out for a proper definition of liberal and conservative in each relevant context...
     
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    after ww#2 communist takeover of mainland china created a prosperous Taiwan
     
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    Not everyone can be a 'community organizer....some folk actually work and those folk are mostly conservative
     
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    I fail to see how worshiping government is any different....
     
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    Starving
     
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    and your ability to prevent them from leaving is built upon what foundation
    are you able to offer them alternatives that would both soothe them and fix what is broken
    thousands of our factories offshore
    millions out of work after five generations on welfare and unearned ssi
    you are powerless and unimaginative
    like so many in both the democrat and republican party
     
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    Say What?
     
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    Ever seen "Escape From New York"? Their "nation" would be just like that.

    And without those black and brown people to blame their problems on, they would have to take responsibility for their own failures.
     
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    The United States was formed by slave owners claiming they wanted freedom. Look it up sometime. ;)

    George Washington himself was a slave owner.
     
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    Uh, American. You don't know the difference between nation and state, do you?
     
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    Then I guess we'd better never let New York secede, lol
     
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    You don't get off the hook that easily.

    Only slave owners fought in the Revolution, eh?

    Only slave owners signed the 13 peace treaties with the King, eh?

    Only slave owners formed the Confederation of States, eh?

    Only slave owners met in convention to ratify the Constitution, eh?

    Only slave owners formed the present union by ratifying the Constitution, eh?

    Really? I'll be jiggered and hornswoggled. That is indeed, a sockdolager. Who'da thunk it?[​IMG]
     
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    Liberals want progress. Conservatives want regress. In this case put it in D to go forward. Put it in R to go backwards.

    - - - Updated - - -

    Jesus was a community organizer. Until the conservatives murdered him.
     
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    Slave owning was the norm of the time - doesn't matter where you're from - the US, England, France, doesn't matter - slave owning was a la mode for the day and age.

    I think you'd be hard to find anyone who wouldn't be a "bad guy" by today's standards if you went that far back ex. Charles Darwin was a racist by today's standards - Sir Isaac Netwon was an "ignorant" old coot who believed in young earth creationism (before the theory of evolution had even been invented) by today's standards, etc

    Sucks having that ignorant mentality and holding past cultures to the standards of today, lol

    I guess Hippocrates was a 'crazy old fool' too - he believes that cutting someone's arm open and bleeding them was a cure for common illnesses (that's what killed Washington) - (I mean sure he lived a couple 1000 years ago, but that's irrelevant - what's ignorant today is still ignorant back then, right?)
     
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    I was pointing out the irony and the response was towards my comment of secessionists being bigots. Most of the people that want to secede hold increasingly horrid values by today's AND yesterday's values.

    Trying to discredit the truth by smearing other people who are highly regarded is a pretty low-balled way to do it. And it's still irony that slave owners wanted to be free no matter how much you talk about other people of history's beliefs. No matter when in time you lived, wanting be free of something done to you that you yourself do to others is by it's very definition irony.
     
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    Even better, give Texas back to Mexico. :)
     
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    It's pointing out your hypocrisy - Isaac Newton was a young earth creationist (more than 100 years before the theory of evolution existed), and Darwin's views would be considered racist today, Hippocrates held views which would be considered quackery today - so by your own standard, you'd have to smear them too.

    Just like it's ironic that a "doctor" like Hippocrates would hold such quackish views which lead to Washington's death - yeah? What's you're point :lol:

    Uh sure yeah, then no matter what time you lived, it's common sense that bleeding a person nearly to death isn't going to cure the flu - lmao :lol:
     
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    What "horrid values" do they hold, then? And who are you to tell them they can't hold them if they so choose?
     

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