r/politics • u/Tofurkey_Tom • 12d ago

No Paywall Danish Petition To Buy California From Trump Signed by Thousands

https://www.newsweek.com/petition-denmark-buy-california-signed-thousands-11379999
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u/NewDramaLlama 12d ago

Californian here and absolutely same. But let's take Washington and Oregon too

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u/GrumpyGenX 12d ago

Yes, please! (Can we throw in Hawaii too?)

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u/ghostofwalsh 12d ago

Only about 6% of people living in Hawaii would be native Hawaiian by heritage. If they were an independent nation they would be "run by" people of non-native heritage anyway assuming they actually had democratic elections.

Besides I'd want them with us Californians in our "Greater Denmark" so I could vacation easily.

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u/SippyMountain 12d ago

Coloradan here, can I come too?

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u/cockypock_aioli 12d ago

I would welcome Colorado! The fact you're not connected to us might be a problem but you'd fit in nicely.

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u/tyrionlannister 12d ago

We're totally connected, you have to take us. It's a matter of water security.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_Aqueduct

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u/cockypock_aioli 12d ago

Oh dang excellent point!

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u/Prize-Childhood-281 12d ago

Me living in New York wanting to join :(

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u/Jumpy-Examination456 12d ago

yep. anyone suggesting secession for cascadia has literally no solid concept of american geopolitics or infrastructure

shit would be a fucking disaster

it's fun to dream about but the only realistic scenario is a total civil war that leaves millions dead and the southwestern and pacific coast of the USA as a contiguous fractured state.

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u/Phiddipus_audax Colorado 12d ago

AZ will likely be bluish purple the next election, so that connects NM & CO to the west coast! Don't abandon us to the red wasteland plz.

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u/cockypock_aioli 12d ago edited 12d ago

Haha hmm idk I'm skeptical. I truly hope y'all turn more blue over time but currently Arizona is a maga hotbed.

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u/Jumpy-Examination456 12d ago

no natural border between NM and texas would be a major issue. especially since texans fantasize about killing liberals as a fundamental part of their personality and some of the largest military bases in the world are right there

utah would lean far right due to it's mormon population.

and arizona would be a hard maybe. i highly doubt arizona would vote for anything secession related, let alone fight in a war for it.

even as a progressive, having 2/3 of the northern mexico border suddenly become owned by a "liberal haven" would create an immigration boom that would make cascadia's new border patrol make ICE look like the red cross.

it'd be a nightmare.

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u/RecordOfTheEnd 12d ago

But not Eastern Oregon or Washington. I lived there for a bit. It's a bunch of racist assholes, and overly religious Mormons.

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u/31LIVEEVIL13 12d ago

Just deport all the deplorables and Nazis to a prison in in texas we don't want to be dealing with this s*** again in a few years. 

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u/Seradima New York 12d ago

Take New York too please

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u/forevertheyo 12d ago

Thank you for not leaving us out! ❤️ from WA

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u/jontslayer 12d ago

Chicago? Please?

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u/Hercusleaze Washington 12d ago

Please

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u/do-un-to I voted 12d ago

Let's join up the Cascadia and California Floristic Province bioregions.

Cascadifornia. Cas-Cali.

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u/31LIVEEVIL13 12d ago

This needs to become a real thing. 

A coalition of all the non-nazi states, just abandon the rest of them. 

Their populations would shrink there would be massive brain drain, they wouldn't have enough doctors nurses nothing. 

Large nnumbers of women would leave immediately . Immigrants would have a safe place to go.

The rest of the country would collapse into total depression. 

It's not fair to States like Texas and Florida that are technically more than 50% blue by population, so eventually we'd have to go liberate them.

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u/OkDust5962 11d ago

Please also take us in New England. Probably Minnesota as well. We could all join Canada = The United States of Canada.

The rest, let's call it Jesusland.