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    From George J. Dance@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 29 20:45:06 2024
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    New York state senator Liz Kreuger is calling for New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to secede from the United States and ask to
    join Canada.

    https://gdspoliticalanimal.blogspot.com/2024/11/new-york-state-senator-calls-for.html

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  • From Jordy@21:1/5 to W.Dockery on Sun Dec 1 02:21:42 2024
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    On Sun, 1 Dec 2024 0:11:32 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:

    On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 20:45:03 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:

    New York state senator Liz Kreuger is calling for New York, Connecticut,
    Massachusetts, and Vermont to secede from the United States and ask to
    join Canada.

    https://gdspoliticalanimal.blogspot.com/2024/11/new-york-state-senator-calls-for.html

    That didn't end well last time states tried to seceed from the Union.

    Yeah, certainly as a realistic, practical idea, it’s completely ridiculous and silly and absurd, for countless reasons… but purely as a fantasy, it’s certainly quite tempting and highly appealing, Imo…

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  • From George J. Dance@21:1/5 to Jordy on Sun Dec 1 12:19:20 2024
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    On Sun, 1 Dec 2024 2:21:40 +0000, Jordy wrote:

    On Sun, 1 Dec 2024 0:11:32 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:

    On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 20:45:03 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:

    New York state senator Liz Kreuger is calling for New York, Connecticut, >>> Massachusetts, and Vermont to secede from the United States and ask to
    join Canada.

    https://gdspoliticalanimal.blogspot.com/2024/11/new-york-state-senator-calls-for.html

    That didn't end well last time states tried to seceed from the Union.

    Yeah, certainly as a realistic, practical idea, it’s completely ridiculous and silly and absurd, for countless reasons… but purely as a fantasy, it’s certainly quite tempting and highly appealing, Imo…


    I agree, that as a fantasy it's pure fun. Some people are doing that on
    X, circulating new maps of North America with Canada stretching down the Atlantic coast to Maryland, and down the Pacific Coast to Mexico.

    What bothered me in this case was to hear a member of the NY state
    government saying it. I found that disturbing.

    Fortunately, I feel better about it. I've recently joined Bluesky (the
    anti-X that's gained over 25 million new users since the election). So I
    the story up there to see the lay of the land. I got only one reply.
    from an angry person who told me, in effect, that as much as she
    despised Trump, he wasn't worth breaking the country up over.

    (Sorry for ending a sentence with two prepositions :)

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