I'm going to go ahead and say yes, because the costs to saying yes seem minimal.
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So the future is _so_ uncertain that trying to avoid catastrophe is as futile as waiting for unicorns to save us. But also you're completely certain that the United States will continue with its exact same borders until it ceases to exist?
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Secession wouldn't avoid a catastrophe, it would cause one. And in fact would be one.
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Why do you think that? (honest q; history of broken up large countries is mixed rather than disastrous...).
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The US did OK after seceding from the British Empire IIRC.
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Yeah because it was a big contiguous landmass seceding from an island that was an ocean away.
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Ukraine/Kazakhistan/Uzbekistan, etc... 1918: Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Yugo.. Czech, Slovakia
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All irrelevant to the current situation!
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Replying to @Noahpinion @PsychRabble and
...which of course you already know full well, having participated in this stupid discussion for many minutes on end now. You're too smart to do the "cycle back to old refuted arguments" thing for any purpose other than trolling. ;-)
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Replying to @Noahpinion @PsychRabble and
They're not trolling. They just don't want to accept your points because it kills their fantasy of a secession in America.
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I think Miller and Jussim are just havin' a bit o' fun, as am I. Dykstra takes it seriously, but he'll learn.
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Replying to @Noahpinion @amatueradult and
Are you kidding? This is the most fun I've had on Twitter recently. I enjoy the thought experiment.
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