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• MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  California and West Coast separatism is most strongly advocated by Russian agents seeking to weaken the US.

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  • DampSquid@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think everyone is in favour of weakening the US

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    • ignoble_stigmas@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Even the American president himself

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    • MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Weakening NATO is their goal.

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Im not Russian at all and I want to separate because all I get from the federal union is taxation without representation. I’m tired of subsidizing failed religious extremists. It’s abundantly clear that there is no rule of law at the federal level, and I would sooner die than bend the knee to a king.

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    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      As a Russian, honestly these are all sorts of shit with no practical difference for us.

      Except for Alaska, some people think it shouldn’t have been sold. And 0.7 mln total population is (far) less than Crimea.

      That aside, a confederacy (I guess some other word would be better) of the old US and some more autonomous things, like, for example, California, would possibly be a stabilizer.

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    • MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      There’s been a number of news coverages of this. It’s not like it’s the biggest operation or anything but they have been trying to plant that seed intentionally.

      www.sacbee.com/news/local/article264043131.html

      …thinkprogress.org/russia-texas-california-separa…

      latimes.com/…/la-fg-russia-separatists-snap-story…

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      • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        May I ask what your native language is? It’s plainly obvious that it’s not English of American dialect.

        (I don’t mean this question in an adversarial way, I’m trying to understand the point you’re trying to make.)

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    • zqps@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Sincere question as a foreigner, is there any basis to this “Jill Stein is a Russian asset” thing other than the fucked up nature of FPTP voting resulting in the US two-party system?

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      • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Very much yes, we literally do not have laws restricting “donations” and “fundraising” for politicians here. I say this as someone who (embarrassingly) voted for her when I was young and uninformed many many years ago because I liked the headlines her party platform pushed. I am not sober enough to spam you with news articles at the moment but please feel free to bug me again tomorrow. If you do some of your own reading please tell me where you heard it and I will provide context as well.

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      • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        No, there isn’t.

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  • humanoidchaos@lemmy.cif.su ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Damn. That just made me realize that the most effective military strategy against the US is to pit us against ourselves.

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    • MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Asymmetric warfare basic.

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    • cabillaud@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s not really news, the Civil War has been one of the fiercest conflict in history.

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    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No, you don’t get it, the US has so excelled in pitting others against each other to emerge as one victor, than it’s bringing the thing home. So you are going to weaken yourselves by making a quarreling mess of the old system, then it imploding and some nominally democratic and free new system taking over. Probably simultaneously trying to nuke half of the rest of the world.

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      • Cybersteel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Nazis, Communists, Socialists, Terrorists. The US ran out of enemies and started to fight itself. It hurt itself in it’s confusion.

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  • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I love completely baseless claims

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    • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You’ve demonstrated that already by calling me a troll for no reason haha

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• cdf12345@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  [Citation needed]

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