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Submitted ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Meanwhile Florida has started to form toddler death Voltron by announcing they’re removing all vaccination requirements from schools.

    I fully expect there to be a southern collation of Iron Lungs soon.

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    • brem@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The worst thing about Toddler Death Voltron is: it is sentient and wants to no longer exist but they refuse to let it die because it hasn’t been born yet.

      Good luck writing THAT into your next screenplay MAGA Universe Doctor Strange

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    • jayemar@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      New band name

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      • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Iron Lung Collator is taken.

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  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Add in Texas and you’ve got the start of a very bad movie

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  • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just creating this division is proof RFK should resign. We knew he was an activaxxer and against science, but enforcing his personal opinion on the entire country is unforgivable. At-risk children, elderly, and others will die because of his bias…

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  • PlexSheep@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Isn’t Washington on the other side of america?

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s 2. Washington (State, west coast) and Washington DC (East coast, not a state)

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      • NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Jesus, you learn something every day

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  • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    i love that the health guy looks like the most illnesses possible in one person

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    • brown567@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      He’s just 16 preventable illnesses in a trenchcoat

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      • ContriteErudite@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Has anyone seen RFK Jr. and one of Nurgle’s Great Unclean Ones in the same room together? I don’t think so…

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      • crapwittyname@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This is gold. I could see John Oliver or Jon Stewart saying this.

        Republican Health Minister and sixteen-preventable-illnesses-in-a-trenchcoat, promising he’s a real boy, RFK Jr. said this week…

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    • SacralPlexus@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Many people are saying there is something wrong with his mitochondria.

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      • jve@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Well that can’t be good. That’s the power house of the cell!

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    • Prior_Industry@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The deep dent in the side of his temple is the icing on the cake.

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  • Sunshine@piefed.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think blue states should bring in all in-house solutions to cut the middleman White House out of it. States rights!

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    • mean_bean279@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We did that with CARB and now the feds are trying to stop it after decades of other states signing on because it worked so well here in Cali.

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      • Shrubbery@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      At the very least they need to hire these doctors and scientists that RFK Jr. fired so their wisdom and knowledge don’t go to waste!

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  • Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Cascadia babeee!

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  • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oooh, the second US civil war may still be on but not in the way we first thought.

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  • betanumerus@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There are indeed greater truth than hobby ideologies from billionaires.

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    • Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I imagine they might just be every other actual truth.

      These people.

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  • nocturne@slrpnk.net ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They should probably just join back up with Old Mexico and take Colorado too so they are left out cold

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      • Itd4n@ani.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        As much as I would love Colorado to depart the insanity, it will never happen. A ton of the nuclear ICBMs are here and it’s not like Washington will give that up.

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      • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Throw in British Columbia and Alaska while you’re at it. Just take the entire west cost of North America.

        And what should be the east coast, since if the international date line didn’t do that weird curve at the end of the Aleutians, Alaska would be the northernmost, westernmost, and easternmost state.

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      • nocturne@slrpnk.net ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        We are not opposed to that either.

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    • onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If NM joined I’d move there in a heartbeat.

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      • papertowels@mander.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        NM is there in spirit!

        kob.com/…/nmdoh-issues-health-order-to-maximize-c…

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  • figjam@midwest.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I did not have “Civil War over vaccines” on my apocalypse bingo card.

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    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s literally a life-or-death matter.

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      • figjam@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yes, civil wars (or really any war) usually involves that sort of struggle. And also yes, vaccines save lives and are settled science.

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    • spinne@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      2025 has had a lot of unexpected surprises!

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      • figjam@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        still 3+ months of surprise left. So tired, so very tired

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  • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    When the US falls apart I strongly suspect the nation of Cascadia to form from these states

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The problem… or complication with this…

      Is that basically every part of WA and OR east of the Cascades will … counter-seceede.

      Go look up the Greater Idaho project.

      There is, and has been for a while now, an effort to … have the eastern counties of WA and OR leave their respective states and join Idaho.

      From a legal/constitutional perspective… this is completely unprecedented, as best I can tell this has never before happened in US history, states redrawing their own borders, via counties which largely actually have democratically voted to do so via popular referendums.

      Northern/Eastern CA will possibly form into something like the old attempts at the proposed state of ‘Jackson’.

      There is an absolutely huge political polarization within all these states between urban and rural areas, roughly also by which side of the Cascades

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      I’ve hastily cropped that image from this source:

      brilliantmaps.com/county-1992-v-2024/

      So… yeah… if the governors of WA OR and CA formally seceeded and formed Cascadia? Came ‘too close’ to functionally doing that?

      Well the rightwingers have an arguably legit legal counter move for that (or so they will argue, the whole point is different sides do not agree) and then basically the West Coast explodes into functionally a civil war of some kind, probably involving both partisan and ‘official’ state forces, and federal forces, roughly breaking apart along the Cascades, but it could easily be way more chaotic than that, depending on what say, forces at JBLM and Kitsap decide to do.

      Let me personally tell you that Eastern WA/OR and Idaho still very, very much remember Ruby Ridge, the militia movement never died, it just went dormant till Trump, and uh, skipping up to present day, is now basically being formally recruited into ICE… ICE now has more funding than the United States Marine Corp.

      Fucking yeehaw is what I very much fear would happen if either side makes significant moves toward anything resembling actual secession.

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      • redchert@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Jackson

        Lincoln, Jefferson or Liberty not jackson

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      • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oh no doubt. Any kind of secession would be resolved with a civil war, and the final borders might not be recognizable.

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      • ronigami@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        How many people do you think live in Oregon?

        The majority of Oregonians live in Portland metro area.

        A similar stat can be found regarding Seattle metro, and Washington has more blue cities than OR.

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    • WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Great, provided there is some version of the Nuremberg Trials for Silicon Valley techbro nazis.

      They are welcome to fix their hearts or die.

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    • Sunshine@piefed.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s a good way to keep out garbage ICE invasions from LA.

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    • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      When?

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    but overall, this will hurt vaccine efficacy without a herd effect. I guess Tesla is making iron lungs now.

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    • kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The old saying of ‘a conservative would let donald trump shit in their mouth if it meant a liberal had to smell it’ can now be translated to ‘a conservative will kill every last child in a red state if it means a child from a blue state will get a cough’

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  • lena@gregtech.eu ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I hope they secede from the Union

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    • AstralPath@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Russia would love that.

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      • lena@gregtech.eu ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Look mate, the USA is a fascist country. Might as well secede, while they still can.

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      • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You’re talking as if russia hasn’t already infiltrated the US government and taken full control. right now the federal government is an illegitimate government acting as a puppet for the kremlin

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  • Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Isn’t that Cascadia?

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    • Atropos@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Cascadia lives!

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      • Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Cascadia never dies!

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    • lectricleopard@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Usually, when people talk about Cascadia as a country, they include British Columbia.

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      • rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        God we have trouble enough with Toronto thinking it’s the centre of the world and ignoring BC. We’d have zero influence in Cascadia.

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    • BigBenis@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Technically, only a small section of California is part of the Cascadian region. But so is most of Idaho… And I think just about everybody would be happier if we made that trade.

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    • TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      geographically cascadia excludes socal and includes BC. it’s a different climate, ecosystem, etc

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  • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That guy always looks like he’s mid dump.

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    • brem@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah but the worms in his head are

      Worms be poopin’, yo

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  • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Cascadia Now!

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    • Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Mom: We have Lebanon at home…

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    • smeenz@lemmy.nz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think a lighter blue or cyan at the top would make the tree more visible and better match the sky

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      • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Say nothing more until you read this.

        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_flag

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    • blinfabian@feddit.nl ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      CASCADIA IS REALLLLLLLL!!!

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      • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Damn right it is. (my back country setup).

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    • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Teach me how to dougie

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      • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Free Cascadia!

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The next three Canadian provinces.

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  • ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why is it the westernmost states that are the most progressive?

    “Progressive” being relative

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  • fubarx@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Be a shame if they didn’t call it COW. Vaccinated so it doesn’t get Mad.

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  • hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Good first step. We can and should do more.

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  • MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We need to start withholding federal taxes.

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  • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Maybe we should be our own country…

    Please.

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  • nucleative@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    States have always been able to do these things.

    Perhaps there are a few other administrative tasks they should collaborate on as well…

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  • militaryintelligence@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Things can’t be better for Russia

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  • gladflag@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This looks scarily like a map from a dystopian movie. WSA - Western States of America.

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  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They can hire all of the experts fleeing the RFK clownshow

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    With Florida ditching vaccine requirements it looks like the East Coast/West Coast feud is going to pick back up again.

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  • Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I love how many of us are so down for Cascadia. How do we get this in a vote?

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