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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • it’s hard to image given that the largest factions are the maga-conservatives who occupy a continuous geographical area of the country and the neo-liberals who occupy disjointed geographical pockets on the east & west costs along with relatively thin majorites in even smaller pockets the northern midwest around the great lakes and an even weaker majority and even smaller pockets in the western part of the southwest around new mexico & colorado.

    if balkanazation were to occur, i would guess that the relative political unity & economic prowess of texas would dominate the territory of the united states since its political identity extends well beyond texas’ current borders already and it’s well positioned at the near center of the country to maintain its hegemony as opposed to it’s largest rivals in california and new york who are too poorly positioned the edges of the opposite coasts and whose economies are dependent on the interior. also, an overwhelming majority of the population outside the neo-liberal pockets within the current geography of both california and new york is dominated by a political identify that’s significantly closer to texas than it is to either california or new york; considerably more so in california.

    the only way the united states wouldn’t simply turn into a super-sized-texas is if mexico was somehow in a position to intervene in southern california and canada or europe with the rest of the coasts. however, if the united states is balkanizing, it would likely mean that canada and mexico are likely in not great shape either; so a super-sized-texas is the most likely outcome in all scenarios.







  • … I personally like the idea of ppl exploring new ideas regardless if they’re helping our immediate problems.

    i always wondered if people like william gilbert or otto guericke ever had to endure derision from people due to their experimentation w electricity well before its impact could be known.

    some part of me wants to hear overconfident and dogmatic responses like: “electricity?!!! who tf would ever need such a useless thing?!”