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Post by The Polar Phantasm on Jun 24, 2016 22:45:43 GMT -6
Scary shit, but totally true: when the Republic of Texas joined the USA, it was granted the freedom to (if it so chose) split into as many as five separate states. Meaning that all Texas would have to do is take a vote on it and we'd have 54 states. If you weren't already thinking it... yeah. Texas - shittiest Voltron ever. -B. Actually, that's a common misunderstanding. Texas doesn't have the power to secede legally. Yeah it was a condition when they joined, but the cause and result of the Civil War made that condition moot. States can apply for secession but the federal government would have to approve it. On the one hand I am ashamed that I claimed something fact that wasn't. On the other hand I am kinda proud of America for closing that fucking loophole; five texases is at least four too many.  -B. |
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Post by Jay Omega on Jun 24, 2016 23:03:07 GMT -6
Wouldn't the plural of Texas be more like Texi?
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Post by Teo del Sol on Jun 24, 2016 23:11:45 GMT -6
It's almost like Texas or one of the other super conservative states finally getting fed up and putting secession from the US up for vote and letting the people decide. Scary shit, but totally true: when the Republic of Texas joined the USA, it was granted the freedom to (if it so chose) split into as many as five separate states. Meaning that all Texas would have to do is take a vote on it and we'd have 54 states. If you weren't already thinking it... yeah. Texas - shittiest Voltron ever. -B. But yeah, that's a common misconception lol. I'm pretty sure that if we just decided to say that we were seceded tomorrow that the army would immediately invade and/or occupy us as necessary. |
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Post by Preecha Kamon on Jun 24, 2016 23:43:15 GMT -6
I used to not be for Globalization on the account that I used to think it improbable and leading to be the biggest ticking time bomb of all time but I have kind of come to the point of thinking the opposite. If anyone remembers in WCF, I made a post about the idea of the UN and the importance of it being a promise (and how the lack of power it had was not the point of its existence) but I basically make the same argument here. The backing out of the EU is a regressive step as we are too far forward to start believing in the idea of individualized societies among our planet as a stable idea.
It is basically a quixotic idea in both definition and namesake. As in not only is it idealistic but in reference to the story of Don Quixote, it is the attempt to go back in time to return to an age that might not have existed in the first place; as most of the people who voted to leave tended to be of an older generation and probably is led by a very ridiculous idea of nationalism/pride. Where Britain thinks it would be better off alone which is just stupid. There is a real lack of benefits (and even a backfire) to leaving the EU and is more or less a move that fucks up a systematic attempt at untangling this fucked up mess we made the world (yes, to some the EU might seem like a big tangle in itself but the truth is that it is at least an attempt to untangle where Britain separation is one big "fuck you, maybe we like the tangle" which is much worse).
That is kind of the issue with modern day politics. We have always had nationalism but we are in a day and age where it no longer makes sense. Yes, think locally but don't fuck over the global agenda. Pulling out of the EU is childish at best. So is voting Trump as they all play on weakness of scared people.
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Post by Gravedigger on Jun 25, 2016 5:40:15 GMT -6
It's all about the current scare over immigrants and mainly refugees. To get even more specific, the move to leave the EU in Britain and the refugee scare in the US is all completely about the current fear of Islam.
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Post by Mr. Wright on Jun 25, 2016 6:14:25 GMT -6
Wouldn't the plural of Texas be more like Texi? I think the plural of Texas is just Texas Like deer and deer |
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