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So here's a question, what happens when a bunch of democrat states take Trump off the ballot, and a bunch of republican states take Biden off. Can an election even go forward at that point? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by yogthos@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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Colorado supreme court ruled that they can take Trump off the ballot, now it looks like California is trying to do that as well. Meanwhile, republican states are threatening to retaliate in kind.

This seems unprecedented for US, does anybody know what happens in this scenario?

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[–] PanArab@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Do I dare to dream of the breakup of the US?

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 10 months ago

Probably not quite yet, but it does seem like where things may be headed in the long run.

[–] HaSch@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Such a dream would probably be a nightmare. Humanity already pushed its luck once after the destruction of the USSR when its nuclear weapons fell into the hands of unhinged right-wing lunatics and clowns with no sense of self-preservation, the same sort of misfortune wheel will spin again when the time comes for the US, only much worse because their media does its best to drive everyone towards aggression, xenophobia, loss of patience and attention span, propensity to factual and logical errors, and binary thinking.

The best outcome for us would be for the US to remain under a corrupt federal civilian government overseeing states with massively weakened economic and political power, that could be coerced into demilitarisation by international pressure and absorbed into China's sphere of influence at once

[–] SadArtemis@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 10 months ago

I think it's better for the US to shatter, than for its continuation as a geopolitical threat to the peace of Afro-Eurasia and Latin America, and its survival as the bulwark and champion of settler-colonial ideology.

Humanity can push its luck once more, or a dozen more times, and it would still likely be better than the continuation of the continental USA, which in and of itself- even without its foreign bases and territories- is undeniably an empire. A unified North American behemoth, one built upon such wretched foundations as the US, has to be contained, or better yet, shattered, for there to be any sort of lasting peace, IMO.