You can’t pull someone* over who hasn’t broken a law though. I know how to signal.

Not just cops, at this point I’ll turn down anyone who willingly carries a gun as part of their job. Not because all of them are poisoned by it, but because enough are.

I’m gonna repeat what someone else said, which is what is your point if we are talking about California seceding? And if your point is that we’d be leaving POC high and dry then a. They could feel free to move to our new country and b. These maps:

I think it’s less about fleeing when things get hard than when things get blatantly corrupt/the official arm of the federal state is being used to support fascism that is largely funded by a state adamantly opposed to those policies.

Already done. I may have used the phrase “clotty globs of dark cherry jello through which someone has run a wire wisk, but they’re dripping down your thighs” as an example of ACTUAL graphic language related to periods.

So is failing in your electoral college duty to prevent the ascension of a demagogue. So is intermixing your official role as president-elect with secret business affairs. So is participating in Russia’s interference in our election. Treason is meaningless now.

Population distribution wise, it’s a big big big percentage of it. I’m not even in one of those places but you cant pretend that those nodes plus a few similar voting enclaves (orange county, central coast) don’t comprise majority of the population.

Yeah, I’m not proposing it as a practical solution so much as...I think it would be good for those in charge of this country to know that if they pushed hard enough, it’s not outside the realm of possibility. The amount of money in California is no joke, and if the federal government tries to push too hard on things…

I’m actually pretty convinced he’s planning to bankrupt us and sell us to Taiwan for a song, become new emperor of Taiwan, destroy and bankrupt china, then blow up earth. Because he’s actually an alien. An orange one. Just a theory.

If poor people in the rest of the country would like that money, might I suggest they start voting the same way as California? California isn’t obligated to the rest of the country if the rest of the country continually votes in the opposite way as what is important to the people there...all of the people, not just…

I was thinking that secession was a hilarious joke but the more I think about it, the more I think we need to grab Washington and Oregon, create a beautiful coastal country called Pacifica, and hold most of the US’s produce and tech products hostage until they agree to recognize our sovereignty.

Yep, coloradoans would like to be able to drive to California with their weed, where it is legal at both origin and destination, without Utah happening, but Utah is Utah and what are you gonna do? I respect their right to make the laws that represent their populace. Forgive me if I don’t think your right to drive to a…

We are totally against the government overextending its reach and sticking its nose into local, county and state politics! Unless those more localized politics don’t match our regressive dystopian vision, then we will fuck them until they’re dead!

East Germany wasn’t technically “communist” but yes, cost alone should be a deterrent, let alone all the other myriad reasons that walls in general are a terrible idea for both sides of the wall.

I’m pretty sure we should shut down the entire government until we get the demagogue out of office, but that’s just me.

I teach an entire college course on the Berlin Wall that proves this is a bad idea. But what do I know? I’m just some loser academic.

My partner and I are planning to give our kid a gender neutral name based on Brian Eno, so I’m sure androgynous musician idolatry will be part of said hypothetical future child’s life.

For you, Jan...

Do you remember that glorious period for like maybe a year in the late 90s when men were into painting their nails shades of sky blue or black? I feel like it was this exact effect. And it was hot, I remember Jared Leto doing it. Hot late 90s Leto, not current Leto.

No lie, I vaped a ton of weed concentrate in the back row of the pirates of the Caribbean boat I was on, especially in all areas with fake smoke, very effective, 10/10 will do. again.