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user-inactivated  ·  3127 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why the Brexit is even shittier than you think

There's always been stray talk about Texas leaving The States, which would also be a bad idea. I wonder if The Brexit has stirred up those sentiments again.





kleinbl00  ·  3126 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It might be highly entertaining for Texas to investigate the differences between a country leaving an economic coalition and a province seceding from a republic.

user-inactivated  ·  3126 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I feel like you may be misleading people here. There hasn't been serious talk of Texas leaving the States since the last time it actually did -- about 150 years ago.

Quebec, on the other hand, is touch and go.

user-inactivated  ·  3126 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's why I called it stray talk. But it's there. Hell, even The Guardian entertained the idea a few weeks back.

user-inactivated  ·  3126 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah. But I mean, you're still doing it too much credit, right? It's not anywhere near the same process.

I guess you probably live in Texas? I used to as well. No one thinks about that on any meaningful level except Perry's idiots when they're trying to garner kneejerk votes from people who think it's funny to say that Lone Star is the national beer of Texas.

user-inactivated  ·  3126 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Honestly? I don't think I'm giving it much credit at all. First I admitted it was stray talk, then I linked to a Wikipedia article showing how the people who take the subject seriously are a half bit loony. Even in my original comment I said such a thing would "be a bad idea." We're honestly in total agreement here from the get go.