[Afforess]

California should acquire some nuclear weapons then.

[smallnix]

I doubt its realistic for powerful states like California to cecede. Is there a path from here to a near (think 50 years) future, where California and the US, sans California, exist?

[fifilura]

I don't want the US to break up.

But I wonder if it wouldn't be more healthy for you if the states grew a bit more independent.

It would give the president less power to decide exactly how schools and universities should be run or would open up for social welfare reforms in the states that want it.

[anothernewdude]

I doubt its realistic for powerful colonies like America to declare independence.

[RobRivera]

I don't think cessation was the implication

[labster]

Why secede when we can just get our state sold to Denmark?

[kubb]

They should promise him a cut.

[aoanevdus]

Supposedly there are hundreds in Concord.

[panick21_]

Nuclear weapons aren't a magical cloak that when you put it everybody has to do what you say. Its one of many consideration in foreign policy.

And the idea that you have to make 'Russia happy' because they have nukes, if fucking beyond dumb.

[Angostura]

or some kompromat

[ninetyninenine]

All our GDP is in software. We don't know how to make anything except AI and web apps. We wouldn't know what to do with a nuke.

[b112]

Incredibly wrong.

Hollywood is still a thing. Manufacturing, yes manufacturing. Agriculture. The Bay Area is a fraction of that GDP, and a small geographical part of California.

[cenamus]

In that case, all of Russia GDP is oil and natural gas

[rafale]

Ask Nevada.