Free Cascadia!
A great reason to move to the West Coast!
Come to Cali, we got weed, healthcare, cheap electronics and good high-speed uncensored internet.
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I’m planning on not paying shit.
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Just declare Independence already, stop hyping up and not delivering
Fuck the junkie
Mom: We have Lebanon at home…
I think a lighter blue or cyan at the top would make the tree more visible and better match the sky
Say nothing more until you read this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_flag
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cascadia_movement&wprov=rarw1
Okay, I’ve read that and I think it would look better with a lighter coloured sky
Teach me how to dougie
Arggg…
CASCADIA IS REALLLLLLLL!!!
Damn right it is. (my back country setup).
Consider joining Denmark too!
California has 10x the GDP of Denmark btw
However Denmark has higher standards ie metric and universal healthcare being in use. Wouldn’t it be better to have more access to the European market?
California in the EU would be quite the mind bender, unless you’re referring to Denmark being an import vector.
The European Union is not solely confined to Europe check French Guiana, Cyprus, Canary Islands and Reunion.
Politically, I don’t see it happening in any of the 3 states tho.
I’m saying it’s a possibility. Not everything is set forever.
Why is it the westernmost states that are the most progressive?
“Progressive” being relative
Needs to get Hawaii on board
I think Hawaii is pretty much sorted when it comes boards… you probably want to get on their board.
furthest away from the white house
But Washington is right there
Common misconception for people outside of the US, Washington State =/= Washington, D.C. They’re on opposite ends of the country, and don’t have much in common in terms of how they are ran.
wrong washington
They were founded as “utopian” states. Oregon as the white only utopia, California as the utopia of gold and glamour and Washington as the utopia of…lumber or something.
Historically the rockies and great plains states were the most left-leaning parts of the country. Wyoming was the first to allow women to vote.
Because they aren’t
Very high concentrations of educated citizens among the populace, a functional tax system that actually reinvests into its people compared to many other states in the union (especially below the Mason-Dixon line), and key cities center to high-tech development and critical US industries, military or otherwise (Seattle, LA, San Jose, San Francisco).
Additionally, because these states were some of the last to be incorporated into the United States, they largely were able to develop in less rigid ways in the 20th and 21st centuries compared to other states in the union (Cheaper land also allowed developing industries like computing to invest heavily in the region).
Though not a perfect summation, here’s a video from Vox about why Silicon Valley is located in California: https://youtu.be/6xvrKW2H_hA
I can try to explain any other questions about our politics and social norms as a Californian (though I’m less familiar with Oregon and Washington State, sadly).
You hit on the core reason. Less rigidity. The east and south are much more traditional. They are slow to change tradition. That also makes them slow to adapt. It’s a mindset. And the people who left those areas to go west did so with a more open mindset. And once it started that way, it was more or less established. If you like peer pressure from dead people, go east and south. If not, go west.
…the fuck are you on about? Don’t lump the Northeast in with the South. Massachusetts is easily the most liberal state in the country, and it’s not even really close and second place is Hawaii so still not West Coast.
If you want peer pressure from GOP funding Silicon Valley NIMBYs and weirdly conservative cannabis farmers go West. If you want a culture that prides itself on cutting you off in traffic while sipping a large extra extra around the Newport eternally stuck to your lower lip but at the same militantly defending your civil rights and social systems, come to New England. Or don’t, we barely have snow anymore. I’ll give that to the American West, better ski mountains.
(this is mostly a joke, everyone’s fucked anyway)
Ya’know, it is odd now that you mention it. Out here in oregon we have a lot more “gray” days then out east. Yet I don’t see as many people drinking coffee in the care compared to out east. You would think we would need it more.
Also odd, there is a clear difference in how traditional east coast companies are (and are allowed to be). Tech is my area, and it is very noticeable. Management hierarchies are much more rigid. Clothing/appearance expectations. Still a lot of golf played on company time. Diversity… I think the people are often liberal, but they don’t seem to take much of that to the office. Oh, and more religion in the east than the west. Y’all still have blue laws in many states.
I hope they secede from the Union
Russia would love that.
You’re talking as if russia hasn’t already infiltrated the US government and taken full control. right now the federal government is an illegitimate government acting as a puppet for the kremlin
Look mate, the USA is a fascist country. Might as well secede, while they still can.
Whatever you say, pal. -eyeroll-
could Chechnya cecede? no.
Nothing wrong with seceding from an unquestionably, increasingly tyrannical government.
it’s keeping freedom which is the real hard part.
i love that the health guy looks like the most illnesses possible in one person
He’s just 16 preventable illnesses in a trenchcoat
This is gold. I could see John Oliver or Jon Stewart using this.
Republican Health Minister and sixteen-preventable-illnesses-in-a-trenchcoat, promising he’s a real boy, RFK Jr. said this week…
Has anyone seen RFK Jr. and one of Nurgle’s Great Unclean Ones in the same room together? I don’t think so…
Many people are saying there is something wrong with his mitochondria.
Well that can’t be good. That’s the power house of the cell!
The deep dent in the side of his temple is the icing on the cake.
“So, what your saying is…I’m indestructible!”
"Oh, no no, in fact even a slight breeze could-”
“In-de-structable!”
i love that the health guy looks like the most illnesses possible in one person
Looks like the future country of Cascadia is finally starting to make some moves.
If NM joined I’d move there in a heartbeat.
They should probably just join back up with Old Mexico and take Colorado too so they are left out cold
We are not opposed to that either.
Colorado is willing and able to join this western alliance!
Throw in British Columbia and Alaska while you’re at it. Just take the entire west cost of North America.
And what should be the east coast, since if the international date line didn’t do that weird curve at the end of the Aleutians, Alaska would be the northernmost, westernmost, and easternmost state.
I love when people throw around the idea of Canadian provinces just being up for grabs, as if we want anything to do with what’s going on south of the border.
Since you’re including the entire north american west coast, can Baja California get an invite too?
BC says no thanks. Even west coast US is still broken AF.
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As much as I would love Colorado to depart the insanity, it will never happen. A ton of the nuclear ICBMs are here and it’s not like Washington will give that up.
Colorado has NORAD but that’s not where many of the silos are.
Pretty sure these are still active. I’ve driven by some of them.
HUH. I stand corrected.
Don’t listen to a Canadian. Only lived in CO for a few years in the mid 90s.
Those are negotiating chips. Less likely to be invaded if you have nukes at your disposal.
Shame Nevada turned more purple than blue last year else we could have joined them.
Nevada looked at the Republican mess and decided they want shot to themselves in the foot too. Americans are not well.
Right wing Media is cancer
Nevada joined the coalition back in 2020 during COVID when they had a Democrat governor. Now they have a republican governor who is mostly ineffectual at best and a Trump bootlicker at worst.
It’ll be interesting to see what will happen, now that Mango Mussolini’s economic policies are hurting Vegas so badly.
Californian capitalists need Arizona and Nevada, they likely going to annex New Mexico too, should the us fall apart.
Maybe we should be our own country…
Please.
Cascadia Cascadia Cascadia! ! !
