You don’t seem to understand how respiration works, or analogies.

Try this.

We are Radcliffe.

Democrats are Dano.

Thanks for playing.

You are the ratchet effect personified.

Especially when we have perfect good, simple analogies about Democrats already.

“It’s like saying to somebody, ‘You have a bowl of shit in front of you, and all you’ve got to do is eat half of it instead of the whole thing.’ It’s still shit.”

You’re really bad with metaphors. The second person is holding your head down.

How about I draw you a picture.

MAGA RN IRL:

Algeria much? They’re only now getting kicked out of the Sahel with Russia’s help. 👍

Whataboutism involves a third person.

That’s hypocrisy.

It’s easier to chalk this up as a “religious thing” instead of an American client state under a brutal monarchy that killed their foreign imported slave.

Stop sending them our tax dollars for a start. Stop sending them bombs to commit genocide in Yemen. Stop giving them a greenlight to chop up reporters with bonesaws.

This isn’t religion. It’s capitalism and empire.

Tell that to racists.

Hindu mobs are killing people on rumors they ate a cow. Christians are still burning “witches” in Africa. There’s nothing special about Muslims.

It’s our client state, FFS. Dude was an indetured servant for royalty.

It’s not a Muslim country who has more prisoners than any other nation through legalized slavery under the 13th Amendment.

This is about capitalism and empire, not religion.

Oil.

America gives zero shits about human rights if you willingly give up your natural resources.

We’re arming over 80% of the world’s dictatorships, which makes us the least democratic nation in the world if you see democracy as a universal principle.

Bruh. That’s crazy. Be real. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_movement

I’m Cascadian. Don’t blame me.

Then can you imagine how we feel about states further afield?

We want out of this shitshow.

I get what you’re saying, and it only brings up more reasons that our system is as outmoded as it is undemocratic. States are an archaic and arbitrary construct. Even though anyone would agree that one-person-one-vote is a fundamental democratic principle, we don’t have that. A Wyoming voter has SEVENTY TIMES more voting power in the Senate than a Californian. States vote on the national issues there, not people. States are no more people than corporations are.

I don’t think there’d be much of a problem if we voted across the board, but we don’t, so state secession is the only option.

All other avenues are closed within a system designed to not allow democracy, nevermind reform.

How do you get states to abolish themselves?

Do you mean the PNW and BC? THEN YES.

I have more in common with BC than anywhere else in America. I’m tired of having my lot thrown in with red state shitholes.

Secession is the democratic human right of self determination.

About bureaucracy vs culture, this is a good example for the Donbass and Crimea. Crimea had been Russia for centuries, and was only associated with the Ukraine as a bureaucratic move by Khrushchev under the Soviet Union. The people are overwhelmingly ethnic Russian, and overwhelmingly support Russian annexation after the coup. They have very little in common with ethnic Ukrainian nationalists in Lviv.

People have a right to exist, not nations. When they have no other choice then this makes them nothing more than serfs within neofeudal bondage.