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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Broadly speaking? For the same reason every other state does. Continental unity opens up trade and travel, exploits economies of scale, and simplifies the legal system for interstate business and for civil rights purposes.

  Specifically? Because federal coordination helps manage natural disasters (like wildfires) and centralize big programs life Medicare/SS and secures national defense (which California profits from handsomely).

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  • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They declared theyre not foing to be helping us with disasters, though. So what the fuck is the point?

    Just so they can invade our cities and kidnap our neighbors to die in the florida swamp?

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    • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Frankly, Cali, Oregon, and Washington ought to form a Western Coast Pact, where if one of them gets unfair treatment from the feds, they all lock down their ports. Trump’s tartif tax on Americans, plus shipping delays and extra shipping costs would make the general public pretty mad at the situation. Hypothetically, companies can (they won’t) absorb tariff costs, but supply line interruptions are immediate total chaos, and can have knock-on effects for decades

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      • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s unlikely; lotta nazis deliberately go to the pnw, but would be cool.

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    • Kanda@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The California will rise again!

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t normally downvote. Looks like someone else already did that. So I don’t have to.

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• Geodad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They don’t. If California stopped sending taxes to DC, the rest of the country would be fucked.

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  • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, parts woukd be fine. New york, hawaii, alaska.

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    • Geodad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hawaii would be fucked in the short term. They require so much from the mainland right now.

      Alaska, yes.

      New York, ehh? Would they though?

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      • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Got ports, got money, got canada

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Good thing we’ve got newsom to stand up for us. 👍🏻

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    • Geodad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That guy is just as crooked as Trump.

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