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California’s economy stands on its own. It leads in tech, entertainment, agriculture, and innovation. The roots might trace back to federal investment, but it has long outgrown that. With its ports, universities, and global business ties, it does not need the U.S. to survive. It is already competing on a global level. On top of that, California is basically powerless in presidential elections because of the Electoral College, despite its size and importance.

And who buys their tech, entertainment, agriculture? Overwhelmingly still, domestic customers.

In fact exports only account for 4.7% of California's GDP

Cheering on California or Blue State secession is not going to solve the issue of Trumpism. The US needs California to counterbalance the shithole red states dragging the rest of the world into the Dark ages.

Even China held back from activating military against the protesters in Hong Kong. Even at the peak. The most they did was drive them around town as a passive threat of force

So that's the one thing Trump is doing differently than Xi.

And he did it on day fucking one.

This was absolutely a setup. It's all in his manual

And yet if you asked the average American, based on the media reports at the time, they probably think China massacred the Hong Kong protestors Tiananmen-style back in 2019

China just did it discretely, that's all. Mixed their special police forces (武警) into the HKPD, and hardline cracked down on the protesters through excessive use of force. There were numerous videos from Hong Kong protesters catching these so-called HKPD officers / riot police speaking / commanding in Mandarin. Physical attack forms resembling Chinese use of force trainings. Lots of unexplained "suicides" from jumping off buildings and disappearances and such.

Yeah, so Trump is deploying the military and Xi didn't officially deploy the military, but I don't really see how the two are all that different for now, in terms of what the HK police forces / US troops are actually doing on the ground.

It is also worth bearing in mind that HK protesters were largely peaceful, whereas the same cannot be said for the LA protests.

I'm not cheering for it, I'm just pointing out that when people feel like their voices aren't being heard and they’re politically powerless, you get reactions like secession bubbling to the surface. You're seeing a similar sentiment in Alberta. We can dismiss it as nonsense, but there are plenty of things we once thought politically impossible that are now becoming reality.

The problem with California is that it's too reliably Blue. I mean it has the most electoral votes of any state because duh, it's got the most people. It's basically the anchor on one side of America's never ending tug of war. If they seceded, it's unlikely the US would ever win a Democratic House or White House ever again. If their voters were as wishy-washy as Georgia or Pennsylvania it would get a ton more attention. It's the obediant child that's been neglected by mom and dad because it always does the right thing. In that sense it's the US political system to blame.

In that vein I think Ala-berta has a better case for leaving due to being treated poorly by the Feds, but still think their separatist movement is idiotic as well.

Isn't Florida basically the red version of Cai in that regard though? There are tonnes of states that ONLY vote red pretty much forever.

What's ridiculous is how much pull those tiny shit red states have in the election... if anything Cali should have MORE influence than it already does.

Even being "very blue", California still voted 58.47% for Harris and 38.33% for Trump. Separating would be very messy.

In Canada:

All the progressives are BIGLY mad about the LA situation... they are 100% in support of illegal immigration. They call them "migrants" and say California was Mexico so all Mexicans should be allowed in, or something.

Those same progressives then attacked the convoy people and are now saying the convoy was on the same level as the LA riots happening now, but was even worse because it was to "overthrow our democracy!"

In the eyes of Canadian progressives....

Illegal immigration? A good thing!
Forced vaccination or lose your job? A good thing!

Meanwhile, you can have criminal illegal aliens who have been deported multiple times and get back into the USA somehow, and Canadian progressives will defend those people as the noble inheritors of the USA. It is fucking bizarre to witness the delusional mindset of the woke progressives. The same people screaming "fascism" for rounding up illegal aliens were the first ones to scream "WEAR YOUR MASK" and demand that everyone take the rushed, experimental vaccine. Fucking insane.

You know what's equally insane?

A guy who cries non-stop he had his life torn apart by "arbitrary" government policy with no legal processing or consideration made available being okay with other people's lives being torn apart by "arbitrary" government policy with no legal processing or consideration made available.

Get bent, fuckin hypocrite.

to think China actually wasn’t substantially worse behind the scenes making anyone important of those movements disappear is insane lol..

As if any of these movements are actually handled worse than anything china does in these situations? Come on.

Compare forcing healthy people to take a rushed medical experiment to keep their jobs and place in society with next to zero warning... to...

>checks notes<

People who came into the USA illegally and then, for years, ignored Trump's warnings, then stayed when Biden was in office, saw Trump get elected AGAIN, and thought, AGAIN, "well, he won't do shit, we can just stay illegally because there are too many of us and they're too pussy to enforce the law" and then when the law is enforced... SURPRISED PIKACHU FACE.

You know, when the rich side of my family is travelling, you know what they check religiously? Their "must leave by" date. A fellow doctor friend of the family overstayed in Scottsdale before COVID and was banned for 2 years from entering the USA at all!

It is crazy that following the immigration rules is somehow a far-right position in 2025.

You’re doing the same thing the US government is doing right now, assuming everyone is illegal and just rounding them up based on the colour of their skin.

Mr. Humanity lesson 2 months ago sure changed his tune when it was other people trying to survive and escape poverty or crushing regimes. Only matters when you’re a washed up porn purveyor I guess.

can you imagine an american society without the people who take all the jobs nobody wants? hope white people like manual labour in the sun for 12 hours a day, and you better hope they dont complain about not getting their 15m break

Stop talking about the fucking vaccine already.

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100 percent. No foreign workers building homes in the U.S., or doing other construction work. No foreign workers working on farms to pick fruit or do other hard physical labour. Why? Orange Turd wants to deport all foreign workers out of the U.S. because of the colour of their skin.



One of my co-workers has an American friend who works in construction in LA. That construction foreman told my co-worker that the "whites" are the laziest fuckers in the U.S. construction industry.



Here's an analogy of the American construction worker. Have you seen the Disney movie "Zootopia"?



The slow ass sloths who work in the Department of Motor Vehicles scenes. Slow ass DMV sloths who took forever to get paper work done so that the poor bunny rabbit could get her driver's licence? That is how slow some of these American construction workers work for my co-worker's American friend, the foreman.

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It's not about Red or Blue safe states. It's the states that are Purple - the ones that can swing either way get all the attention from campaigns.

Florida was purple 20 years ago (remember Bush v Gore?). Now it's firmly red so it doesn't garner as much attention now.

Just drive around Vancouver, construction sites with 4-5 white people standing around all the time when 2 person is needed. Repairs on road takes forever. 3 people standing around directing traffic.

Hey hey now, All 4-5 white guys are needed

1- The Supervisor, 2- Health and Safety Inspector, 3 - Environmental Assessment Engineer 4 -Indigenous Sensitivity Advisor

5 - Guy that digs the hole

Blame Unions for all that.

Unions are a double edged sword. You protect the worker from being abused by management/ownership but you also protect that lazy ass motherfucker that makes everyone else look bad.

I’ve been in 2 different unions for the last decade almost now, it’s all shit.

It protects cancers, and takes dues to keep your wages lower than the private sector in the guise of protecting your employment. The vast majority of my colleagues don’t use the benefits which are the only upside of unionized work forces, so it’s moot.

If you’re a good worker, and by good it basically means you can consistently show up on time and not much else, unions don’t do shit for you.