JohnRoderick
@johnroderick.bsky.social
I ruined Twitter now I ruin you
There’s lots we can do. Liberally-inclined people are actually the majority. Liberalism with a “big tent” mentality appeals to way more people than fascism does. Liberalism with a ”Purity Test” mentality appeals to a much smaller minority. Expanding the tent is easier than rage-quitting the USA.
September 7, 2025 at 6:53 AM
There’s lots we can do. Liberally-inclined people are actually the majority. Liberalism with a “big tent” mentality appeals to way more people than fascism does. Liberalism with a ”Purity Test” mentality appeals to a much smaller minority. Expanding the tent is easier than rage-quitting the USA.
Are you being argumentative because it’s your usual way of interacting online or did you not read my entire thread?
September 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Are you being argumentative because it’s your usual way of interacting online or did you not read my entire thread?
Do you seriously think this technological hurdle is so great that it renders inoperable the 3,700 warheads in the United States? We tremble in fear already that some rogue state will smuggle a tiny bomb into New York harbor.
September 7, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Do you seriously think this technological hurdle is so great that it renders inoperable the 3,700 warheads in the United States? We tremble in fear already that some rogue state will smuggle a tiny bomb into New York harbor.
You want nukes in a failed state? Same problem. Nukes.
September 7, 2025 at 1:17 AM
You want nukes in a failed state? Same problem. Nukes.
That’s it exactly.
September 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
That’s it exactly.
Same problem though. The liberal half joins Canada and the redneck half does what? Becomes a developing nation that happens to have a superpower arsenal and just peacefully coexists with its northern neighbor? The MAGA America would become a true uncontainable fascist warmongering nightmare.
September 7, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Same problem though. The liberal half joins Canada and the redneck half does what? Becomes a developing nation that happens to have a superpower arsenal and just peacefully coexists with its northern neighbor? The MAGA America would become a true uncontainable fascist warmongering nightmare.
New Regionalism is great, but stop thinking the USA is “too far gone” to save. You have no idea the Hell you’re trying to conjure. The USA MUST be saved and redirected to a path of liberal democracy. That’s the only path forward. If you’re convinced otherwise you are on a suicide charge.
September 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM
New Regionalism is great, but stop thinking the USA is “too far gone” to save. You have no idea the Hell you’re trying to conjure. The USA MUST be saved and redirected to a path of liberal democracy. That’s the only path forward. If you’re convinced otherwise you are on a suicide charge.
You can’t disarm the USA once you split from it, you just hand the guns, the flag and the documents over to exactly the people who will delight in using them against you. You think a New Confederacy with nuclear submarines is going to be a peaceful neighbor with the Pacifica they already despise?
September 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM
You can’t disarm the USA once you split from it, you just hand the guns, the flag and the documents over to exactly the people who will delight in using them against you. You think a New Confederacy with nuclear submarines is going to be a peaceful neighbor with the Pacifica they already despise?
Hate to buzzkill, but all this talk of regions succeeding from the US is dangerously ignorant of reality. Every time a liberal says, “America is broken and we’re going to leave it,” they cede ownership of the IP of the USA and its unfathomable arsenal to the LEAST qualified to manage it peacefully.
September 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Hate to buzzkill, but all this talk of regions succeeding from the US is dangerously ignorant of reality. Every time a liberal says, “America is broken and we’re going to leave it,” they cede ownership of the IP of the USA and its unfathomable arsenal to the LEAST qualified to manage it peacefully.
Even IF, somehow, the military bases in Pacifica ALL followed their progressive officers (lol) to become the Army and Navy of Western States, we’re in an instant Cold War with the antagonistic state that controls the Minuteman missiles in Montana and North Dakota and the sub base in Kings Bay GA.
September 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Even IF, somehow, the military bases in Pacifica ALL followed their progressive officers (lol) to become the Army and Navy of Western States, we’re in an instant Cold War with the antagonistic state that controls the Minuteman missiles in Montana and North Dakota and the sub base in Kings Bay GA.
People talk about the West Coast economy as if geopolitics is completely based on trade. Now imagine your dream Pacifica state of CA, OR and WA where every military base is the sovereign possession of a “The United States” that’s just the MAGALAND that happily claimed the flag and the Constitution.
September 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM
People talk about the West Coast economy as if geopolitics is completely based on trade. Now imagine your dream Pacifica state of CA, OR and WA where every military base is the sovereign possession of a “The United States” that’s just the MAGALAND that happily claimed the flag and the Constitution.
Nuclear weapons are spread across the US. If you contemplate dissolving the national government you place those nukes, and the military that administers them, in contention. Whatever rump state claims to be “The United States” inherits the nukes and becomes a global superpower. It ain’t California.
September 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Nuclear weapons are spread across the US. If you contemplate dissolving the national government you place those nukes, and the military that administers them, in contention. Whatever rump state claims to be “The United States” inherits the nukes and becomes a global superpower. It ain’t California.
When the coastal regions imagine themselves as peaceful, ecological, democratic successor states with new Constitutions they ignore that they’d be confronting one or more antagonistic states all too ready to declare themselves the inheritors of the IP of the United States, including the nukes.
September 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM
When the coastal regions imagine themselves as peaceful, ecological, democratic successor states with new Constitutions they ignore that they’d be confronting one or more antagonistic states all too ready to declare themselves the inheritors of the IP of the United States, including the nukes.
If WA, OR and CA were to secede from the US it does not mean the admirals in Bangor-Kitsap are suddenly going to swear allegiance to the Governor of Pacifica. They would have no framework to do that and we would not want them to have that authority. That would be really bad.
September 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If WA, OR and CA were to secede from the US it does not mean the admirals in Bangor-Kitsap are suddenly going to swear allegiance to the Governor of Pacifica. They would have no framework to do that and we would not want them to have that authority. That would be really bad.
Seattle needs one of these!
September 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Seattle needs one of these!
Yeah, the idea that I had a “last ride” just occurred to me today.
September 2, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Yeah, the idea that I had a “last ride” just occurred to me today.
Her dad’s a great French kisser.
August 30, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Her dad’s a great French kisser.
Ken was probably playing solitaire.
August 30, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Ken was probably playing solitaire.
If someone had said that to me in college I would have died on the spot.
August 30, 2025 at 5:15 AM
If someone had said that to me in college I would have died on the spot.