Entire Rochester Police Department Leadership Resigns. When asked who is in charger mayor responds "I don't know".

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No shortage of finger pointing. Like I said, strong strategy. If that’s all you got.
Meeting trump's divisive rhetoric with divisive rhetoric will just hasten the race war.

I guess we might as well get it over with.

Seems like people on both teams are ready to throw down.
 

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Seems like people on both teams are ready to throw down.
I dislike both teams. They are both fascist in their own ways. Don't want to join either. But if it comes down to civil war, I suppose I'll have to pick a side.

So... which one will win?
 
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I dislike both teams. They are both fascist in their own ways. Don't want to join either. But if it comes down to civil war, I suppose I'll have to pick a side.

So... which one will win?
The one with the most guns/ammo/police/tanks/troops.
 

crustBrother

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The one with the most guns/ammo/police/tanks/troops.
And if it takes more than a couple weeks, food, gas, and supply lines gotta be considered too, right? And since we don't actually manufacture anything any more in this country, ports to get stuff from China?

I don't think any of those factors really change the outcome you'd predict based on the guns/ammo/police/tanks/troops factors you mention, but they would certainly shape the strategies on both sides.

What a mess. I'd like to read the novel, but living it is not an attractive proposition. AK and HI look better and better all the time.
 
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Neither

We'll all loose
Yeah. Agree 100%

My vote is to shift towards a more decentralized control structure that would allow different populations to run things differently from each other and more to their liking.

Maybe time to redraw all the state boundaries around that concept and double or triple the number of states so that political representation is aligned with culture in a meaningful way. There is a reason the concept of splitting CA into different states comes up from time to time. San Francisco and the San Joaquin Valley have some very different priorities. Denver is a very different culture from rural Colorado. Keep Austin weird, Texas! Memphis chafes under Nashville's control. And on and on it goes.

Doing a reorg sounds way more fun than blowing sh!t up and killing people.
 

crustBrother

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Here's a starting point. All these islands (small in geography, large in population) should be states with sufficient autonomy to do things the way they want. Maybe they each do there own cryptocurrency just for shits and giggles?

 

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Here's a starting point. All these islands (small in geography, large in population) should be states with sufficient autonomy to do things the way they want. Maybe they each do there own cryptocurrency just for shits and giggles?

I liked the concept in The Man in the High Castle where there was a Western State, an Eastern
State, and the area in the middle is basically Thunderdome.
 
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I liked the concept in The Man in the High Castle where there was a Western State, an Eastern
State, and the area in the middle is basically Thunderdome.
If Newsom hadn't lost his mojo we'd be shoring up our Eastern Defences and casting sideways glances at Texas by now, but no. Maybe he lost his nerve when he got a haircut?
 

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as much as you joke about it, I would love to see it, but I want Utah and possibly Colorado
on our team because Zion and Powder Days
 
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I started to read this but wasn't in the mood...I might come back.

I think ifallalot recommended it or mayhaps read it