• ms.lane@lemmy.world
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    32 minutes ago

    I’m pretty sure California could afford to do it on thier own, Nevada would probably hitch on.

    • eldavi@lemmy.ml
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      9 minutes ago

      bring back alta california – baja california misses its big brother to the north!!!

      lol

    • III@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      I will add that making this image without using AI would be considered low effort. Still, less effort than using AI and would result in better quality than this.

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      3 hours ago

      What, you haven’t heard the old slogan “everything’s bigger in Maine”?

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        5 minutes ago

        not ANYWHERE NEAR as much as the united states or canada are any other place that the anglosphere has fucked over.

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        2 hours ago

        this kind of shit ppl say about latam countries is dumb af tbh. yes, all of latam was formed as settler colonies but why on earth would you want to balkanize global south countries? if anything, and it’s what we latinos been wanting to do, we should unite and build la patria grande. in the majority of cases we do not care that there are a ton of different ethnic groups, we rather unite. this is not to say certain groups shouldn’t receive more autonomy or even their own governance over their land, but it would be the equivalent to balkanize china because they have different ethnic groups.

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          f anything, and it’s what we latinos been wanting to do, we should unite and build la patria grande. in the majority of cases we do not care that there are a ton of different ethnic groups, we rather unite.

          the germans sitting on the throne in madrid realized this centuries ago and intentionally balkanized latin american from the start because of it.

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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        A bit more gray area. The answer is yes, but the fundamental process of settler-colonialism in Mexico led to the majority of the population becoming mixed. Indigenous groups like in Chiapas still fight for sovereignty, but it isn’t the same as the US and Canada, where indigenous peoples were shut out, killed, and stripped from their land the same way.

        Ultimately, it’s a topic I have not studied enough to have a definitive answer to, like the US and Canada. The process of decolonization in Mexico will look pretty different from the US and Canada.

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          1 hour ago

          Notably Spanish colonialism took native populations and made them citizens whereas most colonial occupations relied on non citizenship to essentially enslave the natives. They still created a caste system but legally they were subjects of the crown just like any other Spanish born person.

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            54 minutes ago

            Yep, still settler-colonial, but in a manner that preserves much of indigenous culture and ties to the land. The US and Canada are much closer to Israel in how settlers colonialism is handled, past and present.

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      I too welcome our new Canadian overlords. I’ll have to learn Fr*nch but I think the benefits outweigh the costs. (Just kidding French Canada, I’ve been to French Canada and it is lovely)

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    5 hours ago

    I won’t accept this until Florida becomes part of Mexico and there will be at least one First Nations country.

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    4 hours ago

    Would love to see it, but Texas is going to want independence (there’s just too much ego on the subject in that state). And the centre bit of “South Canada” (Wyoming, Nebraska etc) is chock full of MAGAts. They’re not joining.

    South Canada might be Washington state and maybe Oregon Idaho and Nevada. New England would probably want to stand alone but some might fold into Canada - Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire might prefer Canada to getting sucked into a NYC controlled nexus.

    Dunno if Canada would want NYC - too many people - would very much unbalance the power balances, more likely NYC picks up the rest of New England. California would be a good cultural match but like Texas I suspect they’ll want to go alone (and are a good chance of grabbing the rest of “Cascadia”)

    Leaving a diagonal stripe of the pictured US plus the irredeemable rednecks in the central zone as the rump USA

    Anyway, semi serious response to a joke, so yeah I get it, wasn’t meant to be taken seriously, but there is a really high probability of the US breaking apart in the next decade or so.