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In that case the US should stop larping about being a single country.
There are a lot of people with “red” opinions in blue states and vice versa. These people are the red states’ potential allies.
The state apparatus should be as neutral a protocol as possible.
It’s common for banana republics to shift the rule of law depending on which party is in power.
Collective punishment is kinda against the “life, liberty and happiness”.
We're going to LARP whatever needs to be LARPed to avoid becoming the EU. We can't tolerate a political faction whose platform is "kill whitey and take his stuff" dressed up on academic language.
Collective punishment is kinda against the “life, liberty and happiness”.
We're not punishing them for the sins of their ancestors, we're punishing them for censoring Dead or Alive Xtreme 3. All of this could have been avoided by them not treading. I will be in charge of the tread machine from now on.
If Black Americans wanted to “kill whitey and take his stuff,” we had centuries of reasons and opportunities to try.
Instead, Black Americans repeatedly demanded that this country live up to its own stated ideals: citizenship, equality, voting rights and equal protection.
We did not destroy America. We forced it to become more American.
USA was founded as a collection of independent states i.e. federalism
It's the left that expanded federal authority and they are the ones who are 'larping about being a single country'
We are past the point of being guided by principles
The left is the enemy and the enemy must be destroyed, anyone who defends the enemy or criticizes the outer party is the enemy
Power is the prerequisite for any principle that actually constrains anyone. A side that loses while clinging to pure process or etiquette simply hands the field to the side that treats power as the only real currency.
That doesn’t require becoming amoral or adopting every tactic. It does require refusing to treat self-imposed rules as sacred when the other side treats them as optional. Tradeoffs are inevitable; the only question is whether they’re made in service of retaining the capacity to enforce any standards at all later.
Transnational capital is the real power and they’re playing both sides against each other.
The uniparty switches between open borders and closed borders.
Meanwhile Flock cameras multiply and Palantir executives laugh all the way to the bank.
Closed borders? not anymore, have you not paid attention for the last 20 years?
Good point. Transnational capital has shaped the American economy from the beginning, from the Atlantic slave trade to cotton and tobacco exports built on enslaved labor.
The parties and policies change, but concentrated private power repeatedly finds ways to profit.
from Grok:
The core issue is whether the Trump administration unlawfully terminated hundreds of federal research and clean-energy grants for political reasons.
Specifically for the Department of Energy:
- In October 2025, DoE terminated 284 grants totaling billions of dollars.
- Almost all of those grants were located in “Blue States” (states that voted for Kamala Harris in 2024 and have two Democratic senators).
- Roughly 340 similar grants in non-Blue States that had also been proposed for termination were not cut.
- DoE stipulated in court that the selection of which grants to terminate was based solely on the political identity of the recipient’s state — not on cost, performance, statutory authority, or agency priorities.
Plaintiffs (UC researchers) argue this violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fifth Amendment and the Administrative Procedure Act. The administration’s public position is that the cuts were about eliminating wasteful spending and advancing energy priorities, not politics.
You expect me to believe a convicted felon, found by a court to have engaged in insurrection, found liable for sexual abuse by a jury, who pardoned people convicted of seditious conspiracy, and whose long association with Jeffrey Epstein has raised persistent public scrutiny, suddenly became a neutral judge of “wasteful spending”?
Especially when the government admitted in court that the grants were selected based on the recipient state’s political identity?
Elections have consequences
Politics is about partisanship. Why is this news?
Why can't @Yermin understand this simple concept?
Politics is adversarial
That’s not “politics.”
Politics is competing to persuade voters and govern under the same Constitution.
You’re advocating punishing fellow citizens for holding different political beliefs and treating them as enemies. That’s something else.
I see that you are not disputing the evidence. You are defending collective punishment.
Blue states are part of the United States, their residents pay federal taxes, and political disagreement is not “open revolt.”
Your argument is that Americans who vote differently should be treated as enemies, and that denying them grants, disaster relief and equal treatment is justified.
another stupid NPC post by Vermin
Because blue states are preparing a communist revolution. We have to cut them off ahead of time. We won't/can't provide disaster relief to territory that is in open revolt. They can ask the PRC for assistance.