U.S. President Donald Trump seemingly discussed the idea of foreign powers taking out California’s most populated cities while delivering a speech at a Republican rally at the Pinnacle Bank Expo in Grand Island, Nebraska Monday evening.

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  • kestrel7_7@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    I mean… anything in the constitution can be changed with enough political willpower. Peaceful legal secession from the USA is without precedent, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen in the future. However, it does seem unlikely in the immediate future.

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      11 days ago

      The editing you’re talking about would effectively be a brand new constitution. That will require a revolution. those can be popular and relatively low casualty, but it’s not ever going to be bloodless, also CA wouldn’t solve anything by being a be country, I live in CA, like most Americans, and the problem isn’t being in the US as a state, the problem is a huge amount of compounding factors mostly related to corporatism and cultural problems both longstanding and new. leaving solves nothing and creates more problems.