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by dog_boxer72 783 days ago
USA should continue its manifest destiny, build a new artificial island off the coast of California or in the Gulf of Mexico, found an entire new state with a city designed for the modern era for the ground up.
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Island complications aside, I feel like this would just be a "learn about why things are the way they are" speed-run.
To be fair, a lot of things are the way they are not for any great reason, but because of historical baggage. Things are the way they are because that's how they were before.
True for some things but it's all a system and you find out that other things depend on the old baggage rule to be true and so on.
https://temblor.net/earthquake-insights/overdue-the-future-o...

Show me on the map where you want to put your island...

We could just invade Canada - I think it’s been long enough that we should give it another shot. Without the British they don’t stand a chance this time around and we've got the fracking technology to exploit the land.

We can probably send the first Marine regiment over as undercover immigrants escaping the possibility of a second Trump regime and gain control of their weaponized maple syrup reserves before they even know what’s happening.

If the US goes for an invasion, I think we'd be way better off invading Baja California. Spice must flow! That is, we must keep up with demand from the Alameda-Weehawken burrito tunnel [0]?

[0] https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_...

Baja Mexico would be more sensible to get everyone on the Pacific plate under one jurisdiction; plus the military has training bases nearby.
> gain control of their weaponized maple syrup reserves before they even know what’s happening.

Not sure if the BBC is implicit in psyops, but they report the reserves are very low [1]. On the one side, that means the spoils of war are low, on the other side, it means they won't be able to mobilize their unique units.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68657703

That's just the run off from the maple syrup enrichment process that they sell to outsiders to fund Canadian defense.

The real stuff is stored in secret bunkers across the country along with the cheese curds and gravy.

I would read this book, binge this netflix series, or season-ticket this play. Please make it so. :)
any new state changes the seats in the US Senate and House which changes the balance of power. Never going to happen, ask Puerto Rico.
I think we could solve that issue if we put our heads together.

For example We could admit new states as pairs to maintain the balance of power.

i don't think so, if it looks like the new state is going to trend blue then the red states are not going to admit it to the union. If it looks like it's going to go red then the blue states are not going to admit it either. If it goes perfectly "purple" or in between then neither side will vote to allow it because it dilutes funding. I don't see a new state joining the union ever.. same goes for one state splitting into multiple or multiple states consolidating into one.