civil war something like the Spanish one
Dibs on Christinos! Suck it Carlists!
CNT-FAI now and forever. But I merely meant that the divisions would be mostly ideological and there would be a lot of disunified fuckery within each side, and probably foreign volunteers as well.
If we do have a civil war, I think California will win so long as we bring L.A. with us. Which admittedly makes the whole project kind of counter-productive, but still, at least we're free from the South.
California would be a strong force in the west, but I doubt her ability to project force across the Great Basin. I don't think any regional faction aside from the Feds has the possibility of subjugation on a larger geographic scale, and they would probably lose a lot of that in any civil war where they face substantial opposition. I therefore think that the inevitable outcome of such a war would be division into multiple countries of more normal size and global influence. California probably wouldn't break up during that war, because as much as the north and south don't get along, people would band together against the outside. In a subsequent period of peace, that situation might end, and I think most people know where they'd align themselves if it came down to in a Norteño v Sureño conflict.
IT WAS MOSTLY SLAVERY GUYS. Srsly. "Lost Cause" revisionism is responsible for the common misconception of it being about states' rights and sovereignity and whatnot. Sure, they wanted to secede. BUT IF THEY DIDN'T WANT TO SECEDE IT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN A PROBLEM, HUH?
Slavery vs Abolitionism was one of the reasons, and almost certainly the biggest one, that the South was pissed enough at the north to secede. But the war itself wasn't about slavery until Lincoln said it was in the Emancipation Proclamation. Saying the Civil War was about slavery is as gross an oversimplification as saying it was about states rights.
I think the vindictive reaction from Southern states at the end of the reconstruction era all the way up through the civil rights movement suggests that, no, it was not just mainly about economy or states rights.
That's like saying World War I was obviously about Jews. The south was not as fucked over by the peace as in many civil wars, but they were still killed and disenfranchised in massive numbers and denied victory in a war with self-determinism as a goal. That's a lot of bitterness, and such sentiments are often expressed on whatever victims are available.
So, realization- this election? The 2016 presidential election? It'll be nothing compared to the 2020 election, since this one clearly shows extreme dissatisfaction with the way things are ran and still won't result in any change. Imagine how pissed off the electorate will be in 2020.
As long as it's better than the 1860 election.
The North Carolina one was essentially in opposition to a bill in a county that said basically the opposite of HB2, allowing transgender people to use bathrooms that corresponded to their identity.
I always found it weird that male-female bathrooms are legally enforced in the first place
It's honestly a bit odd that they're even a thing. There's places where they aren't and it works absolutely fine. And in may smaller businesses, there will be a one-room single person bathroom, which works, and then many slightly less small bathrooms will have two of them, private and totally identical but for the sign on the door. Why? It doesn't matter at all.
RIP this great union.
There's one thing that will never happen. If the US dies, the death will be tumultuous.
Yeah, s'far as I'm aware in most (maybe all, I'unno) states it hasn't been. Should be pretty obvious just by dint of how many smaller businesses and restaurants and whatnot only have a single restroom.
S'actually kinda' amusing that mandating separate male and female facilities is pretty anti-small business, ha. The little guy's important right up until you've got to stomp on a mostly non-existent boogieman in order to screw someone over, I guess~
A non-gendered bathroom isn't necessarily subject to laws about gender-specific bathrooms.