What do you think about the idea of the United States splitting up based on political beliefs? One thing I forgot to bring up in the video: Blue states and red states CHANGE. For example, Georgia was reliably a red state until 2020. Indiana was a blue state […]
“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.” Thucydides
Nullification – #SolutionsWatch The Corbett Report 5 hr ago SHOW NOTES AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/solutionswatch-nullification/ Joining us today to discuss the latest wins for the nullification movement is Michael Boldin (NOT Boldrin!) of TenthAmendmentCenter.com. In this jam-packed conversation, James and Michael examine the historical and philosophical roots of nullification […]
By Katelyn Caralle, U.S. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com Republican firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene says the U.S. needs a ‘national divorce’ between red and blue states A shocking new poll shows that one-third of Americans agree with this idea Two-thirds of independent voters disagree that there should be separation […]
In the 2016 article “The Case For American Secession”, Michael Malice argued for a dissolution of the United States, which he says “has spent very few years truly unified”. ••「 LINKS FROM EPISODE: https://drdrew.com/2232023 」•• The idea of a “National Divorce” has only gained more prominence with recent […]
If, as Pakman claims, the red states would be failed states in the event of “national divorce,” then a blue tribe partisan like himself should favor it. Radical Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene suggests separating the US into two countries, and Fox News propagandist Sean Hannity is taking […]
The fierce rhetoric flying between state capitols is a reflection of “the big sort,” as we increasingly seek out those with whom we share values. The common ground essential to governing is getting harder and harder to find. OPINION | Aug. 22, 2022 • Donald F. Kettl Facebook LinkedIn […]
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Ana Kasparian, sycophant of genocider Madeleine Albright, thinks pan-secessionism is “disgusting.” Aww, poor Princess Ana is offended. Marjorie Taylor Greene think Democrats should be banned from voting for 5 years after they move to a red state. Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Watch […]
Katzenberg-funded TYT, named after an organization that carried out genocide, comes to the defense of the Empire.
Kyle is right that the class divide is just as wide as the political divide, but it’s not a question of either/or.
Robby Soave interviews journalist Zach Weissmueller about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) call for a “national divorce.”
Yes! First Ann Coulter, now MTG. We pan-secessionists now have a rep in Congress. Liz Cheney represents everything we are fighting against. “You swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution,” Cheney tweeted. “Secession is unconstitutional. No member of Congress should advocate secession, Marjorie.” Rep. Liz Cheney, […]
Berniesis Krystal and natcon Emily offer a weak defense of the Empire in the name of democratism. I always knew pan-secessionism would separate the true radicals from the do-gooders.
01/05/2023Ryan McMaken In recent years, we’ve seen the issue of changing US state borders come up repeatedly. For example, activists in some Colorado counties in 2013 proposed breaking off to form a new state. Since 2021, a similar idea has persisted in having Weld County, Colorado join the […]
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD, JAE HONG and AMY TAXINDecember 16, 2022 1 of 13 Rain clouds hover over Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. Voters in one of Southern California’s largest counties have delivered a pointed if largely symbolic message about frustration in the nation’s most populous […]
By Lisa Gibbons • Updated: 15/11/2022 What do a strip of abandoned land, a former Czech politician, and virtual reality (VR) have in common? The answer is the self-declared Balkan micronation of Liberland. First founded in 2015, it’s poised to further its ambitions of statehood with the development of a brand new […]
Jonathan Hillis Mar 7, 2021 • 5 min read One of the favorite past times of tech twitter during the pandemic has been predicting the next Silicon Valley.Austin, with its natural beauty, weird-chill vibe, flagship university, killer BBQ, and long history of technology companies is an obvious choice. […]
By Vitalik Buterin 2022 Jul 13 On July 4, Balaji Srinivasan released the first version of his long-awaited new book describing his vision for “network states“: communities organized around a particular vision of how to run their own society that start off as online clubs, but then build up more […]
By Tom Woods Before we get into yesterday, here’s something odd. Yesterday’s email had one of the lowest open rates of the entire year. It was about what to do during inflationary times (and no, the answer wasn’t just to buy gold and sit there). We’re all suffering […]
By Tom Woods It’s difficult to know exactly when it happened, but not long ago many Americans suddenly looked around and discovered that they and their neighbors inhabited completely different moral universes. Whether it’s Black Lives Matter, or teaching gender theory to children, or the usefulness or otherwise of […]
Ep. 2223 Smaller Is Better Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute joins me to make a worldwide case for smaller states, decentralization, and secession. Special Offer We love our monthly Happily date box — it’s full of games, recipes, and activities that bring us closer together. With a […]
The American Sun Posted by The Editors on October 25, 2022 By Epaminondas Whereas philosophers define religion as delusion, the Athenians defined religion as the prerequisite to action. The orator Isocrates in the “Panegyricus”, writing in the year 380 BC, argued for Athenian supremacy over the Hellenic city-states […]
Recorded at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona on October 7th, 2022. Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Small Polities by Ryan McMaken is available at https://Mises.org/BreakingAway
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English speaking families living in Rostov, Borisoglebsky, Yaroslavl, Pereslavl, Suzdal… Fr. Joseph Gleason Idyllic ancient ‘Mother Russia’ still exists, and it’s being settled by English speaking families who are coming from America, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, England, France, Denmark, and all over the world. In this article we […]
Ep. 2195 Progressives Try to Suppress Secession Discussion Carla Gericke, former president of the Free State Project, joins us to discuss the recent discussion of secession in New Hampshire, and the response of critics who are appalled that anyone would dare discuss such a forbidden topic. Read the […]
Ep. 2188 Is National Divorce Anti-Liberty?
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society you wanted. How would you live, you personally, in that society? Start living that way […]
Ep. 2185 Jeff Deist on Trump, the FBI, and National Divorce
By Nusaiba Mizan Politifact The Texas Republican Convention on June 18 called for the state Legislature to approve a measure asking voters whether they favor “Texas Independence.” That is, a referendum on secession. The GOP platform committee wrote, “We urge the Texas Legislature to pass bill [sic] in its next session […]
by David Freddoso, Online Opinion Editor Washington Examiner Do you think your state would be better off or worse off if it left the United States and became an independent country?” That question, asked of 1,672 adults in the latest Yahoo!/YouGov poll, is certainly provocative. So are the […]
By JEFFREY FRENKIEWICH Concord Monitor Jeff Frenkiewich is a Milford Middle School social studies teacher and a UNH adjunct professor In recent years, the idea of secession as a solution for America’s political divide has gained increased popularity, particularly on the Right. After Donald Trump’s loss in the […]
By Beau Yarbrough The Press-Enterprise The man who first proposed San Bernardino County secede from California says voters are ready to do so — and he says he has the survey data to prove it. “I think it’s going to be a super-majority,” real estate developer Jeff Burum […]
By Andrew Bjelland | Salt Lake City Tribune Two national polls indicate current tensions have again triggered secessionist impulses. The poll results are perhaps less significant than the pollsters’ decisions to address this issue. According to a Bright Line Watch survey, within the Intermountain West 43% of […]
By Andrew Romano Yahoo News! West Coast Correspondent Red-state Donald Trump voters are now more likely to say they’d be personally “better off” (33%) than “worse off” (29%) if their state seceded from the U.S. and “became an independent country,” according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll. It’s […]
Balaji Srinivasan is an investor, founder, and Former CTO of Coinbase and GP at a16z and author of The Network State, which will be the main focus of the podcast today. The Network State explores ideas surrounding digital communities and the future of how we coordinate as a […]
I have written about many topics here at Attack the System over the past 22 years, with a focus on outlining a predictive narrative of how world geopolitics and domestic US politics would likely evolve in the future. The core emphasis has been to develop a theoretical framework […]
By Charles R. Davis Business Insider At a 2018 rally in Sacramento, hundreds of Californians called for a national divorce, citing “irreparable and irreconcilable differences.” “Ultimately, the best people to govern California are us Californians,” Louis Marinelli, the founder of the secessionist group Yes California, told the newspaper […]
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The geographically non-contiguous fragmentations we see today might well be a prelude to something like Balaji Srinivasan’s concept of the “network state,” which itself is only a few steps removed from the “panarchic” concept of non-territorial governments of Paul Emile de Puydt, Gustave Molinari, Max Nettlau, and John […]
By Alexander Brotman Geopolitical Monitor As First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has set the date for a second Scottish independence referendum in October 2023, many battles with Westminster are just beginning. The vote will only proceed if it is considered legal by the UK Supreme Court, an outcome which […]
By Peter R. Quinones Anyone who has been following me since my Rightward turn knows that one of the main strategies that I have been promoting is becoming politically active on the most local level specifically concentrating on Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s “What Must Be Done” strategy. The speech is […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Lysander Spooner was an abolitionist. He was also one of the great American anarchists whose legacy remains so toweringly influential that capitalists and socialists alike routinely bitch each other out on message boards over which tribe of wonks […]
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Balaji Srinivasan, author of The Network State, returns to The Realignment to discuss why he thinks internet-native “Network States” are the successors to the nation-state, how he sees American and global politics reorienting around cryptocurrencies in the 2020s, compares and contrasts the prospects of the United States, China, […]
By Brian Doherty, Reason Raymond B. Craib’s new book recounts how Michael Oliver repeatedly tried to create a new country with a government-funded entirely by voluntary contributions. (PM Press) Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age, by Raymond B. […]
By Joe Matthews, LA Progressive To encourage us to think about the unthinkable, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists sets a Doomsday Clock, showing how close humanity is (in metaphorical minutes and seconds) to the “midnight” of the apocalypse (nuclear or otherwise) and human extinction. California may now […]
“Secession is only good when our team does it,” said the special pleaders at C4SS. “As such, this is the distinction between defending the autonomy of territories like the Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities, Freetown Christiania, and ZAD de Notre-Dame-des-Landes from the states they exist within and supporting the […]
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