Hang on, hang on… What if we check twice?

I don’t really see how those things are related in any way, since the majority of the population haven’t really been economically dependent on the productivity of the land beneath them in quite some time. The reason why liberal states fund while conservative states are constantly struggling with their budgets is because of unsustainable economics favoring businesses while shuffling the burdens onto individuals instead of corporations. It has literally nothing to do with swimming pools in Vegas unless somebody passes a bill banning private swimming pools in Vegas, which seems counter to your desire for freedom. Also, why would states merge and shrink?

Honestly, if you want people to move away from economically uninhabitable areas like Phoenix is steadily becoming (primarily because surviving it will only get more expensive), you’re gonna need a large, well-funded federal government to foot the bill for getting millions of people to move away from the Phoenix area. That’s millions of units of housing that need to be built elsewhere, millions of tons of possessions that need to be moved, businesses that need to relocate, and employment and healthcare to be managed.

I genuinely don’t understand how you arrived at your political solution, especially when it sounds like the problems you want solved are fundamentally incompatible with the Republican party, and simply not perfectly catered to by the democratic. Which, makes sense because literally no party in the US is advocating for deleting the federal government and becoming a loose federation that California will inevitably conquer in a bizarre inversion of Manifest Destiny.

I’m baffled, but you’re also rather polite about your strange political dream, so I wish you the best.

That’s absolutely wild, genuinely terrible, and intends something basically no different than what we already have. The biggest difference would be all of your conservative areas immediately collapsing without funding from liberal areas lol. I mean, your whole plan is basically just not having the United States anymore, and assuming that states will continue to play nicely with one another when they no longer have any higher authority to hold them to rules and regulations.

States already have different laws on abortion, gun ownership, taxes, and “personal freedoms”. People can already move. This is just such a strange political take, I almost don’t know what to say.

They’re also kinky by the same logic (if you manage to survive).

So basically: “Enjoying things is actually an existentially crushing existence.”

The worst part is that this really isn’t relevant to Kant’s Categorical Imperative, even if the second imperative is “Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.” Cutting out a few steps, we have an imperfect duty to cultivate ourselves and our talents, but there is no blame in failing to do so.

Unless they were aiming for a joke where they ruin a sunny little post by taking things way too seriously. I’ve seen others that landed, both funny in the contrast and existentially devastating in the content, but this one just isn’t there.

Double, double toil and trouble;

Turn the key and engine rumble.

Gasoline and leather seating,

In the car and rev the beating.

That, my friend, is the foundation of the pyramid scheme. Who’s gonna say no to hanging out with an EMO SLUT?

Women hate this one weird trick!