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California should acquire some nuclear weapons then.
by Afforess 1y ago
California should acquire some nuclear weapons then.
- kubb 1y agoThey should promise him a cut.
- ninetyninenine 1y agoAll our GDP is in software. We don't know how to make anything except AI and web apps. We wouldn't know what to do with a nuke.
- rafale 1y agoAsk Nevada.
- b112 1y agoIncredibly wrong. Hollywood is still a thing. Manufacturing, yes manufacturing. Agriculture. The Bay Area is a fraction of that GDP, and a small geographical part of California.
- grugagag 1y agoHollywood is becoming irrelevant fast. At least that’s been the trend as of late.
- oblio 1y agoThat's transitioning to streaming services which still have studios.
- AlotOfReading 1y agoAgriculture is essentially a rounding error on California's GDP, <$60B or <2%. There are individual companies more economically significant than the entire agricultural industry. The disproportionate power relative to its economic significance is a political choice.
- numpad0 1y agoSomething is seriously broken with this world now that completely normal and well educated person like GP is not realizing his words aren't making sense. Apple Park to LLNL is under an hour's drive. You guys can probably achieve nuclear independence in a day if needed. It just can't be done economically, because yields of a nuke(pun intended) don't immediately map onto economical values. Not just immensely positive or negative, but actually tangential to the currency dimensions.
- cenamus 1y agoIn that case, all of Russia GDP is oil and natural gas
- smallnix 1y agoI doubt its realistic for powerful states like California to cecede. Is there a path from here to a near (think 50 years) future, where California and the US, sans California, exist?
- RobRivera 1y agoI don't think cessation was the implication
- labster 1y agoWhy secede when we can just get our state sold to Denmark?
- anothernewdude 1y agoI doubt its realistic for powerful colonies like America to declare independence.
- fifilura 1y agoI don't want the US to break up. But I wonder if it wouldn't be more healthy for you if the states grew a bit more independent. It would give the president less power to decide exactly how schools and universities should be run or would open up for social welfare reforms in the states that want it.
- remarkEon 1y agoFun to see people derive Federalism from first principles.
- Angostura 1y agoor some kompromat
- panick21_ 1y agoNuclear weapons aren't a magical cloak that when you put it everybody has to do what you say. Its one of many consideration in foreign policy. And the idea that you have to make 'Russia happy' because they have nukes, if fucking beyond dumb.
- aoanevdus 1y agoSupposedly there are hundreds in Concord.