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There was a recent article on Hackernews which has since got flagged but it was a petition where california gets to be part of denmark, because why not? more t

There was a recent article on Hackernews which has since got flagged but it was a petition where california gets to be part of denmark, because why not? more than 200_000 people signed it & some in the hackernews comments even appreciated it with things like saying about healthcare etc. so I can see it as a real possibility but this would invoke force given that US states cannot unilaterally secede from the union. Edit: Forgot to write to be, my bad. Thanks to dragonwriter for seeing the edit as I agree that without the to be, the whole context completely changes

TehCorwiz 9mo ago
You have that backwards. It was a petition to sell California to Denmark. https://www.newsweek.com/petition-denmark-buy-california-signed-thousands-11379999 https://www.newsweek.com/petition-denmark-buy-california-sig...
- Imustaskforhelp 9mo ago
  Yea, I knew that / meant this but I still miswrote it, sorry about that. Fixed it now.
dragonwriter 9mo ago
> it was a petition where california gets part of denmark You left out “to be” between “California gets” and “part of”, which rather substantially misrepresents the petition.
- Imustaskforhelp 9mo ago
  > > Europe couldn't kick Russia, a country with 10x lower GDP and a decrepit army, out of Ukraine; how could it hope to deny any land to the US? > This isn’t particularly well know, but Russia has had nuclear weapons since 1949. I suspect this is why European countries have not adopted a more aggressive posture towards Russia in Ukraine. Oh yeah, my apologies. Let me fix it, Sorry about that!! Yea my bad. I understand why I got downvoted. Fair, yea its misrepresented I meant denmark gets california (edit: looks like I had made the same mistake here too lmao now fixed)