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Perhaps I could say that, but my note is more cynical, or sarcastic, without trying to directly criticize christnmusicreleases , who is one of the 3 or 4 leading distributors of disinformation on Saidit. This is one reason Saidit will not grow and will not be taken seriously by most people. It's blanketed with disinformation. Only a minority of brainwashed, angry, racist, sexist, anti-trans, fascist, Republican users will upvote those posts and will never have a reasonable argument about any of the content. For example, I argued recently with someone who stongly believes that Ahmaud Arbery caused his own death. Another example: so many users are angry about politics, but will not mention any realistic political solutions that they ascribe to. So - where were we - red pills: these are not part of the disinformation spread by /u/christnmusicreleases . A red pill should be factual. Saidit will grow with discussions of factual red pills, not with propaganda (a topic /u/magnora7 is hopefully still concerned about).

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    This has been discussed for predominantly blue states and red states, whereby predominantly red states - which normally require Federal support - would immediately go bankrupt if they seceded. So people in predominantly blue states, which tend to be richer and have higher metropolitan populations, sometimes joke that they'd happily agree to predominantly red states seceding from the union. In any event - as we know - state politics in many states is remarkably corrupt and their 1% will mercilessly abuse the residents in order to develop banana republics. Federal regulation and funding help preserve a good quality of live for most in the US, even though there are many more living in poverty than 4 years ago. Solution: stick with the American Experiment developed in the 18th century, with checks and balances in the democratic system that reduce the potential for corruption (though not as much as it should in late stage capitalism).

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      This is the old argument that only the strongest should survive. It's not only anti-democratic, it's anti-human. I recommend Texas - or counties in Texas, whatever - for the trial run of this primitive idea. Note that this has already happened in a number of post-colonial African nations, and is still happening in Ethiopia, Nigeria &c.