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Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

LGD posted:

yes, there is actually a bunch of the constitution dealing with this

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_of_Nobility_Clause

and

it says "shall grant" ergo no new titles going forward

there is wiggle room to grandfather them in :mrgw:

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Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

loquacius posted:

There would be kings of at least Texas and California by now if there wasn't



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton

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Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

City of Tampa posted:

have you ever seen any of the non-coastal states? England is nicer than all of them

we should let England be a state, but we should combine two of the empty states so that we still have a nice round number of 50 states. Combine the Dakotas or just give one to Canada or whatever

we're trying to expand the US fuckboi, not give parts of it away

annex canada too while we're at it

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Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

boom boom boom posted:

There's actually been serveral proposals to re-do the states. None of them got farther than "a dude had an idea" tho

california had a chance to break up into six normal states instead of continuing on as the dysfunctional model of the federal government they have now just last year, but rejected it

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Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

Maoist Pussy posted:

Nobody with an ounce of sanity wants Fresno or Imperial County to be separate states.
far better for the entire region to be destroyed under the weight of its incompetent bankrupt government I guess

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Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

loquacius posted:

I can't think of a better way to transition a monarchy into a republic :colbert:

executions are for french psychotics, we civilized americans just bludgeon their military with other french psychotics until they give up and leave :colbert:

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Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

Roylicious posted:

We're running a budget surplus right now.

The other states are just butthurt because CA has such weight to throw around. #1 population by a huge margin, #1 GDP out of the states, nice weather, no idiots passing weirdo bathroom laws, consumer protections, it's nice.

for the moment

too bad it can't buy rain

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Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot

akulanization posted:

lol I live in Cali dude, been living in the san joaquin valley in fact. most of it isn't as nice as Sacramento, it's pretty comparable to texas imo; but with more urban decay since places like stockton no longer are shipping hubs.

also making Cali smaller is dumb, only real problem with the state is that any new revenue has to be approved by the voters and getting people to vote for taxes is pretty much impossible.

hm it's almost as if when you get a voting bloc that large over such a geographically and demographically disparate area coming to a consensus is exponentially harder

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