imagining future history re: uspol adjacent
"You see, during this period people believed strongly in organizing around what they called "countries", which were basically collections of people living in a certain area. One of the major countries in the 20th and 21st centuries was called "the United States", and it was a terrible place of corrupt leaders and inequality. It started to collapse in the latter half of the 20th century, then finally fell apart starting with the second BLM protests in 2020. It was completely dissolved by 2030."
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@monorail wishful thinking, you know?
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@Felthry completely fair
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@monorail@glaceon.social @Felthry@awoo.space it's a fun thought but yeah, most people in the US identify way more strongly by state than by country
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@InspectorCaracal @Felthry do they? that's fuckin wild
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@monorail @InspectorCaracal i dunno about that, most people we know here would describe themselves as american (if they actually are, that is)
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@Felthry@awoo.space @monorail@glaceon.social there's a difference between what you answer when you're asked what your nationality is and what you culturally or politically identify as
like, even people who don't see things at the state level will still think of themselves as a southerner or a Texan or from New England
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@InspectorCaracal @monorail ah I see what you mean, yeah
whoops i accidentally went into my personal politics
@monorail@glaceon.social @Felthry@awoo.space yeah, the US fed gov't not interfering too much with state and local gov't is imo the one good thing in the nation's design, and fed politicians have been working to centralize more of the power while ignoring the things the fed gov't SHOULD be doing (like maintaining a consistent national level of civil rights and quality of life???) so anyway i'll stop there lol
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@monorail @InspectorCaracal @Felthry I mean US states are as big as European countries, so it would make sense
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@noiob @monorail @InspectorCaracal we've often wondered if the original idea for the US was to be more like how the EU functions.
It's a ridiculously large area for a single overarching government
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@Felthry@awoo.space @noiob@awoo.space @monorail@glaceon.social if you're actually interested in that, I recommend reading up on the actual debate of the era around the writing of the Constitution and state rights
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@InspectorCaracal @monorail@glaceon.social @Felthry@awoo.space so I misread this as "imagining Furry history..." and now I want a story about furry historical figures like real life fixit fic...
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@aldersprig @monorail @InspectorCaracal "fixit fic"?
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@Felthry@awoo.space @aldersprig @monorail@glaceon.social a fix-it fic is when you really like a story but it had some really terrible plot twists or holes or some badly handled character development and so you write a fanfic where you rewrite the story and fix those parts
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@Felthry@awoo.space @monorail@glaceon.social @InspectorCaracal oh! Fiction, usually fanfiction, designed to fix something the author/writers got wrong (xxx doesn't die, someone didn't do that really stupid thing...) I don't know why I thought like.... hyena-furry John Adams? might do better things
....?
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@aldersprig @monorail @InspectorCaracal oh that makes sense. we can think of a few stories that could use that
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@Felthry as much as i'm more optimistic about politics than i have been in a while, the states falling in a decade seems like a big ask