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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Entire nations know better than to take on the US military

The US isn't just a military stick, it's also an economic carrot. The folks that end up wrangling with the stick are inevitably the ones denied the carrot.

Countries like Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and I guess now Yemen had been in an economic conflict with the US - via embargos and proxy wars - long before the first American soldier arrived.

The thing about Texas is that a handful of jerk-offs posting from their 8086s in Beaumont aren't the guys who will feel the pain in a serious break away.

It's Dell Computer and Exxon and fucking Pizza Hut that will hurt. And their executives will drag these dissidents out back to the wood shed themselves long before The Republic of Texas dipshits need to worry about a B-52 over their heads.

[-] Xanis@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

You might have a point here. Nowadays I can 100% see in my head, a little playfully maybe, corps coming for the kneecaps. This timeline so damned deranged it doesn't seem farfetched atm.

[-] ashok36@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

Imagine Biden going on TV and announcing the nationalization of all assets owned by texas based companies.

Abbott's head would be delivered to the white house the next day in a Halliburton duffle bag.

[-] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Stop it you are exciting me

[-] TehWorld@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Lockheed/Martin has MUCH faster planes than "next day".

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