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X and Facebook are allowing false claims about how the 2020 election was rigged. Hope that Nevada can get their findings out to help stop all the misinformation that Republicans and social media post.
As soon as we declare independence, we're going to be wealthy.
Hey I'm pretty sure the UK could let you know a thing or two about aforementioned topic.
A separate currency
Oh yeah, just FYI, world market does oil trade in US dollars which you wouldn't have access to and would make selling that oil to US aligned countries really difficult. And the countries that aren't US aligned, they know that, so they'll be expecting deals for them or they won't buy your oil either.
I personally believe that our personal GDP will double in five to seven years.
That's going to be really difficult as you'll become more toxic than Chernobyl soil on the International market and Texas has no where near enough domestic trade to actually hit that 200% GDP in seven years.
But let's be frank here, an independent Texas would not go bankrupt. They have enough cash and product to stay afloat. But much like the US Civil War taught us all, that the Confederates found out super fast what happens when they get cut off from literally every market on the planet Earth. It makes it really difficult to keep that bottom line from going red and really forces governments to either make really difficult calls on how to govern their slowly decaying nation or start a war and try to convince the world that they should trade with them.
Texas would not crumble overnight but they would be hurting very badly economically. They would in fact be very poor. Very, very poor. If they think their oil is going to save them, go ask Venezuela how that's working for them.
Well according to the guy in this article, there will be no taxes. So it would go bankrupt pretty quickly. Unless the plan is to nationalize the oil companies? Seems antithetical to what they are going for and the USA seems to have a secret clause in the constitution that it must overthrow any government that does that.
In a game that is only played in one country... (well two if this genius is successful)
“The independence of Texas is good for humanity as a whole,”
I doubt it is possible be more narcissistic and self centred.
Personally, If Texas ever declared and the USA allowed them to leave I have a feeling they would be begging the US to readmit them to the union in a very short time.
These people fail to realise that so much of what they benefit from being in Texas is because it is part of the USA.
What happens when NASA and the DOD remove all their facilities and staff?
What happens when they have to defend themselves?
Sign trade agreements with the rest of the world?
What happens when the USA slaps tariffs on their oil to protect US interests?
Etc
etc
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It reminds me of children talking about how cool it will be when they are adults and don't have to listen to mom and dad.
God, I wish they could just do it in exchange for them accepting all the fucking yahoos who think Christo-fascism is a good idea in the other 49, and in exchange for evacuating everyone with an ounce of sense in Texas.
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