Why Secession Won't Work - A Thread:

1. It's an outdated idea from a time when the country didn't have every square inch occupied with entrenched infrastructure.

2. Every angry person who wants to secede is surrounded by millions of others that don't.

3. There is no separate area of America for the angry minority to move to alone, because #2. You can't force millions out of their jobs and lives to claim a geographical area.

4. People screaming for secession don't understand the umbrella of comforts and protections they live
under. Infrastructure, healthcare, military treaties, all of which will have to be restarted and renegotiated from a position of weakness, with a fraction of our country's population. Wide open to attack, invasion, and denial of service by surrounding countries.
5. The logistical nightmare of filling the needed job roles that make a society function. Like your job in America? Have fun taking a job you hate because Secessionland needs menial laborers more than you need to be happy.

6. And speaking of creature comforts -
Better hope that Starbucks, restaurants, auto manufacturers, internet providers, and other modern services are willing to do business with a struggling, impoverished new nation - again, bargaining from a position of weakness. They don't just magically exist in your new country.
7. If your whole family doesn't want to go, and you still choose to - enjoy the immigration experience of trying to get dual citizenship or visit a country you supposedly hated enough to leave. And again - can't say this enough - those are treaties and policies you will have
to negotiate from a country that has no reason to treat you favorably.

8. Following #7 - if you learn that Secessionland is terrible and want to move back? Enjoy learning what it's like to be the same kind of immigrant you've likely spent your life hating and fighting against.
9. Given its population of virus-hoaxers and start-from-scratch medical infrastructure, Secessionland would likely be overrun by COVID and wiped into oblivion. I can't imagine many real scientists and doctors wanting to live there.
All to say - secession is the rallying cry of the angry children who haven't bothered to think it through, because if they were prone to critical thinking, they wouldn't be Trump supporters and secessionists in the first place.

Please consider acting like grown-ups instead.

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Pretty much every professional field EXCEPT police have clear, rigorous, transparent consequences for unethical behavior, negligence and malpractice.


The idea that we can "disbar" lawyers but not police is absolute foolishness.

All the factors that make disbarment a necessary tool for lawyers apply to cops... except that cops don't need to be qualified in the first place.

It is a rank absurdity of the criminal justice system that one needs to be educated and certified with a degree in order to argue on behalf of someone's life in court, but to have no qualifications necessary to detain, assault, or prematurely end that same life.

There are countless circumstances in which a lawyer's unethical behavior will result in them not only losing their job but never being able to practice it again.

But corrupt and murderous cops can be rehired indefinitely.

A lawyer's entire career can be ended forever if they were found to have knowingly put someone on a stand to lie.

Police officers however are allowed to lie in court on the stand under oath.

So much that lawyers aren't penalized for putting cops on the stand to lie.
1/ After a good night's sleep, I have a few thoughts on the impending Ripple lawsuit.

Less schadenfreude, more "what now?" https://t.co/a0oTwblBHB


2/ First of all, the USG is going to lose.

I don't even need to read the complaint. They might force a settlement, but they're outclassed on legal.

Remember Ripple engaged former SEC Chair Mary Jo White in a civil matter in 2018. A hint of their

3/ Second, the USG should lose.

The SEC restrictions on non-accredited investors; the ridiculous Howey test; 80 year old securities law like the "40 Act" all need to die in fire. They are un-American and completely outdated.

I hope Ripple wins. (WUT?)

4/ Third, it's incumbent upon industry to self-police and hold the moral high ground.

I give certain individuals A's and others F's, but as a whole, the most powerful people and companies generally take a Swiss neutrality stance on assets.

So we're effectively in this together.

5/ We're "in this together" to draw lines of regulatory demarcation.

XRP as a "security" further hurts the U.S. businesses while global comps will continue to make these markets.

XRP as a security also means other assets will meet the same fate. At least Ripple has $ to fight.

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