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[–] 50 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So this is how Hollywood aliens see earth

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Which country will they sell weapons and send airstrike to if they are the only country in the world?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Texas and Florida are the natural third world countries to invade. Especially texas. The US would move quickly to secure the energy resources and 'free' the citizens of a corrupt failed state.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Damn Hawaii, you've been eating well

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Someone forgot about the colonies. Guam, Puerto Rico, and the USVI.

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    Oh fine. Just tell Midway Atoll to fuck off, why don't you?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    If the US territory were to exist on its own, there wouldn't be an United States.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    A United States. You wouldn’t say “an uniform”. You would say “an underling”. First one has a y sound to start, second has a u sound to start. The usage of a/an depends on the next sound, not the next letter.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You wouldn’t say “a uniform”.

    Why the hell not?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    because 'a' vs 'an' is dependant on the first sound not the first letter. For some reason the "yew" in uniform counts as a consonant.

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  • [+] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That could probably be said about anywhere, given time, money, and willingness to reduce population.

    I could probably build an underground vertical farm in the Sahara and feed myself, if I pumped in saltwater to desalinate.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    I mean, it absolutely could. California alone supplies the planet with a massive percentage of food. If the this image was accurate, we'd have a surplus of food. We might just have to tolerate losing a lot of stuff we can't (?) grow, like bananas. Or they'd be remarkably expensive because only Hawaii or Florida or somewhere that could grow them.

    Power? Again, we have collosal amounts of energy or energy potential. From green energy to fossil fuels and natural gas. Without selling it to our allies, we'd have a surplus of energy.

    This is literally why America is the superpower. But a lot of countries could likely do this. Russia could for sure too.

    Economically, however, I can't even speculate.

    Fun thought experiment, worthy of a Kutzgesagt video!

    Edit: I thought you said "couldn't" but I already posted so 乁⁠༼⁠☯⁠‿⁠☯⁠✿⁠༽⁠ㄏ

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  • [+] -13 points 2 years ago

    Did you just point a camera down a toilet after taking a massive capitalist shite? 😂

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