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  • That’s my point–because they cut themselves off from the rest of the country electrically, it doesn’t matter what their status is: when that underfunded and unsupported network fails, people will die. It happens every time.

    And, would disaster relief be much different? Maybe the asking as a sovereign nation would take longer and have to be approved by Congress (?), but I’ve never heard of a state or nation every paying back US aid. If this has happened, please educate me. Seriously.



  • oocdc2@kbin.socialtoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.worksBanks need it /s
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    I’m hoping you forgot the /s, but just in case you’re not from the US: no, it’s built into almost every financial institution’s terms and conditions, at least in my experience. I had to get my mother a pre-paid credit card because she would overdraft regularly, and the bank had no solution. The pre-paid just declines payment, like the good old days.


  • I mean, they technically have their own independent power grid, so whether they are their own country or a state, Texans freezing to death would be left to fate, anyway…

    I wonder how they would manage imports and exports, for two examples. Or the visa system for visiting the US and its territories? Their own WIC and other (currently federal) social service programs, or are they planning to discontinue them in typical forced-birth fashion? I would really like to see them do it and see if they want what they get.