The Original Cascadia

[u/cobeywilliamson]

[u/xxxcalibre]

I mean. Somehow eastern WA and seattle do

[u/SecretAgentVampire → u/xxxcalibre]

No they don't. They don't get along at all.

[u/xxxcalibre → u/SecretAgentVampire]

Meanwhile they function in the same state and this discussion is about different communities functioning in the same state? Bro is windmilling here

[u/SecretAgentVampire → u/xxxcalibre]

Have you ever lived in the PNW? Did you pay attention to the last round of state elections?

The cascades separate two very different cultures. Just because they're inside the same imaginary lines doesn't mean they get along.

Try to see sense, because your argument isn't making any.

[u/xxxcalibre → u/SecretAgentVampire]

I live in the real PNW in which the two areas I referred to are in the same state. Not the imaginary one you made up where they aren't

[u/SecretAgentVampire → u/xxxcalibre]

Can you speak plainly, please? Do you mean you live in Washington state? Are you trying to say you live in Washington state and think that people from Seattle and people from Wenatchee get along?

Are you denying the political and cultural difference between east and west washington state? THIS political difference? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Washington_Presidential_Election_Results_2020.svg/1280px-Washington_Presidential_Election_Results_2020.svg.png

Strange how it COINCIDENTALLY falls along the Cascade mountain range! But it's the same state so we should try to force all these people to get along! I'm sure that the CONSERVATIVE counties of Eastern Washington LOVE the idea of succeeding from the rest of the United States and being absorbed into the LIBERAL MOVEMENT OF CASCADIA.

But you know everything about the "REAL PNW", don't you? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

[u/xxxcalibre → u/SecretAgentVampire]

Dawg. You started the "you live here???" And NOW you're pulling the true scotsman fallacy? I'm saying - if the argument is they can't get along in the same state sustainably, how the hell does that fly if they have, you know, functioned in the same state for decades? I'm not saying it's a perfect marriage, I'm referring to the actual political reality we live in

[u/SecretAgentVampire → u/xxxcalibre]

Do you know what subreddit you're in? Cascadia is about drawing boundaries for a new nation. Are you saying eastern washington should be lumped into cascadia because current state borders encircle both sides of the cascade range, and cultural and political differences don't matter?

Why not just include the whole rest of the nation, since you love the status quo so much?

[u/xxxcalibre → u/SecretAgentVampire]

You: "How would these two get along" Me: "Probably the same way these two real life examples have managed somehow" You: whatever that post was

[u/SecretAgentVampire → u/xxxcalibre]

Wrong. I'm saying they DON'T get along and SHOULDN'T be forced into the same nation when East and West Washington state are polar opposites politically and socially.

You're saying that the status quo should be maintained because there hasn't, what, been a civil war in Washington state yet? Your argument makes NO sense in this context. The subreddit is litterally one about peacefull succession, and you want to drag eastern washington along because of current borders.

So again. I'm going to ask you to rub both of your brain cells together and answer my question: Considering your position of "They get along well enough as part of Washington state, so they should both be part of Cascadia", why not include literally all the other states in the United States? We haven't had another Civil War yet; surely that classifies as "Getting along well enough."

[u/xxxcalibre → u/SecretAgentVampire]

No, I'm saying these two real life examples DO get along. It was a one line post you added all this made up meaning to for some odd reason