Oh yeah

I dont want people to hate themselves

But there has to be impetus to change

Yup

The biggest trouble with any economic theory, is that it is only a theory. To test it, is to risk an entire economy, and nobody wants to risk that.

I'm done with AA's server for a while

Apparently, the American West has no culture to speak of, it's just a conspiracy theory and fabrication.

Therefore, I have no right to claim we should have borders, and should just let all immigrants in.

isolationism will never work, because *just look at the soviet states! They all collapsed, didn't they?*

Also, for some reason, your border guards will turn the guns inward at some point for some reason and fight the populace? idk, I still don't understand this one

We kinda don’t

Except for the PNW

Y'all need to travel more, and get out of the city

Bruh I literally live in SD

Our culture is basically our weather

Lol

You can go from Alaska to Nevada, and over to Colorado, and meet the same kinds of people. Very monocultural

I know it's hard to see your own culture when living inside of it, but it does exist

ah, so are going “west of the cordillera” not “west of the Sierra and Cascades*”

*and Peninsular and Transverse and Coast Ranges and Kalamath

lol

I love geology how could you have guessed

Did I mention I love geology?

Minnesota definitely has it's own culture in the Great Lakes region

Honestly reading the rest of your post

And things get more balkanized the further east you go

Now way this AA guys actually believe

No

This was some newfag in there

@Fitzydog honestly I wouldn’t say the west has a homogenous culture either

LA is different from San Francisco and both are plebs compared to San Diego and Orange County

Outside of the cities? Very homogenous.

Nah

Well, it's not like we can resolve this dispute

I think thats more determined by the type of enviroment

You'd think that

But it's not

Like the culture in the deserts of Arizona and California are nothing like that of the forests of both states

Arizona does have forest

In the small towns of each? They're very similar

Yeah it shocked me when I found out

Not in my experience

Yeah, Flagstaff dude lol

Also define small