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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced just one day after the U.S. officially withdrew from the World Health Organization (WHO) that his state would become the first to join the organization’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, in a seeming rebuke of the Trump administration’s withdrawal from international collaborations.

Newsom traveled this week to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he was scheduled to speak at an event but was canceled at the last moment. During his trip, he met with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

    • evol@lemmy.todayEnglish
      15·
      27 days ago

      We need an East Rome West Rome split but its blue state vs red state. Each get their own President, pool Military powers

        • Leon@pawb.socialEnglish
          42·
          27 days ago

          Or maybe a parliament with proper representation instead of this stupid system you’ve got going right now.

          • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zipEnglish
            10·
            27 days ago

            That’s realistically the only fix for gerrymandering. It’s a powerful weapon, and I don’t foresee the two parties honoring any agreement not to use it.

            • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
              7·
              27 days ago

              It should be actually, if not for the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, based on the 1910 census.

              At the time the average was 210,000 constituents per representative, now we’re over 770,000 per representative. And those are averages, some districts are much higher and lower.

              Congress set the current limit, they can change it. It doesn’t require an amendment or anything complicated.

      • Azal@pawb.socialEnglish
        1·
        27 days ago

        The trouble with that is the blue states would be the coasts, and the red states down the middle…

    • quips@slrpnk.netEnglish
      164·
      27 days ago

      China recognized long ago that all states falter after around 250 years, and that renewal is a natural part of human institution.

      The biggest mistake of the founding fathers was to assume the permanence of our institutions was okay since checks and balances were instituted. Really all they do is delay the time between cycles of corruption.

      • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldEnglish
        26·
        27 days ago

        One of the founders thought we should draft a new constitution from scratch every few years and they created the ammendment system specifically so any part could be scrapped and remade in case there were problems. They clearly didn’t think it was perfect, just good enough for the time. They certainly didn’t expect us to slow down and stop with the ammendments, at least.

        • quips@slrpnk.netEnglish
          1·
          26 days ago

          I think the flaw there is in assuming that the corruption would first come from the corruption of the law. Thing is they did create a good system to protect the law, but they didn’t realize that’s only just kicking the ball down the road where then its the institutions which corrupt first.

    • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      27 days ago

      After a century of coups and destabilisation efforts around the world, the empire will crumble from within (nothing new tbh). How poetic!

    • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      26 days ago

      It depends on which Republicans, I suppose.

      Many seem to argue about states rights in regards to the Civil War, wherein the southern states wanted rights to enter northern states and force them to obey the southern State’s laws…

      To me, enforcing laws across state lines seems far more Federalist than State isolationist.

      And I would argue many claiming “States Rights” today want their states rules to be enacted in other states as well, e.g. the push to federally ban abortions

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      26 days ago

      Only applied when it’s their rights. Otherwise they’ll pull some mental gymnastics like the AI bros pulled for AI deregulation.

  • AlexLost@lemmy.worldEnglish
    311·
    27 days ago

    Just break up already. The divorce was evident long ago, I wish you both could see it. You can’t coexist because you want different things. You want to live in different worlds. Move on already.

  • Muffi@programming.devEnglish
    11·
    27 days ago

    Imagine traveling back in time to the 80’s and telling people that one day Donald Trump would start the dissolution of The United States.

  • nao@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    27 days ago

    Why did the US want to leave WHO in the first place? Is there anything to gain from leaving?

    • Bongles@lemmy.zipEnglish
      19·
      27 days ago

      The current administration is dismantling all of the global things the US has been a part of under the guise of the US being “ripped off” and it’s actively making shit worse.

      Feels intentional to me but I don’t know the end goal.

      • SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish
        8·
        27 days ago

        Praxis. Thiel and other oligarchs want to divvy up the United States into fiefdoms, where they personally set laws and have the king’s right to your family’s bedrooms.

        Such is the times, that I am not sure if this is an exaggeration. 😒

  • Formfiller@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    27 days ago

    Time for the entire west coast to align with Canada and Mexico and expel the MAGATs from our states

    • skeptomatic@lemmy.caEnglish
      0·
      27 days ago

      It’ll never happen, as nice as it sounds.
      So I’m Canadian and we have separatists in, now 2 provinces.
      Whether the latest is a conservative US psy-op, is up for debate. But that is probably part of it.
      The Quebec separatists have been angry for the total of my lifetime and being from BC I’ve mostly ignored their plight of “different culture” but I never wanted to lose that chunk of the country and to me it’s part of the greater Canadian culture.
      The Alberta “separatists” are different, they are more like traitors.
      Citing stats like, “Alberta (oil and gas province, the “Texas” of Canada) contributes more in equalization payments to other Canadians provinces!”, which is true, as a total sum.
      But the morons don’t understand that equalization payments are taken from federal taxes in a bracketed tax system, so it just means on average, Albertans are richer. The rich they cry that they’re not getting fair share…
      Epitome of greed.
      They believe because they were simply born there, moved there, that all the mineral and oil and gas profits belong to them. They’re even more idiotic to believe the producers will share these profits with them.
      They’re not taking that away from our country, and it’s worth going to war over. I think California would end up falling into the same situation of belief, though reversed between conservative and left-of-conservative views.
      They’d go to war over it. So bit of a dangerous play.

      • Jack_Burton@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        27 days ago

        Yep, and the equalization payment garbage really sums up the right-leaning mentality that’s pushed on society lately as well; if the results aren’t immediate, it’s not worth doing. These traitors scream about how they pay more than other provinces and get nothing back. The fact is they get a lot back, it’s just not immediately apparent.

        Equalization payments help “have-not” provinces who need the boost, which strengthens those provinces. Strengthening the “have-nots” makes Canada stronger as a whole and more united, which very much helps Alberta (and every province). The “fuck you I got mine” attitude that gets pushed by Conservative gov’ts is a toxic cancer that’s spreading through the population and makes it easy for them to push their division politics, like Danielle Smith does. You’re meant to get sucked into it to fight the culture war so you don’t look up and fight the class war.