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http://wkis.com/blog/2014/10/officials-want-south-florida-to-break-off-into-its-own-state/

 

 

Officials in the City of South Miami have passed a resolution in favor of splitting the state in half so South Florida would become the 51st state.

Vice Mayor Walter Harris proposed the resolution and it passed with a 3-2 vote at the city commission meeting on Oct. 7.

Harris told the commission that Tallahassee isn’t providing South Florida with proper representation or addressing its concerns when it comes to sea-level rising.

“We have to be able to deal directly with this environmental concern and we can’t really get it done in Tallahassee,” Harris said. “I don’t care what people think — it’s not a matter of electing the right people.”

Mayor Philip Stoddard agreed with Harris’ reasoning, saying he’s advocated for secession for the past 15 years but never penned a resolution.

 

A copy of the resolution also available at the link. Among a few of the concerns...

 

-North Florida is too far to travel for to deal with South Florida concerns. 

-Tallahassee doesn't care about the rising sea level in Miami

 

In actuality Miami/Dade county should just become their own entity. But I'll be damned if they're taking Disney World with them. 

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I ****ing loathe South Florida.

 

I lived there for the first 25 years of my life, and the only things that don't suck down there are my family and friends. People are assholes down there, and the culture of the area is all for show.

 

Want dirty, overcrowded beaches? Fake everything on your women? Club life for you? Are you a douchebag? Welcome to South Florida!!

 

Make it another state and sink it :lol:

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I ****ing loathe South Florida.

 

I lived there for the first 25 years of my life, and the only things that don't suck down there are my family and friends. People are assholes down there, and the culture of the area is all for show.

 

Want dirty, overcrowded beaches? Fake everything on your women? Club life for you? Are you a douchebag? Welcome to South Florida!!

 

Make it another state and sink it :lol:

 

Singer island is quite nice.

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http://dangerousminds.net/comments/florida_man

 

 

 

‘FLORIDA MAN’: NEW DOCUMENTARY EXPLORES WHY FLORIDA IS SO GODDAMNED WEIRD

 

Jon Stewart has called Florida “America’s Wang,” and it does seem like the state’s strong peninsular properties somehow attract people who are on the end of their rope. In Florida Man, Sean Dunne’s endlessly quotable and surprisingly poignant documentary about worn-out and inebriated layabouts in the Sunshine State, the viewer meets a wide variety of beercan philosophers in the course of 50 minutes, many of whom have tales to tell, of the government’s economic dependence on the incarcerated, of the heady thrills of a lifetime of brawling, of the murderous tendencies of pill addicts, of the undeniable pleasures of an impromptu three-way underneath a pier on a beach.

 

I’m tempted to call this movie “the real Fight Club,” but that’s not right. It’s “Old Drunk Guy Parking Lot”—a majority of the footage was obtained outside various bars, motels, laundromats, and tattoo parlors....

<<see more at link>>

 

 

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Not strictly related, other than being about South Florida.  But one of the funnier segments I remember. 

 

Colbert: Difference Makers - Doug Varrieur

 

Seems one Florida resident has decided that the grassy strip next to his trailer is a really good place for him to set up his personal gun range.  And the law, apparently, actually makes it a crime for anybody in the government to attempt to make him stop. 

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I used to watch a cartoon on Adult Swim called Squidbillies with friends who were from the Northeast or from cities and they couldn't believe that there was a kernel of truth to the behavior of the characters. Let them watch that documentary.

I bet some of these guys would have been fine in the middle ages. You could put profoundly ignorant and reflexively hostile people to purpose as mercenaries where they could be useful to society until they got killed off.

IMO that documentary is a definitive argument for a Hobbesian outlook on humanity.

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So, we have folks who want South Virginia. We have folks who want Cali split up. Folks who want Colorado split up. Even a small group that wants to "Liberate" Western Maryland. 

 

You know what? Fine. Go for it.

 

WMD-Bumper-Sticker3.png

 

you want each of those areas to be granted 2 new senators?  and electorates/governor's that are isolated from...everyone else?  

 

 

maybe, if we combined some other empty states with no people into one state, we could tack those regions on as well, and have one still small but slightly less insignificant montage state

  •  Wyoming
  •  Vermont
  •  Alaska
  •  North Dakota
  •  South Dakota
  •  Delaware
  •  Montana
who, when taken all together STILL only have 5.5 million people --  way fewer people than maryland (around 6 mil) 
 
crunch them all together, throw in North Florida, (which has LOT of people) the parts of Colorado, Virginia, California and Maryland that want to secede (mostly the sparsely populated portions of the states), 
 
bake for 15 or so years... frost, and serve on a large crystal plate.
 
 
it could become our most interesting state
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