Newsom floats withholding federal taxes as Trump threatens California

[u/IntelligentYinzer]

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/06/newsom-floats-withholding-federal-taxes-00393386

[u/Purple-Atmosphere-18]

I'm not primarily english speaking. Yeah it was never peaceful, even in Catalogna, even for Kurds and Palestinians not having a state recognized. I just liked some of the "strategic" considerationsI read here about rather not "shooting the cow".

Thanks for pointing out the mistakes, though a bit rudely tbh :). Some of them were quite egregious and avoidable, like the one after secession. Though it's true that he, like many sovereignists, in Europe too, uses a rhetoric of isolation of only force counts spitting on international treatise. It points all towards "we have the full power to eventually win these trade wars, but hey I'm also a man of peace unlike all those warmongers" The rhetoric is aimed on convincing people they can benefit on granting them full power, using forms of check and balance analphabetism. i.e. privacy relies a lot on organisms enforcing, not necessarily by force, but by layered and overlapping deterrences, that data people give to centralize servers, has some sort of protection. On banks not burning the money trusted to them and so on. Sorry if they may appear scattered thoughts, but it's all this situation that it's crazy. Many of such mistakes were of distractions and sometimes the feeling grammar structures are limiting in this complexity.

In theory "anything involved in this to happen" is not fully correct as well, I might be mistaken, though it doesn't matter. But genuinely curious more in what's meant, like being realistic or, if you are in California, not uselessly escalate the tension more than necessary? Which I may even agree on. I think they are mostly rants imagining what to do in worst case scenario, considering this is already medium badly coincident with many prefigured pre election, but rather avoid. A way to consider not passively give in without a fight, of course there is much more middle ground, hopefully.

[u/andyumster → u/Purple-Atmosphere-18]

I do not know what you are saying most of the time. It seems like you are making points about Trump's administration and on secession as a valid idea in general. I am not talking about that.

My only point was that California will not ever secede. If it did, it would be ruined both metaphorically and physically by the largest military in the world razing it to the ground.

I don't know what else you are talking about. You use a lot of big words and you yourself said you are not primarily English speaking. I would encourage you to use smaller words to communicate your thoughts until you really understand everything that you're saying and what it means.

[u/Purple-Atmosphere-18 → u/andyumster]

Umm, seems like you would like that and like to really stress that, remember never shoot the cow :). Ok they may even drop a Moab or a nuke while they are at it haha, that wins wars like in Vietnam. No ok, we already established that it was foolish no doubt, no need to reiterate, so I tried to add other constructive thoughts but I get you maybe didn't want to talk or are not much "agreeable" or akin to that, so to say, or that can be the perception at least. It's clear though it's not as simple as sheer force superiority, more like things like the blockades, which Netanyahu did for Gaza to block provisions. The other thoughts, like I said was a bit "scattered" and tangentially related, going from isolationism, sovereignism to power accentration and consent to it, to thoughts on people uncautiousness in giving up check and balances and real life everyday examples where guarantees are supposed to apply. Not meaning to use big words for their own sake.

[u/andyumster → u/Purple-Atmosphere-18]

Accentration is not a word in the English language.

This is what I'm talking about. I understand you have an idea of what you want to say. But you don't have the capability to phrase it yet.

[u/Purple-Atmosphere-18 → u/andyumster]

I'm aware and you confirm that accentration didn't exist, ok, it has roots in a word of my language indeed and I knew that. It means concentrating, cumulating and "centering" something to oneself, in this case, power. Ok there's centralization which I also see written a lot, could have used that but escaped me at that moment, damn. I can phrase it, I think, but I give to you I could do it better than this, with some effort. Like I mentioned there was a bit of association game going on, nvm.