Comment on Are US governors allowed to maintain their own foreign policy and relations, without control of the president or federal government?

• kokolores@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m fairly certain the next civil war will be caused by severe wealth disparity.

  I wish I could just sit back and enjoy the circus from a safe distance, but the way this American dumpster fire affects the whole world just scares the hell out of me.

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yes, and a counter to the argument that the Union was inviolable versus states joining voluntarily. It might be convenient to only look at one aspect of a matter, but that only holds so long as the view agrees with the outcome you would like to happen.

  The arguments around states, federalism, The Union (it wasn’t called the union for no reason): they matter. And it might be that you might find a limited interpretation around what actually happened during that time inconvenient in the future.

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  • kartonrealista@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Why were the slave-owning states the only ones “rising concerns” around “federalism”? A curious coincidence indeed

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    • False@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Because they wanted to leave the union so they could carry on being saving assholes.

      Your point is dumb

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      • kartonrealista@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I think you might be defending a guy purposefully obfuscating the issue. Yes, my point is obvious and mocking, that’s generally how sarcasm works.

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