one thing i appreciate is how massively and fractally federalized power in the US is the government actually has great difficulty in doing much on a federal scale in the face of resistance by localities and this seems to be becoming more true
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occasionally the feds can do stuff like force up the drinking age by tying it to federal funds but ok did anyone really care about 20 year olds being allowed to get drunk no offense to the kids but probably not. also its not like the law actually stops any of you
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but it goes further. local areas also ignore state laws. gun control is a common example, many sheriffs often just say "naw we dont care what the capitol says were not gonna enforce it" fractal
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anyway i am a law disrespecter and im more worried about scaled shitty government than local shitty government because Exit exists and the easier Exit becomes the better. so I see this as beautiful and good even if there are marginal cases where national unity would be efficient
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if china ever becomes hegemon I proposed we adopt 天高皇帝远 as a new national motto
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Definite feature. Intra-country regulatory arbitrage. A bit of a free market terrarium without having to break glass and move international.
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Huh, at first I thought where you were going with this was you don't see the cases where local government doesn't even try to defy the feds because they know they'll lose
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theres some of that too for sure
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