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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off the top of my head the feds have been unable to enforce immigration law and marijuana prohibitions various states and cities just dont give a fuck and the feds cant do anything about it but i think theres some real red_dot_airplane.jpg energy here
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these are the cases where states/cities openly defy the feds what we are not seeing are cases where the central government doesnt even bother trying to flex because they know its pointless to do so
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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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I think people take that for granted though. like yeah ok clearly Spokane WA is not going to be conducting an alliance with Mexico or whatever
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