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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Difficult as compared to what though We’re in a place where the fed gov is really incompetently managed and localities don’t help enforce certain things But it used to be socially acceptable to shoot bullets at revenue men, and that’s probably technically still in living memory
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