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What do you need to unite them about? Unless Alabama is imposing something untenable on California, what does California care? It can keep being California.
by asguy 4y ago
What do you need to unite them about? Unless Alabama is imposing something untenable on California, what does California care? It can keep being California.
You're not going to unite France and Germany on everything either. But you don't have to. They just have to agree to let each other keep being France and Germany.
- jleyank 4y agoGee, I don't know. How they handle women's rights, how they handle marriage rights, ... These things aren't state-level actions.
- asguy 4y agoThe US supreme court seems to disagree with you.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> Unless Alabama is imposing something untenable on California, what does California care? Because California’s economy is forcibly diverted to subsidize Alabama's political decisions (given the way federal funding formulas work, largely specifically because those decisions are consistent failures in aggregate economic terms.) Also, because being conmpelled to tolerate denials of fundamental human rights is an intolerable condition.
- asguy 4y ago> Because California’s economy is forcibly diverted to subsidize Alabama's political decisions (given the way federal funding formulas work, largely specifically because those decisions are consistent failures in aggregate economic terms.) I agree. I think that the way the US does things is kind of ridiculous. > Also, because being conmpelled to tolerate denials of fundamental human rights is an intolerable condition. How do you feel about the US not managing it's own petroleum production at levels to support its own use, effectively requiring propping up the Saudi regime? I think we can safely say they have a worse track record on women's rights than Alabama. Do you feel that's intolerable as well?