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gapan | 6 months ago

> States should come together with their neighboring states to start passing identical model legislation for this sort of stuff...

Yes! Make a union of states! How should we call that? States Union... Union of States... United States! Yeah, that should work.

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bee_rider|6 months ago

Getting ~340M people to agree on anything is too hard, and now a good chunk of us seem to think the government can’t do anything productive at all. IMO, it would be nice to have an in between layer to do bigger things.

brewdad|6 months ago

Sure. But the idea was to have neighboring states pass matching laws. Oregon borders Washington. Washington borders Idaho. Idaho borders Montana…etc.

At some point it makes more sense to pass such a law at the federal level since we end up there eventually either way.

ultrarunner|6 months ago

Who says you have to have 340 million people agree? Congress's approval rating hovers around 20% for years and years— they haven't been interested in the will of the people for a long time.

sebastiennight|6 months ago

They wouldn't be "united" in many things though.

Sounds more like a... Confederation? of states. Or maybe... a Confederacy?

mathiaspoint|6 months ago

The US would make a lot more sense if it split up between two or three different countries. There's a lot of stuff in US politics which people feel strongest about but are absolutely mutually exclusive.

I think it's going to happen one way or another and the most peaceful way to do it would be sooner rather than later.

bee_rider|6 months ago

We’re better as one country, we just need a France or Germany sized organizational unit that can do interesting projects but is still small enough to be agile.

ethbr1|6 months ago

We tried that. It didn't go well for any involved.

fuckaj|6 months ago

Or Balkans?