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[-] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago

I figure we'll see smaller inter-state alliances forming into regional powers. Most likely all of the states that have larger populations will gain a lot of power relative to those with smaller populations. In all likelihood the stratification of wealth will accelerate even further into an absolutely obscene spectacle. The oligarchs will win, in the short term at least, if the federal government falls.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

California, Oregon, and Washington kinda do already. All three states often tie legislation to the other two states also passing it. Like locking daylight savings in place if Washington hadn't dropped the ball.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Those are called interstate compacts, and they tend to be specific to individual laws. I was thinking more along the lines of military alliances, so kind of a more advanced form of this type of political alliance-making

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

There was the Western States pact from the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_States_Pact

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

dropped the ball

Saved the ball you mean. Daylight-saving time is a curse which should be abolished not set in stone.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago

At this point I’m down for either daylight time or standard time as long as we stop changing back and forth!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

I’ll grudgingly accept that as less awful than our current arrangement.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Balkanization comes to mind

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