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Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?
(www.nytimes.com)
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this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2026
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Enough Musk Spam
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You may not have learned that the American Revolution was fought between the British and thirteen separate colonies that each considered themselves to be sovereign. The original organizing document was the Articles of Confederation, which created a very weak federal "government" that was responsible for just a few things, but without the authority to raise funds from the Several States to actually do any of those things.
The US Constitution didn't take effect until March 1789, and it contains the Electoral College and the Senate specifically so that the States (wanting to maintain some semblance of sovereignty) would ratify it.
2026-1789=237 years.
Close enough. And yes the idea of states maintaining some autonomy is not the problem. EU has the same and even more protection of the rights of member states, completely without the democratic shortcomings of USA.
I wasn't bickering over the number of years. You may just not be aware that state sovereignty in the US was a really big deal until at least the 1870s, and continued to be a pretty big deal for some time after. The US is 50 countries in a trench coat.