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throwway120385yesterday at 3:31 PM1 replyview on HN

> mental shackles of subordination to psychological abusers and manipulators that are constantly pushing the idea that state's rights are subsumed to federal rights

Wow. The inter-state commerce clause is a real thing and it does give the federal government broad lattitude to regulate "commerce" across state lines. Commerce seems to entail the flow of both goods and services. We are in this situation because people at the state level decided, democratically, that some decisions should be made federally so as to avoid a huge patchwork of differing laws. To put it bluntly, I don't want to have to carefully review and compare Oregon state law with say Texas state law before I undertake any travel lest I accidentally commit a felony in Texas by doing something that isn't against the law in Oregon, and that's a really good reason to try to limit the differences between the two. If you don't, you'll necessarily chill travel and commerce across state lines because those differences will present a huge barrier to entry and create a big suck on peoples' time and attention.

> These United States, and after the Civil War the de fact illegitimate federal government called itself The United States

This is getting into Soverign Citizen type reasoning.


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ciabattabreadyesterday at 3:42 PM

> This is getting into Sovereign Citizen type reasoning

Getting? The dog whistle is a bullhorn.