• OccamsRazer@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Glad we can agree that there is an actual definition for fascism, even if you aren’t bothering to refer to it before leveling accusations.

    Anyway the premise of states rights as opposed to Federal is that Federal laws should be very limited, aimed at protecting basic human rights, interstate infrastructure, and the military to protect the country as a whole. Then individual states can create laws that are highly applicable to their own issues, environment, culture, demographic, tax structure and so on. If a state gets virtually no tourism, but provides tons of food for the rest of the nation, then it is best served by a set of laws that are different from a state that relies upon tourism or business or manufacturing or retirees or whatever. The Federal government can’t possibly govern as well as the people in the state can govern themselves. Here you are preaching about fascism and in the same breath advocating for a strong central government. Are you just messing with me? Or are you about the other kind of authoritarian government? Answer this: are you ok with forcing other people to do and think as you do?

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      6 months ago

      No, I’m not, which is why I brought up States’ Rights which is doing exactly that while the conservative federal government is abandoning it’s role to protect individual liberty. The States Rights issue stopped being economic long ago.

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          6 months ago

          Sure you can. What you’re doing is removing federal protections of individuals so that states can fasciststially abuse them without consequence.

          Wanna explain why Louisiana is planning to criminalize librarians and how that isnt fascism at all?