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Demonized by the philosophers...

 

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Economic History of Our Decline...

 

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The future is poor because the free growth is gone...

 

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The final fall is laid... AI produces more emissions than New York City, and there are still more to be built... We are letting the Tech bros steal our electricity and water, bail them out if AI goes belly up and now pollute our air and heat our world... @jgoodguy

 

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The demographics point toward a decline and a crisis...

 

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And yet you believe that the privilege of choosing your dictators, is "consent" to government... so why complain, if you can just VOTE?
You have never presented any options to your system... You have not explain the system you want to use?
 

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You have never presented any options to your system... You have not explain the system you want to use?
I've BEEN presenting it from square one.

But it's NOT an option; it's the de jure LAW, that:

1. Each state is a separate de jure sovereign nation,

2. that is supremely ruled by its respective ELECTORATE, while government officials are subordinate agents that they can overrule at will.

When the government usurped de facto national authority to the federal officials (and thus to their private-sector BENEFACTORS, i.e. Crony-Capitalists); then every state's respective voters were ROBBED of their consent to government, while being cult-brainwashed to BELIEVE that this insult was "government by the people" through some mental gymnastics involving lies and Operant Conditioning (like lab-rats pushing levers to get treats and avoid shocks).

THEN you complain about all the injustice, that you supposedly VOTED for.
 
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I've BEEN presenting it from square one.

But it's NOT an option; it's the de jure LAW, that:

1. Each state is a separate de jure sovereign nation,

2. that is supremely ruled by its respective ELECTORATE, while government officials are subordinate agents that they can overrule at will.

When the government usurped de facto national authority to the federal officials (and thus to their private-sector BENEFACTORS, i.e. Crony-Capitalists); then every state's respective voters were ROBBED of their consent to government, while being cult-brainwashed to BELIEVE that this insult was "government by the people" through some mental gymnastics involving lies and Operant Conditioning (like lab-rats pushing levers to get treats and avoid shocks).

THEN you complain about all the injustice, that you supposedly VOTED for.
Let's parse this out... The states should run everything because they are less corrupt than the Federal government... You wanting Athenian Democracy at the state level... It could be done today due to the Internet...
 

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Let's parse this out... The states should run everything because they are less corrupt than the Federal government... You wanting Athenian Democracy at the state level... It could be done today due to the Internet...
I'm just stating the FACTS. Not arguing opinions, or there'd be no point.

Again, it IS the LAW..... as written and agreed in 1787-- and SUPRESSED, de facto ONLY, in the 1861 self-coup.


And "Athenian democracy" did not have a popularly-sovereign federal republic, in which:

1. every citizen held supreme and equal power over their respective sovereign nation, while

2. simply CHOOSING to delegate powers to national officials, regarding affairs of state; with the SUPREME POWER to overrule them.

Athenian democracy was a direct system with only a fraction of the total population participating, where eligible citizens voted DIRECTLY on laws and policies in assemblies, controlled by institutions like the Ekklesia Assembly and Boule Council.

There was NO popular consent to government, by right of overrule.

But again, I'm not arguing "should," I'm STATING HISTORICAL AND LEGAL FACTS.
 

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Again, it IS the LAW..... as written and agreed in 1787-- and SUPRESSED, de facto ONLY, in the 1861 self-coup.
What state power do you want states to have...

Your saying you want to go back to this when the Bill of Rights did not apply to states... Barron vs Baltimore...

The landmark early case where the Supreme Court ruled the Constitution (specifically the Bill of Rights) did not apply to states was Barron v. Baltimore (1833), establishing that these protections were initially only against the federal government, a principle later challenged and changed by the Fourteenth Amendment and the doctrine of incorporation.

And this...

While Chisholm v. Georgia (1793) established states were subject to federal judicial power, it led to the Eleventh Amendment limiting that power, not applying the Bill of Rights to states.

You may only want to go to this... PLESSY VS FERGUSON...


The landmark Supreme Court case that established "separate but equal" as the law in the U.S. was Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which upheld state-mandated racial segregation, making it legal for facilities to be separate for Black and white people as long as they were considered equal, though in reality, Black facilities were always inferior, becoming the legal basis for Jim Crow laws for decades until it was overturned by Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.

"States rights are about states wrongs"- Jesse Jackson...
 

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What state power do you want states to have...

Just what the law requires: i.e. each state is a separate sovereign nation, that is supremely ruled by its respective electorate.

You're simply confusing "states," with state GOVERNMENTS.

Despite the absence of any superior authority to enforce such rules, international law is considered by states as binding upon them, and it is this fact which gives these rules the status of law.

So the Union was only binding on the states as international law; since the US government makes no valid legal argument of national union
 
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Despite the absence of any superior authority to enforce such rules, international law is considered by states as binding upon them, and it is this fact which gives these rules the status of law.
You know Washington D.C. is the superior authority... You heard of transition of power... The King of England had absolute power but today the King of England has little to no power... It transition to parliament and the Prime minister and the people hold the power...

There was a transition of power from the colonies to the United States and then another transition of power from the states to the United States and a final transition of power from the states to the United States and the people of the United States... And today Washington D.C. and the people are the enforcing power...

You are willfully ignoring that states or nations can lose or give up sovereignty and can not just reclaim it willy nilly...

Do you need to explain this power over the Federal Government is... You are saying if a state wants to bring back slavery that is okay, states want to pollute their air and water the other states down river and wind are shit out of luck... A state requires women to have a man on their bank account that would be okay... If a state kick out all none white people that is okay as well ... Explain how these states would work... Could they be a dictation or a mini oligarchy like many are today... Give me your vision of state with over aching power over the Constitution...
 

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You're simply confusing "states," with state GOVERNMENTS
What does this mean? States will not have governments... If you want states with all the power someone has to manage it...
 

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WE are living off the future...

 
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