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I'm starting to empathize with Texas trying to leave the Union. (self.casualconversation)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by pebbles to c/[email protected]

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I never really understood, but now that that house bill passed that may end up blocking AI regulation from individual States. I get it. I don't like knowing that even if everyone in my state wanted to stop companies from using AI for hiring decisions, we couldn't.

Texans, I feel you.

Edit: I'm learning a lot about Texas in this thread. Thanks for all the context folks.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Secession is anarchist in the sense that it rejects and fractures a dominant power in favor of one that better represents folks.

When has this actually happened?

What if you had just been annexed? Not allowed to try and leave?

Are you describing a country where a significant powerful plurality embraced annexation (a la Texas under Polk or Hawaii under the The United Fruit Company).

Or one that's been liberated after a terrible Continental war, a la the Eastern European states after WW2?

Because these are very different situations.

But more importantly, would Hawaii benefit somehow if the island's residents staged an armed insurrection? Secession does nothing to fix the underlying economic problems of the island. It doesn't even address the popular impulses of the proletariat.

You're putting the cart before the horse.