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Re: Texas Is Coming for 'Woke' Insurance Companies Next

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Seems a bit pedantic here. But partisan political agendas like in CA and TX are clearly not the same as a neutral political agenda. I think most people here understood political agenda as partisan term here.

What I'm workings towards is that that just isn't a useful distinction. You can't form any kind of useful framework for evaluation or action out of "political and therefor bad" vs "non-political and therefor good." Some of these things are bad because they are bad , and you have to take a side opposing them on those grounds rather than invent these justifications that allow keeping your neutral purity intact.

The problem is without shared values, you can't define "bad" at a national level. Both sides believe they are on the "right side of history", that's the problem here.

The "greater good" is "political" in nature, but it's not something that's hyper-partisan like what we seeing occur in the nation. We need a minimum set of neutral rules in nation with a very very wide variety of beliefs to maintain our technological nation.

You can and should think of the greater good in terms of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs at population level. If you don't have food to eat and energy to keep you warm, self actualization or individuality really don't matter.

Re: Texas Is Coming for 'Woke' Insurance Companies Next

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Many people claim that the civil war was over state vs federal authority. They are wrong and have, at best, been duped by lost causers and white supremacists. For example, it was written into the constitution of the confederacy that no state could ban slavery. The confederacy also had strong centralized control over things like money. These were not temporary powers.

> They are wrong and have, at best, been duped by lost causers and white supremacists. Yeah, I'm sort of over absolutism. Everything has nuance. Authoritarianism's favorite tool is to reduce complex issues to "us" vs "them" absolutes.

Lots of things have nuance. I'd encourage you to speak with historians who study the civil war for that nuance. They'll tell you clearly that the narrative of state's rights vs federal authority is not based in the archive.

Re: Texas Is Coming for 'Woke' Insurance Companies Next

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I think with a country as diverse as the US, balkanization is preferred. It's really by design, states have autonomy over citizens and the federal government presides over national issues. Unfortunately, the federal government has gained more and more power and tries to pass laws that half the country doesn't want. The next political party gets in power and does the same thing, except for the other half. It's a good…

Is it really preferred? I simply cannot return to my home state because my home state has become so disconnected politically and socially. It's pretty sad. There are several states that fit this category for many. I don't even particularly feel that safe traveling through some states.

Many states are effectively headed towards extremism and terrorist states. It's not like the extreme states are differing in subtle ways. They are openly attacking human rights and really what America should be about. It isn't good by any measure.

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