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The Supreme Court rules that state officials can engage in a little corruption, as a treat (www.vox.com)

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Snyder v. US is the Republican justices’ latest decision weakening anti-corruption laws.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

If everything was started from scratch tomorrow, the likelihood of present day California and Texas naturally ending up together in the same nation is pretty much zero, IMHO.

Those two are kept together by pretty much a country-sized version of a Sunken Cost Falacy.

One can't even count on language or culture as a unifying element, otherwise the whole of Latin America would be 2 countries, Brasil & Everybody Else.