It kind of defeats the purpose of the “United States” if each state is basically entirely sovereign, but idk there might be more to it

Reminder that an ideological litmus test would result in an ethnostate

"yeah mexicans are kinda shitty but half the invaders are shitty south americans and even we hate them"

not even joke

They are united in dealing with foreign powers @Al_Bi

the united states are a union of states

like the european union

but without all the uhh

fucking gay

All the jewness

Like if France said "you know what, we actually want the Purchase back," the states would whoop some baguette ass

and brother hatred

before about 1830 the common conception of the country was a union of states, not as a single entity

also military

and post

Hmm I see

Very interesting

the massachusetts legislature threatened to secede in 1841

see the european union wouldnt be so bad if all european countries didnt start off hating each other

thats what the us was

little known fact

imagine the european union but all the member states actually like each other

that was us

also less autism

The EU wants to become its own country like the US <:ree:378697077066039297>

yeah but they cant

That’s the good part

because they all hate each other

germans hate frenchies and frenchies hate italians and so on and so forth

They like to leach off eachother too

Greece needs all the shekels it can get

yeah the small ones are basically the dont talk to me or my son versions of the big ones

not even 20 years after threatening secession from the union, massachusetts was sending its boys to kill their southern brethren for seceding

*I r o n y*

the secession was perfectly legal reeee

lincoln was a rude dude for not allowing it and then trying to work it out during his presidency

>letting your country fracture itself whenever it wants

the problem started when the union just outright told the states to fuck off before listening to what they wanted

lincoln should have been assassinated MUCH sooner

"you should not be able to impose laws on us territories that aren't states yet"

that's literally it