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Nah. That joke started when racist hillbillies used it as an excuse for a war to keep the right to own people. The irony is on the other foot.
Except you don't have to look 150 years ago to find literally dozens of modern issues where Lemmy happens to disagree with an individual state's decision and demands that whatever issue it is be blanket mandated at the federal level.
Actually supporting states' rights means supporting their right to sovereignty even when they make decisions you disagree with. The way Lemmy does it is to constantly demand federalization until the rare occasion when states' rights happen to be useful to their argument, and then suddenly they're all literalist constitutional scholars.
"States rights" on who should have the authority to ban weed or abortion is a categorically different situation from a question on who decides control of the very system itself when that answer is defined in the Constitution. Turns out things that are different are different.
Whatever gets you past the cognitive dissonance, chief.
What about States rights to regulate their militia?
k, i guess it is fascism then, ey?
Fascism delivered by a paedophile, no less.
I mean, federal overreach can certainly be seen as kinda like fascism, I suppose, though I think it dilutes an important term to say so under normal circumstances.
Under the current administration, though, yeah, it's definitely fascism.