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Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by lacker on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @03:35PM (#23023227)
Well yes - there was a civil war! And more recently, the national guard was used to enforce school integration. Things have been much more antagonistic between the federal government and the states at times in the past.
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Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by gkop on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @04:14PM (#23023652)
For others curious, while the National Guard is a joint state-federal organization, the feds took control to enforce integration against the orders of the Arkansas governor: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_National_Guard_and_...
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Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by oarabbus_ on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @05:23PM (#23024518)
>Well yes - there was a civil war!

Hah, this really puts it into perspective. Despite how bad things are now, it's not 1865.

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Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by RonanTheGrey on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @07:53PM (#23026004)
In the years leading up to the Civil War, the states often passed bills specifically intended to hurt each other, and the Federal government passed laws intended to economically harm the south. It was a complete shitshow.

Today's politics are positively gentrified by comparison.

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Re:Lyft lays off 17% of workforce, furloughs hundreds more by kaesar14 on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @05:59PM (#23024920)
Don't know why this is downvoted, a Civil War would objectively be worse than this.
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