https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1784577563324744008
It took $1.7 million to build a public toilet in San Francisco.
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) April 28, 2024
After a scandal, someone from Nevada volunteered to do the installation for $140K, but the city didn't know if it could accept because Nevada was one of the 30 states it was boycotting over LGBT. pic.twitter.com/MUYQrpLOVn
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How the frick does a city even boycott a state? Burger culture war nonsense is reaching unprecedented levels r-sluration.
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You don't buy things from companies in that state and you don't travel to that state for seminars etc.
How is that not completely obvious?
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Not traveling to it I get but I imagine that any actually explicit measures by a municipal government to boycott businesses of another state would get smacked down in the courts almost immediately
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Why?
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Because that type of anti-free market action would go against the principles of a federal union.
Source: it came to me in a dream.
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And id imagine people bringing up actual points based on reality and not vague feelings that things should be illegal for no reason.
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It should under the Commerce Clause, this is the actual shit it should protect. However the 9th Circuit Ruled that it was fine, because not going to something clearly wasn't the same as regulating commerce.
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