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[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Just your friendly reminder that Texas governor Greg Abbott is a racist piece of shit and probably a kkk member who used his powers as governor to free another bigoted racist killer Daniel Perry convicted by a jury of his peers. They don't care if you murder their constituents as long as they can benefit politically from it.

https://apnews.com/article/army-sergeant-murder-parole-black-lives-matter-4b1d0c54b0de451642bcf1e8cd75a7e5

" On May 29, 2020, days after George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer prompted nationwide protests, Perry sent a text message saying, “I might go to Dallas to shoot looters.”

Two days later, according to the records, Perry said in a Facebook message that when he is in Dallas, “no protestors go near me or my car.”

“Can you catch me a negro daddy,” the other man replied.

“That is what I am hoping,” Perry said. "

https://www.ksat.com/news/texas/2023/04/14/unsealed-evidence-shows-racist-comments-threats-of-violence-made-by-daniel-perry-before-killing-of-austin-protester/

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 4 points 6 days ago

I’m not from the US and speaking about other countries too, not just the US. We became countries from kingdoms at a certain time for all of us. Somehow, states were formed either after or before from the kingdom period or whatever names they were called. It seems we are moving to a time when the states or provinces or whatever would like more say than the country. Do you think we will evolve to an EU like system or some other new system over the course of time, making the concept of countries or federal/central “rule” obsolete and instead moving to a more alliance between these localised states/provinces a system?

[–] Geodad@lemmy.world 232 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That’s all ~~red~~ states.

From California to Mississippi, the anti-tax era got everybody. Now states don't have domestic revenue to pay for shit, so they have to go through the Feds for everything.

Ironic, in a way, since the core of anti-tax Republicanism was supposed to be about shrinking the size of government. But here we are, beholden to whichever idiot or asshole happens to be running the executive branch at a given moment

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 31 points 1 week ago (14 children)

Remind me again why California needs the federal government as opposed to the other way around?

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[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 121 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Texas wants their cake and to eat it too

same as it always was, the Alamo is a perfect example of this

renegade americans who want to establish their own country cant even defend the fucking place and it takes the US Army to come and rescue them... Never forget that the Alamo represents slavery the same way the Confederate flag does

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It doesn't have a basement?

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] mergingapples@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This one is going over my head. What about a basement? Where joke?

[–] chirospasm@lemmy.ml 48 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

There's a psychic in the movie that tells Peewee that the bicycle he lost is in the basement of the Alamo -- the joke being that this is one of many instances where Peewee's naivety gets the better of him, sending him off in another odd direction. The plot continually plays off his innocence.

Nowadays, visitors to the Alamo reference the question on tours as a running joke.

[–] mergingapples@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Ahh, got it.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 week ago

There are no bicycles down there Pee-wee!

my favorite is Ozzy being banned for 10 years from playing in San Antonio for pissing on the statue in the plaza of the Alamo

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Texas is the embodiment of the libertarian house cat analogy.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

libertarian house cat analogy

I searched this and found a bunch of reddit libertarians coping about how much they aren't stupid children living off the government while hating it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/yex7st/libertarians_are_like_house_cats/

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

lol, that's a lot of comments and replies just to overwhelmingly reaffirm that they completely don't understand the reason the system around them exists or just how much they actually rely on it.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 6 days ago

They're so mad about the analogy it's fucking hilarious

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 75 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Texas is America's America.

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[–] Pistcow@lemmy.world 66 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The top image will be recycled when it’s election season and they all vote Republican again.

I remember after the school shooting, uvalde county overwhelmingly voted for Abbot and Trump, Cruz, and every crooked judge and sheriff who did nothing while their children died. At a certain point sympathy evaporated for a community that is working against its own interests, and against the lives of their own kids. This is how I feel about Texas in particular among all the states, i just have no more empathy to spare for Texas.

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yeah. I get mississippi is fucked and most of the people who get fucked are poor and black and didnt ask for that. Louisiana is such a complicated mix, and besides, they were drunk; they didn't mean it. I get florida got owned by fascists (they just want to party, and Florida man sounds fun as hell if he keeps a safe distance), even alabama has showed it spine and the people's willingness to resist over and over again.

But texas... I just have no sympathy. These fucking moochers and looters who have the resources but refuse every trace of civilization no longer deserve our help. Theyre just goong to spend that money on guns and death squads and privatization that helps them fuck up like this again; at no point in their history as a US state have they been any better than this. Not another penny to these scum.

Edit: plus, they can make mexican food kinda suck. Do you have any idea how hard it is to use the right ingredients and make mexican food suck?

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[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't you wish there was a way to quit enabling these shit-kickin' shitheads. To let them actually live what they preach, in isolation without their shitwater splashing and spilling around everywhere else.

None of their politicians asking for handouts behind closed doors and under the table, too embarrassed to admit to the voters that yes, indeed, a collective government IS extremely useful AND convenient when you need it the most, and not only when YOU need it but also when OTHERS need it, too.

But one might as well try and explain quantum mechanics to a goddamned brick wall.

[–] LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Lot of boots in Texas which means a lot of bootstraps for them to use to pull themselves up!

In all seriousness, they should be getting aid and relief from the federal government. Thats what FEMA is for, that's what the true American way should be; supporting each other and helping out where we can.

I wish the best for the residents of Texas but anybody there upset about not getting aid needs has only their local, state and federal government to blame. Unfortunately, some folks will get caught in the middle.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'd like to see a law in place that says if a congressman votes against aid for another state during a disaster, then they must resign immediately after requesting aid for their own state during a disaster.

Put your money where you mouth is.

[–] LilB0kChoy@midwest.social 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

As long as it's applied equally I could support this.

No Republicans roadblocking aid for blue states while promoting it for red, but also no blue states roadblocking aid to red states because "take more than they give". Those behaviors only serve to hurt the people, regardless of their politics.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yeah. It would be applied equally. Being an asshole "I got mine fuck you" politician shouldn't be something we tolerate, regardless of party affiliation.

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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 week ago (7 children)

We had a real union before. If there was a natural disaster in California or Texas or Florida or New York, we all pitched in to help. That's what federal taxes that go to FEMA do.

That's breaking down. No matter why it's happened or who is responsible, this is a bad sign.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It isn't "breaking down", it's getting sabotaged by domestic terrorists.

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[–] Gowron_Howard@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They cosplay as John Wayne the character, but in reality are John Wayne the actor.

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[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago

#thaughtsandprayers

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