https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/comments/op5aro/the_texas_republican_party_platform_is_insane
There's a Parenti quote I like about how large parts of this country never accepted the civil rights movement,and they're being led by a smaller part that never accepted the New Deal
What's the quote by some freak, Pat Robertson or something, explicitly saying their goal was to undo the 20th century
abolish CPS
jesus christ, what the fuck are these people doing to their kids
The sort of people who support this also believe it's their God-given right to beat their children for failing to think and act as miniature clones of themselves.
Anytime spanking is brought up online, you see the most insane people respond saying nothing is wrong with them even though they've been spanked.
I was spanked and I'm fine. I just want to hit defenseless children, which is normal.
Americans are deeply ingrained with the belief that children are literal property of their parents.
We oppose birthright citizenship
It's literally in the constitution. Aren't these the same people always screaming about how great the constitution is?
When the letter of the law constrains the spirit of what they believe the law should be, they'll happily drop the facade of being constitutional fundamentalists.
Yep. Unlike Liberals, Conservatives actually know what kind of world they want to live in, and see the political process as a means to that end. Liberals just see the political process itself as the end, without any clear or consistent goals other than participating in the process for its own sake.
Give a Conservative a change-the-world button and they'd hit it, and make the world look like the prebellum South.
Give a Liberal a change-the-world button and they'd either refuse to hit it because it's not democratic, or they'd ask the Conservative what to do and then do half of that.
lmao I'm sorry but this is great. Americans love to criticize the global south and say we can't be "civilized" because of our governments, and then they passively let this shit fly without a peep from its citizens. At least we riot, but then they also demonize us for doing that as well.
Sooooo they're fascists, right?
Also shouldn't half the shit they want be illegal due to anti-discrimination laws?
Also holy shit, just outright wanting to abolish education and destroy the environment. What kind of future do these monsters expect to create?
I’ve been living in San Antonio* for the past month, first time in Texas. I shit you not, there’s an unincorporated city smack dab in the middle of San Antonio because rich people didn’t want to follow commie regulations and pay higher taxes.
What kind of possessed demon could possibly dream up this nightmare of urban planning? You imagine the level of shit show that would fall on cities anywhere if their biggest asshats decided for something similar?
This ‘city’ houses 14k sub
humansurbanites, it’s got its own police, fire department, chuddy coty council. Except it leeches off San Antonio’s aquafers, sanitation system, waste management.been to FL twice in my life for two weeks at a time and I vowed to never ever go back. I couldn't even do the one fuckin thing i usually do which is hike without being SWARMED by bugs, had to pack twice the amount water normally and couldn't even bring my dog cause the weather was just too hot and humid for them to be outside for a few hours. Hiking is like my thing i do when everything else sucks and i want to take my mind off crap, but I tried so many different spots in northern and central FL and just did not enjoy any of them really. I mean there is an assload of other things I hated FL for, especially all the confederate flags, racists and pretty terrible food (especially Mexican) and other shit, but I couldn't spend much time in a place if I can't at least hike and do nature stuff with trees.
there but for the grace of at least not living in fucking florida go i
Defund big government not the police
How the GOP managed to thread that ideological needle I will never understand.
Also, lmao @ "Repeal Hate Crime Laws" with no additional explanation
That's where the overlapping ideologies and simultaneous friction between GOP types and Libertarians comes in. The hardcore Libertarians are pretty based when it comes to the police in a vacuum, but of course that doesn't mean you target those resources elsewhere, you just let the Market™️ handle socioeconomic issues.
The GOP types and some Lolbertarians recognize that their gains and current status will be laid to waste without some sort of state policing apparatus, because deep down they know there's always the possibility that they won't have the upper hand if the marketplace truly was laissez-faire. Too many commies, minorities, liberals, democraps have infiltrated the current marketplace for them to truly feel comfortable about living in AnCapistan
Too many commies, minorites, liberals, democraps have infiltrated the current marketplace for them to truly feel comfortable about living in AnCapistan
Funny that it's this they're afraid of and not, y'know, the innate brutality of markets. But I guess they wouldn't be an ancaps if they weren't deluded.
How the GOP managed to thread that ideological needle I will never understand.
Cops uphold property rights and white supremacy and GOP pols and voters know this.
"No authority, except for cops!"
It's just hard to imagine being so secure in your identity that you think it's impossible for the police to be a threat to you.
Whatever else you want to say about Jan 6th, it was an incredible example of people so coddled by the state and economy that they couldn't imagine consequences for their actions
Like we know not to take fuckin' selfies at protests because we'd get hunted down and slaughtered, while these chuds didn't even have that concept in their heads
Imagine instead of the EPA - it's someone on the pollution beat with a gun. Just going dirty Harry on oil company execs for pollution.
It's refreshing sometimes to remember how malicious the average card carrying republican actually is. It's almost comical how fucked up their ideology is on its face.
It's good for maintaining perspective, given all the ripping we do on libs around here.
Boko Haram is that you? Although I'm playing fast and lose with "western education" here, sounds like they dislike education, period.
They want the right to indoctrinate children with Christian bullshit, beat them relentlessly, and maybe do some sexual abuse on the side, all without government getting in the way.
all without government getting in the way.
:ancap-good:
Texas has an utterly trash attrition rate already. 20% of students do not finish high school. Some parts of this state have a fourth grade average reading level. 19% of Texans lack functional literacy.
I used to work for a lady in charge of an adult life skills program funded by the city. I thought it was going to be a cool way of helping disadvantaged people, help people get driver's licenses, learn to read, apply for citizenship, you know, that sort of thing. Despite her having a master's degree in education, she would regularly go into rants about the Earth being 6000 years old, gay people being a different species, and how black people have a lower brain weight than white people. She was the most ruthlessly reactionary person I have ever met and she was in charge of a municipal literacy/education program in a Texan city with hundreds of thousands of people, a huge number of whom live in inescapable poverty.
She would berate me for teaching students anything related to evolution, anything she regarded as too racially progressive, or anything regarding American history short of constant praise and worship. She once shouted at me for 30 minutes for teaching a student the word neanderthal, despite it being part of the lesson that day.
My honest opinion is Texas is such a hellscape that people like her are given these positions just so these programs don't work. They're nominally supposed to reduce the worst excesses of suffering and poverty, yet make infrequent headway or just fail and do nothing. That's how the state government wants it.
Jesus I hated her so much
Right to work is such a slimy, scumfuck thing to call anti-union laws. I wonder how many people were originally suckered into supporting this, thinking just from the name that it was a jobs guarantee
Holy shit. Even for Amerikkka, this is an extreme rightist platform.
Edit: making gambling illegal seems kinda weird for today's reactionaries. i've never heard this as a GOP talking point
Religious groups oppose gambling because it's a vice.
But also, that might just be the horse racing business protecting their market share.
I interpreted it as an attempt to squeeze native Americans in Texas into even further poverty
It would allow them to have slaves again tho, which is what these people all want
The overlap of “no sex ed” and “porn is a health crisis” is so… sad. Because yeah porn really does fuck with young people’s perception of sex, there’s many studies about it, and it should be addressed, but one of the very few ways to address the myths porn spread would be proper sex ed.
Stuff like this is why the online left's impulse to abandon electoral politics is a dead end, losing strategy. If people hear "voting doesn't matter" out of context, they remember stuff like this and write you off as a lunatic. It doesn't matter what your long-form justification for "voting doesn't matter" is -- you're a lunatic, so they're not listening to it. Even if they do listen to your justification for "voting doesn't matter," they're probably not going to buy it, because at the end of the day some limp-dick conservative Democrat is still a big improvement over open fascism. And if you somehow get a lot of people to buy it, your efforts to translate not voting into some positive political movement are going to be kneecapped at every turn because you've ceded state power to the worst, most reactionary people in the country.
The far better approach is to try to gain ground wherever we can, which includes elections. In the context of horrible shit like this, it's a million times easier to convince people to vote for DSA-style left-wing Democrats than it is to convince them that they should abandon elections to Republicans. Getting people to look to the left of Democratic Party orthodoxy is the first step to truly radicalizing them, and running candidates like that in Democratic primaries is a proven way of reaching a mass audience.
:rat-salute:
Yeah, I've been in Texas my whole life, and it's been clear for a while that this platform was the direction that the GOP were going. This community's tendency to shit on not even advocating electoralism, but just merely voting has always and continues to rub me the wrong way. Because I feel very fucking obligated to vote against this shit, which more often than not means checking the goddamn Dem box out of necessity (the alternative here, in races where one exists, is usually a libertarian).
Replace 'voting doesn't matter" with "voting by itself is woefully insufficent"
Yeah, leftists protesting electoralism leads to brain dead shit like Ecuador's recent election.
It was supposed to be a slam dunk for a left-wing candidate, but so many people wanted to not vote in order to protest voter suppression (???). Incredibly absurd. Because there were powerful people who didn't want the poors to vote, some lefties got back at them by... not voting even if they were perfectly able to. Yay upset rightist victory! At least the true leftists weren't cringe electoralists and totally not an op.
