:yea: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/31/new-texas-laws-september-2021/
Criminalizing homeless camping: HB 1925 makes camping in unapproved public places a misdemeanor crime that carries a fine of up to $500. Cities cannot opt out of the ban.
Jeeesus "hey dude you have so little you're sleeping in a tent so now you have negative $500 dollars"
Yeehaw, aren't you glad to live in the free-est country in the world? Now you best get to work before we put you back on solitary confinement in our public-private partnership
labor campsprisons.
I would say, if you don't like it, leave...but people all over the country have been stampeding into Texas. Their own states sucked, so what do they do? Flee to a new place and then begin voting for the same shit all over again. It's called "the locust effect". :(
It's funny because this is what the right wing claims that libs/leftists are doing.
Looking forward to California getting a taste of this if the recall succeeds.
Dems have a super majority in the state legislation, they can knee cap a republican pretty good if that happens. But that would also require faith in them to not be shitlibs :shrug-outta-hecks:
I'd be more worried if you live in a red state. California's Dem legislature has to save some face, and making homeless camping a crime in CA is useless because their homeless situation is so bad that it's way, way beyond just arresting them.
Lol yeah they have an immense amount of legislative power there but it isn't very different than even blue dominated states. It's just run by bigger fascists
Seems a lot different than, say, New York or California if you need an abortion.
Its really is some fuckin :1984: shit. The entire anonymous reporting of friends, family, neighbors or anyone else they suspect of having a ""late"" abortion is disgusting. It's some genuine fascist ass shit. I really do feel sad for child bearing people who don't or can't go through with a pregnancy. And at the same time I'm certain there will be large public figure and/or their spouses who get one and they'll likely not face any of the same consequences because of the way chuds do mental gymnastics to justify why Good Peope™ can do Bad Things™
Yeah, this and the "run over protesters with your car if you want lol" laws are a pretty big departure from the bad stuff that goes on in Democratic states. You also have Democratic states doing some undeniably good things, like marijuana legalization or (this is more at local levels) decarceration efforts.
All this is to say that "it isn't very different than blue dominated states" is the type of take some left-leaning lib would hear and think "oh, these leftists are out to lunch." There are too many huge exceptions to it. It's much clearer to put any similarities in terms of both parties being capitalist parties that serve capital interests, but acknowledge that there are meaningful differences within that category.
the “run over protesters with your car if you want lol” laws
Has anyone run over a chud protest and cited that yet? I know they'd get the death penalty anyway because it's (not so) secretly a white supremacy law, but still
Social studies curriculum changes: HB 3979 limits teachers from discussing current events and systemic racism in class. The bill also prevents students from receiving class credit for participating in civic engagement and bans teaching of the “1619 Project.”
:bruh-moment:
Punishing cities who cut police budgets: If municipalities with a population of more than 250,000 reduce their police budget, HB 1900 allows the state to financially punish the cities by reducing sales tax revenues and preventing increases in property taxes.
:do-not-do-this:
Criminalizing homeless camping: HB 1925 makes camping in unapproved public places a misdemeanor crime that carries a fine of up to $500. Cities cannot opt out of the ban.
:bruh:
Conservative: I moved from California to Texas so I could escape big government.
Texas:
Personal Injury Lawyers are mad because a new law greatly favors commercial shipping companies in cases involving car accidents with 18 wheelers, or even uber driver related accidents. big pockets caused this to happen.
