• chlooooooooooooo [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    happy to see the US getting more and more fractured but the idea of a Texas government no longer even bound by US federal law and able to do what they want to marginalised people is terrifying tbh

        • emizeko [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          In 1986 activists from the Red River Peace Network purchased 20 acres (81,000 m2) adjacent to Pantex to create the "Peace Farm", described as "a visible witness against weapons of mass destruction." Its staff and board organized events, rallies, and gatherings opposing nuclear weapons through the 1990s and now organizes events related to the environment, nuclear proliferation and waste disposal, and peace issues.

          imagine living under threat of nuclear annihilation and thinking what's needed is "raising awareness" by buying yourselves a farm

        • happybadger [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Next you'll tell me that the Air Force academy is in the evangelical hot spot of Colorado Springs which heavily infiltrates it to the point of scandal. That the silos are tucked away into the backwoods of evangelical states with few guards and compromised officers.

      • Lundi [none/use name]
        hexagon
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        2 years ago

        Nah, I think they're all in Whyoming or North Dakota. You know, where all the sane people live.

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Thinking about this too. How does a seceded Texas not immediately see massive brain drain and emigration? Those people are still US citizens, and suddenly making their home part of an evangelical theocracy would make a lot of them leave.

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        At least half of the population would try to leave. Complete social collapse. A whole lot of jobs and money in Texas come from the highways and ports. Suddenly change those from America to the Serene Republican Church of Texas without a very tightly organized diplomatic arrangement would collapse the whole thing.

        Also independent Texas would immediately become a vassal state for America so why would it even matter

    • mr_world [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      US is so poisoned about state's rights and the federal government has lost so much power and legitimacy, what else could happen? Is there anything stopping them from hurting marginalized people right now? Remember there's a border militia shooting immigrants, there are concentration camps where they perform sterilization. The good people in the federal government haven't stopped it. Even if there was someone with the will to do so, how would they do it without causing Texas to secede anyways? The only time they're ever going to send in the national guard is when there's a protest.