• Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    BAL KAN IZE! BAL KAN IZE! BAL KAN IZE!

    This is so flagrantly illegal. Free travel between states is a very plain and well established constitutional principle. I wish this man a very freeze to death this winter.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      I was going to make my typical joke that he'll give a speech about it but then I realized he won't even do that. Also - Biden's DOJ might send Texas a letter and if so - Texas will simply ignore it. Or maybe Abbott will tweet "Don't mess with Texas!" about it.

    • CommunistBear [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      tfw dark brandon was a meme and he won't be rolling tanks through Austin sadness

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    someone should do a version of Papers Please with southwestern US aesthetics instead of anticommunist brainworms

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I hate how all those games are just anticommunist garbage and the devs don't think maybe criticism of the society they live in is more pertinent

  • Dolores [love/loves]
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    1 year ago

    biden could literally arrest this man, and the supreme court would probably uphold it. the democrats allowing this is the highest order of incompetetence. who could vote for people who won't govern and actively collaborate with the opposition like this?

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      I can't stop thinking about yesterday when I Lemmy lib popped into my thread and unironically said...

      I love people acting like a lone Senator can achieve anything.

      Being a liberal means you lecture people to vote and then when the dems don't actually do anything - you lecture them more. And when a leftist points out that fish rots from the head and Biden the biggest problem then you tell that YoU dOn't UnDeRsTaNd HoW pOlItIcS wOrKs.

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        if you really think about it, the important thing is that no changes are made that might reduce my material privilege

    • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      If you want to point out to libs how Biden could easily fix this, the hypothetical is that he could federalize the Texas National Guard and order them to tear all this down.

      • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
        hexagon
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        1 year ago

        An actually Dark Brandon: "I'm federalizing the Texas National Guard and I have instructed them to tear down the illegal barbed wire fence installed by the unhinged right-wing Texas governor. He put it up between Texas and New Mexico. I will not allow such a fence between states!..."

        Lib Dark Brandon: Biden with laser eyes on a coffee mug.

        • ChaosMaterialist [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Dark Brandon used to be a right-wing fever dream, and then the libs discovered it.

          • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
            hexagon
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            1 year ago

            Distract a baby - jangle car keys.

            Distract a lib - Dark Brandon!

            It's so depressing to me how libs religiously follow and are totally outraged by everything related to Trump. They've made him their boogeyman but they refuse to accept the entire republican party is a danger to the country.

            Scalise called himself "David Duke without the baggage" and he might become speaker soon but they yawn at stuff like that. Trump is all they care about.

            • ChaosMaterialist [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              Scalise called himself "David Duke without the baggage" and he might become speaker soon but they yawn at stuff like that.

              Libs yawned at David Duke too, baggage be damned lmayo

              Libs are entranced to the Spectacle, both good and bad. If it isn't spectacular it never crosses the lib. X without the baggage is precisely (*sniff*1) what liberals want. He's signalling his anti-spectacular-ness. After years of Trump hysteria, it speaks to a genuine desire (*sniff*1) for a politics that doesn't constantly drive them to anxiety. The best way I characterize liberal "progress" is letting the old racists/bigots/etc die and society will "naturally" (*sniff*1) drive towards progress and Justice2. Its self-serving because they don't have to do anything. It's ahistorical; materially ignoring all the others in the past who actively fought for that progress. But I understand the desire for a calm.

              1 It's *sniff* pure Ideology, you know zizek

              2 This progress is a material force, which is why the Conservative counter-hysteria about progress has some truth. History Bends Towards Justice, but the liberal forgets the material hands (often bleeding) doing the bending.

    • rubpoll [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      biden could literally arrest this man

      Should, but shant.

      and the supreme court would probably uphold it

      Eh, 50/50

      the democrats allowing this is the highest order of incompetetence

      Yes.

      • Dolores [love/loves]
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        1 year ago

        Eh, 50/50

        i was being hopeful since the relevant bit of the constitution is completely unambiguous but you're probably right lmao

  • PKMKII [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    So the migrants are going to now instead cross the border at New Mexico, get some bolt cutters, then enter Texas

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      Now, pardner, you just made a real good case why the good ol' Texas Rangers ought to op'rate cross state lines to protect the sovereignty of the Lone Star State.

    • huf [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      as long as they buy american made bolt cutters in new mexico, i dont see the problem. they'd be contributing to the US economy

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    They should just do this for the entirety of Texas' border. Fulfill the independent nation of Texas fantasy.

    • daisy
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      1 year ago

      Unfortunately the only American facility for building and maintaining nuclear weapons, Pantex, is in Texas.

      • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Give it the same safety inspectors that fertilizer factory had and wait for the problem to resolve itself.

      • ChaosMaterialist [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Unfortunately the only American facility for building and maintaining nuclear weapons, Pantex, is in Texas.

        I see nothing unfortunate here sicko-charging

      • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Dumb question: why would a nuclear superpower have its entire nuclear arsenal-shaped egg collection in one very-close-to-a-bordering-nation-shaped basket? Obviously Mexico's not likely to take it out, but that seems like the kind of thing you'd want to diversify a little.

      • Haywire@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        I'm pretty sure there are more than a few nukes ready to go in New Mexico.

  • Maoo [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    Texas-based balkanization might be the fastest path to the death of America

    • rubpoll [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      "Founding Fathers never intended for there to be a New Mexico." - SCOTUS in a week.

      • NewLeaf
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        1 year ago

        SCOTUS Liberals in a week

    • YEP [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      literally middle school us history level offence doesn't gibbon vs Ogden enumerate states cannot control navigation between states

  • jabrd [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    America’s climate change plan in action