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I'm seeing some stuff been thrown around, about the texas state mobilizing their security forces to disobey federal order and something about they wanting to separate.

anyway, what do you think about this?

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[-] taiphlosion@lemmygrad.ml 37 points 7 months ago

Fascist infighting. Probably nothing will happen but it does make the empire look really weak 🤷🏿‍♂️

[-] ashley@falafelprostitute.gay 23 points 7 months ago

texas has been placing saw blades and razor wire hidden in their river to kill asylum seekers. but i think there is no chance of civil war. the actions of texas serves the racist majority of the US

[-] kig_v2@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 7 months ago

I wouldn't say no chance, only that the time is not ripe yet. The urban/rural racial/political divide will show Texas is not so uniform.

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 7 months ago

Texas wants to secede literally every three to four years; it's like clockwork almost perfectly synced up with the electoral calendar.

[-] supersolid_snake@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 7 months ago

Not unrelated, but I was cracking myself up envisioning some pampered Texas suburbanite agonizing over the same question while hovering over the buy it now button for a gun flashlight attachment that has 15 more lumens than the one he currently has.

Sorry, it's stupid I know.

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 7 months ago

You don't know how close to the truth you are m8

[-] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 7 months ago

Texas feels bold enough to challenge the federal government because they’re essentially the only Republican-led state that actually can withstand the threat of federal fund withholding.

I wouldn’t consider a civil war very likely. Texas has power from companies being here — it wouldn’t be in the companies’ interest to civil war.

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 7 months ago

that actually can withstand the threat of federal fund withholding

Judging from the electricity grid thing from a few years ago, I guess this is because they don't mind their people dying from lack of resources

[-] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 7 months ago

I’d say privatize the profits and socialize the costs but somehow they managed to profit off what should be costs

[-] ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 7 months ago

Oh come on how will we resolve the naritive tension of all the sabor ratteling

[-] SovietCollie@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Preformative political shit with the Texan border.

Democrats folded as usual, Texans got what they wanted with stricter border reforms through "negotiations".

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 7 months ago

There is zero chance of a civil war so don't get your hopes up.

[-] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 7 months ago

Even before this Texas shit there was non zero chatter about a potential looming civil war in the US.

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 7 months ago

meh its just a stunt

[-] ComradeChopin@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The biggest nothingburger.

[-] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 7 months ago

Even though I don't like the Texas government, I want them to secede. But I don't think that's going to happen, neither is a civil war

[-] kig_v2@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 7 months ago

Give it another decade, give or take, I think.

[-] FamousPlan101@lemmygrad.ml -4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I think the Democrats are unpopular so they've relaxed on migrants (as migrants are more democratic) which is good for migrants but also pretty opportunistic.

Even most democratic voters call the situation at the border "an invasion", which I don't agree with but the fact is Democrats are choosing to change course when it is unpopular in their own camp. Secondly, we all know it's not cause of empathy with migrants, they clearly lack that.

Democrats are trying to maintain power even at the cost of destabilization, Republicans don't want Texas, with it's 38 electoral seats to turn blue. Biden only lost in 2020 by 5%.

[-] ksdhf@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Non-citizens can't vote so the migrant issue will not help the democrats at the election. The migrants are being exploited for cheap labour.

Edit: there have been more deportations under Biden than under Trump.

[-] FamousPlan101@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

He tried once to give illegal immigrants a path to citizenship. Obama too. Non-citizens can increasingly vote in local elections. And the more of them that come, the easier to pass this. Yes ik that Biden has deported more than Trump, that's what I meant when I said that they haven't been nice to migrants in the last few years. They are also definitely be exploited for cheap labour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Citizenship_Act_of_2021

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