• originalucifer
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    24510 months ago

    the nihilist in me really wants to see texas attempt this.

    confederates === domestic terrorists. lets act accordingly.

    • @[email protected]
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      3210 months ago

      the nihilist in me really wants to see texas attempt this.

      Just to get rid of Abbot and Cruz it would be worth it.

      • TimeSquirrel
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        Normal languages: “does this equal that?”

        JS: “does this REALLY equal that, or just ‘equal’ that?”

        • @RamblingPanda
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          JS comparing a string and some random number: “ah, close enough probably”

            • @[email protected]
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              410 months ago

              No one checks those values explicitly.

              if (str) checks if it’s not null, undefined, or empty string.

              Optional chaining like if (arr?.length) checks if list is undefined, null, or empty array.

              Falsy and truthy comparators seem fucky in the beginning when coming from a strongly typed language. But they’re very convenient when used properly.

              • @[email protected]
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                Monads exist, optional chaining has been around for ages, and implicit bool casts, too.

                As you said, no one checks those values explicitly.

    • @[email protected]
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      1610 months ago

      I doubt this whole display is anything more than a distraction from the impending elections but I’m going to keep saying it anyway:

      Please remember there are sane, reasonable, nonconservative people living here without a good way out. We’re not the enemy.

    • andrew
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      810 months ago

      Might not be domestic for long. Plus I hear they’ve got oil! Not sure they’ve thought this through.

    • @[email protected]
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      Not just confederates, it’s the current MAGA “Republican” party. CPAC, Dallas, TX, Aug. 4-7, 2022:

      The persecution fetish is bigger in Texas.

  • @[email protected]
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    Can we just acknowledge that this is unhinged? Biden has the strongest border policies ever implemented by a Democrat. This just shows that there is no compromise possible with these traitors. They will never admit you made a step in their direction, only demand more and more and more until you’re just doing their bidding.

    This is truly the way of extremists and terrorists, they demand the country be run to their preferences, democratic systems be damned.

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      It really is sad to see so many Americans captivated by misinformation that they’ve convinced themselves is real. Abandoning science, reason, discussion, compromise, even tolerance. I try to keep my bloodthirst in check but after years upon years of them growing like a cancer, forming cult-like militia, becoming full blown domestic terrorists threatening high treason, it can’t be tolerated any further. It was cute when it was just posturing, symbolizing they were unhappy with the system at large and wanted to fuck with it a little.

      Now it’s spiraled out of control. Now the punishment for treason should be felt. Either mercifully with the arrest of Abbott or vengefully with the GOP Texans being buried under the new courthouse.

    • @[email protected]
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      910 months ago

      Is there somewhere I can read about Biden’s border policy compared to other Democrats? This is definitely something I’m totally uninformed about and I’d like to read up a bit, if you know of a good rundown.

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        Not really a rundown. Just years of paying attention. The basic thing is they aren’t recognizing the right to declare asylum after entering the country anymore. You have to wait in your home country or Mexico until your paperwork is processed. Of course that’s ridiculous considering how the cartels prey on the refugees and asking someone to stay in the country they are seeking asylum from.

    • @[email protected]
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      710 months ago

      A more cynical person might suggest they are doing this BECAUSE of that. Biden can’t run on the numbers if Texas keeps blocking action.

  • @MrPibb
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    I have yet to see this mentioned in any of these threads, at least the ones that I have read. If Texas secedes or tries to, Republicans lose 38 seats in the House of Representatives and two Senate seats. This give the House to Democrats for the foreseeable future and Democrats an easier path to passing bills in the Senate. Not that Texas, Abbott, cares.

    • @[email protected]
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      4010 months ago

      not to mention then they’ll be a country with oil within peacekeepin’ distance of the USA

      • The Assman
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        710 months ago

        Can anyone tell me how much of Texas’ oil production is offshore? Because the US would claim all of that on day one.

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        We’re going to have invade every 20 years to get rid of some horrible dictator or another.

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      Here’s hoping a congressman disappears him.

      But seriously, there needs to be a mechanism for the feds to impeach a governor.

    • Uranium3006
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      410 months ago

      if the secede their electoral votes shouldn’t count until congress passes a bill readmitting them. it’s only fair

    • @[email protected]
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      310 months ago

      I mean it goes without saying that you aren’t arguing this, but they will never secede. This is fodder for local politicking

  • katy ✨
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    cut off all federal funding

    let then secede

    invade and retake them as a territory with no federal voting rights

    make dc and puerto rico states

    republicans never win again

    • @[email protected]
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      2910 months ago

      Naw, split up the state into 4 states, with Houston, Austin, Dallas and San Antonio as capitals. Cut state lines and populations up to ensure that as the main city votes so goes the state.

      That’d be 8 democratic senators.

      Add DC, PR, American Virgin Islands American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands and that’s potentially another 12.

      Regardless of politics the territories, and DC, should have statehood and equal rights and representation as the rest of us or they should have independence. It’s part of our national identity. No more colonialism or secondclass sub citizens.

  • @[email protected]
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    7710 months ago

    This Texan checked into it, and unfortunately we have no procedure for recalling our treasonous governor. At a minimum, he should be held in contempt of court and jailed. I would like to see a treason indictment.

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        810 months ago

        I don’t believe the federal legislative can remove the executive of a federated state.

        He can be arrested and tried though.

      • @[email protected]
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        610 months ago

        The 14th Amendment’s 3rd clause is self executing, so arguably he’s just disqualified himself from office.

    • @[email protected]
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      910 months ago

      Unfortunately for us, people kept voting him into office even after he called the Texas guard to watch the US army with the Jade Helm panic that Russia started. Idk if they will ever vote him out

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        His last election was the most competitive of his career.

        The public in general leans pro-choice, so Republicans are absolutely losing support with their insane anti-abortion policies even if it isn’t obvious yet.

        He’s also been in national headlines a lot lately for his extremism. He has always been horrible, but he has never been so visible for it.

        Next election, he will be hanging on by voter suppression, a wish, and a prayer.

        What worries me though is why he’s gone off the deep end already if he still believes he needs to get re-elected…

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      These jackanapes get to yammering about secession every few years but haven’t actually done anything about it for decades. It’s all performative.

  • Rhaedas
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    The only issue I have with secession talk is there are lots of Texas citizens who aren’t the problem. Every red state has people with common sense, they just don’t have the ability at the moment to shut up the idiots. Plus secession at this point is ludicrous, leaving with your toys isn’t how you fix problems. Oh wait, it’s Republicans, they don’t ever have solutions anymore anyway it’s all a political game.

    • Baron Von J
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      The pro-seccession crowd here isn’t even the majority of Republicans. They brought a petition to out a measure on the primary ballot and the state GOP said no. Then the state Supreme Court declined to intervene.

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    6010 months ago

    As a city Texan who lives in one of the most military-friendly and full cities in the state, I say I’d like to see you try greggy.

    • @[email protected]
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      Here in Houston, doubt many here would back his bullshit.

      In fact, Abbott barely won texas against Beto, who has said that he actually wants to take guns from people. In texas…

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    How do 1%ers hear this and not immediately pull campaign funding, what would a civil war do to the US economy. When a nation with the most guns in the world has people starving what do they think is gonna happen. I guess they are counting on being kings in the aftermath or that Jesus will come back or something.

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      See, your problem is you assume the 1% are intelligent. They are not. The attribute they have the most of is greed. Greed can blind even the intelligent, and most of them aren’t even playing with a full deck.

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        I think it’s more the assumption that things won’t change. Plenty of large, previously-succsssful businesses have collapsed because they did not keep a finger up to feel if the winds of change are shifting and instead doubled and quadrupled down on a no longer viable business model.

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      The 1% use political theater to distract people from the fact that half of Americans can’t afford rent.

      This is exactly what they want.

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      Here’s the thing: they’ve got a “self-sufficient” bunker, private military contractors, and have done some martial arts training. So in their mind all they have to do to come out on top in a collapse of society is hide in the bunker surrounded by armed guards and judo chop any guard who tries to take over.

      They also know that our current way of society is not sustainable with them hoarding the wealth. So they believe collapse is inevitable.

      So why not accelerate the process whilst they’re still young and can fool themselves into believing they can survive a collapse of society with all their resources stashed away.

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      It’s because they know it’s political theater. Bullshit posturing. Virtue signaling. As long as it gets the red state voters worked up so they’re not paying attention to actual issues, that’s what counts.

      Texas is not going to secdee.

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      Because it’s theater. It’s part of the tongue in cheek game they play where the Republican leadership all basically play the part of the fourteen year old male imagination. They’re gonna beat up the bully, kiss the cheerleader, and win the football game. Everyone knows it’s fantasy but it’s comforting fantasy that makes them feel big, and they want that. They expect it.

      Trump is fascinating because he DID those things. He hurt the right people to satisfy a growing chunk of the core GOP base that have Poe’s Law’d so hard they actually take the fantasy seriously. If he said he’d let Texas secede I’d honestly believe he’s stupid and/or nihilistic enough to do it