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this combined with them really pushing to make recording the police a felony
Ding
Not a full ding ding ding, but a bit of ding
It’s definitely about the brown people, but it’s also about religious control over people. Soon buggery will be prohibited for some bullshit reason, divorce will be outlawed again so that Texas finally finally can get back to its racist roots of the 1800’s. All we need then is some good ol’ slavery to finish it all off
May I introduce you to the Texas Prison System? They clean our highways, do hard labor, work for our universities doing landscaping,
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They have to be killed
Religious piousness is the excuse, it’s the cover story. You don’t really think those mega church pastors believe what they say and then fly around in golden jets do you? It’s about the power they have over people.
EDIT: after reading you comment more carefully, yes we agree
They have to be killed
Buggery is anal penetration of an animal.
Buggery
The criminal offense of anal or oral copulation by penetration of the male organ into the anus or mouth of another person of either sex OR copulation between members of either sex with an animal. (Emphasis mine)
Legalized weed makes everything safer, crime goes down, people are dealing with addiction less, drinking even goes down, all of these things are terrible for the police
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to be exact, to fill up those 70+ for profit prisons in texas.
“You want to know what this [war on drugs] was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying?
We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.
Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
~ John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon
https://www.vera.org/reimagining-prison-webumentary/the-past-is-never-dead/drug-war-confessional
True, but they DO still like denying fun to themselves and their same-race underlings as well.
It has been all along.
Man, when even weed money can’t move past your draconian and shitty religious doctrine. Conservatives are a plague on society’s progress.
Texas, you’re gonna upset Joe Rogan!
Hey mods, next time you remove a comment for someone calling someone a name, make sure that word isn’t the username of the user saying it.
I call people dumbasses so when they see my username of dumbass, they can call me a dumbass in return, I’m the “call someone a dumbass free card”.
I think it’s funny that I can call Rogan a little bitch (even tho Lemmy doesn’t like that word) but calling someone a dumbass for being a dumbass and assuming I’m American in a dumbass way is too far.
Lol you mods are dumbasses.
Joe Rogan is a piece of shit. He became a multi millionaire in California because of the infrastructure and people of California. Then instead of staying and playing taxes to give a bit back to the community, he took his money and ran to Texas.
A classic fuck you I got mine.
That is not why he is a piece of shit.
He is a piece of shit because he is a fascist propagandist. Who cares if he moved money? He enables fascists.
This is why you guys are where you are right now. You have accepted fascism like it’s normal.
AMERICANS HAVE NORMALIZED FASCISM BECAUSE OF JOE ROGAN.
Worse yet, people think we’re in this mess because “Harris didn’t go on Rogan!” and fascism is spreading “because the left doesnt have a Rogan!”
Occam’s Razor: Americans are just horrible christofascist monsters amd should be utterly destroyed
Take a breath.
If you run around calling everyone a fascist no-one will take you seriously.
Rogan is not an elected official nor really active in anything to rise to the level of fascist. He’s a piece of shit moron, but if he’s a fascist that everyone and no-one is.
I think you are placing the bar for facism a bit high friend. You don’t have to be in government or influential in any way to be a fascist. You can be a homeless person who hasn’t spoken to another person in a year and still be a fascist. You can also be a fascist without believing that you are…
Fascism is both a set of beliefs taken to an extreme and actions wittingly or not done that furthers the power or reach of an organized group who holds those beliefs. More or less it means facism can be something you do rather than something you believe strongly in. Your rank and file facist is tricked into the position.
Joe Rogan is either a facist or a puppet/ tool of facists that serves as a algorithm kidnapper into their pipeline to normalize their veiw points. Whether Rogan himself holds these beliefs personally is kind of irrelevant. It is the use to which he has been put and the damage is done.
So what word would you prefer for someone who intentionally provides a large platform for fascists to spout their rhetoric and misinformation, thus helping them gain power?
He called one person a fascist whom spreads fascist propaganda
This is not how being a fascist works.
DO
NOT
EVER
DEFEND
FASCISTS!!
EVER!!
Your user name is very telling about why you believe what you believe. You probably say that Elon did a “roman” salute.
If I wanted the advice of a fascist I would have asked you.
Goodbye Mr fascist apologist.
God damn son, you can’t possibly be this stupid. You’re calling me a fascist now lol look at my comment history and realize that my point is more true than ever.
You are literarily calling everyone a fascist…
You are literarily calling everyone a fascist…
I’d say the opposite seems more true to me. They don’t “call everyone a fascist”, you just counter every accusation with that line, no matter how true it really is.
Thanks for the input, fascist.
I think the big complaint about him is that he is a propagandist that supports fascists.
This is a tale as old as the Reagan Era Tax Revolt.
People getting rich on the coasts, then moving to Texas to become greedy shithead landlords has been common practice for decades
All the worst Texans are transplants
I don’t want to be a part of a Lemmy where we can’t call powerful celebrity fascist propagandists “dumbasses”. Maybe this is my green and gold streak showing but honestly, dumbass is so tame.
Nah I called a user a dumbass, but it’s always in jest because of my username, I do like that we can call Rogan a little bitch tho, because he is a little bitch.
Ahh gotcha. I do like that we can call Rogan a little bitch
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Love your name dumbass
See, this dumbass gets it! Sorry I meant generic idiot.
Holy shit you really are dumbass
Dumbass by name, dumbass by nature.
Why? Nothing is gonna change for him. Little americans when you upset their favourite rich people is when it’s getting dangerous
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May as well get used to the cold weather by moving north since we will have to run to Canada next.
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Easier to secede to Canada if you share a border
No way would I encourage anyone from that shitty state to move to my state. Stay there and deal with the mess you made.
A lot of people don’t realize how rigged Texas is, or how recent it’s redness is.
The Governor prior to Bush was a Democratic woman. Bush got elected off his name, then got the Presidency. In the Republican bump from that the Republicans got a majority in the Texas legislature for the first time since Reconstruction in 2003, which they used to massively gerrymander the state.
Prior to 2004, the majority of Texas reps.to Congress had never been Republican. Following the 2003 redistricting, it was over 2:1 Republican. They’ve locked down voting districts and attacked voting rights ever since to maintain their majority, while courting out-of-state conservatives to move to Texas and driving progressives away.
The reality is the Republicans got full control of the state government in a single legitimate election in 2002 and have spent the last 2 decades rigging the system to ensure they never lose that power.
The blue print for what’s come after across the country.
This was pretty much the Koch brothers’ playbook. Building from grassroots up.
The people of Texas are gerrymandered to oblivion and this is well documented. They didn’t vote for this. Billionaires came to Tx and bought the politicians, maga spread through and removed the old style Rs.
Not that I think anyone should try to run from these problems. They should be faced head on. But, it’s important to not blame the wrong people.
Gerrymandering makes no difference for Governor and presidential elections.
Ya sure 'bout that.
Gerrymandering artificially shifts the political lines and, pushed far enough, it can have a domino effect even on elections not directly determined by district lines. Mostly because the new people in power will immediately begin messing with election laws or putting voting pressure on the people they “represent” in a bid to hang on to that power. Gerrymandering tips the balances, and when it tips too far for too long . . .
I see this “gerrymandering doesn’t impact X” from so many Americans. It’s a profoundly ignorant reductionist perspective, like they’re incapable of understanding cause and effect on even the most basic level.
It’s a hallmark of conservative narcissism, where they display zero empathy about anything unless it impacts them personally. It’s as though they’re incapable of imagination; of learning from any experience or perspective but their own.
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I have been doing everything reasonably possible to prevent and unfuck my local situation in Texas, but the state as a whole is absolutely screwed. I would argue that a very large minority is aggressively uninformed politically, and has no desire to educate themselves. They want to be sucked into the gravity well of their bigotry and hate and Christian window-dressing. It’s disgusting and depressing and you would not believe the amount of people that I respected before all of this mess that I want nothing to do with anymore because of the ideologies they are willing to espouse. I barely interact with any of my family any more because most of them wanted this situation and still won’t openly admit that they did this.
I feel completely powerless and like my only option is to run as far away from the place I have called home for my entire life.
That’s how I’m starting to feel about the USA as a whole, but there’s no place that I can think would take my family easily.
you do realize people can’t choose where they were born or what living situation they’re forced into, right?
Like Guatemalans etal ?
We’re still paying for their goddamned Feb '21 weather event on our power bills!
I’m surprised you don’t have idiots replying to you while locked in a loop of saying “But Austin is libral though!” over and over.
I definitely have idiots replying though lol
i love how joe rogan and elon moved to texas from california for “freedom”
Texas has rich person freedom though
Tim Walz is fucking killing it.
If he’d been the nominee they’d have had a much better chance of stopping Trump and fascism.
Alas, they don’t want to stop Trump or fascism.
Given the Democrats’ long history of picking the worst possible candidate at any given time, I’m genuinely confused as to how Harris landed on Waltz instead of Shapiro.
Alas, they don’t want to stop Trump or fascism.
Republicans move the country to the right. Democrats stop the county from rebounding left. A beautiful political ratchet that’s been marching us further and further towards full blown fascism since the Nixon Era.
I was legit shocked to learn that Walz championed free school lunches as governor.
It’s the kind of no-duh low hanging fruit of traditional liberal populism that Biden Era Democrats can’t run away from fast enough.
Fuck, it’s so great to have you here as the only person in the planet to be able to timetravel and have that amazing 20/20 vision. You should use this powers for good and go back in time and kill Hitler or whatever.
If only I had the technology. I would make an Arya Stark List.
Respectfully, your behavior is what’s killing the Democratic Party. Do you think this kind of tone and engagement attracts voters?
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We had a local place near me selling red “make weed gas again” hats. I’ve been in one time since and it has been completely dead during normally heavy traffic times.
Like these idiots don’t know or even cared what they voted for other than “I’m a dude, I can’t vote for a woman”
make weed gas again
I can’t figure out what this means
“High grade”
It means all the stuff they can buy under the farm bill isn’t very strong and they want the real stuff
I assume it means smoking the weed (turning it into gas).
Gas is a slang way to say it’s potent / strong.
Potent / strong (and especially fresh and not properly cured) weed can smell almost like Dow made it in a chemical plant in Jersey.
Diesel is a common descriptor for genetics
Everything you said is right, but I’m genuinely curious about the diesel bit.
What is diesel?
I’d bet the gas slang came out of using “diesel” to describe genetics.
But the smell of the bud is almost “diesel fuel” in aroma with its nasal hit.
I only just got the bit about “skunk” after seeing one as road kill and having my windows down.
Rest in power little weasel homie✊.
If they’re into biodiesel it could be turning hemp into fuel.
Why is Texas so communist? Freedom haters the lot of them.
Ban THC but allow alcohol, tobacco, and guns?
BHA-HA-HA-HA!
I feel so bad for normal decent Texans. Their politicians are among the worst in the world. I can’t think of a single Texas Republican who doesn’t deserve the death penalty.
The situation tells us that there are very few decent Texans.
Even the most vile Southerners are polite in the company of others.
The situation tells us that there are very few decent Texans.
The state is comically gerrymandered and rigorously disenchrancised. We have majority black counties where a single voting location will have a seven hour queue, sky high incarceration rates intended to disenfranchise huge swaths of the public, and some of the most reactionary public TV and radio combined with the most poorly funded and badly administered education.
This is a controlled population. People will talk shit about Russia and North Korea. But Texas is running right along beside them.
Only question is how long until Texas fully embraces the kind of ethnic cleansing common to Israel.
And yet Texans dont pick up their guns they like bragging about and FUCKING FIX IT.
Gerrymandered?..sure. And Texans approve. Not buying the “omg we’re so helpless!” bullshit from the people who never shut up about how goddamn tough they are.
And yet Texans dont pick up their guns
And point them where?
At the Nazis. At Paxton. At Abbott.
Good luck with getting a firearm inside spitting distance of a state official.
How about firing distance?
Texas has been GOP governed for almost thirty years.
The town of Uvalde overwhelmingly voted Republican immediately following their tragedy.
This is what they want. And what they’re getting.
I’m not saying there aren’t some lunatics in Texas, but I don’t think the majority wants these traitors.
I’m not saying there aren’t some lunatics in Texas, but I don’t think the majority wants these traitors.
What’s Minnesota like? I grew up in snow but now reside in the southern heat and I don’t like it.
I like living in MN. Yes, the winters can get long. But during the winter, it’s not necessarily snowy all the time. Yes we get storms. But for most of the time, it’s too cold to get snow. Mainly sunny days that look nice out, but are actually -20 F - 20 F. Sometimes snow, sometimes gloomy and cold. January average temp is 10 F.
Summer, we do have humidity and heat.
We have more snow and northern, humid heat. Summer average is 80s but peaks over 100 few times a year. So humid you can shower on Monday and still be wet behind the ears come Tuesday. And the mosquito is the state bird.
Snowy
Kinda. It’s not snowy in terms of sheer snow fall like the West Coast or the Rockies, but it’s cold and once the snow falls, it’s there till spring.
We had highs in the 40s earlier this week. But had a day a few weeks ago where it was 90s. We don’t get as cold for as long in the winter any more.
True. My in-laws live near Brainerd, and they don’t get to use the sleds or the ice house near as much as they used to.
Anyone still listening to JRE know what he thinks about it? I wonder if he went full hypocrite at this rate or still has some principles.
he went from weed to horse ROIDS.
Is Tim Walz Canadian?
That’s Tim Horton.
Tim Walz is the governor of Minnesota. (Wikipedia)
