Rooting for succession isn't the answer and abandons all the people that will be actively harmed by all this. Have a heart people.
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Texas GOP officially adopts platform to repeal '65 Voting Rights Act, vote on secession, adult trans ban, declares homosexuality "abnormal"
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We've rehashed the hell out of how important 2016 was but I think it's really important that we focus all of our energy on how important these 2022 midterms are. This is probably the last chance to chase these nuts back into their holes because if there's a red wave to further embolden this party we may not make it to 2024 at the rate they're moving.
They've got to feel like they overreached and got punished even if that's not really what happens in the fall. I'm really hoping that the results will be at least lower than expectations for GOP gains to give them some pause about this course.
They've got to feel like they overreached and got punished even if that's not really what happens in the fall. I'm really hoping that the results will be at least lower than expectations for GOP gains to give them some pause about this course.
Would love to think this is going too far. Maybe they should just do stuff that helps their base. We'll just have to see if "moderate conservetives" exist and if they give a shit about being evil.
A few countries feel like a litmus test right now to see how much the people can take before they break :/
Med school isn't constructed to foster learning, it's constructed to break you down to the brink of insanity.
If you survive the gauntlet, you get the right to call yourself a doctor. There is no way the current US medical school (and residency, fellowship, etc) system is structured with proficiency in mind.
not American here.
could some please explain to me what is the electoral college reform they intend to propose?
i do have some knowledge about the electoral college on a federal level But not on a state level.
more and more I see the left dying on the hill of the cultural wars and winning on 'instagram' while the right slowly take the institutions, courts and local municipalities and changes the society for the worse …..I speak from experience in europe.
is this happening with this proposal in Texas?
could some please explain to me what is the electoral college reform they intend to propose?
i do have some knowledge about the electoral college on a federal level But not on a state level.
more and more I see the left dying on the hill of the cultural wars and winning on 'instagram' while the right slowly take the institutions, courts and local municipalities and changes the society for the worse …..I speak from experience in europe.
is this happening with this proposal in Texas?
It's like someone shook the trash can full of crumpled up bad idea balls of paper, and put it all together.
If I had a nickel for every time I've had to explain this on here I could buy this site. As someone who used to live in Florida as a gay black teen, succession tearing away what little federal protections I had would've been disastrous but I guess some people don't care.
I hate to be the one that says it. But please don't fantasize about invading and killing those of us who are stuck here
On top of all that, it seems like they also have other gems as well.
I really really really hate how a political party can be so nakedly against something "just because" the another party supports it. Where is the consideration of whether so and so plan supported by another party could just be a good plan? Public transportation and good urban design is apparently "anti-driver policies from California". I don't even know where to even begin to digest this.
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I really really really hate how a political party can be so nakedly against something "just because" the another party supports it. Where is the consideration of whether so and so plan supported by another party could just be a good plan? Public transportation and good urban design is apparently "anti-driver policies from California". I don't even know where to even begin to digest this.
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I think it's a defense mechanism. "This can't happen here, I'm in <blue state>", but it can, and it will at the rate.
Clearly. But people are frustrated and the only other realistic option is for this to become more mainstream across more states and eventually onto the national platform. So in both scenarios, the same people are still going to be actively harmed.
and yet most of my life I was told to tut tut cause it would never happen.
Can't even say the truth about the bushes at this site or in the media.
They evolved the left didn't and dems are no leaders of the left yet we act like they will do what's be for us or the planet.
Public transit is a threat (however small) to oil industry profits (currently at record highs). Oil industry profits matter far more than the so called "environment" or "climate" or "people who don't have cars." How else is the oil industry going to be able to
The only solution they have for energy is to pump, refine, and consume more and more oil. Copy/paste this plan for coal, natural gas, etc. It's not like fossil fuels will ever become scarce if we keep doing this, right?
Some of this is so pie in the sky it's laughable but then some of it is so achievable it's terrifying.
Amen.
If there's one issue far right nutjobs and "liberals" agree on it's seceding and fuck the minorities who will be hurt by it. Far right nut jobs want to secede so they can do what they want to minority groups, the otherside encourage them to secede and don't care what they do to minority groups
I skimmed through the whole thing and there is a lot of spicy stuff. Here are just a few of the positions I found some of the craziest and most amusing.
I noticed they decided to endorse critical thinking this time, which is different from the TX GOP's infamous position 10 years ago
Pretty straightforwardly tells you what the "parental rights" language all over this document is actually about. They want to be able to completely dictate what their child thinks and stop them from being exposed to any other viewpoint.
I noticed they decided to endorse critical thinking this time, which is different from the TX GOP's infamous position 10 years ago
Pretty straightforwardly tells you what the "parental rights" language all over this document is actually about. They want to be able to completely dictate what their child thinks and stop them from being exposed to any other viewpoint.
They want to hide from plain sight that what they currently do to their children is brainwashing, and want to take it even further.I skimmed through the whole thing and there is a lot of spicy stuff. Here are just a few of the positions I found some of the craziest and most amusing.
I noticed they decided to endorse critical thinking this time, which is different from the TX GOP's infamous position 10 years ago
Pretty straightforwardly tells you what the "parental rights" language all over this document is actually about. They want to be able to completely dictate what their child thinks and stop them from being exposed to any other viewpoint.
Was listening to Ezra Klein's podcats and his guest, an economist who's name I'm forgetting, said due to fuck ups on how the US has allowed cheap money to be spent since 08 especially (on dumb shit instead of infrastructure and other tangible, long term valued investments) the US could be akin to the way we look at developing nations today in the not so distant future. Well Texas and the GOP sure wanna run the country like some janky ass regressive dictatorship
I'm surprised that they didn't add 'ban/kick out Austin' to their platform. The rest of the platform is crazy shit, so why not add one more crazy thing?
Not American, is this talk of wanting to vote on secession actually legitimately part of the party's goals now?
More like more clustering in the US itself. Which has largely been happening for a while now.
I skimmed through the whole thing and there is a lot of spicy stuff. Here are just a few of the positions I found some of the craziest and most amusing.
I noticed they decided to endorse critical thinking this time, which is different from the TX GOP's infamous position 10 years ago
Pretty straightforwardly tells you what the "parental rights" language all over this document is actually about. They want to be able to completely dictate what their child thinks and stop them from being exposed to any other viewpoint.
I wonder how the Log Cabin Republicans are reacting to this manifesto? It's literally condemning their entire existence.
As they've been attempting for the past 40 years, goodbye Social Security, goodbye food assistance, goodbye Medicare and Medicaid. They want to kill off poor people, too.
they don't care, they exist to give plausible deniability to the rest of the party
They made a comment saying it was bad and politically short-sighted.
I'm just surprised at the dialogue surrounding this on Twitter. People are like, "See? GOP hates you! Why would you want to be part of the GOP? Switch affiliation!"
Let's get something clear: Log Cabin Republicans have the same vision for a right-wing authoritarian shit-hole and support all the same demonstrably harmful policies as their straight counterparts. If the GOP succeeds with their goals then yeah, gay Republicans will watch their rights being shit on but they'll still share the core, conservative ideology and their proximity to the GOP and those in power (because it won't be them) will allow them to shit on all the other marginalized groups and help destroy the rights of those groups so that, relatively speaking, they'll be pretty well off.
It's like people forgot you can be gay (or trans for that matter) and be a right-wing piece of shit.
FUCK log cabin republicans.
Over a decade ago, when the Tea Party was throwing a tanthrum in washington, I was rather optimist. I tought that their radical views would repel voters, creating a split of the right into two parties, and that the left would have no difficulties wining elections, while the TP would be increasingly extermist, and thus increasingly irrelevant.
But man, did I overestimate the moral spine of the average conservative voter. Chosing to outright deny reality rather than question their choices...
But man, did I overestimate the moral spine of the average conservative voter. Chosing to outright deny reality rather than question their choices...
Holy fuck that's worse than I could have expected. You can only imagine they will get more emboldened if trump wins.
It'd be nice if after Texas Republicans spent the past 2 years going as fascist as fucking possible in a nearly Purple State they actually experienced literally any comeuppance, but Texas Conservatives are built different apparently and Texas Dems aren't good enough to fully capitalize on it or recognize where their own base has slowly collapsed over the past 6 years...
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