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[–] [email protected] 79 points 10 months ago (6 children)

How close are we to getting to these guys shooting at each other?

[–] [email protected] 69 points 10 months ago (1 children)

from your lips to god's ears inshallah

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 59 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

bit idea: dropping dozens of time-delayed firecrackers in the area

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You reminded me of this scene from Wind River where local cops stand off with federally contracted security https://youtu.be/MK_edxQ5awc?si=t8zM1wD8ivqUXwf2

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Very unlikely. For one, border patrol isn't big enough or well armed enough. They're cops, this will go to the courts.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Honestly? Whether you're a troublemaker or a foreign intelligence agency, just do some corny Tom Clancy shit. Forge documents that imply some kind of escalation (threats from the other side), then quietly distribute them to whichever side's more likely to attack first. Once the ball's rolling, it'd be hard to stop

[–] [email protected] 70 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can expect DOJ to sue Texas over this.

Can we expect DOJ to sue Texas over this?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Even if they win, what if Texas just doesn’t pay? What’s the judge gonna do? Wag their finger at Abbot?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Or perhaps tweet at him

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Send a tepidly worded letter

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's a lot the feds can do. Highway funding, school funding.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would certainly not look forward to the 6-3 decision about the federal authority to do this

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

True, true. I wonder if open sedition would get Joe to move against the court. I really can't make sense of him. His love of evil is tied to some kind of pathetic worship of the American Civic Religion but I don't understand where the lines are drawn

[–] [email protected] 64 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Biden is such a fucking ineffective shit god I hate him and hope he dies

[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's a tailor-made solution for Biden: federalize the national guard and arrest any politican who still gets in the way. Eisenhower did it in Arkansas.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I’d be jailing all these CHUD governors. Sedition, human trafficking, hate speech, lock em up. If the chudges try to start shit lock them up too

[–] [email protected] 62 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wow it looks like the border patrol is woke and needs to be taken care of. Patriots in control now.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Me doing A/B testing where I blame the border patrol for being too woke to one room of Texans and blame the national guard for being too woke to another room of Texans

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

Our research shows that viewers are more likely to blame the national guard for being too woke near the holidays whereas border patrol gets blamed for being too woke consistently on weekends

[–] [email protected] 57 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Texas being the fourth front in the anti-imperialist struggle is unexpected, but not unwelcome.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 10 months ago (1 children)

you do not in fact have to hand it to them

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago

I won't hand it to them but fascist infighting can be useful

[–] [email protected] 53 points 10 months ago (4 children)

American warlord era and it’s just Texas being controlled by dozens of cliques run by the Bush’s, oil barons, suburban mall cops, and Whattaburger chains

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

May the whuttyaburrger chains win, amen

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

The burger always reigns supreme in Amerikkka

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Holding out hope for one absurdly tiny red enclave to pull a Mao on the warlords and have it remembered as the strategic miracle of the century

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Their names? Austin Red Guards

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

don't forget the mormons, the polygamy ones have sects there.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago

Liberal democracy is such a fucking farce.

Literally nothing from the Trump's admin's border policy changed when Biden went to office, they drum up outrage over nothing. It's really annoying that it works too, because the hogs are convinced that the USA is being flooded with us-foreign-policy while the libbest of libs think they've done anything to improve human rights for migrants, when it's actually become worse.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago

Maybe they can just rename it to Fort Sumter Park to make themselves perfectly clear?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (3 children)

So that’s, like, treason, right?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes it is. And if the liberals decide to punish them, it will take 17 years and the result will be everyone pays $500 and they get new careers anyway

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

it will take 17 years and the result will be everyone pays $500

By which point the amount will be just barely enough for a week's groceries

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

Sedition. Treason is material aid and comfort to the enemy.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago

Oh don’t get me wrong I only mean that Greg Abbott should be executed, I don’t actually care about “treason”

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

yeeeeesssss, fight yourself, america! tear yourself apart! sicko-speeeeen

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

It was made apparent to me recently that i have an out for this shithole, thank fucking god

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago