this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2024
210 points (100.0% liked)

politics

22261 readers
336 users here now

Protests, dual power, and even electoralism.

Labour and union posts go to !labour@www.hexbear.net.

Take the dunks to /c/strugglesession or !the_dunk_tank@www.hexbear.net.

!chapotraphouse@www.hexbear.net is good for shitposting.

Do not post direct links to reactionary sites.

Off topic posts will be removed.

Follow the Hexbear Code of Conduct and remember we're all comrades here.

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Six state governors have declared support for Texas so far: South Dakota Montana Oklahoma Florida Virginia Georgia

insane how little coverage an incipient constitutional crisis is getting. kinda ominous tbh lol haha

UPDATE: 16 states now lol lmao

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 106 points 9 months ago (3 children)

South Dakota Montana Oklahoma Florida Virginia Georgia

noncontiguous, not on mexico border lenin-dont-laugh

[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 81 points 9 months ago

(chanting) THEN AS FARCE! THEN AS FARCE!

[–] regul@hexbear.net 63 points 9 months ago (1 children)

border gore

paradox nerds seething rn

[–] BovineUniversity@hexbear.net 40 points 9 months ago (1 children)

HOI4 players salivating at state-sized encircled pockets

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 62 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oklahoma is touching Texas

[–] RION@hexbear.net 88 points 9 months ago (2 children)
load more comments (2 replies)
[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 83 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The guerrilla marketing for that new film Civil War (2024) has probably been the most intensive since the time they blew up the twin towers for Remember Me (2010)

[–] CDommunist@hexbear.net 82 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

LBJ was the last Democrat with the kind of guts needed to send in the tanks

GOP will win any constitutional crisis by virtue of being the only wins willing to exercise power

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 80 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

Good god I want to see them roll the national guard up to the Texas capitol and arrest him but I know ol' Joe doesn't have the cojones

It would be really fucking funny though

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 56 points 9 months ago

This is a perfect example for Joe to prove all the libs right that he can actually stand up to right wing fascism.

What's that, he's not going to do a goddamn thing? Weird.

load more comments (6 replies)
[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 80 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] BovineUniversity@hexbear.net 85 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Honestly just think Americans are too cowardly and well-fed to do anything like that. Same reason I knew Jan 6 would fail. They want the aesthetic of revolt but are too comfy to ever pull the trigger.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 58 points 9 months ago

Also the reason the 2nd Amendment types who claim to hoard guns to protect against the government taking their rights never actually take up arms against the government taking away their rights.

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 40 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Literally one gunshot and tens of thousand sof them immediatly went home.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 79 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Send in the tanks, Brandon.

[–] Magician@hexbear.net 62 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If he did, I'd vote for Biden. Not because I support Biden, but because I don't think his genocide supporting ass would have the guts to turn the military against chuds.

[–] regul@hexbear.net 72 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It would solidify him as the funniest option.

[–] Magician@hexbear.net 56 points 9 months ago

The Biden Unification Wars

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Spongebobsquarejuche@hexbear.net 74 points 9 months ago

Texan aristocracy is full on settler colonial batshit crazy. Clutching their queso at the though of Mexicans coming and taking their culture away.

Like Israelis, eating watered down mexican food. Constantly projecting their worry that the owners of the land they stole will come to reclaim it.

[–] DeadWorld@lemm.ee 72 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Please just send the military and arrest him. Im tired of hearing about this guy. Shoot him out of a cannon already

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 55 points 9 months ago

The only two real responses here are to do that or keep ignoring it. If the biden admin acknowledges what Texas is doing is bonkers but doesn't follow up swiftly, it just invites a whole bunch of criticism from his opponents and his liberal base. I expect this administration to keep taking the easier option.

[–] riseuppikmin@hexbear.net 71 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Biden please send in a single tank so I can start calling liberals tankies

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] RedQuestionAsker2@hexbear.net 70 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Isn't Biden turbo charging border defense like he is with police departments?

[–] huf@hexbear.net 76 points 9 months ago

doesnt matter, it's all vibes-based with these people

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 66 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I was under the impression the border policy is exactly the same as Trump's policies, did something change? Or do these fascist freaks want them gunning down anyone that passes by the border?

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 69 points 9 months ago

There is an election coming up and the republicans have been proactive in pushing this as an issue. What the actual policy is doesn’t matter, which is why trying to appease chuds from the centre is a suckers game.

Biden doesn’t make speeches about the evil illegals down at the border every two days, so he isn’t doing enough. Quiet cruelty misses the point.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 60 points 9 months ago (1 children)

please secede from the union pray-against
please secede from the union pray-against
please secede from the union pray-against

[–] YEP@hexbear.net 50 points 9 months ago (3 children)

As someone living in Texas I see so many people say this shit. Biden should have federalized the national guard yesterday and this fucking sucks.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] Finger@hexbear.net 58 points 9 months ago

no more half measures walter

[–] ProfessorAdonisCnut@hexbear.net 53 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I just need one stray nuke from the civil war to take out Silicon Valley, you don't understand how much better things would be, c'mon man I just need to feel something positive one time holden-bloodfeast

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] riseuppikmin@hexbear.net 53 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

I'm of two minds about this:

The neo-confederacy's largest capital backers are the ones who decide whether it ever actually secedes/goes to war and Abbot/Kemp/DeSanctimonious are ultimately beholden to them.

This play by those capital-backers seems to be the usual "help the border is under invasion you gotta vote for the republican" so they get 100% of the economic policy they want instead of 99.95% of the economic policy they want (Biden's NLRB has seriously pissed off a lot of capitalists especially regarding recent union-recognition policy changes), but in the same way the "real adults who make the tough decisions and do the right thing" re: sustaining U.S. hegemony have all died and Pete Buttigieg is in their place is it possible that the capital-backers of the neo-confederacy are the long-line of fail-son/daughters/enbies at that same level of delusion about maintaining/creating a confederate state?

Also it's hilarious because Joe Biden has the SCOTUS on his side in this and is doing Jackson's "The Court has made their decision, now let them enforce it" except Biden is currently not enforcing it to his own regime's detriment. Truly the most liberal application of nullification possible.

Only one way to find out the result! The crumbling empire show is starting to get spicy.

In all seriousness stay safe/vigilant comrades in these states in case things do get worse incredibly quickly. If you're fortunate enough to be of good mental-health now is probably a good time to start learning/practicing firearm safety.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 53 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Please let Biden be America's Khrushchev!

MR.PRESIDENT! SEND IN THE TANKS!

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 49 points 9 months ago

America's Khrushchev

He's going to do a deobamanisation and destroy the basis for the neoliberal ideology?

biden-leftist

[–] OperationOgre@hexbear.net 51 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I have just been informed by the Texas Rangers that I am being drafted to fight against the northern aggressors. I'll be a crewman in the Whataburger Regiment

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] GarfGirl@hexbear.net 51 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

if biden sends in just one tank im going to start comparing texas to hungary / tibet immediately to piss off libs

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Aquilae@hexbear.net 51 points 9 months ago (6 children)
load more comments (6 replies)
[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 48 points 9 months ago

Lol, a constitutional crisis every other year is the sign of a healthy empire, clearly.

[–] Sinistar@hexbear.net 47 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Holy shit the Republicans scaremongered about a non existent border crisis so hard they caused a constitutional crisis. That's so fucking wild and if a civil war (or any violence at all really) kicks off over this it will truly be an "again as farce" moment.

load more comments (6 replies)
[–] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 45 points 9 months ago

Meh, more grievance politics, they aren't going to do shit that they're not already doing.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 42 points 9 months ago

My wife's from Waco, and we're supposed to go visit her family in a few months. It would be really rad if we couldn't go because Texas had seceded.

load more comments
view more: next ›