• slappypantsgo@lemm.ee
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    21 hours ago

    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.

    • Prehensile_cloaca @lemm.ee
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      22 minutes ago

      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.

    • FreakinSteve@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      The situation tells us that there are very few decent Texans.

      Even the most vile Southerners are polite in the company of others.

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        5 hours ago

        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.