Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo

  • theprogressivist @lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    The fuck is crying about biden failing to enforce immigration policy and secure the border but yet at the same time the republican party refused to agree on finding a solution with Dems. This crippled fuck is trying to gaslight us.

    • Nastybutler@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Was the shot at Abbott’s disability really necessary? He’s an awful enough person that surely you can find something else to slam besides that

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        10 months ago

        Nah. Tolerance and respect is a peace treaty, and he violates it every time he opens his mouth or holds a pen. He doesn’t get to benefit from the same grace he maliciously refuses to give others.

        He’s the only guy in a wheelchair I’d advocate for pushing the damn thing over and running away.

            • chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              10 months ago

              No worries; I saw it once and it stuck with me. For an ms paint drawing it’s pretty powerful. I do have one small issue with it, which is that it doesn’t explicitly state that it is not a bad thing to have that trait. Calling someone disabled as an insult implies that being disabled is bad, which I fundamentally disagree with. It’s not because I ‘don’t want to upset anyone’ – it’s because I completely disagree with the implication, and I think the implication is directly damaging to us as a society.

              I’d much rather insult someone because they’re a neo-fascist who deserves to find Lego on their bathroom floor with their foot at 1am when they only went for a piss and now the pain and adrenaline has jolted them awake and they won’t sleep until at least 4am… for the rest of their life.

  • dhork@lemmy.world
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    Article 1, clause 10, section 3:

    No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.

    Abbott is literally calling these migrants an invasion force, like an army or something, looking to overthrow the government. I think he’s stretching things there. Texas is not getting invaded, at least in the sense that the clause refers to.

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    Mr Abbott further invoked his own state’s “constitutional authority to defend and protect itself” for continuing to block federal agents from the border.

    “That authority is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary,” he added.

    Source

    I’m sorry, what?

    • raynethackery@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Sherman stopped too soon. He should have gone down to Austin and headed east then north until he hit D.C. He should have left no building standing and no crops growing. Then every confederate leader should have hanged by the neck until dead.

      • BillSchofield@lemmy.world
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        I’m assuming that you have never lived in the rural South. The people who disproportionately suffer from the impact of the Civil War and reconstruction are poor and black.

        I’m with you on hanging traitors, but a more devastated South would not have been good for anyone.

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          10 months ago

          Well they let the rich white people keep power. Of course they legislated the burden onto other people, but it literally never had to be that way, it wasn’t a foregone conclusion.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      The people in charge of “find out” are Democrats. There is no “find out” phase.

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      10 months ago

      Abbott is a serious piece of shit, but Rule 6:

      "No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning.

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      10 months ago

      Abbott is already ignoring SCOTUS; what makes you think he’d listen to a court’s definition of “invasion”?

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      10 months ago

      Have you met our court system?

      We ignored the ferdalist society for too long and theyve captured wide swaths of our judicial system.

      Even if he loses every step of the way up to the SC, you really think the SC won’t go along with this?

  • Ruorc@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Abbot is full of shit, as always.

    From his letter:

    Biden has ignored Texas demand that he perform his constitutional duties…thosnrefusalbtonprotect the States has inflicted unprecedented harm on the People alll across the United States>

    No proof of damage except the ‘I dont like brown people’ that’s typical of republicans. I don’t recall Texas saying shit when Trump abandoned his constitutional duties to promote the general welfare of the public and let large swaths of Americans die to covid, just because he didn’t want to hurt his election chances. Pretty sure that’s precedent, though Abbot claims Biden’s damage is unprecedented.

    This whole document is to rattle supporters into a frenzy. Fuck Abbot.

  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I kinda like when the National Guard is a bunch of people who get dispatched when there is a natural disaster. Not to give the governor some big dick energy.