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Texas National Guard Blocking Feds From Getting to Border, US DOJ Alleges (www.businessinsider.com)

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[+] vexikron@lemmy.zip -22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[-] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago

Let them. They’ll starve within the month.

[-] PapaStevesy@midwest.social 21 points 10 months ago

Good riddance.

[-] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

So we glass the governor’s private residence and finish what reconstruction failed to do a century ago. The armed and “well regulated” militia is on the highest copium possible thinking an ar-15 is anything the government fears.

[-] Psychodelic@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Don't tempt me with a good time

[-] ira@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago

It was already a deadly situation. Or are you saying that drowning migrants are more acceptable.

[-] vexikron@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

No, I am just pointing out a likely/possible outcome of pursuing a possible course of action.

[-] ramble81@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

Texas will never secede. Some Texans may try to secede and we’ll have another Brach Dividian, but the state will still stay in the union.

Source: am Texan.

[-] vexikron@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thats what I am talking about. Of course it would not in the long run 'work' or 'make sense', but it would be essentially Waco 2.0, with the potential this time to embolden various other armed and dumb and violent right wingers all around the country, of which there are more, and they are more extreme and angry than during the Militia Movement 90s.

I grew up with a dad whose politics were heavily shaped by Ruby Ridge in WA.

While that situation was obviously a use of an absurd amount of force and arguably entrapment, such people like my dad now spend their days manufacturing/assembling illegal firearms in their garage, as they blather on about how Antifa did Jan 6th and Tom Hank's son kills rapes and eats babies for their adrenochrome, and i strongly get the impression there are a lot of similarly extreme and delusional people doing similar illegal dangerous nonsense all around America.

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