What is happening in US right now? Chance of civil war? - eviltoast

I’m seeing some stuff been thrown around, about the texas state mobilizing their security forces to disobey federal order and something about they wanting to separate.

anyway, what do you think about this?

  • Sinistar [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    It’s a legitimate constitutional crisis, but I don’t think any of the stake holders are willing to actually pull the trigger yet. I will say though that the longer this story goes on the worse it looks for Biden - imagine how much it would energize the blue maga people if he ordered the national guard to stand down and had the secret service drag Greg Abbot before congress in handcuffs for treason. It would be must-watch TV at the very least.

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    Texas wants to secede literally every three to four years; it’s like clockwork almost perfectly synced up with the electoral calendar.

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    Not unrelated, but I was cracking myself up envisioning some pampered Texas suburbanite agonizing over the same question while hovering over the buy it now button for a gun flashlight attachment that has 15 more lumens than the one he currently has.

    Sorry, it’s stupid I know.

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    texas has been placing saw blades and razor wire hidden in their river to kill asylum seekers. but i think there is no chance of civil war. the actions of texas serves the racist majority of the US

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      I wouldn’t say no chance, only that the time is not ripe yet. The urban/rural racial/political divide will show Texas is not so uniform.

  • 🏳️‍⚧️ 新星 [she/they]@lemmygrad.ml
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    Texas feels bold enough to challenge the federal government because they’re essentially the only Republican-led state that actually can withstand the threat of federal fund withholding.

    I wouldn’t consider a civil war very likely. Texas has power from companies being here — it wouldn’t be in the companies’ interest to civil war.

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    Preformative political shit with the Texan border.

    Democrats folded as usual, Texans got what they wanted with stricter border reforms through “negotiations”.

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    Even though I don’t like the Texas government, I want them to secede. But I don’t think that’s going to happen, neither is a civil war

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      Non-citizens can’t vote so the migrant issue will not help the democrats at the election. The migrants are being exploited for cheap labour.

      Edit: there have been more deportations under Biden than under Trump.

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        He tried once to give illegal immigrants a path to citizenship. Obama too. Non-citizens can increasingly vote in local elections. And the more of them that come, the easier to pass this. Yes ik that Biden has deported more than Trump, that’s what I meant when I said that they haven’t been nice to migrants in the last few years. They are also definitely be exploited for cheap labour.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Citizenship_Act_of_2021