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Over the weekend, the Republican Party in Texas finalised its official party platform. The platform was extreme, with clauses on everything from election integrity, homosexuality, and even Texan secession, which they want a referendum on next year.
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[@annache250]

It’s fascinating that Zac Michaelis described the two party system as a duopoly because that’s exactly how Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter analyzed American politics. This led to them to purpose an electoral reform called final five voting which was adopted in Alaska in 2020. You guys should do a video on final five voting!

[@soccerguy325]

It's final four voting in Alaska, not final five.

[@Superbl0bby]

Ranked choice voting would be so sexy 😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰

[@TurboAutist-sg7lo]

YESSSS SOUNDS INTERESTING

[@bzuidgeest]

Or you could just create a real democracy and do proportional representation like a true democracy.

[@jds1275]

@@bzuidgeest We aren't, never have been, and hopefully will never be a democracy. The US is a constitutional republic with a few democratic processes. A democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on what's for dinner. A constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.

[@mrbusdriversir]

Listening about US politics in British accent is so refreshing. It almost makes it less depressing and frustrating. Thanks for the video though.

[@marcelthevirginian1656]

I like hearing about US politics from a perspective other than our own.

[@chriswaldrip2739]

…almost. :-(

[@sal750]

I think it is a sign of the return of the British Empire and its colonies around the world to the United States

[@sal750]

@Bessie Hillum I am from Saudi Arabia and I hope that the British monarchy will return and restore its colonies in America and all countries of the world, of course, with the beginning of the World War, the war between Russia and Ukraine

[@sal750]

@Bessie Hillum I do not understand your constitution or this strange American system, did you want Trump or Biden?

[@ChrispyNut]

The Onion needs to sue them for being such a parody of themselves, that they're removing the ability of such publications to keep up.

[@matthewpopow6647]

Oh man, I remember back when the Onion headlines were out there and unbelievable...

[@E4439Qv5]

@@matthewpopow6647 As many as 1-in-4 Onion articles from ten years ago have moved from a state of hyperbolic impossibility to actual possibility.

[@gerardflynn3899]

Onion? I thought it was called the Union

[@E4439Qv5]

@@gerardflynn3899 that's the Mancala effect at work.

[@nostalgiagaming560]

When did Texas go full Auth-Right, plus FULL Libertarian when it comes to economy...what the hell happened to the old GOP? I'm a moderate conservative...and this is fucking nuts!

[@Swede.from.Boston]

Florida is conservative, Texas is nationalist.

[@WhichDoctor1]

It started with the Tea Party and decades of slowly more radical Rupert Murdoc propaganda, and was set and sealed by QAnon. Pretty soon the only people in senior positions in the state republican parties will be fresh faced QAnon true believers or older hypocrites pretending to be in order to keep their jobs

[@nostalgiagaming560]

@@Swede.from.Boston Fair. Damn....what the hell is going on?

[@nathanielreed5265]

Texas GOP want an authoritarian state that benefits the corporation, which is pretty much auth-right socially, lib-right economically. Why is? The oil cartels' lobbyists control the government.

[@weiserwolf580]

@@Swede.from.Boston you need a national identity to be a nationalist, Americans are just British with extra steps, and Texas is more and more like a monarchy

[@QuietAsHeimdal]

Other planks Include: * repeal women's right to vote * repeal slavery abolition * hand the One Ring to almighty Sauron as God would want

[@LFPAnimations]

*let anakin in the jedi temple

[@mshaqed2538]

@@LFPAnimations Yeah, they already said that they support the abolishment of gun control. From there the slaughter of kids at schools is but an inevitability.

[@philardo]

This platform is the single most underdeveloped and radical thing I've seen in modern american politics I knew the far right was messed up, but this is outright deranged.

[@jacsollis2063]

Most of it is counter-productive, isn’t it? It’s not a programme of government, but rather a praxis of ideology.

[@anytimeanywhere7859]

Right wing Texans seem to be as nutty as a squirrel turd.

[@henryrepton2957]

Less deranged than you and your mother + ratio

[@firemonkey0291]

@@jacsollis2063 it’s to move the the legislature to the right. If what you ask for extreme they’ll meet in the middle which is what you actually wanted.

[@dayviduh]

It’s only going to get worse from here since Trump mobilized the negative IQ caucus of the party

[@Rjsjrjsjrjsj]

Some Texans have this idea that leaving means everything stays the same but they can do whatever they want. Pipe dream. Still, it would be interesting to see it happen. Reality has a way of blowing up expectations.

[@rmsgrey]

Hey, that's exactly how Brexit works, right? Right? _Laughs nervously while refusing to look at recent utility and food bills_

[@Rjsjrjsjrjsj]

@@rmsgrey Not sure where you're from as those bills are going up worldwide. So I'm unclear on your point. Care to elaborate?

[@Crispman_777]

@@Rjsjrjsjrjsj IIRC, Brexit exasperated the energy crisis because we pulled out of the EU energy trade bloc.

[@rmsgrey]

@@Rjsjrjsjrjsj UK's bills are going up more than most Western countries'

[@Rjsjrjsjrjsj]

@@Crispman_777 IIRC? I'm not familiar with that. And I didn't know there was an EU energy trade bloc. Thanks.

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

Texas GOP really going through that Apartheid South Africa arc.

[@Pine_of_England]

Like America didn't have its own Apartheid era

[@garrardhn336]

@@Pine_of_England is that whataboutism I smell

[@Pine_of_England]

@@garrardhn336 It most certainly isn't. It's simply that comparing Texas to South Africa's apartheid era is strange when you could just compare it to its own Apartheid era. It's the same way you wouldn't, if something discriminatory happened in South Africa, say "wow, South Africa's really going through that segregationist USA arc" I'm really not sure what angle you're coming from that calling it whataboutism makes sense

[@sacredgeometry]

@@Pine_of_England Ignorance. Perpetual ignorance. He probably doesn't even know what "whataboutism" even is.

[@somerandomguy4919]

That's the idea of a Conservative "small government" is to have a totalitarian regime that only benefits them

[@adamnmn86]

More parties would help, but that will never happen with first past the post elections and treating private spending on campaigns as free speech. Reform American elections - make them entirely publicly funded and move to something like ranked voting.

[@walleras]

Or eliminate elections and parties There problem solved

[@blazerglazer2691]

Ranked voting won't be enough and you'll still have tactical voting with eventually coming down to 2 parties. Best option is abolishing political pluralism and making elections about electing represenatives individually or single transferable vote by districts and proportional representation

[@yoloswaggins7121]

Exactly. With the current first last the vote system, why would anyone vote anything other than democrat when the Republicans are so insane. You are just splitting the vote for no reason. Also, the voting constituencies in the US are way, way too big (states). E

[@blazerglazer2691]

@@yoloswaggins7121 they'd vote republican because people are sick of wokeness diversity quotas hate crime laws and political correctness, but i agree that those christian reactionary fundamentalists are the minority

[@joerionis5902]

@The Fonz direct democracy ftw!

[@MayanFrighter100000]

Thank you for speaking the truth that having more political parties would reduce the insanity that is taking place within the USA

[@thatoneuser8600]

@Dean Clark sortition FTW

[@graemekritzinger2067]

On the surface it seems so, however we're stuck with tons of them, all that happens is politics gets more petty and all the small parties lead to a washed out opposition

[@maikotter9945]

@Dean Clark entry of Tuesday, 28th June 2022 Bulgarian Election Israrel Election Covid Vaccination ... Bulgarian Election Israrel Election Covid Vaccination ... etc.

[@trevinbeattie4888]

We have several other political parties already - the Greens and Libertarians being the most notable. The problem is they can never get elected into any meaningful numbers because of 1) single-seat races and 2) first-past-the-post voting.

[@AthenaProsperus]

More parties is in no way helping Canada 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

[@RafaelW8]

"Students shall pledge allegiance to the US and Texas flags daily to instill patriotism" wtf bro

[@scifino1]

This is apparently a normal thing in the US.

[@thatoneuser8600]

We do that already, just that right now we have a choice to not say the pledge if we don't want to.

[@VortexHaze]

Yeah uh... they've been doing that forever. We just have a choice to stand up, and just stay quiet. Although in some high schools you can be sure if you find a ROTC instructor seeing you "being quiet" during the pledge they'll give you shit because they sometimes forget that not all students are their ROTC students and have to conform to their rules.

[@Doug_M]

That's always been normal...until the Marxists started trying to take over.

[@scifino1]

@@Doug_M America is a strange place.

[@Budha75]

So basically, complete freedom for anybody who's like us and control over anybody who isn't. Yeah, that doesn't sound fascist at all.

[@komenisai]

Supporters of this garbage need to have their citizenship revoked since they obviously want to overthrow the US government so they can oppress people they don't like. I guess we're seeing the effects of not properly funding public education and making sure the masses are too stupid to understand what the GOP is trying to do.

[@bababababababa6124]

Yep if you’re white then that should be no problem for you

[@steveweidig5373]

Complete freedom for all rich white men, especially company owners as worker's rights would be something of the past. Women, people of color and poor persons all get totally shafted, though. And the complete deregulation of the gun market does look like they want to make the Purge movies a reality, too.

[@Budha75]

@Bessie Hillum Ah, the ad hominum sign of weakness.

[@lexslate2476]

@Bessie Hillum What, you want them to go down the classic 14 signs of fascism, and indicate which of these psychotic planks each one corresponds with? That's a lot of work for a youtube comment. And I'm pretty sure you'd complain about that kind of comment for being too long to read. Tell you what, you type 'Beau fifth column 14 characteristics' in to that search bar up there, and you'll find a few videos by a large beard, or possibly the man behind the large beard, that should spell it out for you.

[@ryanedrenhingco7680]

The party of deregulation sure do have so much proposals for regulations.

[@jamespae7019]

Freedom! Wait what, not *those* freedoms!

[@chimpinaneckbrace]

It’s the classic “extreme regulations for everyone but me and my fellow crackpots” kind of deregulation.

[@jtgd]

Party of small government, but i want Big government to fulfill my 100+ points of demands I want enforced nationally!

[@k3v1n73]

@@jtgd but also scrap basically all taxes; but trust me i will cry about the deficit later

[@starmaker75]

Any party that wanted deregulation are rather asking for regulation on there own

[@DoctorSoulis]

Mexico: This is where the fun begins.

[@spartanx9293]

Not really if Mexico tried to make any move on Texas it would lose even absent the United States

[@notroll1279]

I guess that somewhere in those 40 pages they've hidden a plank about abolishing Mexico - or making it at least illegal. Never mind, they're going to pay for it, anyway 🤪

[@taylorslade8080]

@@kostas0352 China: Prepare for trouble!

[@kart_master5669]

Lol Texas isn't gonna be allowed to and any Mexican interference results in their undoing.

[@metalmilitia89]

I was like: how bad could it be? It was ridiculous and I'm fairly conservative.

[@tgutz7019]

Todays Republican Party has drifted away from conservatism and further towards fascism unfortunately causing for the polarized muck of American politics today

[@124085]

@@tgutz7019 It's always a bad sign when the party of "Small Government" starts banning books and unanimously voting for Genital Inspection Bills.

[@venuspluto67]

As I said in another comment, a real potpourri of fundamentalist Christian political insanity.

[@ozzyferzhh]

@@tgutz7019 Don't insult fascists man, I'm Italian and fascists would never totally ban abortion and scrap the minimum wage lol

[@roelofjacobs5807]

I think that regarding 111 and 144, I think that they might not be wrong. Critical Race Theory is based on Critical Theory, albeit over another dimension (ethnicity instead of wealth). Meanwhile, Critical Theory itself is 'Cultural Marxism'. Or in other words, Marxism looking at how the oppression of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie is embedded in culture. I can give you names and origins of ideas, for instance how the ideas went from Die Frankfurter Schule to the US. I can even add what Marxism was trying to fix about Liberalism. Nevertheless, calling CRT a form of Marxism isn't very far fetched as there is a clear link. And regarding preventing the intervention of the natural progression of puberty (part of the "we do not consider gender identity as something sacred"). This is what the High Court in the UK did when the NHS (or more precise, Tavistock) was sued by Kiera Bell. And in Sweden and Finland it was the medical professionals that banned it, including puberty blocker, due to lack of evidence it being good treatment (their exception is when it is part of a scientific study and happens under that watchful eye of an ethical commission). Note, I cannot defend 144b when it involves adults. However, 144 appears to focus on minors. Know that minors are getting transitioned while there is NO DATA to support if it is a good idea or not. The first real data might appear somewhere in the next two to three years in the UK, as research will be done on the patients that were treated by Tavistock. You often hear that 98% have no regret, but that number involves adults and often after a more cautious approach than what is happening now. And regarding 152, although vaccinated myself and would doing so again, I am against mandatory vaccination as I value personal autonomy. Meanwhile there was a push to vaccinate people who already had Covid, while to the best of my knowledge, having had Covid provides better protection against (future) hospitalization than vaccination. Why pushing people who already had Covid to be vaccinated? Although I agree that many ideas mentioned were ridiculous.... I also find myself agreeing to some.

[@cheesebiscuits6323]

I admire your honest attempt at neutrality with the republicans.

[@AnonymousBrendan]

you really think we're all nazis don't you and yea i disagree with quite a bit of what there proposing but i don't think the exstreme elements will get through

[@applesapps4187]

@@AnonymousBrendan the gop is mostly run by fascists at this point

[@AnonymousBrendan]

@@applesapps4187 may i ask do you know what a fascist is

[@boyishmallard9404]

@@AnonymousBrendan I mean the nazis did want a religiously fanatic (4:00), corporatist, nationalist, homophobic, transphobic (5:28, 6:06), undemocratic (6:15), one-party (6:32), police state intent on defending western civilization (directly mentioned in the Texas party platform, page 19, plank 128.) from the savage Judeo-Bolshevik menace (6:00) and creating a purified ethnostate (can also be inferred on page 16 and 17, planks 111. and 114.). Just saying.

[@AnonymousBrendan]

@@boyishmallard9404 well shall we start we don't want a 1 party police state 2 we're fine with gay people and trans people just we recognize the reality that you stay the gender you were assigned at birth it's not a thing you can decide but i do recognize there are some exstreme elements who might want that but the majority don't i mean the left has exstremist communists who want a one party state though judging the party based on exstreme a doesn't do anything to help

[@richardlh8395]

Holy cow so much for freedom in Texas, that's a textbook example of a regime right there.

[@WhichDoctor1]

Actually, it's all about increasing freedom. The freedom of the government, super-rich, and private companies to oppress and subjugate ordinary people. And when you get right down to it, those are the only kinds of freedom that really matter in the US

[@StrickerRei-Chn]

Freedom from regulations and law so that they can shoot a minority homosexual non-christian man in Texas without any repercussions. I think that is what they want... And the list continues... And that is extremely fucked up.

[@weiserwolf580]

​@@WhichDoctor1 basically a monarchy

[@michaelfried3123]

you say regime, I say cult, pretty much the same thingy though....

[@TuiHui]

Most of these, aside from the LGBT related ones, increase individual freedom. They may not be good freedoms to give, but they increase it none the less.

[@jonathanvilario5402]

The US needs a multiparty parliament system. What we currently have is a disaster

[@stephenferry3017]

That really wouldn't solve anything. I mean, look over at the UK. If anything, a multi-party system would actually allow for the most radical parts of our politics to use minority rule to not only undermine the majority, but use their likely considerable representation to force less scrupulous elements of right-wing politics to make deals with them and thereby give them power. Imagine if the Republican party and the Democratic party split and their radical elements form their own parties. The freedom caucus and the Tea Party folks would still use their minority party tactics that they're using now to use the Republican party as a vehicle for their radicalism. It wouldn't change anything

[@xerzy]

@@stephenferry3017 I can assure you countries like Netherlands are better off specifically because of having an actual multiparty system. The UK in particular has Winner Takes It All, which is as absurd as it gets, and yet still the UK is currently much more moderate than the US even despite Brexit.

[@__mindflayer__]

@@stephenferry3017 That won’t solve everything but it would solve a lot of problems.

[@Jtilden23]

We need ranked choice voting

[@Bxu021]

The middle party XD

[@svokxz6435]

This is insane of how they adopted these extreme views.

[@cheechenc7260]

this just seems like the trend trajectory of the republican party for the past decade now. it’s insane but yet very unsurprising

[@blastermanr6359]

It's not even a deep red state. Like Texas is competitive

[@spartanx9293]

@@cheechenc7260 both sides are polarized and it will continue to increase

[@cheechenc7260]

@@spartanx9293 lmao get outta here with this “centrist” argument. The republicans has been swinging right faster than the dems swinging left. Taxes? Cut. Universal healthcare? Nope. Anti-trust? Nope. Abortion? A losing battle. Green New Deal? Nope. Infrastructure Bill? Gutted by right wing dems. Minimum wage? Still 7.25 federally. and most of these a not even considered “leftist” outside of the US.

[@spartanx9293]

@@cheechenc7260 well it's true one party takes ridiculous stances and then get surprised when another does the same

[@jc3drums916]

"We oppose all efforts to classify carbon dioxide as a pollutant." Great, lock them in an airtight chamber and pump it full of CO2 then.

[@sacredgeometry]

Put them in an airtight room and fill it with pure oxygen or literally anything else for that matter and it would have the exactly the same effect. i.e. that isn't really a test of anything. If you got rid of all the CO2 in the atmosphere everything would die. The Cambrian explosion was largely contributed to having 10 times higher CO2 levels than we see today. The problems isn't CO2 in an absolute sense. It isn't even whether or not en masse the extra temperature and CO2 would be bad for life (in general) on this planet in the long run. It's entirely a question of whether or not it will be good for humans and existing life and most of that is a product of the speed at which it is happening. Not the fact that it is happening.

[@Darkcamera45]

@@sacredgeometry the guys is being sarcastic what the original politicians are saying is climate change doesn’t exist and he is making a parody of that you don’t have to take it that seriously

[@sacredgeometry]

@@Darkcamera45 I understand that its sarcasm. I am pointing out that it's as dumb a retort as the climate deniers are.

[@SPITSPHIRE]

you do realize if carbon dioxide was ever actually made illegal you could be arrested for just breathing right? its a terrible hypothetical.

[@pfmcoop]

CO2 is not a pollutant. it's just a greenhouse gas. Pollutants are toxic or noxious, CO2 isn't.

[@Vasiliosx2]

Want to hear the worst part, Texas is super reliant on the federal taxes, between the jobs and spending by NASA in Texas and federal grants/subsidies for oil companies, Texas wouldn't be shit economically without the US.

[@Need_FC33]

@@TurboAutist-sg7lo And this is exactly what makes English so tough to learn lol.

[@Vasiliosx2]

@@TurboAutist-sg7lo without taxing its people so they can subsidize their oil industry... yes that's exactly what I'm saying. Between agriculture and oil, the US probably subsidies Texas close to 200 billion USD a year. Niether industry is viable without government subsidies the proof is in the fact that every food and oil producer subsidizes their domestic production.

[@nathanielscreativecollecti6392]

Actually they send more money to the federal government than they receive...

[@Ameriguy99]

Texas sends far more money to Washingotn than it gets back, if all federal money left, we would keep that money in Texas

[@Vasiliosx2]

@@Ameriguy99 it doesn't account for private businesses that take federal grants/subsidies. Yeah Texas the state gives more than the federal government gives it, but thats not true for exxon, shell, and the other oil companies that are based there, that uses our tax dollars to drill oil wells. It doesn't include Perdue's farmers that get federal money to buy tractors after someone starts a trade war.

[@Nick-kz6dg]

Let them secede, help everyone that wants to relocate in or out, then leave them to their own devices. Check back on Gilead in 2 years’ time.

[@basedmuscleman6539]

@neilson stone $2 might be a bit much given they want to ABOLISH the minimum wage

[@archiereilly3137]

And if they secede, there goes the Texan vote in the us election, they might inevitably give the country to the Democrats

[@John-lh1qx]

There is no clause in the constitution for secession and it has been ruled as illegal by scotus, and the last time secession was considered there were more guns involved.

[@fighterck6241]

​@@John-lh1qxI don't think anyone would fight to keep them this time.

[@thesoupin8or673]

"Some of the media hysteria around this was unwarranted?" I don't care that it's unlikely to be implemented as law, the mere fact that they're willing to outwardly state that any of these are their goals is nightmarish

[@Tonius126]

You're clearly not Texan.

[@thesoupin8or673]

@@Tonius126 it's funny because I was born in Austin lol and my family lives there, but you're mostly right lol I've grown up in NC

[@catdogmousecheese]

Is it really that nightmarish? I'm just sayin, I've lived in the Southeast most of my life and I've met a few crazy people with a confederate flag on the back of their pickup truck who'll tell you how the Civil War isn't over and "The South will rise again!"

[@whatever16jb17]

@@Tonius126 i’m texan, and i think all of this is appalling, but sadly believable, behavior from the conservatives.

[@butterflysrage]

"Will Texas leave?" "No, they can't" short video.

[@anguswaterhouse9255]

A majority of Texans don’t even want independence

[@maxdavis7722]

It’s not like the USA could ignore them if demand was high enough.

[@anguswaterhouse9255]

@@maxdavis7722 But its not. Its like 5% on a bad day. There are so many Americans from other states that its pointless.

[@maxdavis7722]

@@anguswaterhouse9255 I know, I was just correcting the guy who said “they can’t”. There may not be a pre defined method to leave however the USA cannot ignore the wills of the majority. If the Texas majority voted to leave the union they would.

[@reuterx2327]

@@maxdavis7722 - Yeah -- it's not like we've ever had a war, to settle that...oh, wait...oops...

[@David-Rymer]

The entire thing read like something out of a nightmarish fantasy. To think this was written by fully functioning adults seems unreal to me

[@timothy8428]

But that's the whole point. It was clearly not written by fully functioning adults.

[@applesapps4187]

@Bessie Hillum use your brain for a couple of mins and you can probably figure it out

[@David-Rymer]

@Bessie Hillum basically every point he mentioned. This thing covers everything from lgbtq rights to climate action to vaccination rules. Its madness. And what did you mean when you said that my position is weak? Its based on fair treatment for all and a safe society. And this bill proposes a world that i dont want to live in

[@David-Rymer]

​@Bessie Hillum Alright, in this essay i will unpack the issues and explain some of my points as requested. So first off i agree with your position on lgbtq members being few and far between and i recognize that the majority of people are just plain straight and lgbtq members dont have the power to dictate society to their terms. That would indeed undermine democracy and let the few dictate the many. whats more, (and these are my own thoughts) is that if the lgbtq community went haywire and dismantle humanity's settled view on what is a woman and what is a man, then they would create an unstable enviroment where everyone has to question their own gender and sexual orientation. This would complicate everying and would make the world a worse place. But now i will explain why i think gay people should still have rights. The Texas lawmaker in the video above state in plank 143 that "homosexuality is an abnormal lifestyle choice". That i dont agree with. Gay people exist and no amount of religious or ideological effort is going to remove gay people from our world. so for them to say that they want to make their own country and ban gay people is just plain wrong. So if we are not going to ban them then we must move in the opposite direction and make them just as free in their choices as straight people are. If we were to ban them, they would be hunted down for something that they are as a person. It would be inhuman. That is why i think gay rights are just as important as (for example) a womans right to vote. They exist, so let them live their life. My next point is the plank "freedom FROM healthcare" and the underlying motion that the state of Texas wants to ban vaccination because that infringes on their rights. There is no way that anyone can tell me that vaccination isn't necessary. It has saved lives over lives ended tenfold and those who did get sideeffects or death were just the unlucky 1% against the 99% of people for who it did work. I completely understand that some are against vaccination because they don't trust the goverment who mandates it. but the problem with that is that the goverment does not make vaccines, scientists who have studied for years do. and i would happily put my health in the hand of someone who has done so. I would even go as far as to say that its our duty to take vaccines and medicine to rid the world of disease. They WILL make you sick and they WILL kill you. A world without disease is a world to strive for. Next up, they want to dismantle and remove climate related activist groups. This move is just plain dumb because we are currently IN a climate breakdown and its only gonna get worse if we dont fight the oil industry to the ground until it doesn't do much more than create recycable plastic and rubber. My last explaination is the removal of the minimum wage. How would anyone defend the removal of the minimum wage. if this were to happen, buisnesses could sowly but surely squeeze every last cent they can out of the wages of their workers until there is next to nothing left. These are my views. And the things Texas lawmakers want to do as written in the platform are a direct opposite of what i believe is a better way to live or why the laws wont work. That is why i described the platform as a nightmareish fantasy.

[@David-Rymer]

@Bessie Hillum I'm glad were having such a nice discussion and both willing to explain our points without trying to "destroy" the other party. So, after reading your reply, i have some reponses: Being gay is both a genetic and indeed a lifestyle thing. But to have one without the other would make you feel incomplete right? For example, say that you were born in india, but not allowed to practice indian culture/religion. (btw i know being gay is not an ethnicity) That would drive a wedge between who you are and what you want to do. This will lead to discontent and a feeling that you dont belong. The rise of feminism came with feminine pride after they won the right to vote, joining the workforce and being overall more like men. which in retrospect were all positive things in my view. (ofcourse they also came with negatives but all things come with negatives) So now women want men to be more in thouch with their "feminine side" and being gay was the perfect example and, like you say, was populairised. i think eventually the soical justice movement (who is a major driving force behind gay pride) will die down but only after they get their rights. Which they totally should. and the sooner we do that, the sooner gay people wil stop trying to bend society to their ways because they live in an enviroment that accepts them for who they are. On vaccination: giving choice on vaccination is fair but it would still be better that people just take them. let me stress that i dont know anything about vaccination campains and what the logical way is. Perhaps it would be best to have opt-in to remain fair but it would be "socially unacceptable" to choose not to take them. its like taking the trolley back to the station after you're done shopping. nobody will force you to put it back but it would be a huge inconvienience for everyone else if you didn't put the trolley back in its place. On climate: i have never heard anything about the earth being closer to the sun being the driving froce behind climate change but i think scientists would make sure that that was the reason instead of co2. They are pushing hard on co2 so still lean towards that being the reason. Green energy is just better since its more efficient/ powerful and coal tech is just old and polluting. even if we were closer to the sun it would still be better for us to switch over to green energy soly for economic purpouses. political as well as the coal industry is lobbying multiple goverments to do their bidding and stop us from making the switch to green energy. oh and yes, plastic cant be recycled like that. we should have responsible ways of dealing with plastic and rubber. on minimum wage: i would actually argue that people who live on minimum wage are 100% better at bugeting than people who dont work on minimum wage. They only make so much and they have to decide between gas and medicine sometimes. if you let business decide on that, then you let people who dont think about bugeting to decide the income for people who do. which will lead to some of them not having enough income and eventually falling into debt. the cost of living is rising and we all need to have enough income to cope. setting a minimum wage responsive to the current cost of living at the time will prevent people from falling into debt. Franklin D. Roosevelt said that if a busines is paying minimum wage, then the business should not exist at all. businesses should be paying people more than the minimum wage. That makes sense right?

[@AndrewMartinIsHere]

Having heard what you just read from their plea, perhaps the rest of the USA will decide that they don’t need to have have a vote to leave the Union. The union is probably better to kick them out as a pariah state.

[@youtubestuff683]

It would save each other state a lot of money each time their power grid fails. Step 1. Tell Texas National guard members they have 1 year to move to another state, or leave the military. Step 2. During that year stop telling the Texas guard any classified information. Step 3. Remove all federal facilities, and equipment, anything that can't be taken with needs to be destroyed beyond repair, or reverse engineering. Step 3. Build secure border around Texas. Step 4. Stop all federal funding going to Texas. Step 5. Give anyone who wants to leave Texas 1 year to do so. Step 6. After they become their own country sit back, and wait for their society to collapse as they struggle to create their own currency, and their power grid fails again next winter, but they won't have the National Guard, or the other states to help them this time. And just let the rest if the country see what happens when you try to ban everything except God, and guns. Oh, and Ted Cruz would have to resign as Senator, and live in Texas he would not be allowed to move out of Texas, nor would any other current Texas government official.

[@theirishempire4952]

@@youtubestuff683 Texas becomes the new Chicago

[@theirishempire4952]

@@cowmath77 I know, people say the same about Ireland and Dublin and yet here I am.

[@theirishempire4952]

@@cowmath77 No, I wrote it beacause Chicago was known as crime ridden and full of shootings, that's why Texas is the new Chicago cos last time I checked, Chicago isn't like that

[@theirishempire4952]

@@cowmath77 Was = past tense

[@tiborsipos1174]

"The best argument against democracy is a 5 minute talk with an average voter"

[@adagnitussilverwood9170]

why waste five minutes, one glance at the republican party will suffice.

[@tiborsipos1174]

@@adagnitussilverwood9170 its a quote from Churchill. And in his time there was no social media that multiplied stupidity. Another disappointment in history is when people beleived the reason of public stupidity was the limited access to knowledge like education and libraries. And here we are where everyone carries literally a digital Library of Alexandra with a MUCH greater collection...

[@happyelephant5384]

But this is elected officials of different levels, didn't they

[@Ch-xk5tv]

The best argument against dictature is a 5 minute Talk with an average dictator

[@rmsgrey]

"Think of the average person. Half of voters are dumber than that"

[@arpandey5907]

As a republican and Texan, I did not know the Texas GOP had become fascist. Thanks for telling me this TLDR, I will vote democrat in every election now until the Republican party becomes normal again.

[@bothi00]

bruh it hasn't been normal for quite some time now

[@interview1296]

Facts, the only reason i'm voting democrat is to boycott the republican party until it comes back to its senses

[@PShawtx]

So your going to vote for the Democrat fascists instead of the Republican fascists Like it or not the Republicans are the better choice right now. There really is not good choice right now.

[@interview1296]

​@@PShawtx Democrats are not fascist yet, the republican party has been showing signs of fascism ever since 2020, i don't know about you but i prefer democracy than fascism right now.

[@Darkcamera45]

@@PShawtx it the Texas gop lol

[@DreamskyDance]

I dont understand what they hope to achieve with this, if in some weird reality all comes to realization. I mean, they want more of their christian values, although i do not agree with that and think all people regardless of religion, race, gender or sexual orientation should have same rights, i can see that those types of people want that. But abolishing minimum vage, consumer protection and much of taxes...what will that lead to ? Country with no money for anything, where every company can do to everybody else what ever they want without punishment and where people will be extremely poor with just few rich ones at the top. I mean a country cant function like that, it would became like Columbia or countries like that or worse... Who would even vote for those kind of people except them for themselves. It is extremely dumb, even when their worldview and beliefs are taken into acocunt, from just economic and sociological perspective. Like saying lets go back to middle ages litteraly, with mindset, governing and technology.

[@WhichDoctor1]

These people lost touch with reality a good while ago. They live in a world of supernatural battles between real actual demons and the righteously hateful, of conspiracy theories that make the flat earth look coherent and well reasoned, all pervaded with a mixture of fear and blind greed. Asking why their ideas dont make any sense is missing the point. They aren't supposed to make sense, because they are written for an entirely different reality to the one the rest of us live in

[@geraldmeehan8942]

They think the military bases will be loyal to Texas when in reality they would be a built in occupation force

[@weiserwolf580]

Let's just be honest they want a Monarchy

[@geraldmeehan8942]

@@weiserwolf580 They want a Christofascist country

[@sizor3ds]

Slavery. They want slavery

[@hermdude]

Let the list be carried out, get those who oppose it out of the state, and then build a wall to contain the loonies. Let the greatest experiment of the century begin.

[@JamesC785]

Haha - I'd love to see their faces when they realise that the Federal military bases would immediately leave 🤣🤣 Name change to 'Little Mexico' ?

[@notroll1279]

I guess this is all just a ruse to make Mexico not just pay for the wall but to build one themselves...

[@gont183]

Yes please. They are going to keep trying it, might as well just get it out of the way.

[@DeaTheBitch]

We will build a wall... To save Mexico from Texas

[@MrHaighahatta]

@@JamesC785 Better still, Texas secedes to lose social security, lose Medicare, lose USPS, lose federal infrastructure and all other subsidies, lose FEMA and federal disaster assistance, border checkpoints to the north, east, and west--which might have some rules about letting "foreign" armed cowboys pass-- and take care of their own southern border, etc. Don't believe those who push secession have thought this through in their ardent desire to forge an ultra-conservative regime. On the plus side, we're rid of and they're stuck with Ted Cruz. Maybe they'll invite Tru*p to come be their president?

[@chrisarritt6821]

I’d love for the US to adopt a parliamentary system or at least make the political landscape more competitive. This “better of two evils” bs is so demoralizing. I’d rather vote for somebody who shares most of my views rather than a candidate who shares maybe one or two key viewpoints with me. Unfortunately, there isn’t much push for political reform aside from the extremists on either side. Although maybe that’ll be one benefit of rising populism? A popular drive for better representation could lead to a multi-party system instead of the current duopoly.

[@fake-inafakerson8087]

A parliamentary system with first past the post isn't always much better. Look at Canada, for the most part people either vote conservative or NotConservative (which usually means liberal, though they've fucked up enough recently some are moving to NDP), rather than what they actually want

[@biocapsule7311]

They are stuck in the 2 party system mostly because of the 1912 election, where there were 4 candidates, 3 of which can be describe as center-left to actual 'progressive', 1 conservative. Ended with Woodrow Wilson, who is arguably one of the more 'evil' president. He wasn't even the more popular but most of the vote were split between Taft and Roosevelt. That's where their system start to avoid splitting votes.

[@sergelondon916]

@@fake-inafakerson8087 You do it like the Netherlands or at least Germany. Where you get real proportional representation. And not the bullshit of getting a third of the vote and taking a parliamentary majority.

[@_QueenAstrid]

if you watch a video like this and come to the conclusion that the republicans and democrats are just as extreme as each other, you’re far right yourself. hope this helps.

[@jds1275]

Maybe add a parliamentary wing to the current legislative branch with the PM being the vice president rather than the president having a running mate. I'd like more parties, but I also like our current system, and anyways the parliamentary systems aren't doing the best themselves.

[@superduck6456]

For a party that claims to want to “return to the constitution” or whatever, the Texas Gop sure is comfortable advocating for unconstitutional policies. State electoral college - unconstitutional Theory of nullification, which is also promoted in the platform - unconstitutional Secession - unconstitutional

[@jeremy7372]

None of those are unconstitutional

[@superduck6456]

@@jeremy7372 Yes they are. Georgia had a state electoral college; the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional. Nullification directly contradicts the supremacy clause of the constitution. Secession makes it so that federal law cannot fully be implemented equally across US territory. All unconstitutional.

[@ZoranZoltanous]

@@superduck6456 Texas is literally one of the only states that is guaranteed to have the ability to leave the union on its own. That also means they have more autonomy than normal states. Unlike other states this gives them more freedom. It should also be pointed out that regardless what the GOP thinks on the subject it also has strong Democrat support within Texas (secession). Only reason I would support this is because I hate America and it would weaken the United States so I see this as a good thing.

[@superduck6456]

@@ZoranZoltanous It is absolutely not guaranteed the ability to secede. That’s an urban legend that people of Texas, and people from many other states, have fallen for. Now Texas has the ability to divide itself into other states without congressional approval, but it 100% does not have approval to just leave.

[@ZoranZoltanous]

We can just disagree then because I want Texas to leave anyways so it hurts the USA, if not I hope the economy collapses or that Russia and China go to war with America.

[@Thormedor]

People pretend like if Texas actually changed their views to something more radical. No, they just put in writing what they exactly think and even left out some.

[@blazerglazer2691]

What did they left, this is kinda everything and i expect it to be worse but it won't be that bad, just a regular shithole

[@Thormedor]

​@@blazerglazer2691 They did very little focus in active muslim and islam hate, reinstituting slavery, eugenics or other form of race science. Like, they want to, but somehow did not get the space in the current culture war.

[@Thermalions]

@@Thormedor They probably ran out of paper, or the meeting ran overtime and they were going to be late to the meet-up to compare guns at the range.

[@theuglykwan]

Some of the stuff is new, like rigging the electoral system to this extent. They thought it up as their red margins are decreasing.

[@blazerglazer2691]

@@Thormedor wut, theres almost no muslims in USA and noone wants to bring back slavery....i doubt they support eugenics as it goes against their christian worldview

[@ottovonbismarck1352]

How do I say this nicely… what the actual fuck is this document? Like I knew the Republicans were right-wing but hot damn, this is some crazy shit.

[@thejaerd4881]

Otto von bismarck talking about right-wing lol

[@ottovonbismarck1352]

@@thejaerd4881 ironic isn’t.

[@jaccoloos6612]

Well said Bismarck, bring back the monarchy. Oh and unify the world while you're at it.

[@geminusleonem9365]

It's as far right as it can get.

[@Ava-wu4qp]

Q happened.

[@saahiliyer11]

And party that advocates secession has lost any claim to being “the party of Lincoln”.

[@saahiliyer11]

@Bessie Hillum Hard to say that when those stretches you and the Texas GOP are mad about have been to give people greater rights. If Texans want to be mad that people can marry who they like, don’t have the government snooping in the bedroom checking for “sodomy”, then they can cry me a goddamn river. Because we all know the stretches that take away peoples rights, like these last few cases, are ones they fully signed off on. And I’m not even talking about abortion, but the fact that cops can face no consequences for ignoring your 5th Amendment rights and you have ZERO 4th Amendment rights for committing the great crime of *living within 100 miles of a border or coast* is utter bullshit.

[@ilect1690]

@Bessie Hillum ah yes seceeding from the us government because the government is trying to stretch the consitution to be fair to minorities where do i remember this from?

[@abdulmasaiev9024]

You skipped over the evolution and climate change "strenghts and weaknesses as a theory" thing 112 which is always, each and every time, about supplanting them with creationism and climate change denial and pretending "this is science, actually".

[@swanky_yuropean7514]

I was just waiting for the sugestion to replace all teachers with local preachers. I mean they already labelled teachers as "groomers", that would be the next logical step in the -taliban- GOP handbook.

[@catmonarchist8920]

Fucking questioning EVOLUTION? Holy shit.

[@abdulmasaiev9024]

@@catmonarchist8920 it's like the early '00s all over again innit.

[@Silverfirefly1]

They'd ban telescopes and microscopes if they could get away with it. Anything that reveals truth that they don't control.

[@thatoneuser8600]

They also want to make it practically impossible to build High Speed Rail trains by prohibiting funding them through taxes

[@AlekWheeler]

As a Canadian, succession from a union/confederation isn’t a solution. Look at Alberta, the Texas of Canada. They feel similar about not getting a fair deal from Ottawa and think separation will solve everything….except they’re landlocked. So good luck building getting your product to foreign markets when you’ll have a sovereign nation all around you, and much like Quebec, if it was going to leave, the Canadian government would give them a hard exit, whereas they would want a soft exit. It’s like cheating on your wife with your mistress and then having the nerve to ask that things stay mostly the same. It ain’t happening.

[@sacredgeometry]

Texas isn't land locked. They have a coast line.

[@leahdeleon4666]

Texas is the world's 9th richest economy. Alberta isn't. Texas is the only state that owns its own public lands, has its own military, its own power grid.

[@grantsampson776]

@Enclave Soldier Canada wouldn't allow Alberta to join the US and the US wouldn't accept the offer and strain ties with their closest trade partner, lol

[@exdeath64]

Can Canada be our new mommy?

[@trent6319]

@Enclave Soldier all of Canada except maybe Quebec would fit well into American culture

[@puspenduacharjee1609]

Damn, this feels like hell

[@andrewdunbar828]

Dude, succession meets who is going to be next in line, secession means leaving a union. They aren't pronounced the same.

[@lincolntravelconcierge4846]

Scrolled through the comments looking for this. Waiting for the narrator to say "Texas could vote to succeed [secede]."

[@pharmesq]

As a Californian, I fully support Texit.

[@omgaddad5596]

As a Texan, we 100% do not give a shit about your opinion. Anyway, most Texans don't support leaving the Union. It's just a reaction to the dislike of Biden

[@interview1296]

@@omgaddad5596 Republican voters have no idea who they're really voting for.

[@omgaddad5596]

@Bessie Hillum I didn't fully understand what you're trying to say

[@MrFancyDragon]

I’m from Texas, specifically Dallas, and I swear to god if we become the first state in like, forever, to even try or attempt to secede from the union, I am going to lose my mind. I don’t know what it takes, I don’t want this extreme platform to dictate what goes in this state. Too many people live here and we really need to wake up and choose better leaders.

[@jeffbartlett5905]

Fascist much?

[@cinamoonmoon5166]

like biden?

[@archiereilly3137]

I mean like, they are probably going to take the White House in less than a thousand days, i think wanting to leave, is just idiotic, because it will practically give the us to the Democrats

[@toiletguy7495]

Biden ?

[@SeanLinsley]

as a fellow Texas resident, the good news is only a tiny percentage of people actually support destroying the economy through secession. also the supreme court already ruled in Texas v. White that the state government doesn't have the power to secede in the first place

[@veraxiana9993]

I think we can officially say the alignment of the Texas Republican party is DEFINITELY chaotic evil

[@outerspace7391]

no

[@Darkcamera45]

@@outerspace7391 YES

[@timothy8428]

Yes.

[@veraxiana9993]

@Bessie Hillum I'd love to hear how the fuck you read what I said as a "command" lmao

[@alexlehrersh9951]

If this is about SMT chaos endings are the moral best in most of the gamess

[@Tristan-Raisch]

"Which doesn't sound great, and to be fair, neither do many of these." Absolutely lost it. So funny, but so true. Excellent commentary on a horrible platform.

[@Barron198]

So basically it’s 40 pages of bollocks

[@VeronikaJelencsrecnozivljenje]

This is straight going to the wild wild west.

[@neilcoelho]

Everyone is getting polarised. I think everyone can agree that the USA needs more than 2 parties at the national level.

[@Lomhow]

I remember back in the 2020 election I voted for an independent party. My mother told me I was throwing away my vote. But if neither major party represents the America that I want, then I would be throwing away my vote voting for them wouldn't I? I keep telling people "Stop voting for failures" They keep thinking that one of these two parties is going to give them the America they actually want.

[@catmonarchist8920]

Third parties can't win in FPTP elections but they can play kingmakers like in half the last British/Canadian elections. American voter turnout is so poor that a third party would probably not hurt that much with spoilers.

[@soccerguy325]

But it is throwing away your vote if you know they have no chance. I could've technically voted for Chomsky in 2020 because he "represents the America that I want," but that would've been pointless and dumb. Sometimes you have to vote with both your brain and your heart; that's how a functioning democracy works a lot of the time.

[@getrekt4513]

I mean it's not like an independent party will give you the America you want either. Just another way for people to say "hey look I'm different".

[@kart_master5669]

From what I can tell your a young voter. If you are dont listen to nobody. Vote for who you feel is right. Your the future of this country. Not your old lady of a mom who's stuck in the brainwashed world where they thinks there's 2 sides.

[@joshuapartridge5092]

@@soccerguy325 You're right, but its a chicken and egg situation, because that belief is widespread enough and reasonable enough to influence the vote in the favor of the establishment.

[@gregbits6109]

The craziest part? They won’t lose a single voter…

[@weiserwolf580]

because there is no better option, this is the fundamental problem of US politics, because of the bipartisan parties are two sides of the same coin, in opposition but dependent on each other

[@theuglykwan]

They might. The thing is some of their policies make it so it won't matter. It basically rigs the system so that minority support can still lead them to power.

[@colter2320]

@@weiserwolf580 No better option than this?????????? Nah man, democrats are shit, but it's better than this populist bs

[@miguellopes7627]

As someone not from the US I can't help but to think how odd of an country the US is

[@John_Doe448]

Plank 274: bring back slavery and individual death sentence for disobedience. - Honestly wouldn't surprise me at this point.

[@jasonkluge8669]

Yeah I'm shocked that wasn't on there.

[@Thermalions]

Ran out of paper.

[@TheRedMooncorp]

This is a good example of fascism. Just needs a bit more voting restrictions

[@Aadrian7]

Meh, you don't need voting restrictions when you have the electoral college.

[@picardas1638]

that's literally me when I have no fucking clue what fascism is lol

[@sacredgeometry]

No it isnt. Not everything right wing is fascism. Not everything you dont like is fascism. Fascism has a very specific meaning. This is not fascism. Its just extreme right wing policy making.

[@applesapps4187]

@@sacredgeometry it’s fascism

[@sacredgeometry]

@@applesapps4187 It isn't

[@Andrew-ob5ij]

Shame Sherman didn’t go into texas

[@abdulmasaiev9024]

Well you know, gotta save something for the sequel. And a one, and a two... ♫Away down South in the land of traitors♫ / ♫Rattlesnakes and alligators♫ / ...

[@davidbaldwin9830]

So, they want to be free, yep a Leftist would call them traitors.

[@walleras]

Keep crying yanks Only yankees could win a war and still be salty. Sherman was a war criminal.

[@yoloswaggins7121]

@@walleras How was Sherman a war criminal?

[@marcbuisson2463]

@@walleras would be funny to see the US without Texas. The congress majority would definitely pass democrat, same for the US president. Maybe they would even manage to give statehood to Washington and Puerto Rico.

[@petmach]

Listening to this I'm surprised they didn't propose the return of legal slavery.

[@lesussie2237]

You wanted freedom so much you forgot about other people's freedoms

[@darthplagueis13]

You know... If every last bit of this was actually implemented as policy (as far as Texas itself is concerned, anyways, putting aside their proposals to what the US at large should do because they are suggesting to actually leave the US).. It would probably be a very educational experience for the texan alt-right. Primarily, I'm kind of wondering how they think they are going to do or finance basically anything without raising any taxes. Of course, I also have a sneaking suspicion that the rest of the US wouldn't take a seccession lying down, meaning such a referendum could result in civil war. This would also probably result in the democrats becoming utterly dominant in any and all presidential elections because the republicans would be missing the boatload of republican electors from Texas.

[@steveweidig5373]

Very educational, you say? We're seeing with the Brexiteers that this sadly ain't true.

[@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022]

@@steveweidig5373 they've been quite lucky COVID hit pretty much exactly as last parts of Brexit was being implemented and now they can blame COVID.

[@alexlehrersh9951]

They still would have taxes. The fair one And mutch less spending

[@trevinbeattie4888]

That sounds a lot like what actually happened after the first US Civil War. Congressmen from rebellious states either left or were expelled, and secessionists were not eligible for Congress in the next election, so Congress was largely controlled by northerners and able to pass sweeping reforms including the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.

[@disraelidemon]

As you say, there's no risk of some of these extreme policies being enacted in the short term, but given how hard the GoP has lurched into wingnut territory over the past decade, we may be getting a window into mainstream Republican policy ten or twenty years from now.

[@imperators_8700]

How has the GOP lurched into wingnut territory as you say? The party’s platform has hardly changed over the last ten years the only real change being the removal of commitment to traditional marriage

[@patrickstockton2091]

Yeah, and keep in mind, people, that campaign ads will soon be everywhere,...there has NO accountability for corruption as promised by GOP,..remember, if their lips are moving, they are lying!!!

[@ClearerThanMud]

Having only two parties has turned American politics into a power struggle, making it hard to get things done. And closed primary elections make the candidates more extreme. We need ranked choice voting, or better, and open primaries in order to have a healthy political system.

[@petermann673]

The part about the party duopoly was just silly. Ultimately the two parties are just coalitions with a few steps removed. At issue is that the Republicans, a coalition of classical conservatives, theocrats and neo-fascists, the former of which used to head the coalition, has seen the classical conservatives weaken while the other two have grown in strength. Its a bit like if the Tories were wedded to UKIP and BNP but then over time more and more Tories lost until BNP controlled the coalition. Electoral reform would help the moderate Republicans but ditching the duopoly wouldn't particularly do anything about the popularity of theocracy and fascism within said party. Why would the theocrats and fascists leave that paty when they own it?

[@zakariaali8864]

Does anyone know where I could actually find a copy of the 2022 party platform? Can't find it anywhere

[@mshaqed2538]

They have it on their official website.

[@rahcollier7006]

Half of those planks sounded like they were bought by corporations. I'm actually starting to wonder if this is someone's idea of a joke.

[@evilotto9200]

missed the bit where slavery was reintroduced and a $5 bounty to be paid out for indian scalps 🇨🇱

[@e.n.strowd1949]

Let’s remember what happened to Texas last time they were going for succession. I say we make it 10x as harsh next time round.

[@midnighteclipsed2738]

better resurect General Sherman and give him torch, Lots of torch

[@lucasharvey8990]

I can't imagine why they think leaving the USA would be a good idea. Most of the economy is directly or indirectly controlled by big businesses nowadays which stretch across multiple states, and many of Texas's smartest minds come from other states. Many of the resources that keep Texans' lives running come from other states. The truth is that we are all better off together, no matter how much you may dislike the current political climate.

[@mix3k818]

At this rate, I wouldn't be surprised if they wanted slavery back too

[@spartanx9293]

You actually lived in Texas I have most people are fine with being in the Union and nobody is an advocate of slavery not every bit of Texas is the same and even then equating modern conservative Texans believe owning Confederates makes you one unbelievable a******

[@BaldBozo]

That's why they want to repeal the minimum wage.

[@user-op8fg3ny3j]

You say that like human trafficking doesn't exist in the first world

[@richardlh8395]

Wait 2 more years, I wouldn't be surprised at all. This is messed up man.

[@spartanx9293]

@@BaldBozo how it that equivalent to slavery especially when you consider the minimum wage when it was first imposed in Texas was directly created in order to make it harder for African Americans to get good paying jobs

[@marquendra]

That's a huge bowl of YIKES! May as well say they're time-traveling backward. Ban cars while you're at it and only allow horses and horse-drawn carriages lmao!

[@errorcrj110]

Honestly, if the Texan government does successfully secede and Left-wing voters in the US are deported/flee while their Right-wing voters flood the state, it might help the US politically re-align with the rest of the world while the Right wing gets what they want. All in all, not the worst outcome for the majority of people.

[@lewisbaitup6352]

I think texas would desolve into straight facsism

[@terminalimpact2771]

And also destroy Texas’ entire infrastructure because succession is illegal and two they would be cut off from basic necessities. Plus nation building is difficult and they would literally be glassed in less than a month. Not Anti-Texan, but just Anti-Secession because of the Civil War.

[@fernandobignardi6716]

How can a 1st world country population agree with any of those policies? They were so brutal I couldn’t feel angry or disgust; just high levels of sadness. Viewer from Brazil

[@terks43]

Republican controlled America is a third world country.

[@LucasdeBlock]

Welcome to America 😂

[@socialenigma4476]

I agree with leaving NATO and prohibiting the government from forcing you to undergo a medical procedure you don't want, but the rest of it is total shit.

[@joaocerceau5810]

Our right wing parties are basically all like this, what's to be surprised about? When they get their own left wing populists to counterbalance they are basically one of us... I pitty them.

[@Fr00stee]

Answer: they don't. Its a small christian minority running the state

[@jcmcmcjc11]

I am a black man that lives in Dallas, Texas and after watching this video. It's time to leave Texas for Denver, Colorado. I understand Texas is basically a Republican Super Pac but come on....abolish minimum wage, remove sick pay/ medical leave, repeal all hate crimes laws, and repeal the voting rights act. Why? That's just terrible. It's time to leave Texas and move to Colorado.

[@jayz12366]

At this point they might as well just include bringing back slavery and mandatory 1800s dress codes.

[@scaper12123]

Texas: we want to secede! USA: Ok but consider: we have more guns. Texas: …

[@midnighteclipsed2738]

they might go for 0-2, who knows

[@connorbredall3112]

"We oppose all efforts to classify carbon dioxide as a pollutant." Somewhere out there, a Captain Planet villain is laughing maniacally.

[@mitchellskene8176]

My understanding is no state, or states, can actually secede from the union. They can try, no doubt, but it'd be deemed illegal by the federal government/supreme court. Granted I'm Canadian, not American, so I might be wrong.

[@STEP107]

Yeah, but also the founding fathers said if the government encroaches on the citizens rights you are morally obligated to revolt thats the reasoning the dixies used to justify succession before

[@fleurdetristesse5218]

Texas v. White cemented any form of secession illegal, so you are completely right on that. Which is strange since I'm not American but a lot of "secession is legal" Americans I've talked to have never heard about it. Edit: Here's the holding if you don't want to look it up: "Texas (and the rest of the Confederacy) never left the Union during the Civil War, because a state cannot unilaterally secede from the United States. US Treasury bond sales by Confederate Texas during the war, originally owned by pre-war Texas, were invalid, and the bonds were therefore still owned by the post-war state."

[@Shadow_Drip]

American; I do believe it's something like that, though some states did join under the impression that they had the right to leave later if they wanted; so it shouldn't be like that, but it kind of is. To be fair though, i don't really know much about how crap works here either, i'm not working in the government nor reading paragraph after paragraph on how it works (I'd recommend looking for someone who knows more or fact checking _this_ paragraph though!) Kind of wish they'd at least let us go if we held a referendum that got a majority yes vote, though doubt they'd do that anyway, so :/

[@fleurdetristesse5218]

Here's a quote from Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, who decided the Texas v. White case. "The Union of the States never was a purely artificial and arbitrary relation. It began among the Colonies, and grew out of common origin, mutual sympathies, kindred principles, similar interests, and geographical relations. It was confirmed and strengthened by the necessities of war, and received definite form and character and sanction from the Articles of Confederation. By these, the Union was solemnly declared to "be perpetual". And when these Articles were found to be inadequate to the exigencies of the country, the Constitution was ordained "to form a more perfect Union". It is difficult to convey the idea of indissoluble unity more clearly than by these words. What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not? [...] When, therefore, Texas became one of the United States, she entered into an indissoluble relation. All the obligations of perpetual union, and all the guaranties of republican government in the Union, attached at once to the State. The act which consummated her admission into the Union was something more than a compact; it was the incorporation of a new member into the political body. And it was final. The union between Texas and the other States was as complete, as perpetual, and as indissoluble as the union between the original States. There was no place for reconsideration or revocation, except through revolution or through consent of the States. [...] Considered therefore as transactions under the Constitution, the ordinance of secession, adopted by the convention and ratified by a majority of the citizens of Texas, and all the acts of her legislature intended to give effect to that ordinance, were absolutely null. They were utterly without operation in law. The obligations of the State, as a member of the Union, and of every citizen of the State, as a citizen of the United States, remained perfect and unimpaired. It certainly follows that the State did not cease to be a State, nor her citizens to be citizens of the Union. If this were otherwise, the State must have become foreign, and her citizens foreigners. The war must have ceased to be a war for the suppression of rebellion, and must have become a war for conquest and subjugation."

[@terminalimpact2771]

You are right. If the civil war taught us anything, is that succession is impossible and those who do so would suffer terrible consequences.

[@memorymeme51]

Sharia law to Texas, can't wait

[@mindblower8774]

Had the same thought.

[@LUN4RA]

rename Texas to 'Bigger Afghanistan but christian' 🤣

[@avantelvsitania3359]

Texas: We have a right to secede and we must have a referendum on this!! Also Texas: “We favor strengthening our common American identity”

[@megadick6000]

That platform is bonkers. Absolutely psycho. They straight up wanna go back to segregation and go full anarcho capitalist.

[@geraldmeehan8942]

Abolishing minimum wage sounds like a great place to work/live, NOT!

[@picardas1638]

minimum wage hurts the people it claims to help

[@geraldmeehan8942]

@@picardas1638 lol, making even less is good for them? Definitely some corporate double speak brainwashing!

[@picardas1638]

@@geraldmeehan8942 rising the minimum wage won't make corporations pay their employees more, they will just fire them. Imagine this situation: I work in your factory, every hour I spend working there you profit around 20$, one day, there is a law imposing a minimum wage of 25$ per hour, suddently, you start losing 5$ every hour I spend working in your factory, it would be more profitable for you to fire me, because then instead of losing money, you just remain the same.

[@samueldorrington8990]

What scares me is that we basically have a two party system in all but name in the UK.

[@theuglykwan]

The UK is a 2 party system. Although 3rd parties have some seats, essentially only the 2 main parties can govern alone although sometimes there is a hung parliament that requires coalition.

[@samueldorrington8990]

@@theuglykwan I know... that's what I was saying...

[@PressXtoDoubt]

Everything is Bigger in Texas .... except for Life Expectancy, Quality of Education, Healthcare services, Funding for Social Programs, and Science Literacy. 🇺🇸🦅⚡🎇 By the way I'm Canadian 🇨🇦🍁🦫

[@Rjsjrjsjrjsj]

You have plenty of company in the US.

[@PressXtoDoubt]

@@Rjsjrjsjrjsj mais vous ne parlé pas français non? 🇨🇦🇫🇷⚜️🥖

[@Rjsjrjsjrjsj]

@@PressXtoDoubt My French is exceptionally rusty. Sorry. So, no, I don't. Why bother? I'm saying a lot of people here agree with you.

[@PressXtoDoubt]

@@Rjsjrjsjrjsj I was kidding although in Eastern Ontario good luck getting a job si tu ne parlé pas français lmao.

[@Rjsjrjsjrjsj]

@@PressXtoDoubt As I recall French isn't that hard. Is that really an issue up there?

[@deusexaethera]

I, for one, want to nail an eviction notice to all the Welcome To Texas signs. Get the hell out of my country.

[@gabrielfigueiredo4372]

There's a journalist in my country that often says that if there's actually a hell, it is surely near Texas. I can now see why...

[@gregbits6109]

“Pornography and pedophillia are public health hazards” Wonder what child lover wrote that…

[@henryrepton2957]

So you support pedophilia? Not surprising coming from a liberal.

[@soontir_fel1816]

At this point, I just wish for a centrist party with moderate policies. The absolute extremes that democrats and republicans are at now is just ridiculous.

[@avigailpekelman8239]

The democrats are not extreme at all, even Bernie Sanders is center left at most.

[@soontir_fel1816]

@@avigailpekelman8239 both sides are have become very extreme. Sanders is a socialist which is definitely deep on Left

[@avigailpekelman8239]

@@soontir_fel1816 bernie sanders would be considered a centrist democrat in the 40' (he might have been a republican). bernie wants to promot policies which the majority of americans support, that makes him be in the center left at most. also, he is a social democrat who call himself a socialist, so again, center left

[@GhPadua]

Fascism or universal healthcare, such terrible extremes, how can americans choose?

[@spyrostrik7934]

OK I am republican but this is just crazy

[@yoloswaggins7121]

How can you still be a Republican man? They party has become so insane and far right and and democratic. The Republicans have elected literal lunatics to the Congress. Hearing a US Congresswoman rant about how Jewisy space lasers are causing global warming is such an embarrassment for the US

[@Meckload]

The US is the world‘s oldest democracy and it shows…

[@spartanx9293]

Thats San Marino

[@maskedplayer8611]

Longest unchanged would be better

[@Swede.from.Boston]

Greece 🇬🇷 be like ”am I a joke to you”

[@Meckload]

Fair enough everyone, it‘s the world‘s oldest continuous democracy ;)

[@yoloswaggins7121]

@@Meckload No it's not. Britain has had a democracy for like 500 years. I think maybe you mean Republic.

[@andrewgutierrez4841]

Ranked choice multi-member districting is a necessary component to fighting this fascist party. Direct democratic initiatives are another. The last is the abolition of capitalism.

[@JM-pq1rs]

Still trying to figure out if this is accidentally based on an Onion article or if they really are that insane....

[@yuvalbar]

Tbh, I live in a multi party system Nation We still have a race for the bottom and the extreme, so it might not be the system

[@user-op8fg3ny3j]

Israel?

[@vult07]

Exactly ... two party system with open blanket primary is the solution !

[@HShango]

Yep Israel is having its fifth election lmao (damn)

[@abelzatyko1513]

It is probably the internet, tbh We were not mature enough to be jacked into the hivemind, and thus bear the consequences

[@yuvalbar]

@@user-op8fg3ny3j indeed

[@shonenjumpmagneto]

0:57 I got excited for a second & thought you changed the channel name back to *"TLDR News UK"* because *TLDR News"* doesn't really make sense especially w/ *"TLDR News Global".*

[@shonenjumpmagneto]

@Damian S. the bias shows. Their top 10 national flags list had 4 UK Flags because they included the States which was bullocks. It doesn't make anyone want to subscribe. Why would it? You wanna collect the 4 Channels that go together all with 2 letter acronyns even if its subconscious lol.

[@matthewmcneany]

Some of the planks skipped over are just as insane as those covered in the video: like abolishing no fault divorce.

[@geardo3635]

Actually Texas secession is less politically based, more historical and not the only secession movement in the USA. California is seen as a Democrat state but also has a secession movement, there are several others still ongoing even at a smaller level. The NYC borough of Staten Island, mixed politics, still has some people wanting secession from NYC and possibly NY state.

[@joedellinger9437]

This sort of thing is why nearly all the urban areas of Texas flipped to majority Democrat a few years ago. The GOP is currently working hard on losing the suburbs. At some point no amount of gerrymandering will save the party in Texas. The Texas Republican party used to be pragmatic. I tried attending a precinct-level GOP caucus in 2016 and they were trending in this direction but were not yet as insane as this. Some of these resolutions were proposed back then but did not pass. The caucuses have now successfully chased away anyone who doesn’t believe all this fruitloopery. When I attended the local caucus I made the motion that the Texas GOP should remain pragmatic and work to get things done. Nobody else in the room knew the word “pragmatic”. I explained what it meant and they said it sounded like a dangerous concept… it was a fancy word for consorting with sin. A true Republican holds steadfast to their beliefs no matter where they lead. The very opposite of pragmatic. 02:29 Note the comment “half the delegates don’t attend”. It is like that all the way up. I was recruited to join the caucus because they needed a warm body to meet their minimum quorum to hold the meeting. The party platform distills the extreme fantasies of the most faithful portion of the party.

[@UrVileWedge]

More parties being viable almost certainly requires a proportional legislature, instead of the current first past the post system. And THAT in turn almost certainly requires a reworking of articles 1-3 of the constitution, since a system in which there's a unitary president of considerable power who is intended to be balanced by a legislature is going to get much harder to do when the legislature is more fractured and it's much easier for the president's party to play spoiler (The president's party would like there not to be a government in the parliamentary sense, since as things currently stand, the president has the maximum reach when Congress is paralyzed, even more so than when Congress is aligned with him.) Reworking the entire structure of the government is very difficult.

[@theuglykwan]

ranked choice voting. multi member districts for the house. national popular vote for president. break up some states to create more senate seats. that would give the US some breathing room without the near impossible task of deeper reform.

[@MrMartinSchou]

What I want to know is when they'll be charged with sedition and seditious conspiracy.

[@starmaker75]

Well apparently it total “justified” because “ it totally grassroots”

[@Beachgirl1]

What I want to know if is when Anti-American terrorist groups such as antifa, blm and Jane’s Revenge will be charged with sedition and seditious conspiracy for the violent, deadly riots of 2020.

[@MrMartinSchou]

@@Beachgirl1 I love that you bring that up as if it's an argument to not charge people advocating for the illegal break-up of the United States with advocating for illegally breaking up the United States. What-aboutism at its finiest.

[@ballroomscott]

This is far from the first time Texas has talked about secession, and it won't be the last. Every time a Democrat is voted in as president people start to make noise about it. But it will never happen. At least not in any time soon.

[@majormoolah5056]

When the cyberpunk dystopia finally arrives, it will begin in Texas it seems.

[@majormoolah5056]

@Bessie Hillum I'm actually Christian myself. But I would not want to force anyone into believing what I believe. But beyond that, disregard for environment, zero regulation for corporations, no gun control etc. is not Christian either.

[@Victormitc]

These are views I would expect from a right wing extremist party, not from conservatives.

[@PalkkiTT]

What do you think the republican party is then if not right wing extremist?

[@BadOompaloompa79]

The conservative party is the democratic party. The extremist right wing party is the GOP.

[@spyrostrik7934]

@@PalkkiTT if the republican party are extremist then the democratic party is full one Stalinist

[@PalkkiTT]

@@spyrostrik7934 I'm sorry to break it to you but the democrats are also right wingers.

[@roelofjacobs5807]

They are right about points 111 and 144 though, as far as I can tell. Critical Race Theory is based on Critical Theory, albeit over another dimension (ethnicity instead of wealth). Meanwhile, Critical Theory itself is 'Cultural Marxism'. Or in other words, Marxism looking at how the oppression of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie is embedded in culture. I can give you names and origins of ideas, for instance how the ideas went from Die Frankfurter Schule to the US. I can even add what Marxism was trying to fix about Liberalism. Nevertheless, calling CRT a form of Marxism isn't very far fetched as there is a clear link. And regarding preventing the intervention of the natural progression of puberty (part of the "we do not consider gender identity as something sacred"). This is what the High Court in the UK did when the NHS (or more precise, Tavistock) was sued by Kierra Bell. And in Sweden and Finland it was the medical professionals that banned it, including puberty blocker, due to lack of evidence it being good treatment (the exception is when it is part of a scientific study and happens under that watchful eye of an ethical commission). Note, I cannot defend 144b when it involves adults. However, 144 appears to focus on minors. Know that minors are getting transitioned while there is NO DATA to support if it is a good idea or not. The first real data might appear somewhere in the next two to three years in the UK, as research will be done on the patients that were treated by Tavistock. You often hear that 98% have no regret, but that number involves adults and often after a more cautious approach than what is happening now. Results regarding the medical treatment of minors, to the best of my knowledge, is unknown.

[@jimmyryan5880]

Holy shit

[@LFPAnimations]

As a Californian, I hope they leave. Can't wait for our tax dollars to no longer support their roads, medicare, and social security checks. Plus the GOP will lose it's largest number of electoral votes and 2 senators. I think texan secession is the most progressive policy that state could have adopted.

[@Darkcamera45]

States leaving the union is a shit idea either way although I do agree that the nation does spend a lot of money on Texas it is still a large portion of the economy but the list of things they want to do is absolute bs if they did do all of that I’d probably move out of Texas

[@LFPAnimations]

@@Darkcamera45 they want to cut tax revenue in the state too. That means more fed bucks to prop them up.

[@millevenon5853]

Californians must move to Texas to turn it blue

[@OliverNorth9729]

Exactly my friend. You know the truth.👏👏

[@cobracommander8133]

Adios Texas. Take Florida with you on the way out!

[@spartanx9293]

Texas cannot secede they themselves have argued as such in Texas v white they can split themselves into five different states if they want but that's about it

[@spartanx9293]

@@kostas0352 that is a war they will lose

[@zesky6654]

@@kostas0352 They can't win their war on obesity let alone an actual military.

[@walleras]

So when you returning to britain?

[@KharlHungus]

im pretty sure theres other states that agree.

[@yoloswaggins7121]

@@kostas0352 Good luck winning that war.