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Texas Republicans have decided on a platform that includes abolishing minimum wage, cancelling climate research, banning the teaching of evolution at schools, and repealing the voting rights act, among other things, but hilariously (or depressingly) the one thing on this laundry list that people are angry about is their plan to "rehabilitate" homosexuals, a practice that many say is harmful.
BBC News has more: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27774102
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Q: What's a WASP's idea of open-mindedness?
A: Dating a Canadian.
(Score: 1) by redneckmother on Tuesday June 10 2014, @04:06PM
Well put. I sincerely hope you are correct that it can be "without guns or violence", but the MotU have cornered that market, and are not afraid to use them.
Mas cerveza por favor.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday June 10 2014, @04:59PM
That is true, and you are correct. But when the larger share of the public is resisting and protesting and attacking their power base from all directions, whom are they going to shoot? And if they're stupid enough to do so, they may well find out how counter-productive it is, the way the perpetrators of the Amritsar Massacre [wikipedia.org] did. It would also surely lead to their execution once their power was broken.
It is only a matter of time. They can be allowed to peacefully retire to a tiny plot of land in, say, Iowa, or end up swinging from lampposts. It's entirely up to them and how hard they want to try to deny the course of history.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1) by redneckmother on Wednesday June 11 2014, @04:46AM
Sorry, but I must ask: "What the HELL do you have against Iowa?" I have friends who hail from there.
Wait - never mind - they left there.
/snark
Mas cerveza por favor.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday June 11 2014, @03:00PM
s/[Kansas|Nebraska|Missouri|Wyoming|Colorado|Utah|Idaho|Montana|New Mexico|Arizona|any other state...]/Iowa/
Whichever place has wide open spaces and most neighbors won't lynch you for being crazy.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1) by redneckmother on Wednesday June 11 2014, @06:34PM
Hell, that's where I am - Texas!
I'm crazy, and my nearest neighbour is several miles away. Nobody has tried to lynch me (yet).
Mas cerveza por favor.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday June 11 2014, @09:05PM
Yeah I'm originally from Montana and spent summers in Houston as a kid, so that's sort of what I mean: elbow room plus nobody getting in your business.
Washington DC delenda est.