I'm starting to empathize with Texas trying to leave the Union.
I'm starting to empathize with Texas trying to leave the Union.
I never really understood, but now that that house bill passed that may end up blocking AI regulation from individual States. I get it. I don't like knowing that even if everyone in my state wanted to stop companies from using AI for hiring decisions, we couldn't.
Texans, I feel you.
Edit: I'm learning a lot about Texas in this thread. Thanks for all the context folks.
ha its not the implementation of a fascist police state, its 'ai' that did it for ya?!
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I kind of doubt an independent Texas would be any less of a fascist police state.
oh, i agree wholeheartedly.. thats where the current federal administration is getting a lot of their terrible ideas.
i think what op is referring to is a general 'but my states rights' even though the original idea was 'i want my state to have the right to be an absolutely racist piece of shit'.
They are certianly trying to beat the rest of the States to 1862 levels of fascism.
Texas has been a fascist state practically since its inception.
A big part of the "Texit" movement finds its legs as soon as the presidency changes to an insufficiently fascist bureaucrat.
That scares the hell out of me too.
I just happened to read about the bill and had a thought and posted it.
I guess I'll work on considering you and being more of a perfectionist. Lemmy needs that. There's too much content as there is. /sEdit: okay I get I was poking back pretty hard. Definitely a bit of a lash out. Sorry.
People on the internet are prone to criticize, it's okay to have gained an appreciation for the idea of states rights vs federalism from a slightly lower impact or more niche issue rather than one of the huge ones.
Its always a tradeoff both ways. The more rights the states have independent from the federal government, the harder it can be to get everyone on the same page about doing good things, but it's also a lot easier to independently build good things when the trend nationally is garbage.
The question is what compromise feels right to you, and personally I can respect and empathize with a number of positions on the topic. There's a reason the framers (fallible as they were) debated this architectural question so much- it really changes the shape of what exactly the federal government is.
Seceding was never wrong per se, the issue is the 'why'. Seceding for slavery is still an asshole move.
Seceding is a problem on its face, because it functionally strips citizenship from dissenting residents.
The slavery fight was an extension of this problem, as emancipation grants an individual full citizenship.
What we ultimately need is a global citizenship that doesn't bottle any population cohort up in a single territory or deny civil rights based on place of birth. Secession functionally moves us away from universal human liberty.
(Disclaimer slavery bad, I think I haven't spend enough time saying that in this post)
On the topic of secession and global citizenship: As an anarchist I disagree that secession is inherently problematic. It all depends on how governance works in the state. Leaving could make a lot of sense with a monarchy for example.
I think a central authority regulating global citizenship could work out. But to me centralization means having one big point of failure. Less people to bribe to make sweeping changes. (Ergo Trump)
If there isnt a centralized authority then 'global citizenship' would mean different things in different states, so it wouldn't give everyone the same rights, and may not be followed at all. I can't imagine coordinating the whole world, but maybe I'm not optimistic enough.
What does that have to do with their original reasoning? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_secession_movements
The wiki doesn't talk about who's funding the modern efforts.
i.e. Calexit, Albexit, Brexit, etc.
Yo that is curious. I see Russia pop up so much in reading about different secession movements.
I wish they weren't all right wing movements. When do the anarchist get to run the secession.
Well I have a vague understanding of it. I read through the Wiki and a lot of the reasoning in recent years seems to align
According to its website, the objective of the Texas Nationalist Movement is "the complete, total and unencumbered political, cultural and economic independence of Texas".
During the rally, many in the crowd began to chant "secede, secede", to which Perry remarked, "If Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that?"
After US president Barack Obama won the 2012 US presidential election, bumper stickers and signs saying "secede" started to appear in Texas
Basically: we don't like what's going on with the federal government and would like to not be bound by them.
I mean I generally disagree with their specific politics, but I get wanting to leave when you feel bound up / forced to do things that you think near no one in your state would vote for.
I know I didn't touch on original reasoning, but I really only care about what's been going on recently. So I skipped to stuff in the last 25 years. I'm not trying to talk to folks from the past.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the west coast didn’t try to peel off, together. Texas is sticking around, for now.
I pray Cascadia peels away. But I know it will never happen. Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Apple? They're never going to let us leave in peace.
I wish Texas would get a move on, tbh.
I pass a billboard that advertises a Texit crypto coin. They claim no ties to government, but echo every exit reason possible that has been mentioned. The coin has grown from .10 to over a dollar in just a few months. They are trying to fund the exit process through dark money for sure.
That is a strange project. It makes me uneasy. Thanks for sharing.
From the website:
For Texas by Texans, TXC is a fast & inexpensive mineable blockchain-based cryptocurrency designed for generations of honest trade.
Lmao, I've not seen any crypto do anything like "honest trade". The main uses are rug pulls and drug purcheses from my understanding.
So... you're saying you want a slavery based economy??