• Soggy@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Texas, perversely, actually has a ton of nanny state bullshit laws to control the population.

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      1 day ago

      Ok, what are those? I would bet nowhere near the degree of Australia. You have to wear a helmet to use a bicycle, or else you get fined lmao

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        17 hours ago

        Can’t buy liquor on Sunday, weed is still strictly illegal, no public-driven initiatives, this bullshit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Senate_Bill_12 , the “bathroom bill”, there’s a real pattern of enforcing a very particular cultural identity through legislation and selective enforcement. It’s almost like the state that liked slavery so much it seceded from two different countries to keep doing it has long-standing issues with respecting anyone but wealthy white Christian men.

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          15 hours ago

          He’s a racist, right-wing child who thinks that firearms will make his dick bigger

          Idiots like this are the worst thing about Australia

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              14 hours ago

              He lives in paradise, and yet he’s such a loser that he yearns to live under the boot of 'Murica

              I think it’s because he’s stupid

              It could be something else, but Occam’s razor and all that

              I guarantee that he hasn’t spent enough time in’ Murica to know what life there is really like

              Unfortunately, I have