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Texas in succession would not look unlike the West Bank before October of last year.
I think you're mixing up Gaza and the west bank.
The west bank is ran by Fatah, part of PLO and Arafat's political party. Hamas runs the Gaza strip.
If Texas would be like that I guess it would be full of foreign permanent setlers. A bit counter productive
Right it wasn't a perfect analogy.
A shitshow of Israelis shooting other Israelis while secessionists pop out of house windows firing RPGs and tens of thousands of civilians are slaughtered needlessly?
As a Houstonian... shit sucks and I would prefer we not.
No, I meant that it would be blockaded and isolated until you left or dealt with the terrorists that you and your neighbors have chosen to represent the place.
TIL, Lina Hidalgo, Sallie Alcorn, and Liz Fletcher are terrorists.
I don't mean who your neighbors literally have chosen right now or at one time or another, I mean overall, the state, over all time, those people whom the citizens of the state have collectively picked to be the winners, who've over time led us to where we are right now.
Western democracy is already something of a joke. But in a state as germanderred and caged as Texas, I hope you realize how you sound.
We lock people up for voting in this state.
I mean it's a flawed democracy. It's still democracy. Convince your damn neighbors.
It's not the votes that count, but who counts the votes.