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[–] SuiXi3D@kbin.social 27 points 10 months ago (24 children)

Please no. Some of us live here and like the US as it is. I would appreciate a change of state government, though.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 18 points 10 months ago (21 children)

You know all those migrants entering your state, fleeing the shit happening back home? Follow their example, pack up and move somewhere else. Texas being shit is nothing new and that won't change.

[–] maxcorbetti@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

"But why don't the slaves just move?"

This is the sickest, most inhuman mindset. You don't care about immigrants. You don't care about the people in Texas. And you sure as hell don't care about what is happening to immigrants in Texas.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The fuck you're rambling about??? OP is a fucking slave now?

[–] benderbeerman@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

If I had to guess, I'd say that they were talking about how it's barely affordable just to live in some places (wage slaves), and moving yourself and your family to an entire other state takes substantial time and money. Not to mention the emotional difficulty of leaving everyone and everything you know.

The same argument was made about recently freed slaves who had nowhere to go afterward, and how they should just move if they don't like the continuing slavery-like treatment where they lived.

It does seem very cold and privileged from that perspective to tell someone to just up and leave, but this specific comparison seems unnecessarily impassioned

[–] maxcorbetti@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nailed it on every front.

I thank you for taking the time to make a good faith untangling of my admittedly heated comment. I admire the patience you have to fully explain what I could not be bothered to articulate.

[–] benderbeerman@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

All good friend... it's too easy to get caught up in the emotions of charged politics

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