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   Linguist said, 6 months ago

   Austin, Texas – where Bubba and Betty Jo meet Biff and Buffy !
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   Basqueian said, 6 months ago

   Still let ’em go, let Austin emigrate
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   Tin Can Twidget said, 6 months ago

   Sounds good to me.
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   DylanThomas3.14159 said, 6 months ago

   Let’s see: Austin leftwing producing class v. rightwing ruling leisure class . Let ’em battle it out. Winner decides whether to secede or not .
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   Richard S. Russell said, 6 months ago

   We in Madison, Wisconsin (also a liberal state capital with a big university, great football team, hot music scene, and troglodytic Republican state government) sympathize with Austin.
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   jnik23260 said, 6 months ago

   Sounds like Atlanta. Or Asheville, NC
   Well, if the 1947 Airlift worked for Berlin, it should work for Austin.
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   DylanThomas3.14159 said, 6 months ago

   @jnik23260

   Yeah, but if the Austin libs win they won’t sterilize all the conservs. So no airlift needed.
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   DylanThomas3.14159 said, 6 months ago

   @Richard S. Russell

   I know one of your University of Wisconsin faculty members. Has a PhD in the history of science. Written several great scholarly books. Nice dude.
   

   
   He’s a high-output-producing hardworking person — not to mention, a liberal.
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   Tucci said, 6 months ago

   The “Liberal” fascisti (gee, thanks, Jonah Goldberg, for pointing out that fascism has always been a movement of the socialist left) can no more allow Texas – or other states – to secede today than the tariff-obsessed Republicans of 1860 could allow Charleston and New Orleans to become duty-free seaports to serve the commerce of the American economy.

   The “Liberal” fascists survive right now only on their ability to tax whatever productive enterprise they don’t strangle with Luddite regulations and pillage with Federal Reserve currency debauchment. Allowing ANYONE to escape such plunder and suppression would show our parlor pinkos for the bureaucratically paralyzed equivalent of the old, extinct German Democratic Republic, Stasi and all.

   Let Texas and the rest of the productive sector of our society leave the “Liberals” to starve and freeze to death in the dark.
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    Astolat said, 6 months ago

    Jerusalem without checkpoints? Not quite sure I get that; there aren’t checkpoints between West and East Jerusalem (though the invisible line is still very real). From Jerusaelm to the West Bank is another story, having had the experience of coming in from Ramallah through Kalandia this year.

    But if that is what Austin is like, I assume that the UT Austin is steadily being surrounded by ranch-style houses full of Bubbas in ten-gallon hats, flying confederate flags, and blasting out country music that drowns the mournful singer-songwriters playing accoustic sets in the student bar…?
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    DylanThomas3.14159 said, 6 months ago

    @Tucci

    “Let … the productive sector of our society leave the “Liberals” to starve and freeze to death in the dark.”
    

    
    Well, this isn’t exactly forced sterilization, but if starving us and freezing us doesn’t work — as it didn’t in Nazi Germany (before Himmler’s gas chambers) — then can sterilization be far behind? (I won’t go any further with this line of argument, even though it would be logical to do so.) What Tucci’s post self-illuminates is the rightwing mindset. But is he embarrassed? Ask him.
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    DylanThomas3.14159 said, 6 months ago

    @Tucci

    Fascism has to do with quashing democracy and with linking government to big business, with one ruling the other.
    

    
    In the current U.S. case, the Republicans want — and are very nearly succeeding — to get big business to rule the government. This is the reverse of what happened in Europe in WWII and its buildup. But it’s still a form of fascism.
    

    
    In Nazi Germany’s case, fascist dictator Adolf Hitler ruled big business. In fascist Italy’s case, dictator Benito Mussolini did the same.
    

    
    In fascist Jonah Goldberg’s case, well, he’s only a wannabe anyway.
    

    
    In YOUR case, Tucci, if you waddle like a wannabe fascist duck-tater, quack like a wannabe fascist duck-tater, etc., as you are doing and have been doing on Doonesbury commentary for some time, then . . . .
    

    
    Let the good readers here make up their own minds.
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    Ensoh said, 6 months ago

    @Tucci: You’re more than welcome to leave anytime, taking Texas with you if y’all can read the map. Puerto Rico should more than make up the difference – in I.Q. – and they speak a pretty language, to boot.
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    vwdualnomand said, 6 months ago

    texas has always been a weird place.
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    DylanThomas3.14159 said, 6 months ago

    “Why bother? With abortion ….” “No eugenics are necessary.”
    

    
    Seig heil! But can we count on you? What if you change your mind? What if we can’t trust you, Mein Führer?
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