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[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I always wondered how quick that would go down.

72 hours seems quick, but I guess they wouldn't really encounter actual resistance.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago

Yeah “muh guns” are pretty useless against predator drones and air support

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We did Baghdad in a month; we could do Austin in three days.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Barring the State politicians, I thought Austin was majority Democrat?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Probably, but nothing makes a statement like taking a regime's capital.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That might crash the beard oil and red suspenders industries..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Both of which are much better for the world than the current main industries of Texas: fossil fuels and fascism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Houston is the 4th largest city in the country, and generates a shitload of oil revenue. That's way more important than Austin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

makes it real easy to justify liberating it then, doesn't it? most of the people living there want to remain part of the US.