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[–] [email protected] 47 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Sounds like a good law. The comments on the article are absolutely unhinged.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 16 hours ago

My personal favorite.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Heh these are fun.

Edit: Hmm, I made 3 comments yet only 1 shows up. I wonder if they’re actively deleting anything that doesn’t fit the Trump narrative. All 3 appear if I’m logged, very shadowbanny.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I should have believed you

[–] [email protected] 21 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Wish me luck I am too curious about how delulu people are

Edit: That was a mistake, that is weapons grade stupidity

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago

I think my ad blocking somewhere broke their comment section, don't get to see the MAGAt craziness today ig :(

[–] [email protected] 23 points 15 hours ago

From the…comments?

WELL, IF ALIENS FROM SPACE, THEY WONT FIND ANY INTELLIGENT LIFE THERE.

Gold Jerry—gold!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

unless they are mobilized by the president.

So is this purely performative or is there some case where this would somehow be relevant?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The state only has so much authority.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

They have as much authority as they can get away with claiming. Since the president is brazenly defying laws, courts, and the constitution, there’s no reason states shouldn’t push for more autonomy, even if that autonomy may be legally contentious.

But really that’s beside the point. If the state government is too afraid to take a meaningful stand on this, they should focus their attention on other pressing issues instead of passing meaningless laws that make people feel better without materially changing anything.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago

But meaningless laws that only make people feel better is all poloticians know how to do.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

So what happens when Little t mobilizes troops to go to Washington State? Does Washington National Guard fight them?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I think they would. There's a lot of regionalism, if that's a word, here in Washington. We are Washingtonians first.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

I gotta ask, are you from the west side or east side of the state? Because being over on the east side, the people more closely align with Idaho. I see way too many "Trump" signs for what was the only state to lean more blue this election (but only because the west side pulled us that hard).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago

WA has a state guard (the other half the second amendment) so they could just move them to there

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago

Sounds like a good idea. Not that it'll stop them when they declare the insurrection act

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago

The article specifies that Montana and Texas already do this, so it's unlikely to cause much of a stir.

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

It's just our governor and legislature trying to protect us. I'm glad to be in Washington.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

But it isn't. It just peice of puff legislation. It has an exemption for if the pres mobilizes the troops.