Can we just get rid of Texas? 

"El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!" (lightningzone) 05/03/2015 at 14:45 • Filed to: None

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Any State who !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! to monitor a special forces training operation, because Obama wants to declare martial law to take over that state, can’t really be trusted.

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I’m sick of the bad name, Texas gives to the rest of America.

Can you imagine a president of independent Texas hold a speech at the UN?

I bet it would be a lot like this paranoid psycho.

For Sweden > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/03/2015 at 14:51

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to much edge please send help

Snooder87 > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/03/2015 at 14:52

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Why does his title have to be President? Why not break new ground, and get a fresh name for the head of state. I’d leave it as Governor. Or alternatively, call him Head Ranger.

LongbowMkII > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/03/2015 at 14:52

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They’d just beg to be readmitted after 9 years and their economy is non-existent. Again.

El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! > For Sweden 05/03/2015 at 14:54

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No humor, much?

You know Oppo is also about treating things in a rather humorous way. You should know, you’re a mod.

For Sweden > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/03/2015 at 14:54

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Yes, there is no humor here.

TheHondaBro > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/03/2015 at 14:57

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Umm, can we not?

CTSenVy > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/03/2015 at 15:00

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But if we get rid of Texas, we get rid of Austin. If we get rid of Austin, we get rid of COTA.

Fred Smith > For Sweden 05/03/2015 at 15:00

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This is true. Humor was banned in the Great Mod Discussions of 2013.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/03/2015 at 15:03

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All you Muricans are crazy, splitting up the crazy wont do anything.

Fred Smith > CTSenVy 05/03/2015 at 15:04

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You say that like it is a bad thing.

CTSenVy > Fred Smith 05/03/2015 at 15:05

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The loss of a race track is a bad thing, the loss of a race track that close to so many good restaurants is a very bad thing.

Fred Smith > CTSenVy 05/03/2015 at 15:07

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Good point on the restaurants. COTA CAN STAY.

El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! > CTSenVy 05/03/2015 at 15:10

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It’s a race track. We can build others. Racing series come after the bigger market.

El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 05/03/2015 at 15:11

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How’s Scotland?

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/03/2015 at 15:14

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Cold and rainy I assume.

El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! > Snooder87 05/03/2015 at 15:17

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Chuck Norris would win that position all the time.

And he would deport all Asian people. Because they remind him of how bad Bruce Lee kicked his ass.

EL_ULY > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/03/2015 at 15:38

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oh well. We´ll still be the 15th largest economy, have largest medical center in the world, and still be the energy capital of the world. Plus WEC, MotoGP, V8 Supercars, NASCAR, and F1. Peace out loosers :]

Anon > Fred Smith 05/03/2015 at 16:05

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Ah, The Great Mod Discussion of 2013, what a time it was to be alive.

El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! > EL_ULY 05/03/2015 at 16:10

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Like I said, International racing series follow the bigger market. You can keep Nascar and large trucks, and good luck negotiating entering NAFTA again, when you hate all its members.

Getting serious, you need to stop electing crazy people like that into positions of power.

Snooder87 > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/03/2015 at 16:30

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Not all Asians. Just the Chinese. Gotta keep the Japanese happy or Toyota will stop selling us Toyota Tundras.

jariten1781 > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/03/2015 at 16:59

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Everyone outside the state is spinning this oddly. He has a bunch of nuts who think something is up. In order to keep them on a low simmer rather than boiling over he asked the state guard to watch the exercise. That keeps the nuts placated and as a side bonus allows the guard to witness the newest strategies and comms tactics so it’s really a decent education exercise at little fiscal cost to the citizens as well.

He doesn’t believe in the conspiracy theory, he isn’t trying to sucede, he still supports the US military...it’s actually a pretty savvy idea even though they royally boned up the PR.

boxrocket > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/03/2015 at 17:19

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I'd rather break up Texas into five states, same with California and perhaps New York. While I'm at it, statehood for D.C., Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Canada. And the country's capitol moves to somewhere in the middle-ish of the continent/country.

BKosher84 > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/03/2015 at 17:25

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Give them back to Mexico..

EL_ULY > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/03/2015 at 17:48

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lolz :]

Clown Shoe Pilot > EL_ULY 05/03/2015 at 18:01

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We’ve got nukes too! And a factory to make more of them if necessary. And we’ve got all the Helium.

EL_ULY > Clown Shoe Pilot 05/03/2015 at 18:04

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This is correct. Your move Delaware, what’s up!

DrJohannVegas > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/03/2015 at 19:25

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(Doc actually doesn’t dislike Texas.)

coqui70 > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/03/2015 at 20:01

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Relax the way he’s going he’s out in the next election, or before - he’s liable to get impeached soon.

El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! > coqui70 05/03/2015 at 20:19

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Yeah, but that’s the same state who elected Rick Perry a few times, and with Citizens United still in place, it means that money will talk in the next election, too.

bhardoin > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/03/2015 at 21:01

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What if instead we just all stayed as a Union, but this time we all stopped using mindless rehashed buzzwords and respected each others differences of opinion? And then we could vote in Congressmen and Senators that were encouraged by their voting bases to compromise, and progress as a nation. People might even want to become more involved in the democratic processes that govern their lives if they had some hope that their representatives actually represented their constituencies and not their highest bidding campaign donors. Hell, people may even end up watching and reading educational, non-sensationalist media to inform themselves, and feedback positively into the process!

One can dream?

coqui70 > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/03/2015 at 21:26

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Money talks both ways ... shift too far left or right and you start loosing money. No one in Texas wants that.

El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! > bhardoin 05/03/2015 at 21:53

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Not until lobbying is outlawed, and politicians listen to people instead of corporations. But that won’t happen because everyone and their grandma has a lobbyist.

bhardoin > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 05/04/2015 at 00:07

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outlawed reformed. Lobbying has its place - no member of congress is going to be an expert in every field. I think in an ideal world, it would be lobbyists from each side would present the facts to representatives who may have their hearts in the right place but not fully understand an issue. Like, I wouldn’t expect a congressman to know the ins and outs of how auto efficiency standards affect the industry. But I would expect and welcome automakers and ecologists to make reasoned arguments for each side to lobby politicians into making a reasoned decision.

The problem is that if lobbyists just pay politicians off instead of convincing them then its up to money and not who has the best argument. Luckily for us (guuh) that’ll probably continue happen for ages, because what politician is going to be able to raise campaign dollars on a platform of campaign finance reform?

Brian, The Life of > jariten1781 05/04/2015 at 12:34

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So he doesn’t have the balls to stand up to to irrational, basically treasonous assholes? Some “leader.”

And the “learn by watching” bit is laughable at best.

For Sweden > boxrocket 05/04/2015 at 16:39

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Statehood for Canada is a good plan

boxrocket > For Sweden 05/04/2015 at 17:03

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Precisely. It's not like the UK is doing anything with it. Plus maybe their ideas about medicine will spread to the rest of the country, eh?

For Sweden > boxrocket 05/04/2015 at 17:05

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Eh, I don’t see Americans wanting to wait months to see a specialist.