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minus-squarepeopleproblems@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24·5 months agoI always wondered how quick that would go down. 72 hours seems quick, but I guess they wouldn’t really encounter actual resistance.
minus-squarekautau@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up33arrow-down1·5 months agoYeah “muh guns” are pretty useless against predator drones and air support
minus-squarePugJesus@kbin.socialOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down2·5 months agoWe did Baghdad in a month; we could do Austin in three days.
minus-squareraynethackery@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·5 months agoBarring the State politicians, I thought Austin was majority Democrat?
minus-squarePugJesus@kbin.socialOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down2·5 months agoProbably, but nothing makes a statement like taking a regime’s capital.
minus-squareskeptomaticlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 months agoThat might crash the beard oil and red suspenders industries…
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-25 months agoBoth of which are much better for the world than the current main industries of Texas: fossil fuels and fascism.
minus-squarebitwaba@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoHouston is the 4th largest city in the country, and generates a shitload of oil revenue. That’s way more important than Austin.
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agomakes it real easy to justify liberating it then, doesn’t it? most of the people living there want to remain part of the US.
I always wondered how quick that would go down.
72 hours seems quick, but I guess they wouldn’t really encounter actual resistance.
Yeah “muh guns” are pretty useless against predator drones and air support
We did Baghdad in a month; we could do Austin in three days.
Barring the State politicians, I thought Austin was majority Democrat?
Probably, but nothing makes a statement like taking a regime’s capital.
That might crash the beard oil and red suspenders industries…
Both of which are much better for the world than the current main industries of Texas: fossil fuels and fascism.
Houston is the 4th largest city in the country, and generates a shitload of oil revenue. That’s way more important than Austin.
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.