• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    If they do not comply, the state and federal government will step in.

    So the defense is, to avoid having state and federal jackboots come in, the only solution is to put on jackboots yourself and become part of the problem?

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      13 hours ago

      You misunderstood. I don’t mean that the state or the feds will send their own people. I mean that they will literally take the police control away from the city government. The Texas legislature has been very close to doing so a number of times before I left because the city did not want to brutalize the homeless population.

      The rest of the country has no idea how much and how often Austin city council butts heads with the state. Liberal council and a fascist state sharing the same.downtown area. The state legislature loves to abuse the city as a way to parade their anti-woke agenda to their rural magats.

      Don’t even get me started on the gerrymandering of Austin.

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        9 hours ago

        You misunderstood. I don’t mean that the state or the feds will send their own people. I mean that they will literally take the police control away from the city government.

        If they already have the local police doing their dirty work, haven’t they already effectively done that?