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The Texas state government just pardoned a guy who drove a car into a blm protest. And it's regularly limiting access to women's healthcare and lgbtq healthcar

• ptsneves 2y ago
  This! I can’t accept forgiving murder. I don’t know Texas much but it now is a place where a racist kills a person and gets out of jail forgiven. From a moral point of view I don’t know how the governor and its constituents can look themselves in the mirror. Murder is murder.
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• silverquiet 2y ago
  Lifetime Texan here. Ten years ago I would have said that Texas was a model for rational conservative governance (and I would have said it with a tinge of grudging respect as someone who's personal politics drift in the other direction), but I will not say that now; eventually the lunacy crept in, and nothing good is going to come of it.
• hn_throwaway_99 2y ago
  > The Texas state government just pardoned a guy who drove a car into a blm protest. And to clarify, that guy was convicted of murder for shooting a protestor. His defense was that the protestor was carrying an AK-47, but Texas (notoriously) allows open carry, the guy even corroborated witness reports that the protestor wasn't aiming at him ("I believe he was going to aim at me. I didn’t want to give him a chance to aim at me."), and he had a history of racist text/Facebook messages that threatened violence against protestors and black people. The dude went looking to kill BLM protestors and Abbott let him off scot free.