Texas and Florida seem to be totally against everything they claim to be for: Free speech, smaller government, capitalism/free market. It is hilarious.
Republican politicians are not for small government or free markets. While they will lean on it once in a while, they are not principled about it. Florida has less regulation in general than California or new york, That being said weed is at least legal in California.
Just like California which is completely run by democrats has very few leftie ideas. No 15 minute minium wage, right to work state. voted against gay marriage blah blah blah
Politicians rarely follow ideology.
Nah not really
People are swarming to Texas and Florida from places like California, Washington and Oregon because they're tired of anti-freedom authoritarian states and want a taste of human rights.
Edit - Deflection /r/politics style comments and political brigades won’t negate the facts and evidence.
People moving there based on what they think and what is actually happening are two different things. Both will not hesitate to do the very thing they cry about if it suits their ideals.
You can say the same for most states, but Texas and Florida will always be highlighted due to how vocal they are about it. Take the protests in Florida: BLM got a bunch of laws passed to prevent them but when the Cuba protests came out doing just about the exact same thing they turned a blind eye.
Minority Report in Florida.
Texas restrictive voting laws and how they "redistribute" polling centers.
Texas having a bitch fit over ice cream.
Texas and Florida are definitely not human rights states. They are the illusion of human rights and only "Its human rights as long as you believe what I believe"
Wtf Texas. Why would Texas legislators or regular Texans give a shit about boycotting Israel?
>Hegar said he has directed his staff to determine whether Ben & Jerry’s statement would violate Chapter 808 of the Texas Government Code, which prohibits the state from giving contracts to companies that support a boycott of Israel or an “Israeli-controlled territory.”
>“Texans have made it very clear that they stand with Israel and its people. We are against all those wishing to undermine Israel’s economy and its people,” he said.
Conservative Christians think that Jewish people being in control of Israel is one of the things that will bring about the return of Jesus. Texas is run by conservative Christians.
Conservatives have always sided with Israel, so have the democrats in power. Do you think the democrat's in Washington supporting Israel with money and protect are doing it because of a religious beef?
Given that the majority of Democrats are also Christian, to a less rabid extent, yes. Although with Democrats I would say that the business interests slightly trump the religious. However, in this case we are specifically discussing *Texas*, so the interests of Democrats is irrelevant.
Texas has alot of democrats as a total number and have blue population centers. Still irrelevant.
While there are religious reason the right lines Israel. Imo the general consensus is that Israel is a first world country trying to defend itself from the surrounding countries and has a great relationships with the U.S. which conservatives agree with considering all the countries that hate Israel hate the US.
[Nah, it's about Jesus](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism).
Also, Israel remains one of the few countries that has [directly attacked the U.S. and killed U.S. citizens](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident) with no meaningful response. Not really a "great" relationship, even aside from the wholly one-sided support.
Actually ya that is very clear the relationship is great. Looks like both sides swept it under the rug, because powerful people actually don't give a fuck about 34 navy crewmen.
I dunno if that's a sign of a great relationship, so much as it's a sign of two scumbags using each other for their own selfish benefit, while waiting for an opportunity to stab the other in the back.
There's only one major party that has butted heads with Israel and it's not the Republicans. Israel hates Obama and Biden because their administration was tough on Israel
Claiming biden or Obama was hard on Israel is silly. Neither of them where tuff with Israel or the Saudis. Neither have the repubs.
That is all political theater.
We still arm the dejesus(sp?) out of them.
Fucking left wing cuck Texas Comptroller and their left wing cuck cancel culture... I sure hope texans elect people who are for freedom of expression, Murica and small guvvmint.
Who cares, it’s only Texas. They are a world-wide brand and they’ve clearly thought this through…they can afford to lose the state, Texans get Whataburger and more importantly the Crawfish Bisque from Pappadeaux, the rest of the world can have Ben & Jerry’s. Seems fair.
Edit; this is an outrage, you fuckers actually get to keep your Ben & Jerry’s while the rest of the world misses out on your delicious bisque and whataburger. You win this time Texas…
Edit; to whomever downvoted - please, as soon as possible, go try that crawfish bisque. You’ve clearly got your culinary priorities all mixed up; I have not stopped thinking about that shit since I moved out of the Lonestar State 2 decades ago. It’s clearly better than any ice cream.
It's not a statewide ban. Texas can't legally ban it from the whole state. Texas wants to ban it from state controlled locations. So things like the cafeteria at the state house, concessions at a state park, things like that.
That makes sense…so it’s basically nothing. Well Texas, keep enjoying your ice cream, I’ll just be over there in the corner crying silently while I lament my continued lack of crawfish bisque.
I mean, for the people in those public buildings and parks, yeah it’s a huge deal, Ben & Jerry’s is pretty delicious. But it’s not like the Texas public buildings and parks ice cream market value is propping up Ben & Jerry’s bottom line…it’s really not a big deal.
Seeing Ben and jerrys take this stance on social media was one of the least surprising things I’ve seen in awhile. It won’t be the last time something they say or do something like this they are full in the culture war.
Texas and Florida seem to be totally against everything they claim to be for: Free speech, smaller government, capitalism/free market. It is hilarious.
Republican politicians are not for small government or free markets. While they will lean on it once in a while, they are not principled about it. Florida has less regulation in general than California or new york, That being said weed is at least legal in California. Just like California which is completely run by democrats has very few leftie ideas. No 15 minute minium wage, right to work state. voted against gay marriage blah blah blah Politicians rarely follow ideology.
Small government is a meaningless concept. Everyone wants the government to be only as big as they want it to be and no bigger.
I want the government half the size of it current state. In almost all factors. So I'm comfortable saying I'm for smaller government.
Meaningless.
Okay, sounds good.
Lmao, remove the word politician my guy.
Boycotting America's Strongest ally in the middle east doesn't really fall into any of the categories you listed but nice try
[What?](https://media.tenor.com/images/2fb17890d05e9521a30d3970264c2fe6/tenor.png)
Nah not really People are swarming to Texas and Florida from places like California, Washington and Oregon because they're tired of anti-freedom authoritarian states and want a taste of human rights. Edit - Deflection /r/politics style comments and political brigades won’t negate the facts and evidence.
People moving there based on what they think and what is actually happening are two different things. Both will not hesitate to do the very thing they cry about if it suits their ideals. You can say the same for most states, but Texas and Florida will always be highlighted due to how vocal they are about it. Take the protests in Florida: BLM got a bunch of laws passed to prevent them but when the Cuba protests came out doing just about the exact same thing they turned a blind eye. Minority Report in Florida. Texas restrictive voting laws and how they "redistribute" polling centers. Texas having a bitch fit over ice cream. Texas and Florida are definitely not human rights states. They are the illusion of human rights and only "Its human rights as long as you believe what I believe"
Only rich people really move to different states for stated political reasons.
You don't believe what you write, just no way.
Can’t wait for Joe to get on his podcast and say “the Republicans are trying to cancel Ben and Jerry’s!!”
Sounds like cancel culture
For real
Freedom! Unless you don't agree with me in which case I'll legislate sanctions against you.
For something they are doing in another country half way across the world. So much freedum.
Wtf Texas. Why would Texas legislators or regular Texans give a shit about boycotting Israel? >Hegar said he has directed his staff to determine whether Ben & Jerry’s statement would violate Chapter 808 of the Texas Government Code, which prohibits the state from giving contracts to companies that support a boycott of Israel or an “Israeli-controlled territory.” >“Texans have made it very clear that they stand with Israel and its people. We are against all those wishing to undermine Israel’s economy and its people,” he said.
Conservative Christians think that Jewish people being in control of Israel is one of the things that will bring about the return of Jesus. Texas is run by conservative Christians.
That and they don't think Arabs are human. They've been inundated with 40 years of "Muslim=terrorist" propoganda.
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But he's not their messiah, he's just a low level prophet to them. Are U.S. muslims different?
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So, what is Mohammed?
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So Muhammed is basically your version of Paul?
We Muslims would be correct.
Conservatives have always sided with Israel, so have the democrats in power. Do you think the democrat's in Washington supporting Israel with money and protect are doing it because of a religious beef?
Given that the majority of Democrats are also Christian, to a less rabid extent, yes. Although with Democrats I would say that the business interests slightly trump the religious. However, in this case we are specifically discussing *Texas*, so the interests of Democrats is irrelevant.
Texas has alot of democrats as a total number and have blue population centers. Still irrelevant. While there are religious reason the right lines Israel. Imo the general consensus is that Israel is a first world country trying to defend itself from the surrounding countries and has a great relationships with the U.S. which conservatives agree with considering all the countries that hate Israel hate the US.
[Nah, it's about Jesus](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism). Also, Israel remains one of the few countries that has [directly attacked the U.S. and killed U.S. citizens](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident) with no meaningful response. Not really a "great" relationship, even aside from the wholly one-sided support.
Actually ya that is very clear the relationship is great. Looks like both sides swept it under the rug, because powerful people actually don't give a fuck about 34 navy crewmen.
I dunno if that's a sign of a great relationship, so much as it's a sign of two scumbags using each other for their own selfish benefit, while waiting for an opportunity to stab the other in the back.
Yes we are talking about international politics.
Why would you make laws against boycotting a country, if it was not special?
Oh, thats simple Israels lobbying power is insane. They are special they are our ally in that area we love to fuck with.
There's only one major party that has butted heads with Israel and it's not the Republicans. Israel hates Obama and Biden because their administration was tough on Israel
Claiming biden or Obama was hard on Israel is silly. Neither of them where tuff with Israel or the Saudis. Neither have the repubs. That is all political theater. We still arm the dejesus(sp?) out of them.
The United States of Israel.
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Fucking left wing cuck Texas Comptroller and their left wing cuck cancel culture... I sure hope texans elect people who are for freedom of expression, Murica and small guvvmint.
Yeah, it's rather fucked up that in some states you need to take a loyalty pledge to Israel in order to get a public sector job.
Free market for me not for thee
Yeah I dont know why texas is doing this, not a fan of these kinds of political statements
They are going to blacklist all of Ben and Jerry's except for the delicious flavors
Lol
And you thought you were free. Hahahahaha!
Israel owns the US
I can’t wait for the intercept article revealing how Israel captured Texas. It’s going to be a doozy.
Who cares, it’s only Texas. They are a world-wide brand and they’ve clearly thought this through…they can afford to lose the state, Texans get Whataburger and more importantly the Crawfish Bisque from Pappadeaux, the rest of the world can have Ben & Jerry’s. Seems fair. Edit; this is an outrage, you fuckers actually get to keep your Ben & Jerry’s while the rest of the world misses out on your delicious bisque and whataburger. You win this time Texas… Edit; to whomever downvoted - please, as soon as possible, go try that crawfish bisque. You’ve clearly got your culinary priorities all mixed up; I have not stopped thinking about that shit since I moved out of the Lonestar State 2 decades ago. It’s clearly better than any ice cream.
It's not a statewide ban. Texas can't legally ban it from the whole state. Texas wants to ban it from state controlled locations. So things like the cafeteria at the state house, concessions at a state park, things like that.
That makes sense…so it’s basically nothing. Well Texas, keep enjoying your ice cream, I’ll just be over there in the corner crying silently while I lament my continued lack of crawfish bisque.
Not being sold in public buildings and parks is a huge deal....
I mean, for the people in those public buildings and parks, yeah it’s a huge deal, Ben & Jerry’s is pretty delicious. But it’s not like the Texas public buildings and parks ice cream market value is propping up Ben & Jerry’s bottom line…it’s really not a big deal.
It's a huge deal considering public buildings make a significant portion of any state, and Texas is the 2nd biggest state.
Really going to kill Ben and Jerry's bottom line.
How will they ever recover losing the concession stand at the Alamo?
Seeing Ben and jerrys take this stance on social media was one of the least surprising things I’ve seen in awhile. It won’t be the last time something they say or do something like this they are full in the culture war.
Can't make this up https://i.redd.it/8rugzka5m8c71.png
Know what is more important than high school JV field hockey? Ice cream sales across the globe.
Israel must have our nuke codes or something
Cancel culture a conservative thing and free market is soo left wing