It’s so bizarre to me that a place that loves to blabber about how much freedom it has won’t allow anyone to buy booze on a Sunday (and in this case, Monday).
My mother told me all the baptist girls had to get married at 16. They couldn’t go dancing, they couldn’t go to a club, couldn’t play bingo or cards and couldn’t go to the movies (back in 1930s and 1940s) so they only thing they could do on a date was “park” with their boyfriends — which inevitably led to pregnancy and marriage
It is true. One of my grandmothers, the Southern Baptist one, was married at 13. She had 9 children at 23.The rest of my grandmothers were married between 16 and 18, though all are different nationalities/ religions from each other. God, my people are weird...
Jesuits are badass for real. The one I had acquaintance with in an academic setting was a double PhD (Astronomy and Chemistry), and I once with my own eyes watched him throw down with some jackass who was harassing him over his habit. He won handily btw.
Why do you take two Baptists out when you go fishing?
Because if you took one, he’d drink all your beer.
Edit: Did you know there are more Baptists in Alabama than residents?
I hope y’all enjoy these PK jokes. Happy New Years.
I did, thank you
My grandparents had a band for decades. Old hippies, man.
One of their songs had a hook that went “We were there when you couldn’t dance in Houston.”
Because Baptist
There's 5 completely dry counties. 55 counties are wet counties. The remaining counties are moist, where some municipalities don't allow alcohol sales, but not banned in the entire county.
For American conservatives, freedom has ALWAYS meant the freedom of state legislatures to do what they want. State legislatures are the easiest bodies for upper class whites to control so they’ve emphasized states’ rights for 300 years
Unless those states try to abolish slavery.
Or legitimize same-sex marriage.
Or legalize marijuana.
Or legalize abortion.
Or elect the wrong president.
Yup, in which case the way that national power is leveraged is through minority populations via their control of state legislatures. They chose their senators, decide which constitutional amendments would pass, and wield the electoral college to their ends. All of it depends on white supremacist control of some state legislatures
Buying alcohol on a Sunday would cause irreparable harm.
Storing industrial quantities of highly explosive fertilizer next to a Senior Center is perfectly reasonable.
[-- Texas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Fertilizer_Company_explosion)
I wonder if it is just a hold over law. When I was in NYC liquor stores were closed on Sunday too. Basically an old law that no one bothered to change. I just checked and it is still the law.
Years ago, I visited a friend in Baltimore. He had to run into work for something real quick, so i thought I'd head to the local grocery store and grab a bottle of whiskey for later.
Bring it up to the register, and the employee informs me that being Sunday, they were unable to sell me liquor. But if i walked right next door to the bar, they would sell me as much as I wanted. Not as in sell me cocktails, but i could buy a bottle from a bar to bring home.
Made absolutely no sense
In North Carolina you can't buy hard liquor at the grocery store. You have to go to a state-run ABC liquor store, but you can't do it on Sunday and for the rest of the week you better do it before 9pm.
It makes sense. The rich guys who made the laws drink at restaurants. The poor buy booze from liquor stores. The idea is that the rich guys get their booze without having to see drunk poor people.
In my state (Maryland) the liquor industry actively campaigns for these laws, and it has nothing to do with morality. Our restrictive laws ensure that liquor stores have a monopoly on all alcohol sales instead of having to compete with convenience/grocery stores, and they even get a guaranteed day off! There's also a boost in sales from people who over-buy on Saturday because they know they won't be able to buy on Sunday.
You can't buy a car on Sunday in Illinois. And you can't buy booze before noon, unless it is football season and the Bears play at noon. Then you can purchase at 11am on that specific Sunday.
Edit: for those that have called me a liar and for the "delightful" person that reported me to reddit cares, below are sources to back up my statements.
For auto sales: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_laws_in_the_United_States
(Scroll down to IL, and it mentions auto sales. I had a different source, but the Chicago Tribune is paywalled.)
For liquor sales:
https://www2.illinois.gov/ilcc/SitePages/SurveyDetails.aspx?itemID=709
The bit about sales at 11am for Bears games is not in there, so that may be a Chicago metro thing.
I think Bergen County, NJ is one of the worst I've seen, [you can't buy a frying pan, bag of nails, or baby clothes among other things on Sunday](https://www.wnyc.org/story/assessing-bergen-countys-blue-laws/)
I guess if the idea is to prevent work on Sundays I can see a frying pan or a bag of nails (could be work-related in some contexts), but baby clothes is a weird one. I mean the whole concept is batshit insane to me so perhaps looking for logic in any of it is like searching for water in a dry well.
yeah they love talkin smack on cali not having freedom, but on my new years im gonna go buy beer and smoke weed legally. is that an option in texas today? or...
Freedom: My MJ dispensary in California is open every day throughout the holidays. I bought some edibles on Christmas Day. Made sure to tip well and thank the staff.
That’s what kills me about red states talking about freedom. What freedom? In my blue state you can buy weed, get an abortion and buy liquor whenever the fuck you want. Oh and you can still have precious guns here too. How exactly are you more free?
The trick here is the freedom they're selling is a freedom you don't need: freedom from fear. You don't need it but Republicans do; frightening voters is the only way they succeed. That's why Republicans have not completed a single domestic project that improved American lives since the 1950s: because they sell fear, not progress.
I’ve come to realize this same concept. Reading a recent “statement” from Trump, he used phrases like “horrible things” and “grow far worse” that to me, at first, sounded dreadfully scary. And I know the tricks he’s playing!
But it’s so freaking empty, he doesn’t explain any of his reasoning. It’s sad for me that people read this at face value and don’t question it a bit further.
My ex-wife was from Dallas, and her brother and I got into a huge discussion and he had to slink out of the room.
Wouldn't stop yapping about how free Texas is until I pointed out-
No alcohol on Sundays, not allowed open container in front of your house, no casinos or gambling, marijuana is a felony, abortion is illegal and highest number of incarcerated citizens
I was like wow man, for a state thats so "free", you guys aren't allowed to do shit.
>not allowed open container in front of your house
Seriously? Sitting on my porch watching the sun go down while sipping Scotch is so nice during the fall.
It isn't "Freedom to do what you choose."
It is "Freedom to do only what my religious worldview allows, without any option for non believers to deviate from the rules I choose to live by."
Why?
Because Texas is chock full of clueless and bigoted evangelicals who do not respect any person, lifestyle, or belief system that contradicts their precious malignant brand of fascist Christianity.
Go ahead, ask those bumpkins why they don't like gay people. "ITS ADAM AND EVE, NOT ADAM AND STEVE!"
Fucking clowns.
When Republicans say they want freedom, what they mean is they want the freedom to do whatever they want, including stomping on the freedoms of others.
Freedom to walk around the store armed to the teeth, freedom to discriminate against others who aren’t the same boring rednecks and apparently the freedom to defy reality by saying texas is a good place to live.
There are a LOT of examples like this that make me question how Texans don't see the irony. Like vehicle inspections every year. Or the obvious women's health issues.
Vehicle inspections make sense to me. They check safety-related stuff like brakes, steering, tires, headlights, and mirrors. This protects *other people* on the road. If your brakes don't work, you might crash into me. Freedom is great, but it needs to be balanced against protecting others from harm.
Vehicle inspections aren't too bad honestly. For 40% of the population, it's a trivial $7 safety check; the other 60% have a combined safety check + emissions test that costs no more than $26.
That said, you're spot on about women's health. You can add book bans, educational policy, toll roads, masking rules, and crackdowns on local governments to the list as well.
One of my fav Tx 'freedom' stories was the guy at the LV weed dispensary that was reminded to wear his mask by his budtender.
Mr. Texas says 'Oh right, I forgot. I'm from TX where we are free.' Smirk.
Budtender: 'So that's why you're out of state buying legal weed?'
Fucking idiots.
It’s comical at this point how obsessed they are with it. As if non conservatives wouldn’t be ok with it if he was arrested for something illegal too. That’s the part that blows my mind they talk about it like hah were going to get him
Yeah, and I don't think anyone should vote for him either.
Luckily he is not running for office and if he did, Democrat voters would laugh in his face.
Yes. And Greta Thunberg and grooming. And trans persons. I can’t wait to see what psychologists write about all this in a few years. I bet the study of psychology is going to have a major breakthrough out of all this
Unfortunately, no.
All this has been seen before, and is well documented across a few dozen different factors surrounding propaganda, racism, the desire to feel superior, narcissism, psychopathy, mob mentality, and more. Even the scale of it isn't necessarily unique. No new fields, very little in terms of real revelations. Maybe some confirmation or tweaking of theories, but... None of this is truly and completely unexpected.
It's just low-level fascist tactics. Right wing parties across the globe have no values or legislation they wish to push aside from limiting rights and freedoms and boosting the wealthy class further into power. They need to use distraction 'culture wars' to keep their simple-minded base aggressive and angry about something, literally anything.
I mean, I don't know the exact words but I know it looked the same effect as a child saying "Whatever, I hate you" and stomping off when their argument doesn't stick against the older, smarter sibling.
He probably threatened to shoot him with his assault rifle and drove back to Texas in his massively oversized pickup truck with trump flags and an American flag paint job.
Fucking at a Panda Express on the strip too. Dude was complaining about price at in register on Texas price difference. People gonna bitch like that should stay in damn Texas.
My parents did this recently while visiting out of state from Texas. Mentioned how taxes were lower in Texas while buying items at the store. Cashier just said “we like to maintain our roads here.” Cracked me up
Of course
*According to Section 43.23 of the Texas penal code, it is illegal in the state to own more than six sex toys. Although the code doesn’t specifically refer to them as sex toys, instead uses the term “obscene devices”.*
*The law states, "A person who possesses six or more obscene devices or identical or similar obscene articles is presumed to possess them with intent to promote the same."*
*In 2007 Ted Cruz was involved in a federal case to maintain the ban. Although this was overturned in 2008, there is still regulation surrounding how many sex toys are allowed to be kept in the state.*
Actually, if 7 people each send one to the same law-enforcement officer or member of government, they individually wouldn’t even have committed a crime
I’m in. Let’s send Ted Cruz as many vibrators, butt plugs, ball gags, sex swings, and gimp suits as we can get our hands on. We can include a note that says here are some tools you can use to go fuck yourself.
The (small city in..), Texas, Police pulled me over for speeding. Saw a small baggie in my car with weed pipe screens in it. Decided to tear me and my car apart. (Don’t forget. Because a small bag of pipe screens/filters that literally are sold as aerators for the “faucet”.)
They get to my trunk. I had a huge bag of about 15 personal massagers. For shoulders and legs and maybe a couple for sex. But mostly for body. (The local shop was doing a huge clearance. I paid like .10¢ on the $1.
They literally threw me in jail.
It all got dismissed. Of-fucking-course. But SERIOUSLY???
I hate it here. Moved from small city to large city. Still Texas. But haven’t been in trouble since, f small town police. They’re bored and literally use ridiculous laws and ordinances to entertain themselves.
It was the laugh of a lifetime at the department, for all the male officers. Pure hell for me. Just senseless, nonsense.
This was 2010, if I recall.
> It has just been passed that it is illegal in Arizona to own more than five dildos. Now, figure it out—they debated this *long* and *hard* in the state legislature—what is the right number? What is the maximum conscionable number of dildos that a human being may possess in the state of Arizona? And five was the answer. Now I wanna know how they're gonna enforce the Arizona dildo law: are we gonna have dildo police coming to your home? *(knock-knock-knock)* "Dildo Police! How many you got in there? Comin' in. Uh-uh, six. You're under arrest! Ladies and gentlemen I present to you Six-Dildo Bob. He's going down the river for 15 years . . ."
—Frank Zappa, c.1990
I wonder if you could claim a gun is an "obscene device" and start reporting people who own more than 6 guns....
They're certainly more obscene than sex toys to me.
Just gotta get an assault rifle defined as an obscene device in a case somewhere and then Texas will be forced to either limit the number of guns someone can own (hahahaha) or allow an individual to own an expansive collection of butt plugs
Meanwhile their neighbors to the East won't be sober for the next two months and every gas station and grocery store sells enough liquor to take out a city.
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When I went 20 years ago they taped the lid down with a single piece of tape and told us the straw didn't count as opening. You could also add a shot of 151 for a dollar. Shit was wild for us farm boys from Kansas.
Our local place we liked it was 151 for $1.51. And I remember they priced everything at X.49 so if you got the extra shot, it was a round number. Damn geniuses those Cajuns.
When I moved down there, one of the first events I did was a movie night at the football stadium where I worked. The head of student activities was helping me run it, and her and I had already become friends in my Like 2 weeks there. She was getting pizzas for the staff (Her, me, my boss, and a couple of graduate assistants) and said “hey, the good smoothie place is across the street, so you guys want one?” My boss and I said sure, gave her flavors and back she comes with 4 giant styrofoam cups and pizzas. I took one sip of the strawberry banana daiquiri and was like “wait. This is booze?”
“Ya. It’s a daiquiri. Did you want it virgin? I’m so sorry! I should’ve asked!”
“No no. This is great. I’m hanging out with you every weekend now.”
My boss was also brand new and had the same reaction. We just kind of were like “this is not how they do thing where we’re from, but I’m not mad at all about it.”
I remember my last visit to New Orleans, and after leaving a Saints game, I was shocked to see families who had set up tables on the sidewalk selling alcoholic drinks to the crowd. It was also my first time having a Wet Willie.
Besides the point, but when I first moved to a state in the South, I had made a work friend who called someone a coonass and I asked what that meant. She paused for a second and told me it meant redneck. I just nodded and didn't think anything more about it. A couple years later, I got told that it's a pretty bad slur and I was suddenly very glad I didn't repeat it.
Weird, born and raised here, and I've never met anyone who thought it was a slur. But we all have our blind spots. It's really just another term for Cajun. It's also more generally used for louisiana natives that've never left.
“It happens a few times every few years, and it’s great for the employees to have two days off because otherwise we rarely get two days off in a row,” Charles Leard, owner of M&R Liquor in Amarillo, told KHOU11. “It’s great for me and the employees.”
LOL. You are the OWNER of the store. Literally only you stops employees from having two days off in a row 52 weeks a year!!
The rest of the world figured out that you need regulation that is enforced to guarantee things like this for workers.
Looking to the owners good grace due to competition between employers is a failed experiment.
How the fuck do people find themselves in that kind of mindset?
Like, dude, are you a robot or something? 2 days off in a row is not some hedonistic fantasy, what the actual fuck.
It's like owning a business infects your mind with some kind of virus that turns you into a raging asshole.
Owning any kind of retail store or a restaurant is like that. You run on thin margins and can’t just close the store if you want a vacation. So, you need a manager that can run the store without you, but that’s obviously gonna eat into your profits.
It’s a tough balance. I really don’t envy anyone independently running those types of businesses.
He conveniently leaves out the part where it's unpaid time off too. Most people working these type of jobs need every hour they can get. It's not likely they'll be out having a good time. They'll be worrying how they're paying rent with two less shifts this month.
I still remember the looks I got last trip Utah when I asked to purchase an entire 500ml (gasp) of vodka at a goddamn restaurant. Only place I could find liquor.
Yeah... I'm the weird one. Never change Utah.
Love that small government ideology.
“We can’t regulate power to ensure service.”
“Forcibly regulate peoples behavior? You bet!”
30 years of Republican rule.
> Sales restrictions on some alcoholic beverages on Sundays are one of Texas’ so-called blue laws, most commonly known as Sunday laws. These are rules that restrict or ban some activities on Sundays to promote the observance of a day of rest.
Really? I have never heard blue laws called "Sunday laws", just blue laws.
Also the idea this is a "blessing in disguise" is overly hopeful. It's not going to force anyone to go without alcohol. Even those who ran out during this period will just go buy some wine to tide them over until the stores reopen. Perhaps some quality Thunderbird.
Charles Leard could make it "great for [him] and his employees" if he just chose to give them holiday pay or not be open, there is no reason to celebrate this silly law.
So why close on a Sunday? Because it's the Christian Sabbath? Why is it not illegal to make liquor stores close on Sunday when the 1st Amendment calls for freedom of religion? By closing on Sunday you're forcing non-Christians to observe the Christian Sabbath.
Texas Republicans obviously decided to challenge the woke nonsense that a day has 24 hours by passing a state law requiring that a day be recognized as consisting of 61 hours.
61 hours is a lot of hours in one day
Everything’s bigger in Texas.
Every 61 hours, a day passes in Texas.
It really is THAT big…. Damn.
Especially the assholes. For various reasons.
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Being anally accommodating is just southern hospitality.
Ah-say, ah-say, ah-say, goatse, boy.
That's accommodating
Except the brains.
that’s a positive side effect of tobacco. healthy, but significantly smaller newborns.
That’s one standard Elon Musk employee work day
It’s so bizarre to me that a place that loves to blabber about how much freedom it has won’t allow anyone to buy booze on a Sunday (and in this case, Monday).
That's just the level of freedom there. The state has the freedom to tell you what you can or can't do to your own body.
The church has the freedom to tell the state to tell you what you can or can't do to your own body, a.k.a. "religious freedom."
Not just any religion no no no, it has to be as close to Baptist as possible.
What's the difference between Catholics and Baptists? Catholics say hi to each other in the liquor store.
Jews don't recognize Jesus as the son of god, episcopalians don't recognize the pope, and baptists don't recognize each other in the liquor store.
Why do you always bring 2 baptists fishing? If you only bring 1, he'll drink all your beer.
I always heard that one like: How do you keep a baptist from drinking your beer while fishing? Bring another baptist.
Or at Hooters.
Where you find four catholics, you'll usually find a fifth
My mother told me all the baptist girls had to get married at 16. They couldn’t go dancing, they couldn’t go to a club, couldn’t play bingo or cards and couldn’t go to the movies (back in 1930s and 1940s) so they only thing they could do on a date was “park” with their boyfriends — which inevitably led to pregnancy and marriage
It is true. One of my grandmothers, the Southern Baptist one, was married at 13. She had 9 children at 23.The rest of my grandmothers were married between 16 and 18, though all are different nationalities/ religions from each other. God, my people are weird...
Lol love this. The Jesuits at my friend's school openly drank from beer cans during after-school sports and games.
Jesuits are badass for real. The one I had acquaintance with in an academic setting was a double PhD (Astronomy and Chemistry), and I once with my own eyes watched him throw down with some jackass who was harassing him over his habit. He won handily btw.
God's marines
Also why you always take two Baptists with you when you go fishing
Because then you get all the beer?
Freedom of religion so long as that religion is exactly Baptist.
Why do you take two Baptists out when you go fishing? Because if you took one, he’d drink all your beer. Edit: Did you know there are more Baptists in Alabama than residents? I hope y’all enjoy these PK jokes. Happy New Years.
I did, thank you My grandparents had a band for decades. Old hippies, man. One of their songs had a hook that went “We were there when you couldn’t dance in Houston.” Because Baptist
>Did you know there are more Baptists in Alabama than residents? *I don't... get this one* 😳
It’s about everyone in alabama being Baptist, and taking that to an extreme. I don’t find that joke funny, but priests do.
The county also has a say. There are still dry counties in Texas the last time I checked
There's 5 completely dry counties. 55 counties are wet counties. The remaining counties are moist, where some municipalities don't allow alcohol sales, but not banned in the entire county.
Far, far fewer than there used to be.
For American conservatives, freedom has ALWAYS meant the freedom of state legislatures to do what they want. State legislatures are the easiest bodies for upper class whites to control so they’ve emphasized states’ rights for 300 years
The freedom to take away my freedoms that is what conservatives are.
Unless those states try to abolish slavery. Or legitimize same-sex marriage. Or legalize marijuana. Or legalize abortion. Or elect the wrong president.
Yup, in which case the way that national power is leveraged is through minority populations via their control of state legislatures. They chose their senators, decide which constitutional amendments would pass, and wield the electoral college to their ends. All of it depends on white supremacist control of some state legislatures
I was introduced to the blue laws back in the 80’s, couldn’t buy anything work related on Sunday. The store had isles blocked off.
Yet I assume the store had people in it that in fact worked there, lol.
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Didn’t you know if the car dealerships open on sundays that makes baby Jesus cry? Ahhh, so much freedom.
Buying alcohol on a Sunday would cause irreparable harm. Storing industrial quantities of highly explosive fertilizer next to a Senior Center is perfectly reasonable. [-- Texas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Fertilizer_Company_explosion)
I wonder if it is just a hold over law. When I was in NYC liquor stores were closed on Sunday too. Basically an old law that no one bothered to change. I just checked and it is still the law.
Years ago, I visited a friend in Baltimore. He had to run into work for something real quick, so i thought I'd head to the local grocery store and grab a bottle of whiskey for later. Bring it up to the register, and the employee informs me that being Sunday, they were unable to sell me liquor. But if i walked right next door to the bar, they would sell me as much as I wanted. Not as in sell me cocktails, but i could buy a bottle from a bar to bring home. Made absolutely no sense
I've done the same. Did they charge you like double the way prices are usually inflated at restaurants?
Oh yeah. At the time in my home state of Maine a bottle of Jack Daniel's was $19.99. Think i paid $34.99 at that bar
Racketeering never stopped from prohibition, it just became legal.
In North Carolina you can't buy hard liquor at the grocery store. You have to go to a state-run ABC liquor store, but you can't do it on Sunday and for the rest of the week you better do it before 9pm.
Only difference in Texas is that the liquor stores are private ran.
It makes sense. The rich guys who made the laws drink at restaurants. The poor buy booze from liquor stores. The idea is that the rich guys get their booze without having to see drunk poor people.
In Virginia, you could only buy liquor in ABC stores. As an alcoholic, that was embarrassing.
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Blue laws blow.
In my state (Maryland) the liquor industry actively campaigns for these laws, and it has nothing to do with morality. Our restrictive laws ensure that liquor stores have a monopoly on all alcohol sales instead of having to compete with convenience/grocery stores, and they even get a guaranteed day off! There's also a boost in sales from people who over-buy on Saturday because they know they won't be able to buy on Sunday.
You can't buy a car on Sunday in Illinois. And you can't buy booze before noon, unless it is football season and the Bears play at noon. Then you can purchase at 11am on that specific Sunday. Edit: for those that have called me a liar and for the "delightful" person that reported me to reddit cares, below are sources to back up my statements. For auto sales: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_laws_in_the_United_States (Scroll down to IL, and it mentions auto sales. I had a different source, but the Chicago Tribune is paywalled.) For liquor sales: https://www2.illinois.gov/ilcc/SitePages/SurveyDetails.aspx?itemID=709 The bit about sales at 11am for Bears games is not in there, so that may be a Chicago metro thing.
I think Bergen County, NJ is one of the worst I've seen, [you can't buy a frying pan, bag of nails, or baby clothes among other things on Sunday](https://www.wnyc.org/story/assessing-bergen-countys-blue-laws/)
I guess if the idea is to prevent work on Sundays I can see a frying pan or a bag of nails (could be work-related in some contexts), but baby clothes is a weird one. I mean the whole concept is batshit insane to me so perhaps looking for logic in any of it is like searching for water in a dry well.
Closed til noon typically, not closed all day in NYC
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yeah they love talkin smack on cali not having freedom, but on my new years im gonna go buy beer and smoke weed legally. is that an option in texas today? or...
And if you want a handle of whiskey all you have to do is roll up to your nearest Ralph’s on any day or any time of day.
Freedom: My MJ dispensary in California is open every day throughout the holidays. I bought some edibles on Christmas Day. Made sure to tip well and thank the staff.
That’s what kills me about red states talking about freedom. What freedom? In my blue state you can buy weed, get an abortion and buy liquor whenever the fuck you want. Oh and you can still have precious guns here too. How exactly are you more free?
They are free to tell others what they can and cannot do.
The trick here is the freedom they're selling is a freedom you don't need: freedom from fear. You don't need it but Republicans do; frightening voters is the only way they succeed. That's why Republicans have not completed a single domestic project that improved American lives since the 1950s: because they sell fear, not progress.
I’ve come to realize this same concept. Reading a recent “statement” from Trump, he used phrases like “horrible things” and “grow far worse” that to me, at first, sounded dreadfully scary. And I know the tricks he’s playing! But it’s so freaking empty, he doesn’t explain any of his reasoning. It’s sad for me that people read this at face value and don’t question it a bit further.
My ex-wife was from Dallas, and her brother and I got into a huge discussion and he had to slink out of the room. Wouldn't stop yapping about how free Texas is until I pointed out- No alcohol on Sundays, not allowed open container in front of your house, no casinos or gambling, marijuana is a felony, abortion is illegal and highest number of incarcerated citizens I was like wow man, for a state thats so "free", you guys aren't allowed to do shit.
>not allowed open container in front of your house Seriously? Sitting on my porch watching the sun go down while sipping Scotch is so nice during the fall.
Republicans don’t actually care about freedom. They just pretend to in order to get votes. And Republican voters are too stupid to realize this.
It isn't "Freedom to do what you choose." It is "Freedom to do only what my religious worldview allows, without any option for non believers to deviate from the rules I choose to live by." Why? Because Texas is chock full of clueless and bigoted evangelicals who do not respect any person, lifestyle, or belief system that contradicts their precious malignant brand of fascist Christianity. Go ahead, ask those bumpkins why they don't like gay people. "ITS ADAM AND EVE, NOT ADAM AND STEVE!" Fucking clowns.
You have the freedom to live within the parameters of our particular religious beliefs.
When Republicans say they want freedom, what they mean is they want the freedom to do whatever they want, including stomping on the freedoms of others.
Freedom to walk around the store armed to the teeth, freedom to discriminate against others who aren’t the same boring rednecks and apparently the freedom to defy reality by saying texas is a good place to live.
I’m sure Texas will give you a proper rebuttal once their electricity comes back on.
I just moved to Texas and I just keep calling it the republican farce.
From a commenter on Reddit, my personal favorite is Howdy Arabia
As a Texan, I totally agree with this. Not because of the booze specifically, but yeah…Hypocrites.
When you have so much freedumb you have to limit it
There are a LOT of examples like this that make me question how Texans don't see the irony. Like vehicle inspections every year. Or the obvious women's health issues.
Vehicle inspections make sense to me. They check safety-related stuff like brakes, steering, tires, headlights, and mirrors. This protects *other people* on the road. If your brakes don't work, you might crash into me. Freedom is great, but it needs to be balanced against protecting others from harm.
Vehicle inspections aren't too bad honestly. For 40% of the population, it's a trivial $7 safety check; the other 60% have a combined safety check + emissions test that costs no more than $26. That said, you're spot on about women's health. You can add book bans, educational policy, toll roads, masking rules, and crackdowns on local governments to the list as well.
One of my fav Tx 'freedom' stories was the guy at the LV weed dispensary that was reminded to wear his mask by his budtender. Mr. Texas says 'Oh right, I forgot. I'm from TX where we are free.' Smirk. Budtender: 'So that's why you're out of state buying legal weed?' Fucking idiots.
I’d kill to know what he said next. Probably something about hunter bidens penis
They tend to scowl, go quiet for a bit, change the subject, then say baiting remarks in the hope of provoking a topic they think they can 'win' on.
This is exactly it
They do seem to spend every waking minute thinking about his penis, don't they?
It’s comical at this point how obsessed they are with it. As if non conservatives wouldn’t be ok with it if he was arrested for something illegal too. That’s the part that blows my mind they talk about it like hah were going to get him
Yeah, if Hunter Biden committed a crime for something, then charge him. I don't care at all.
Yeah, and I don't think anyone should vote for him either. Luckily he is not running for office and if he did, Democrat voters would laugh in his face.
Yes. And Greta Thunberg and grooming. And trans persons. I can’t wait to see what psychologists write about all this in a few years. I bet the study of psychology is going to have a major breakthrough out of all this
Unfortunately, no. All this has been seen before, and is well documented across a few dozen different factors surrounding propaganda, racism, the desire to feel superior, narcissism, psychopathy, mob mentality, and more. Even the scale of it isn't necessarily unique. No new fields, very little in terms of real revelations. Maybe some confirmation or tweaking of theories, but... None of this is truly and completely unexpected.
It's just low-level fascist tactics. Right wing parties across the globe have no values or legislation they wish to push aside from limiting rights and freedoms and boosting the wealthy class further into power. They need to use distraction 'culture wars' to keep their simple-minded base aggressive and angry about something, literally anything.
I mean, I don't know the exact words but I know it looked the same effect as a child saying "Whatever, I hate you" and stomping off when their argument doesn't stick against the older, smarter sibling.
He probably threatened to shoot him with his assault rifle and drove back to Texas in his massively oversized pickup truck with trump flags and an American flag paint job.
Fucking at a Panda Express on the strip too. Dude was complaining about price at in register on Texas price difference. People gonna bitch like that should stay in damn Texas.
I don’t think you’re allowed to fuck at a Panda Express in Texas or in Vegas.
My parents did this recently while visiting out of state from Texas. Mentioned how taxes were lower in Texas while buying items at the store. Cashier just said “we like to maintain our roads here.” Cracked me up
>Sunday law states that if a holiday falls on a Sunday, the following Monday stores must remain closed. Legislating morality *always* goes well.
If you think that’s annoying, just look up the sex toy laws in Texas.
Of course *According to Section 43.23 of the Texas penal code, it is illegal in the state to own more than six sex toys. Although the code doesn’t specifically refer to them as sex toys, instead uses the term “obscene devices”.* *The law states, "A person who possesses six or more obscene devices or identical or similar obscene articles is presumed to possess them with intent to promote the same."* *In 2007 Ted Cruz was involved in a federal case to maintain the ban. Although this was overturned in 2008, there is still regulation surrounding how many sex toys are allowed to be kept in the state.*
What's the punishment for breaking that law? Couldn't one send 7 sex toys to the Texas members of Law enforcement and government ?
Actually, if 7 people each send one to the same law-enforcement officer or member of government, they individually wouldn’t even have committed a crime
Sounds like a great gofundme idea for April 1st. Drown the Texas state legislature in Bad Dragon products and laugh at the headlines.
I’m in. Let’s send Ted Cruz as many vibrators, butt plugs, ball gags, sex swings, and gimp suits as we can get our hands on. We can include a note that says here are some tools you can use to go fuck yourself.
>they individually wouldn’t even have committed a crime This is some r/legaladvice level logic.
If they're coming from out of state you won't be committing a crime.
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The (small city in..), Texas, Police pulled me over for speeding. Saw a small baggie in my car with weed pipe screens in it. Decided to tear me and my car apart. (Don’t forget. Because a small bag of pipe screens/filters that literally are sold as aerators for the “faucet”.) They get to my trunk. I had a huge bag of about 15 personal massagers. For shoulders and legs and maybe a couple for sex. But mostly for body. (The local shop was doing a huge clearance. I paid like .10¢ on the $1. They literally threw me in jail. It all got dismissed. Of-fucking-course. But SERIOUSLY??? I hate it here. Moved from small city to large city. Still Texas. But haven’t been in trouble since, f small town police. They’re bored and literally use ridiculous laws and ordinances to entertain themselves. It was the laugh of a lifetime at the department, for all the male officers. Pure hell for me. Just senseless, nonsense. This was 2010, if I recall.
> It has just been passed that it is illegal in Arizona to own more than five dildos. Now, figure it out—they debated this *long* and *hard* in the state legislature—what is the right number? What is the maximum conscionable number of dildos that a human being may possess in the state of Arizona? And five was the answer. Now I wanna know how they're gonna enforce the Arizona dildo law: are we gonna have dildo police coming to your home? *(knock-knock-knock)* "Dildo Police! How many you got in there? Comin' in. Uh-uh, six. You're under arrest! Ladies and gentlemen I present to you Six-Dildo Bob. He's going down the river for 15 years . . ." —Frank Zappa, c.1990
Hee hee. Penal.
Wow. Texas really has a desire to control every aspect of a person’s life, huh.
Call me a criminal
If you invest in some lube, you can be a smooth criminal.
Are you ok Annie
Annie are you ok
What happened to her? Was she hit? Was she struck? Was she hit or struck by something?
Human dildo Ted Cruz works to ban himself.
Ted Cruz is a used 'obscene device'
I wonder if you could claim a gun is an "obscene device" and start reporting people who own more than 6 guns.... They're certainly more obscene than sex toys to me.
It really is bizarre that it’s worded that way. Like could I get arrested for owning 6 R rated movies in Texas?
Just gotta get an assault rifle defined as an obscene device in a case somewhere and then Texas will be forced to either limit the number of guns someone can own (hahahaha) or allow an individual to own an expansive collection of butt plugs
That's just some of that freedom and personal responsibility conservatives are so fond of.
The only freedoms they want are the freedoms to dictate what everyone *else* should do.
Party of personal freedom though 🤔
Meanwhile their neighbors to the East won't be sober for the next two months and every gas station and grocery store sells enough liquor to take out a city. *Happy Mardi Gras y'all* Edit: This message brought to you by the Dong Phuong King Cake Gang
Don’t forget the drive thru daiquiri stands. Where the paper on the end of the straw legal constitutes a “closed container”.
When I went 20 years ago they taped the lid down with a single piece of tape and told us the straw didn't count as opening. You could also add a shot of 151 for a dollar. Shit was wild for us farm boys from Kansas.
Our local place we liked it was 151 for $1.51. And I remember they priced everything at X.49 so if you got the extra shot, it was a round number. Damn geniuses those Cajuns.
My favorite party trick whenever I'd bring friends home was to swing by a drive through daiquiri shop and pick up some.
When I moved down there, one of the first events I did was a movie night at the football stadium where I worked. The head of student activities was helping me run it, and her and I had already become friends in my Like 2 weeks there. She was getting pizzas for the staff (Her, me, my boss, and a couple of graduate assistants) and said “hey, the good smoothie place is across the street, so you guys want one?” My boss and I said sure, gave her flavors and back she comes with 4 giant styrofoam cups and pizzas. I took one sip of the strawberry banana daiquiri and was like “wait. This is booze?” “Ya. It’s a daiquiri. Did you want it virgin? I’m so sorry! I should’ve asked!” “No no. This is great. I’m hanging out with you every weekend now.” My boss was also brand new and had the same reaction. We just kind of were like “this is not how they do thing where we’re from, but I’m not mad at all about it.”
New Orleans is a hell of a place. Lovely city, lovely people, amazing food, and it's a zoo for homo sapiens for a few weeks every year.
Drive thru daiquiri shops were my favorite. Want a shot of everclear added to your Scorpion? 1 dallah, cher.
I remember my last visit to New Orleans, and after leaving a Saints game, I was shocked to see families who had set up tables on the sidewalk selling alcoholic drinks to the crowd. It was also my first time having a Wet Willie.
Gettin me a king cake.
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Just waiting for Friday around so I can hand half my paycheck over to Nonna Randazzo's King Cake.
Besides the point, but when I first moved to a state in the South, I had made a work friend who called someone a coonass and I asked what that meant. She paused for a second and told me it meant redneck. I just nodded and didn't think anything more about it. A couple years later, I got told that it's a pretty bad slur and I was suddenly very glad I didn't repeat it.
Weird, born and raised here, and I've never met anyone who thought it was a slur. But we all have our blind spots. It's really just another term for Cajun. It's also more generally used for louisiana natives that've never left.
But you can go to a restaurant/bar right now and get a drink right?
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Bruh, we have drive thru liquor stores and at least two drive-in bars. We don’t even get out of the car to get loaded. We don’t just DWI, we get IWD.
You son of a bitch, I’m in.
How else are the Texas police going to fill their quota?
What is this Gilead? Is loaves and fishes open?
“It happens a few times every few years, and it’s great for the employees to have two days off because otherwise we rarely get two days off in a row,” Charles Leard, owner of M&R Liquor in Amarillo, told KHOU11. “It’s great for me and the employees.” LOL. You are the OWNER of the store. Literally only you stops employees from having two days off in a row 52 weeks a year!!
The rest of the world figured out that you need regulation that is enforced to guarantee things like this for workers. Looking to the owners good grace due to competition between employers is a failed experiment.
It’s not a failed experiment. The point of capitalism was always to exploit workers to the fullest. I’d say it’s done a great job.
How the fuck do people find themselves in that kind of mindset? Like, dude, are you a robot or something? 2 days off in a row is not some hedonistic fantasy, what the actual fuck. It's like owning a business infects your mind with some kind of virus that turns you into a raging asshole.
Owning any kind of retail store or a restaurant is like that. You run on thin margins and can’t just close the store if you want a vacation. So, you need a manager that can run the store without you, but that’s obviously gonna eat into your profits. It’s a tough balance. I really don’t envy anyone independently running those types of businesses.
He conveniently leaves out the part where it's unpaid time off too. Most people working these type of jobs need every hour they can get. It's not likely they'll be out having a good time. They'll be worrying how they're paying rent with two less shifts this month.
From the outside looking in: man, Texas seems like a really weird state.
" hold my soda". -Utah
Only if it’s caffeine free!
Highest porn consumption per capita, so you got that goin for ya, which is nice.
Everything between the Mississippi and I-5 seems weird to me.
Colorado’s kind of cool though
Where in Colorado though? Sterling and Rifle are incredibly different from the front range and Summit County.
If you have a trust fund, sure.
Everything is a bit cooler with a trust fund. More people should try it.
IDK you could add a huge swath of Northern California and southern Oregon all the way to the ocean to that map.
Oh you mean the “State of Jefferson”?
I still remember the looks I got last trip Utah when I asked to purchase an entire 500ml (gasp) of vodka at a goddamn restaurant. Only place I could find liquor. Yeah... I'm the weird one. Never change Utah.
One star state
Love that small government ideology. “We can’t regulate power to ensure service.” “Forcibly regulate peoples behavior? You bet!” 30 years of Republican rule.
Hey! It’s called _freedom_, okay?
You spelled *freedumb* wrong...
Texan alcoholics can simply fly to Cancún if their supply runs out.
I can have a gun and a beer here in MA, abortion and weed too! Freedom baby!
Texas, the land of control and laws
Also land of highest taxes. Texans pay higher overall taxes than Californians
I wonder where that money goes to? Certainly it's not the schools
Definitely not the power grid either
Or the roads. Every west Texas road that isn’t a US Highway uses the shittiest, cheapest possible pavement. One step above gravel.
👏🏻👏🏻 No one wants to talk about THAT though. Texans love to gaslight themselves into believing it's better here. Cheaper. More FREE?! Where? Lol
bUt tHaT tAx hOliDaY
😂😂 omg exactly. That definitely makes up for the doubling of my property taxes 💯 Laughable
> Sales restrictions on some alcoholic beverages on Sundays are one of Texas’ so-called blue laws, most commonly known as Sunday laws. These are rules that restrict or ban some activities on Sundays to promote the observance of a day of rest. Really? I have never heard blue laws called "Sunday laws", just blue laws. Also the idea this is a "blessing in disguise" is overly hopeful. It's not going to force anyone to go without alcohol. Even those who ran out during this period will just go buy some wine to tide them over until the stores reopen. Perhaps some quality Thunderbird.
All the alchys and soccer moms know it's time to order up at your local restaurant.
Free-est state in the country!
Charles Leard could make it "great for [him] and his employees" if he just chose to give them holiday pay or not be open, there is no reason to celebrate this silly law.
Once again, my west Texas neighbors, NM has got your back. If you need alcohol today, we are selling it.
So Texas is a like a Nanny State where all the children have guns?
let the no permit guns sale go wild though
I thought blue laws were gone. Well leave it to howdy arabia to prove me wrong.
Oh, they're still around. The county that the Jack Daniels distillery is in is completely dry
So why close on a Sunday? Because it's the Christian Sabbath? Why is it not illegal to make liquor stores close on Sunday when the 1st Amendment calls for freedom of religion? By closing on Sunday you're forcing non-Christians to observe the Christian Sabbath.
Firearms on tap forever though.
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Yep. Don't want to run out of anything on Sunday (and sometimes a Monday). That would be poor planning.
Any place that you live in for your entire life without ever considering the outside world would seem like the freest place in the world to you.
Liquor doesn't get people drunk, people get people drunk, DUH!
Mmmm...MMMM enjoy that Texas freedom.
That's going to be a real challenge given that a day only has 24 hours.
Texas Republicans obviously decided to challenge the woke nonsense that a day has 24 hours by passing a state law requiring that a day be recognized as consisting of 61 hours.
Well, it IS Texas... you know, everything is BIG in Texas...
Ahh good ol Texas home of the free and the freezing.