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There was a much smaller town, I believe more in East Texas, that brought such an ordinance up. I was pleasantly shocked that they eventually came to the conclusion that their proposed "papers please" environment was a wee bit too much like what many of their older residents had fought against.
Sadly, I'm not confident that clearer minds will continue to prevail.
Further, as I type this, I'm in an airport in Dallas headed to Nevada where I'm going to gamble, have sex out of wedlock, consume cannabis, and potentially purchase and consume an alcoholic beverage between the hours of two and seven in the morning. Somehow, no Texas legislator has any interest in prohibiting my endeavors. Seems inconsistent.
Were you born male, and do you still identify as such? That might have something to do with it.
Exactly their gender hierarchy is simple: cis men having full freedom and protection, cis women having protection as provided by a cis man, everyone else’s existence threatens the legitimacy of this system and must be forced into one of the boxes with violence if needed
I'm betting the gambling prohibition will fall in Texas in the next 10 years. Same in other states that ban it. There is just way too much money going to their immediate neighbors for the politicians to not get greedy.
Doubtful. They still have dry counties for fucks sake
And of course, marijuana is still illegal, even though it's making money for the much less populated state to the north.
Very few of those remain. It was rough when I got here twenty years ago.
I used to work terrible wrecks at the liquor store on the edge just outside of a dry county.