I never really understood, but now that that house bill passed that may end up blocking AI regulation from individual States. I get it. I don’t like knowing that even if everyone in my state wanted to stop companies from using AI for hiring decisions, we couldn’t.

Texans, I feel you.

Edit: I’m learning a lot about Texas in this thread. Thanks for all the context folks.

    • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      23 hours ago

      The wiki doesn’t talk about who’s funding the modern efforts.

      i.e. Calexit, Albexit, Brexit, etc.

      • pebbles@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
        3·
        23 hours ago

        Yo that is curious. I see Russia pop up so much in reading about different secession movements.

        I wish they weren’t all right wing movements. When do the anarchist get to run the secession.

    • pebbles@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      2·
      23 hours ago

      Well I have a vague understanding of it. I read through the Wiki and a lot of the reasoning in recent years seems to align

      According to its website, the objective of the Texas Nationalist Movement is “the complete, total and unencumbered political, cultural and economic independence of Texas”.

      During the rally, many in the crowd began to chant “secede, secede”, to which Perry remarked, “If Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that?”

      After US president Barack Obama won the 2012 US presidential election, bumper stickers and signs saying “secede” started to appear in Texas

      Basically: we don’t like what’s going on with the federal government and would like to not be bound by them.

      I mean I generally disagree with their specific politics, but I get wanting to leave when you feel bound up / forced to do things that you think near no one in your state would vote for.

      I know I didn’t touch on original reasoning, but I really only care about what’s been going on recently. So I skipped to stuff in the last 25 years. I’m not trying to talk to folks from the past.