(January 14, 2013 at 12:25 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: It's funny how people are treating these online petitions. Just because you can get an officially reply from some intern at the white house doesn't change what it is. A fucking online petition.
"Well 30,000 Texans signed an online petition, I guess they aren't part of the Union anymore." Give me a break.
Yeah, the only thing the White House has said about the petitions is that they will respond to any petition that gets a certain number of signatures. They hit that point, so they followed through and responded.
Even if 30,000 Texans did sign it, what then? I hate to tell them this, but 30,000 is just a drop in the bucket compared to the state population. If we put it up for popular vote, I'm more than willing to bet most people in Texas would rather stay a part of the US. Even moreso for Lousiana (which seemed to be the state that was specifically mentioned in the petition). If I didn't live in Houston, part of me would hope Texas seceeds, just so the rest of American politics isn't dragged down by their ass backwards House members and electoral college votes. I mean, really, what chance would any Republican have of getting the presidency if Texas electoral college votes suddenly disappeared? Not to menion a lot of Republican legislation would grind to a halt without congressional reps from Texas.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
