Texas was found to be the state with the fewest personal freedoms, according to the Cato Institute’s new Freedom Index.
Ex-Texan here.
It’s a wonderful place to be a straight, white, Christian, middle-class male.
For every one of those things you are not, it gets worse.
What about rich instead of middle?
Even better. It’s only when you’re rich that you actually pay less taxes in Texas. See how they’re anagrams?
And they may be quite determined to give those last few freedoms away in a bid to defend themselves from the imaginary threats.
As a persone who lives in TX, i can confirm anyone who has a " Don’t Tred on Me" or a “Come and Take It” sticker, flag, or shirt likes to be treaded on and will willingly give it up
Luke 10:19:
Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Really piss them off, lol.
Lol if you think that’d piss them off, then you don’t know Christians. They won’t even see the irony (or if they do, they won’t care), they’ll just latch onto the Bible verse and tell you how it empowers them against people like you who try to test their faith.
They’re secretly hoping some liberal dominatrix walks on them and beats them up until they give up their guns?
“Tread on me, Daddy,” and “Come and take it out on my ass”
Go up to them and quote Luke 10:19 at them, but make them look it up.
Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
The Cato institute dissing Texas is actually hilarious. Republican infighting is the gift that keeps on giving.
chef’s kiss👌
For real freedom, move to Scandinavia.
Cant speak to freedoms, but I’ve never witnessed a more intense social pressure to confirm to social norms than I did there
Where’s Japan sit in the list?
Except when there was corona hysteria, anyways. Even at the peak, I saw only a handful of people wearing masks.
It was not hysteria. Lots of people died. And, yes, Scandinavians wore masks a lot.
And, yes, Scandinavians wore masks a lot.
Where did you get that from? We definitely didn’t, it was quite uncommon to see people with masks, the majority didn’t use them ever. Why are you, an American, gaslighting me how it happened in my own country?
Du er ret hurtig til at dømme andre…klovn…
Google says this one says:
You are quite quick to judge others…clown…
Du verkar vara helt besatta av politik från där borta, men okej, visst. Kanske danskar gick överstyr med munkorgen, men det gjorde inte vi svenskar.
Google says this one says:
You seem to be totally obsessed with politics from over there, but okay, sure. Maybe the Danes went overboard with the muzzle, but we Swedes didn’t.
Sounds like the opposite of freedom to me.
Unless you want to protest cultures of sexism, hemophobia, and bigotry , in which case you will get charged with hate crimes for burning some paper.
hemophobia
Yeah fuck blood, all my homies hate blood
Just those disgusting mustard bloods, and the ones with lesser blue bloods.
Every once in a while someone reinvents homestuck
I WOULD PRESS YOUR UP VOTING BUTTON TO INCREASE THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF POSTING KARMA ON THIS HUMAN DISCUSSION SERVICE BUT I SEE THAT MY PAST SELF HAS ALREADY DONE SO.
And stay inside your home…
Why?
They’re probably going to say it is cold or dark half the year.
No, just doing what’s socially acceptable. Work. Eat. Stay inside. Work. Eat. Stay inside.
You have clearly never been anywhere near Scandinavia.
I just walk around Holland after 7pm Scandinavië is worse…
From the part of small government, comes……
No shit, being able to own as many guns as you want but having a militarized police force that’ll try to figure out how many teeth you can swallow if you don’t pray to them isn’t actually freedom.
In the overall freedom rankings, New Hampshire rated number 1, followed by Florida and South Dakota, while New York was dead last, with Hawaii 49th and California 48th. For personal freedoms, Nevada came tops followed by Arizona and Maine, with Wyoming 48th and Idaho 49th
Florida ranks number 2 for overall freedom? Not sure how much I trust the Cato institute’s methodology.
Cato is a very conservative\ libertarian group. The fact that they put Texas last for personal freedom seemed noteworthy to me.
They are 100% biased.
You can see their methodology. Texas came last for personal freedom, but their corporate freedom gave then a top ten result
But muh freedoms?
Are far less than they are in other parts of the world.
Yes, that is what this post is saying.
All that sweet, sweet economic freedom causes Fled Cruz.
Gun owners and WASPs: the irony!
Land of the oppressed.
It’s not too surprising given that Texas was founded as a slave republic.
I suppose things might be mitigated:
women who need abortions can go to New Mexico for such (that and more regular use of pregnancy tests).
maybe get a driver’s license out of state and use it in Texas—I also wonder if one can use fake fingerprints.
maybe have open-carry marijuana protests on Hitler’s Birthday.
I drove from Houston to San Diego once. It was 26 hours and a ton of it was within Texas. You can drive for 8 or more hours and easily still be in Texas.
Also, out-of-state license whilst residing in Texas is illegal. You only have so many days (14, IIRC) to change your address on your Texas license if moving within Texas. I got hit with that at a traffic stop.
30 days to change address if you move within the state, 90 if from outside. 521.054, 521.029
30 days for car registration - 502.040
Should be noted that one of the reasonings for this rankings that Texas does not have school voucher programs. That’s something that Democrats and even rural Republicans greatly disapprove of. Something the Republican Governor is trying to force through with frankly tyrannical actions at times. I can’t help but think this article is actually trying to push that same endeavor more than being a haha look at this kind of thing. Some of y’all need to read past the headline.
How is number 17 the lowest? According to their list it is NY. https://www.freedominthe50states.org/
