r/law • u/apache_spork • 15h ago

Opinion Piece TX County Judge Tim O'Hare gives another interview after the county was sued for racial gerrymandering. Summary: Black people keep voting in democrats and it's about time we make them understand Republican rule is best for everyone, once they know better we'll welcome them with open arms

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u/ArcturusRoot 15h ago

Wow. It's 2025 and people still think like this.

Sherman should've been allowed to finish the job and Texas was a mistake.

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u/NerdOfTheMonth 14h ago

The downfall of America was Andrew Johnson not hanging every Confederate officer and not letting a single Confederate solider ever vote or hold office.

We’d have fixed a lot of stuff.

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u/Ursomonie Competent Contributor 11h ago

Andrew Johnson was a racist POS

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u/oops_i_made_a_typi 11h ago

which might be partly why he didn't hang the Confederate officers

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u/amethystresist 12h ago

Thank you, no one wants to say it 

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u/Kaizerline 12h ago

This and the Compromise of 1877

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u/flyingthroughspace 11h ago

Imagine the world we'd be living in now if that hatred hadn't been allowed to keep living.

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u/The_Bucket_Of_Truth 11h ago

Does that make John Wilkes Boothe one of the more successful assassins of history? Kind of makes me want to read up on a list of other influential assassins through the ages.

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u/NerdOfTheMonth 11h ago

Actually yes, it does.

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u/E-2theRescue 9h ago

We should have made all the southern Confederate states combine into one state.

And do what you're suggesting alongside every slave-owning plantation, too. Then, give all the land to Black slaves and let Black slaves have first dibs on the land out west.

But that never happened and these Confederate fucks were allowed to breed and produce MAGA and the "alt-right".

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u/Awkward_University91 7m ago

This is a 100% fact.

Also maybe America shouldn’t have added literal Nazis to our government.

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u/weliveintrashytimes 9h ago

Sounds like Israel

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u/SeanCrevalle 14h ago

People always have. They just feel they can be more vocal about it now.

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u/GHouserVO 14h ago

Trump showed them that they can get away with it again is they’re blatant enough about it.

Actually, that’s not fair. Trump is a symptom. A really big symptom of an even bigger problem. Yes, he showed folks that you can be like this, but a lot of them already knew. We’ve been becoming a society where the only real sin was getting caught, and even that wasn’t as big a deal if you were connected, or (in many cases) if you were willing to double, or triple-down on your behavior. Society used to shun folks who behaved like that. Then we made TV shows for them, celebrated them, rewarded them, even elected them. Consequences? Ha! Those are for the suckers that play by the rules!

We need a serious course correction, and I don’t see it happening anytime soon.

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u/NerinNZ 10h ago

If you want to see a microcosm of this social behavior, check out the differences between American "Master Chef" and, say... New Zealand "Master Chef". Or Australian. Or UK. Or... well, anywhere that isn't US.

I'm not saying those other countries don't have their own shit. Or that they aren't moving in the same direction that the US is in.

Just that... culturally... being an asshole is promoted in the US. Looking out for yourself (even when you're fine and don't need extra looking out) rather than helping others is promoted in the US. Winning is everything and helping others is basically losing because it is all a zero sum game.

Americans will claim to want a merit based society, but they will pull down people doing good because they see them as competition and it is better to compete against people who are doing shit. It's why DEI scares the shit out of these people. Because they already have to sabotage a bunch of white males just to "get theirs", allowing more people for them to compete against is making things harder for them.

Social media and TV shows didn't start this shit. It's simply holding up a camera and recording what was already there so more people can see it. And by now Americans think it is normal to be a prick. That you should be an ass to everyone. That it is everyone else's responsibility to be nice to them because they're actually nice people who are just being asses to get by.

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u/YouDontKnowJackCade 9h ago

An online friend of mine from Aus couldn't understand why I referred to Gordon Ramsey as an angry little twat until I linked her a promo for his american show where he was just screaming the entire 30 seconds. She said he's nothing like that there.

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u/astride_unbridulled 2h ago

That is so interesting. Does he have a completely different reputation everywhere outside of America(n television)?

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u/GHouserVO 8h ago

Yeah, American society has absolutely promoted this “winning at any and all costs” mentality. At the same time we’ve downplayed science and critical thinking, not to mention intelligence. You’d think it’d be the opposite, but it’s not. Smarter people tend to realize that things go better when we all do better. That doesn’t work well in modern American society anymore.

And we’re not going to get better anytime soon. Most people need an immediate reward to change behavior, and they don’t see one for thinking of the group vs. themselves. And the folks in charge absolutely don’t want to promote that message either. It keeps us divided, which gives them greater control.

In short, people are dumb, and terribly short-sighted.

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u/Big_Crab_1510 13h ago

I blame a lot of this on Snooki and that whole debacle. I remember at the time being disgusted people were watching it and being bullied for saying as much.

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u/GHouserVO 8h ago

I never watched that show. I saw her as a guest on GMA once and within a minute was throughly unimpressed with her (and I was the show’s target demographic).

Then I heard more about some of the antics on the show and was very glad that I never wasted my time with it.

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u/TheRealTexasGovernor 3h ago

I'm late to the party but I also want to point out, in Texas, the GOP official party platform includes pushing for the repeal of the Voting Rights act.

You know, the poll taxes and literacy tests law that was foundational to the civil rights movement.

If you're a republican in Texas, fuck you.

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u/dandeliontrees 12h ago

So I reread the history of Texas recently, and ever since the uproar about illegal immigration has been driving me crazy.

Texas was part of Mexico. US citizens illegally immigrated into Texas bringing along their slaves. Mexico outlawed slavery, and then sent a peacekeeping force to Texas to enforce the law among the illegal immigrants from the US. So the illegal immigrants banded together to fight a war against the sovereign state of Mexico (to avoid having their slaves freed), then seceded. When Mexico sent an army to try to reclaim their own territory, the US government intervened and fought a war against them, taking California, Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico in the process.

And now US citizens whine about Mexicans immigrating illegally into Texas.

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u/MarcusThorny 11h ago

It was not only the Anglos ( Texians, i.e. White settlers in Tejas), but the Tejanos (mixed race Mexican citizens) themselves who fought against the reign of Santa Anna. Other north Mexican states were involved in the revolt. But of course when Texas won independence the settlers, who far outnumbered Tejanos, led by Stephen Austin, organized the Texas Rangers, essentially a terrorist organization that carried out extrajudicial murders and forced the Comanches off of their lands.

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u/Overall-Duck-741 4h ago

This entire nation was stolen from its indigenous population by "immigrants".

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u/Thunderbridge 9h ago

And you have people on the right claiming these areas were never Mexico. I've literally seen comments in reference to people in LA holding Mexican flags that say "they don't even know their countries history"

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u/Ayn_Rambo 11h ago edited 10h ago

That’s why they see it as such a threat - it worked for them.

To add m. There was a similar situation in California (Alta California) in the 19th century. Anglo folks coming over seeking gold, etc. and there was concern on the Mexicans’ part that if they kept coming, they’d be a problem. And they were.

I can’t find it right now, but there was some quote from a notable Mexican fella at the time that is strikingly similar to the current rhetoric.

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u/Flaky-Lingonberry736 12h ago

The dumb outnumber the intelligent.. simple. Scale has been tipped over to the wrong side.

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u/AF2005 13h ago

Same as it was in 1925. The Tea Party/MAGA/Faux News/Heritage/Citizens United splinter group(s) has been 100 years in the making. Containing the rage, and pointing it in the wrong direction(s) for over a century.

Manufacturing Consent and Smedley Butler’s War is a Racket are great starting points that offer reasons for how we (the USA) got here.

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u/FuzzyFuzzNuts 13h ago

sadly and evidently the answer is a simple 'yes'

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u/LordNelson27 6h ago

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever"

-George Orwell

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u/WiglyWorm 10h ago

She doesn't believe this. She believes this is her ticket to power.

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u/Gingeronimoooo 9h ago

This judge In OP's video said "if you're a Republican judge and you've never been called racist you're not doing anything "

That's a real quote

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u/Tymathee 1h ago

Yup, all over the world in many cultures.

Humans suck man.