Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract

Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract by look_lookatme on Friday October 25, 2019 @10:10PM (#21361196)

> Core to many Texans identity is a belief that someday Texas is going to secede from the Union again and become its own independent country.

This is an overstatement.

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Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract by pradn on Friday October 25, 2019 @10:53PM (#21361391)

I've lived in Texas for 8 years and this has always been talked of as a fun fact or a curiosity, not as a real, possible thing (aside from some minor fringe elements.)

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Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract by repolfx on Saturday October 26, 2019 @06:30AM (#21362908)

Don't read too much into that. Prior to 2016 people talked about Brexit and a Trump presidencythe same way.

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Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract by jabagonuts on Friday October 25, 2019 @10:35PM (#21361311)

It’s not that we will, it’s that we have the option.

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Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract by reaperducer on Friday October 25, 2019 @11:41PM (#21361563)

No, you don't. That notion has been debunked numerous times. It's just folklore and something drunk people say at sporting events against non-Texan teams.

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Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract by brobdingnagians on Saturday October 26, 2019 @08:40AM (#21363280)

Technically _all_ the states have that option. The Constitution doesn't prohibit it, tenth amendment reserves all other powers to the states; they entered voluntarily into the Constitution believing it would help them each individually. The reason it's "debunked" is because of the might makes right attitude that took hold because of the Civil War. That attitude doesn't take people to good places...

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Re:Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract by ruip on Saturday October 26, 2019 @10:34AM (#21363894)

A future hypothetical has been debunked?

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