SocraticGadfly: Californicators finding out one big problem with Tex-ass

October 14, 2025

Californicators finding out one big problem with Tex-ass

And that's that counties have about zero power.

Except in special cases designated by the state, counties have no zoning power.

And, as people living in unincorporated Hood County next to a crypto mine have found out, counties have no power to set things like a noise ordinance

It's not just Californicators, of course, but natives or semi-natives of Tex-ass who have moved outside of city limits, and for this reason:

“We are still conservative, we love our freedom,” [Danny] Lakey said of his GOP-leaning community. “The biggest pushback that we're getting on incorporation is from people who fear that a new city is going to try to set a lot of regulations. They’re very Texan, which means: don’t tell me what to do with my property.”

Boo-fucking hoo.

First, I'm not going to cosign the bullshit of having your cake and eat it, too.

Second, what if this MARA has, or gets, enough of its employees inside your city limits to pull a mini-Elmo Musk on you and make "Mitchell's Bend" a company town?

Third, for the non-Californicators, like Danny Lakey? You should have known better.

In the past, you could have had a horse slaughterhouse next to your home or something. 

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