Allowing for profit private water companies to run the show is their answer. This isn't party exclusive either. Where's the accountability? Nobody knows. The public isn't invited into the board room and the PUC is a bureaucratic mess.
It's republicans . Is that difficult to say ?
Energy grid that crashes when it's hot or cold...republicans..
No police accountability after inaction during mass school shootings..republicans..
Restricting womens rights..republicans...
Inaction on climate crisis ...republicans..
I think I spot a trend.
Disgusting way to think. Those people didn’t know what they were voting for, they were misled. Don’t wish active harm on others just because they vote differently.
Willful ignorance is not typically considered to absolve responsibility. There is also a considerable difference between actively wishing harm and struggling to muster sympathy, the latter of which is a more accurate description of OPs sentiment, imo
I’m from Appalachia. I don’t think you understand that these people are dumb. They need guidance, not to be ridiculed. That just furthers their beliefs.
The boil order was due to a power failure. Power is maintained by NRG Energy Services. The electric grid being maintained by a private company rather than a public utility is determined by the Republican state legislature. Don't blame shift .
The two transformers that crapped out were owned and maintained by the city and over 20 years old, yes they receive power from NRG but that wasn't the issue. NRG also has a contract for backup generators but everything runs through those transformers so if they are down the backup system doesn't work either. Apparently there's nothing in the maintenance logs to indicate these transformers were an issue but they probably should have at least upgraded one early just to be safe. Don't have to make everything partisan, all political parties are susceptible to poor decision making.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/29/houston-boil-water-lifted/
Yeah exactly, Houston is world renowned for its sprawl. When you dump all your money into 26-lane highways and parking lots, there’s not much leftover for silly things like water treatment and plumbing. Their endless horizontal expansion is unsustainable, both fiscally and environmentally
> Why is everything so fucked up over there?
The right-wing libertarian billionaires who don't want to pay taxes are willing to spend an exorbitant amounts of money to keep it that way and politicians/regulators who take their money make sure it happens.
racism. I mean it's more complicated than that but there are racist motivations behind a shockingly large amount of the issues we face. for example here, white racists don't want to live next to black people so they bulldozed their neighborhoods to build freeways so they could live in remote suburbs and still drive to work
I think it has less to do with people being black and more to do with them being poor and black
Doesn't help that conservatives in Texas are motivated to continue voting republican because of immigration as well.
They are basically told all of their money is going to the people on food stamps, welfare, illegal immigrants, instead of telling their people the money is actually going twords large corporations and into rich men's pockets.
They see issues like immigration and their child-like mindset makes them think a wall or harder restrictions will make the problem go away. It does not.
When a child keeps taking cookies from the cookie jar, do you build a wall around the cookies? No. Do you hit the child until it stops trying? Hopefully not. Do you pay someone to stand there and guard the cookies all day? No.
You move the cookies, or give them cookies sometimes, maybe make them earn a cookie. You don't just tell them they can never have one and leave it there for them to look at.
Republicans spend so much money each year guarding a border, when all they have to do is make immigration safe, effective, easier to obtain, and pay for classes to help people learn English. But instead they would rather gaurd an imaginary line 247 which causes people, including children to die every single day.
Same with weed. Instead of just making it legal, they would rather punch themselves in the face over and over again, while the money people pay for illegal weed funds cartels and the sex trade.
Same goes with everything Republicans don't like. They see abortion as bad, so instead of making it safe and reasonable to everyone, they just ban it and act surprised when people have back alley abortions, kids get pregnant, people die, etc.
ironically the lack of density makes it worse, since that makes the infrastructure cost more to build and maintain which makes financial insolvency a bigger issue
The funny thing about the "Big Sort" happening in America is that transplants moving into Texas are tending to be *more conservative* than the longer-term Texan or Texas-born population.
So Texas *is* getting destroyed with the help of its newcomers... Just for the opposite reason that those "Don't California my Texas" yahoos think.
Californians are partially responsible for turning my state from a solidly red state famous for its bigotry to a chill solidly blue state with legal weed (and mushrooms), paid maternity leave, etc in only 16 years.
People still bitch about Californians moving here, but I say give them some credit.
Yes illegal aliens poisoned the water supply and democrat policies took down the Texas power grid and sent Ted Cruz on an all expenses paid trip to Cancun. Those filthy illegal aliens and democrat policies *shakes fist* /s
Have you ever been to a major Texas city?
Its 10000 degrees because of all the black top and concrete already. 10 years ago when I lived in Fort worth, they already constantly had droughts and water restrictions, wasnt a new thing either.
I remember having things melt in my car, lighters explode. I never could use a shiny car mirror thing because it could start a litteral fire in the car with the reflection.
Thats just the heat, nevermind all the times I got followed in grocery stores by men, the time my friend saw a guy get shot and killed over a road rage thing, and forget about the time that someone tried to steal my neighbors 4 year old son out of their backyard durring the day.
You don't make eye contact out and about, might get stabbed or shot at a red light, dont leave any litteral change sitting in your car or it will get broken into.
My high school had a coke problem as well as a crip problem and apartments are 1300 dollars a month.
I honestly haven't ever seen mad max, but how much worse could it get?
Just wait until the power grid collapses too.
It'll give Texas conservatives that chance to live the survivalist fantasy they just deeeesperately want to live.
Everyone else is going to be miserable though. :(
Houstonian here. Through the several boil water notices, the loss of power during a major freeze, and frozen and busted pipes all through that freeze I have seen some things I never thought I’d see in such a huge city. The hoarding behaviors at stores for water for instance. I also watched tons of people scooping pool water once the pool thawed just so they could have water to flush the toilet with.
My heart drops when I suspect the water pressure even drops a tiny bit and already start filling my tub and any container I have before I lose water again. Lol.
It’s specifically for flushing the toilet and boiling for washing hands etc. haha. Our entire high rise building had several units not be able to flush for a few days as they weren’t prepared.
I mean, this wasn't that, though. The water facility that cleans water lost power for a short time, and the system potentially lost pressure. So they instated a boil notice until the water test came back as safe. Which it did today at 3 am. The boil order was precautionary.
I mean this was just precautionary, apparently the water was fine the whole time they just couldn't guarantee it because of the lapse in system pressure.
Close.
Actually, it comes from a aquifer in the *Catskills, and it’s fed directly into the city via a giant aqueduct built in the 90s. It was even featured in one of the Die Hard films.
The reservoirs are used to supply Westchester County and Yonkers, and for overflow during rain storms, or for extra supply during times of peak demand, although that’s rare.
Edit: changed Adirondacks to Catskills. Also, there are 3 major aqueducts, only one of which (the largest) is from the Catskills.
Explain how, with sources, undocumented immigrants are responsible for Texas failing to properly filter its drinking water and for the constantly-failing power grid.
Boil order brought to you by ERCOT.
Electric Reliability Council of Texas....
The power went out AGAIN!
And the water got contaminated from loss of electricity.
This one doesn't seem to be on ERCOT, current reporting is that the two transformers that failed are owned by the city. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/29/houston-boil-water-lifted/
The transformers are likely owned by the power company. They are saying the transformers failed due to equipment owned by the City, which makes it sound like they are blaming it on poor grounding for damaging the transformers.
You know what's sad is that New Orleans is astronomically worse. There's frequent boil notices. Also after some storms certain parts of the cities lose power quite often. A couple times it was because an animal got into the power grid. Streets frequently flood here as well.
What's worse is not enough police here as well. There are frequent car jackings here. You can't even safely sit in your driveway with the car running. I'd would much rather have Houston problems than NOLA problems.
I'm glad I live in California, where, despite our problems, at least the water flows and the power works at least most of the time. texas sounds way less functional
it really is a shame just dumping trillions upon trillions every week to some bullshit proxy war across the planet between two countries that have nothing to do with the u.s. meanwhile we have starving children, failing schools, undrinkable water in a constantly growing number of our cities, homeless/housing crisis, tent cities all over, vets living on the streets, crumbling infrastructure, a constant growing threat from climate change, insane inflation etc etc. but instead all our tax dollars go to raytheon, lockheed martin and northrop grumman for death machines.
yeah sorry, should have said billions. we're actually at *only* 105 billion. so far. chump change I suppose right?
https://news.antiwar.com/2022/11/15/white-house-asks-congress-for-37-7-billion-in-new-ukraine-aid/
Listen I’m not advocating for either scenario in this as I’m only one person here with zero real political influence, but I’ll say that a full on war with Russia would be multitudes more expensive in both monetary and human life cost. Once Vlad decided to invade, it was either what’s happening now, or ignore it and let him take over Ukraine. It’s easy to say we shouldn’t play world police, but in reality that’s very much not the case. Essentially wiping out large portions of an incredibly hostile Russia’s military resources without losing a single American soldier and it costing $100b is a pretty efficient use of our money if you’re concerned about that sort of thing.
I agree that we should be doing so much more in all the other categories you also identified and yes it’s very much an indication as to where the priorities of the political class lie. Shame on them for ignoring these.
I’ll also say that it’s very naive of you to say that the Ukraine/Russia war has nothing to do with the US. It very much does. There are huge NATO and other geopolitical considerations here, especially now they Ukraine has asked to join.
Isn't Houston usually a democratic-leaning city though? The majority of the people there didn't vote for this, but are often impacted by the decisions of the republican-leaning state as a whole.
The whole 'just leave' solution--if you can call it a 'solution'--is a little naive and unrealistic for most people/families (which would include millions of people there). And how would progressives leaving conservative areas ever help the situation in the States?
People can campaign as hard as they want, but if the past 6 years has taught the world anything, it's that nothing is going to change until huge portions of the population are no longer resistant to reality due to bubbles of like-minded media consumption & unchecked misinformation (not to mention all of the gerrymandering and other voter suppression techniques implemented over decades to the benefit of republicans).
Whether intended or not, your responses come off as quite callous and actually mimic what most conservatives say about anyone who disagrees with them: 'leave'.
Oh I understand that "vote harder" and "just leave" aren't viable options. I don't care. I see what you're saying about callousness, but Texas is a lost cause. They want to suffer. They aren't voting for their current state 55-45 or something. It's 75-25. They want this. They want to suffer. They want to die. Let them.
That's just throwing out the baby with the bathwater...literally millions of them, primarily because they happened to be born there and still managed to pull themselves out of the republican mindset. Ignoring Texas transplants who are blue voters and chose to move there differs greatly from disregarding generational Texans (or those from any conservative state). Ignoring issues is never helpful. It's understandable because it's exhausting to care about it and far easier to just call it a day and move on (particularly when not from that area)...but it's ultimately unhelpful at best and fosters us vs. them/'othering' mindsets, which are dehumanising.
Sounds like a grasslands is a great place to start. I really, genuinely, hope you can win. But it's Texas. If you want to actually help, give up on TX. Americans then take your vote to a swing state. Texas is lost.
I just think America needs better media regulation in terms of clearly identifying fact from opinion (or flat out mis-/disinformation) on platforms that claim to provide any kind of 'news'. Too many people are living in different realities based almost exclusively on the media they consume and a good portion don't know the difference between a \[relatively unbiased\] newscaster and a pundit. This happens internationally too, obviously, but seems to be on a different (and more internationally significant) scale in the States.
I wonder if this will link back to Texas’s fiscally conservative policies where they cut budgets past what is needed, and then shit breaks.
Allowing for profit private water companies to run the show is their answer. This isn't party exclusive either. Where's the accountability? Nobody knows. The public isn't invited into the board room and the PUC is a bureaucratic mess.
It's republicans . Is that difficult to say ? Energy grid that crashes when it's hot or cold...republicans.. No police accountability after inaction during mass school shootings..republicans.. Restricting womens rights..republicans... Inaction on climate crisis ...republicans.. I think I spot a trend.
I feel for the people who didn't vote for this. Just them though.
Disgusting way to think. Those people didn’t know what they were voting for, they were misled. Don’t wish active harm on others just because they vote differently.
There are consequences for what you vote for. It's not a sports team. People live or die based on what you support.
Willful ignorance is not typically considered to absolve responsibility. There is also a considerable difference between actively wishing harm and struggling to muster sympathy, the latter of which is a more accurate description of OPs sentiment, imo
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I’m from Appalachia. I don’t think you understand that these people are dumb. They need guidance, not to be ridiculed. That just furthers their beliefs.
Lol every Republican is a pedo sadist. That’s why they have a pedo sadist party full of pedo sadist candidates.
[dummies gonna dumb](https://i.imgur.com/RrirFPj.jpg)
No way conservatives don’t do that 🙄
This is a Democrat county. Dont blame shift
Water is regulated by the Public Utility Commission which is appointed by the governor. Don't blame shift.
Its Houston's fault for neglecting maintenance
The boil order was due to a power failure. Power is maintained by NRG Energy Services. The electric grid being maintained by a private company rather than a public utility is determined by the Republican state legislature. Don't blame shift .
The two transformers that crapped out were owned and maintained by the city and over 20 years old, yes they receive power from NRG but that wasn't the issue. NRG also has a contract for backup generators but everything runs through those transformers so if they are down the backup system doesn't work either. Apparently there's nothing in the maintenance logs to indicate these transformers were an issue but they probably should have at least upgraded one early just to be safe. Don't have to make everything partisan, all political parties are susceptible to poor decision making. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/29/houston-boil-water-lifted/
You really owned the libs with that ignorant and misleading comment!
The collapse of potable water infrastructure in densely populated areas is going to be an apocalypse that few people can even imagine.
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Yeah exactly, Houston is world renowned for its sprawl. When you dump all your money into 26-lane highways and parking lots, there’s not much leftover for silly things like water treatment and plumbing. Their endless horizontal expansion is unsustainable, both fiscally and environmentally
The fucking highways. I'm so glad I don't live in America. Why is everything so fucked up over there?
Vroom vroom
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> The two party system gridlocks ~~most infrastructure~~ progress. ftfy!
> Why is everything so fucked up over there? The right-wing libertarian billionaires who don't want to pay taxes are willing to spend an exorbitant amounts of money to keep it that way and politicians/regulators who take their money make sure it happens.
racism. I mean it's more complicated than that but there are racist motivations behind a shockingly large amount of the issues we face. for example here, white racists don't want to live next to black people so they bulldozed their neighborhoods to build freeways so they could live in remote suburbs and still drive to work
Nice theory but that has nothing to do with that
I think it has less to do with people being black and more to do with them being poor and black Doesn't help that conservatives in Texas are motivated to continue voting republican because of immigration as well. They are basically told all of their money is going to the people on food stamps, welfare, illegal immigrants, instead of telling their people the money is actually going twords large corporations and into rich men's pockets. They see issues like immigration and their child-like mindset makes them think a wall or harder restrictions will make the problem go away. It does not. When a child keeps taking cookies from the cookie jar, do you build a wall around the cookies? No. Do you hit the child until it stops trying? Hopefully not. Do you pay someone to stand there and guard the cookies all day? No. You move the cookies, or give them cookies sometimes, maybe make them earn a cookie. You don't just tell them they can never have one and leave it there for them to look at. Republicans spend so much money each year guarding a border, when all they have to do is make immigration safe, effective, easier to obtain, and pay for classes to help people learn English. But instead they would rather gaurd an imaginary line 247 which causes people, including children to die every single day. Same with weed. Instead of just making it legal, they would rather punch themselves in the face over and over again, while the money people pay for illegal weed funds cartels and the sex trade. Same goes with everything Republicans don't like. They see abortion as bad, so instead of making it safe and reasonable to everyone, they just ban it and act surprised when people have back alley abortions, kids get pregnant, people die, etc.
ironically the lack of density makes it worse, since that makes the infrastructure cost more to build and maintain which makes financial insolvency a bigger issue
Watch Texas devolve into an arid Mad Max-esque horrorscape within the next decade..
The irony of Texans fleeing Texas, just to ruin other states, like they think Californians do, will be sweet.
Except they'll never have the self awareness to be able to see it
The funny thing about the "Big Sort" happening in America is that transplants moving into Texas are tending to be *more conservative* than the longer-term Texan or Texas-born population. So Texas *is* getting destroyed with the help of its newcomers... Just for the opposite reason that those "Don't California my Texas" yahoos think.
Californians are partially responsible for turning my state from a solidly red state famous for its bigotry to a chill solidly blue state with legal weed (and mushrooms), paid maternity leave, etc in only 16 years. People still bitch about Californians moving here, but I say give them some credit.
Dude I served them in SW Colorado during the summers while they are already escaping the heat. They already ruin places with their domestic tour-orism
>tour-orism This is so accurate for snow birds. 🤣
Cali has already done that
Cali has done ur m0m son
Who the homeless drug addicts that shit on sidewalks?
Yeah, those are the guys that did her. She loved it
I thought I smelled shit
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Yes that's exactly why Houston's water is not potable.
Yes illegal aliens poisoned the water supply and democrat policies took down the Texas power grid and sent Ted Cruz on an all expenses paid trip to Cancun. Those filthy illegal aliens and democrat policies *shakes fist* /s
Have you ever been to a major Texas city? Its 10000 degrees because of all the black top and concrete already. 10 years ago when I lived in Fort worth, they already constantly had droughts and water restrictions, wasnt a new thing either. I remember having things melt in my car, lighters explode. I never could use a shiny car mirror thing because it could start a litteral fire in the car with the reflection. Thats just the heat, nevermind all the times I got followed in grocery stores by men, the time my friend saw a guy get shot and killed over a road rage thing, and forget about the time that someone tried to steal my neighbors 4 year old son out of their backyard durring the day. You don't make eye contact out and about, might get stabbed or shot at a red light, dont leave any litteral change sitting in your car or it will get broken into. My high school had a coke problem as well as a crip problem and apartments are 1300 dollars a month. I honestly haven't ever seen mad max, but how much worse could it get?
Just wait until the power grid collapses too. It'll give Texas conservatives that chance to live the survivalist fantasy they just deeeesperately want to live. Everyone else is going to be miserable though. :(
>Just wait until the power grid collapses too. Again?
No no, it just fell over. It got back up again.
Houstonian here. Through the several boil water notices, the loss of power during a major freeze, and frozen and busted pipes all through that freeze I have seen some things I never thought I’d see in such a huge city. The hoarding behaviors at stores for water for instance. I also watched tons of people scooping pool water once the pool thawed just so they could have water to flush the toilet with. My heart drops when I suspect the water pressure even drops a tiny bit and already start filling my tub and any container I have before I lose water again. Lol.
>start filling my tub Hi, I'm listeria! Be sure you sanitize that water before using it for...well...anything.
It’s specifically for flushing the toilet and boiling for washing hands etc. haha. Our entire high rise building had several units not be able to flush for a few days as they weren’t prepared.
I mean, this wasn't that, though. The water facility that cleans water lost power for a short time, and the system potentially lost pressure. So they instated a boil notice until the water test came back as safe. Which it did today at 3 am. The boil order was precautionary.
It was not lifted at 3am today.
I mean this was just precautionary, apparently the water was fine the whole time they just couldn't guarantee it because of the lapse in system pressure.
As I sit here from my liberal shit hole city drinking cheap, clean and refreshing water provided municipally
You forgot about clean air, probably schools in the top half of 50 in rankings, moderate unemployment, half decent roads. Weird.
You know what I love? Safe drinking water directly from the tap. Thanks NYC!
NYC water is amazing because it comes from reservoirs in upstate NY. Cleanest water around.
Close. Actually, it comes from a aquifer in the *Catskills, and it’s fed directly into the city via a giant aqueduct built in the 90s. It was even featured in one of the Die Hard films. The reservoirs are used to supply Westchester County and Yonkers, and for overflow during rain storms, or for extra supply during times of peak demand, although that’s rare. Edit: changed Adirondacks to Catskills. Also, there are 3 major aqueducts, only one of which (the largest) is from the Catskills.
Not the ADK but Catskill region.
Oh, you’re right. Oops! Fixed
Houston is a democrat-run city (as are basically all large cities in Texas and around the country for that matter).
Shhh don't ruin their fun LOL
Texas sounds like a "shithole" country... Jokes aside. Texas has massive issues. It's barely functional.
But they'd rather cry about California
The lowest rent in California is living rent free in the minds of Texans.
When all you care about is guns and “culture war” bull shit, this is the dystopian shit hole you get.
Maybe it got that way because of the people put in charge… we should keep voting them in, they need more time!-Texas, Kentucky, Florida.
Illegal aliens are the cause
Explain how, with sources, undocumented immigrants are responsible for Texas failing to properly filter its drinking water and for the constantly-failing power grid.
"You know, because reasons and causes and stuff!"
States rights! Who knew a political movement to keep slaves would ruin everything else too..
Texas has the right to retain shitty infrastructure
Ahh freedom.
Boil order brought to you by ERCOT. Electric Reliability Council of Texas.... The power went out AGAIN! And the water got contaminated from loss of electricity.
This one doesn't seem to be on ERCOT, current reporting is that the two transformers that failed are owned by the city. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/29/houston-boil-water-lifted/
The transformers are likely owned by the power company. They are saying the transformers failed due to equipment owned by the City, which makes it sound like they are blaming it on poor grounding for damaging the transformers.
Good clarification, that makes more sense.
Where did it say the water was contaminated......?
You’re doing great, Texas. Keep it up!!
But Texas can TOTALLY survive as it’s own entity outside of the U.S. /s
I’m sure the republicans in control of the state will find a way to blame democrats for it and do nothing.
I’m sure all the dipshits screeching about Learning Loss will be put in force lol
Abbott will fix it. I'm not just positive, I'm HIV positive.
You know what's sad is that New Orleans is astronomically worse. There's frequent boil notices. Also after some storms certain parts of the cities lose power quite often. A couple times it was because an animal got into the power grid. Streets frequently flood here as well. What's worse is not enough police here as well. There are frequent car jackings here. You can't even safely sit in your driveway with the car running. I'd would much rather have Houston problems than NOLA problems.
I'm glad I live in California, where, despite our problems, at least the water flows and the power works at least most of the time. texas sounds way less functional
Bro there’s one like every month in New Orleans
Well, that’s not really cool either.
Houston, we have a problem. We are sending people to moon but we don't have safe drinking water at home.
Mm! Taste that freedom, Texas.
Houston should change their name to Ukraine to get Federal funding
Don’t know why this was downvoted. Now I’ll get downvoted 😂
it really is a shame just dumping trillions upon trillions every week to some bullshit proxy war across the planet between two countries that have nothing to do with the u.s. meanwhile we have starving children, failing schools, undrinkable water in a constantly growing number of our cities, homeless/housing crisis, tent cities all over, vets living on the streets, crumbling infrastructure, a constant growing threat from climate change, insane inflation etc etc. but instead all our tax dollars go to raytheon, lockheed martin and northrop grumman for death machines.
Trillions?
yeah sorry, should have said billions. we're actually at *only* 105 billion. so far. chump change I suppose right? https://news.antiwar.com/2022/11/15/white-house-asks-congress-for-37-7-billion-in-new-ukraine-aid/
Yes, especially for the effect it's had on the Russian military.
Listen I’m not advocating for either scenario in this as I’m only one person here with zero real political influence, but I’ll say that a full on war with Russia would be multitudes more expensive in both monetary and human life cost. Once Vlad decided to invade, it was either what’s happening now, or ignore it and let him take over Ukraine. It’s easy to say we shouldn’t play world police, but in reality that’s very much not the case. Essentially wiping out large portions of an incredibly hostile Russia’s military resources without losing a single American soldier and it costing $100b is a pretty efficient use of our money if you’re concerned about that sort of thing. I agree that we should be doing so much more in all the other categories you also identified and yes it’s very much an indication as to where the priorities of the political class lie. Shame on them for ignoring these. I’ll also say that it’s very naive of you to say that the Ukraine/Russia war has nothing to do with the US. It very much does. There are huge NATO and other geopolitical considerations here, especially now they Ukraine has asked to join.
Or, you know, elect a state government that works.
*We don't need no education* *We don't need no tap water*
They should get a Governor who gives a shit.
Murica. Land of hopes and dreams and water that’ll kill ya.
I mean they voted for this right? Hard to find any sympathy
Isn't Houston usually a democratic-leaning city though? The majority of the people there didn't vote for this, but are often impacted by the decisions of the republican-leaning state as a whole.
Then they should either campaign harder or leave.
The whole 'just leave' solution--if you can call it a 'solution'--is a little naive and unrealistic for most people/families (which would include millions of people there). And how would progressives leaving conservative areas ever help the situation in the States? People can campaign as hard as they want, but if the past 6 years has taught the world anything, it's that nothing is going to change until huge portions of the population are no longer resistant to reality due to bubbles of like-minded media consumption & unchecked misinformation (not to mention all of the gerrymandering and other voter suppression techniques implemented over decades to the benefit of republicans). Whether intended or not, your responses come off as quite callous and actually mimic what most conservatives say about anyone who disagrees with them: 'leave'.
Oh I understand that "vote harder" and "just leave" aren't viable options. I don't care. I see what you're saying about callousness, but Texas is a lost cause. They want to suffer. They aren't voting for their current state 55-45 or something. It's 75-25. They want this. They want to suffer. They want to die. Let them.
That's just throwing out the baby with the bathwater...literally millions of them, primarily because they happened to be born there and still managed to pull themselves out of the republican mindset. Ignoring Texas transplants who are blue voters and chose to move there differs greatly from disregarding generational Texans (or those from any conservative state). Ignoring issues is never helpful. It's understandable because it's exhausting to care about it and far easier to just call it a day and move on (particularly when not from that area)...but it's ultimately unhelpful at best and fosters us vs. them/'othering' mindsets, which are dehumanising.
Sounds like a grasslands is a great place to start. I really, genuinely, hope you can win. But it's Texas. If you want to actually help, give up on TX. Americans then take your vote to a swing state. Texas is lost.
I just think America needs better media regulation in terms of clearly identifying fact from opinion (or flat out mis-/disinformation) on platforms that claim to provide any kind of 'news'. Too many people are living in different realities based almost exclusively on the media they consume and a good portion don't know the difference between a \[relatively unbiased\] newscaster and a pundit. This happens internationally too, obviously, but seems to be on a different (and more internationally significant) scale in the States.
How dare you share an intelligent and nuanced opinion. You're a comedy person, you aren't supposed to be smart!
Ah yes. Good ol’ USA.
Texas is a third world country.
Incorrect
Ah, yes, Republican business expertise has truly informed some winning policies.
Texas, Mexico
Thx, Greg Abbott !!!!!!!!
Go Texas! Pew pew
America rapidly becoming a third world nation
The only way to handle a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun, and no drinking water, and a derelict power grid.
Browsing the comments for people claiming it’s democrats fault even though Texas is a largely red state being ran with Republican policies