Im not gonna shit on alabama. Death to their government and the old confederates, but multiple civil rights movements have kicked off there; they’re still fighting because enough of them stand with humanity. Florida is frustrating and annoying, but i think if all the fascists died tomorrow they’d be paragons of redneck virtue. Louisiana is drunk, they didn’t mean to, too diverse to paint with a broad brush, and have you tasted the food? Mississippi is fucked, but they’re fucked by poverty and the people who suffer largely aren’t the ones ruining the rest of our shit; they need regime change. Etc etc.
Texas is uniquely free of virtue. They have money; they use it to fuck over the restbof us, then ask for ours when their total lack of education or infrastructure gets them in trouble. They have resources, they dont fuvking build anything but parking lots woth them. Theyre uniquely positioned to stand against climate change, but always seem to stand for it. They ruin their natural beauty, they spit on their diversity, they destroy the rest of our educational systems, they get us into bullshit wars while constantly showing their cowardice.
Texans are uniquely awful, uniquely free of virtue, and not human in any meaningful way.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 days ago
From California to Mississippi, the anti-tax era got everybody. Now states don’t have domestic revenue to pay for shit, so they have to go through the Feds for everything.
Ironic, in a way, since the core of anti-tax Republicanism was supposed to be about shrinking the size of government. But here we are, beholden to whichever idiot or asshole happens to be running the executive branch at a given moment
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Remind me again why California needs the federal government as opposed to the other way around?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Broadly speaking? For the same reason every other state does. Continental unity opens up trade and travel, exploits economies of scale, and simplifies the legal system for interstate business and for civil rights purposes.
Specifically? Because federal coordination helps manage natural disasters (like wildfires) and centralize big programs life Medicare/SS and secures national defense (which California profits from handsomely).
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
They declared theyre not foing to be helping us with disasters, though. So what the fuck is the point?
Just so they can invade our cities and kidnap our neighbors to die in the florida swamp?
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I don’t normally downvote. Looks like someone else already did that. So I don’t have to.
Geodad@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They don’t. If California stopped sending taxes to DC, the rest of the country would be fucked.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
No, parts woukd be fine. New york, hawaii, alaska.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Good thing we’ve got newsom to stand up for us. 👍🏻