Rationality is out of the window. Ideology is the new religion. They don’t want to become “socialists” even though they don’t know what it truly means.
PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
We’ve learned nothing from the 2021 winter storm that killed over 200 people.
Mereo@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s almost scary to think of how bad it would have to get in order for voters to tick the boxes for Greens or Libertarians.
Like, how badly do these fuckers have to fail before you’re willing to shed your partisan jersey and vote to your own benefit?
cerement@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
“Socialism is when capitalism.”
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Correct.
Didn’t the state basically re-elect everyone who oversaw that shit show?
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Not only did they re-elect them, deregulating the power grid even more was an explicit part of the Republican platform
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Partisanship is a hell of a drug.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Instead of requiring weatherization, they allowed power plants to opt out. Everything these clowns do is an absolute joke.
lawmakers on the Senate Business and Commerce Committee were frustrated that the new law allows natural gas companies to opt out of weatherization requirements if they don’t voluntarily declare themselves to be “critical infrastructure” with the state.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
It’s absolutely wild. The last time around, people died, and a lot more were put into financial hardship due to the shitty, hypercapitalist energy infrastructure. People were rightly ripshit angry about it.
And then nothing was done about any of it.
And then people keep voting for the politicians who created and perpetuated the situation.
It’s really hard to keep giving a shit about people who actively work and vote to make their own lives worse.
downpunxx@fedia.io 5 months ago
well we did learn that when shit hits the fan Rafael Edward Cruz likes taking vacay down south of de border way
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Desire for more money overrides literally every other thought for those who have the most
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
they almost learned nothing. The grid almost shutdown this time, instead of shutting down…
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Sure we have: profits are worth more than 200 lives, and counting.
stankmut@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They did change one thing. You used to be able to get electricity at wholesale prices from certain providers. When the rates went crazy during the 2021 storm and people’s crazy bills for turning on the lamp blew up on the news, they shut down that option.
These rate surges do hurt customers, but now it’s in the form of rate increases when their contract expires.
PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Thank you for the clarification.