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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Texas is America’s America.

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  • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Precisely.

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• niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Don’t you wish there was a way to quit enabling these shit-kickin’ shitheads. To let them actually live what they preach, in isolation without their shitwater splashing and spilling around everywhere else.

  None of their politicians asking for handouts behind closed doors and under the table, too embarrassed to admit to the voters that yes, indeed, a collective government IS extremely useful AND convenient when you need it the most, and not only when YOU need it but also when OTHERS need it, too.

  But one might as well try and explain quantum mechanics to a goddamned brick wall.

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• Geodad@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s all red states.

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  • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Alabama was proof of how shitty things have to get before people start taking action.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s all red states.

    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

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Remind me again why California needs the federal government as opposed to the other way around?

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• thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Texas wants their cake and to eat it too

  same as it always was, the Alamo is a perfect example of this

  renegade americans who want to establish their own country cant even defend the fucking place and it takes the US Army to come and rescue them… Never forget that the Alamo represents slavery the same way the Confederate flag does

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  • Donkter@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Texas is the embodiment of the libertarian house cat analogy.

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  • icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Texas maybe should be returned to Mexico?

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    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What the fuck did mexico do to deserve that?

      Unless you plan to depopulate it first?

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• But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The top image will be recycled when it’s election season and they all vote Republican again.

  I remember after the school shooting, uvalde county overwhelmingly voted for Abbot and Trump, Cruz, and every crooked judge and sheriff who did nothing while their children died. At a certain point sympathy evaporated for a community that is working against its own interests, and against the lives of their own kids. This is how I feel about Texas in particular among all the states, i just have no more empathy to spare for Texas.

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  • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah. I get mississippi is fucked and most of the people who get fucked are poor and black and didnt ask for that. Louisiana is such a complicated mix, and besides, they were drunk; they didn’t mean it. I get florida got owned by fascists, even alabama has showed it spine and the people’s willingness to resist over and over again.

    But texas… I just have no sympathy. These fucking moochers and looters who have the resources but refuse every trace of civilization no longer deserve our help. Theyre just goong to spend that money on guns and death squads and privatization that helps them fuck up like this again; at no point in their history as a US state have they been any better than this. Not another penny to these scum.

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    • ronigami@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They did invest heavily in renewables. They executed pretty poorly because the power still goes out every storm but at least they tried.

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• Pistcow@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The One-Star State

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  • oppy1984@lemdro.id ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Please review your visit of Texas.

    1 star, would not recommend.

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• LilB0kChoy@midwest.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Lot of bots in Texas which means a lot of bootstraps for them to use to pull themselves up!

  In all seriousness, they should be getting aid and relief from the federal government. Thats what FEMA is for, that’s what the true American way should be; supporting each other and helping out where we can.

  I wish the best for the residents of Texas but anybody there upset about not getting aid needs has only their local, state and federal government to blame. Unfortunately, some folks will get caught in the middle.

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If they need federal insurance why don’t they pay in?

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    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well because paying is for the left. Spending is for the right. Silly commie.

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• frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We had a real union before. If there was a natural disaster in California or Texas or Florida or New York, we all pitched in to help. That’s what federal taxes that go to FEMA do.

  That’s breaking down. No matter why it’s happened or who is responsible, this is a bad sign.

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  • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Also, youbknow, marines deployed to start depopulating california.

    Can we not forget that part?

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It isn’t “breaking down”, it’s getting sabotaged by domestic terrorists.

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    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And corporate greed induced climate change.

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The breakdown already happened. We are in a civil war. Federal taxes are now a theft without recourse under the threat of violence.

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• Gowron_Howard@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They cosplay as John Wayne the character, but in reality are John Wayne the actor.

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  • tortina_original@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oooooooh, this is good.

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• coherent_domain@infosec.pub ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean every natural disaster is also the fault of the rest of America.

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  • trublu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Mmm, sometimes they blame the gays.

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    • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      That’s actually Kansas, but Kansas might as well be Texas Concentrate.

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• HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  #thaughtsandprayers

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• abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean, that’s what the federal government is for. Or well, that’s how it should be.

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  • BossDj@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, but if the state is constantly working it's ass off to stop other states from getting that federal assistance, they should go fuck themselves.

    I really want, at this point, blue states to unionize this stuff on their own and let those red states deal with their own shit like they keep demanding

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There’s no compelling reason why a state a big and wealthy as Texas can’t afford to manage natural disasters on this scale.

    Their state leadership simply chooses not to do so. And the state media saturated the airwaves with “Nothing to be done, government would only make things worse” which… given the leadership of the state, isn’t even an unfair critique.

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    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They have the money, bit have nwver built real infrastructure. Theyre orcs. Theyre just fucking orcs. If the solution isnt gun, they cant solve it.

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• fartographer@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The fuck you talking about? The second pic is us anytime someone shits on us or our family. Please Daddy Teddy, abandon us just one more time for a natural disaster! We’re so close!!!

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