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Just your friendly reminder that Texas governor Greg Abbott is a racist piece of shit and probably a kkk member who used his powers as governor to free another bigoted racist killer Daniel Perry convicted by a jury of his peers. They don't care if you murder their constituents as long as they can benefit politically from it.

https://apnews.com/article/army-sergeant-murder-parole-black-lives-matter-4b1d0c54b0de451642bcf1e8cd75a7e5

" On May 29, 2020, days after George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer prompted nationwide protests, Perry sent a text message saying, “I might go to Dallas to shoot looters.”

Two days later, according to the records, Perry said in a Facebook message that when he is in Dallas, “no protestors go near me or my car.”

“Can you catch me a negro daddy,” the other man replied.

“That is what I am hoping,” Perry said. "

https://www.ksat.com/news/texas/2023/04/14/unsealed-evidence-shows-racist-comments-threats-of-violence-made-by-daniel-perry-before-killing-of-austin-protester/

I’m not from the US and speaking about other countries too, not just the US. We became countries from kingdoms at a certain time for all of us. Somehow, states were formed either after or before from the kingdom period or whatever names they were called. It seems we are moving to a time when the states or provinces or whatever would like more say than the country. Do you think we will evolve to an EU like system or some other new system over the course of time, making the concept of countries or federal/central “rule” obsolete and instead moving to a more alliance between these localised states/provinces a system?

Texas is America's America.

Precisely.

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.

It's called secession.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_secession_movements

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.

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 (they just want to party, and Florida man sounds fun as hell if he keeps a safe distance), 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.
Edit: plus, they can make mexican food kinda suck. Do you have any idea how hard it is to use the right ingredients and make mexican food suck?
- They did invest heavily in renewables. They executed pretty poorly because the power still goes out every storm but at least they tried.

That's all red states.

Im not gonna shit on alabama+ga. 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.
- Alabama was proof of how shitty things have to get before people start taking action.
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
- Remind me again why California needs the federal government as opposed to the other way around?

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

It doesn't have a basement?
- There are no bicycles down there Pee-wee!
  my favorite is Ozzy being banned for 10 years from playing in San Antonio for pissing on the statue in the plaza of the Alamo
Texas is the embodiment of the libertarian house cat analogy.
- libertarian house cat analogy
  I searched this and found a bunch of reddit libertarians coping about how much they aren't stupid children living off the government while hating it.
  https://old.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/yex7st/libertarians_are_like_house_cats/
Texas maybe should be returned to Mexico?
- What the fuck did mexico do to deserve that?
  Unless you plan to depopulate it first? Then yes. That's cool.

The One-Star State

Please review your visit of Texas.
1 star, would not recommend.

Lot of boots 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.

I'd like to see a law in place that says if a congressman votes against aid for another state during a disaster, then they must resign immediately after requesting aid for their own state during a disaster.
Put your money where you mouth is.
- As long as it's applied equally I could support this.
  No Republicans roadblocking aid for blue states while promoting it for red, but also no blue states roadblocking aid to red states because "take more than they give". Those behaviors only serve to hurt the people, regardless of their politics.
If they need federal insurance why don’t they pay in?
- Well because paying is for the left. Spending is for the right. Silly commie.

It is so past time to quit the monolith thinking. The entity is not the people. It's not even funny to joke otherwise. Some of y'all actually think this way, too.

Kinda sick of seeing it.

I think theyre referring to the Texas government.
- most people who have a Texas bumper sticker/shirt/etc are- in my experience -assholes.
  that being said that's an extremely small %age of Texans, and the vast majority of Texans I've met are pretty chill
Found the Texan

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

Oooooooh, this is good.

To put this in the most antagonistically cali-fasch way i possibly can:

Texans are all NGMI, sorrynotsorry. read bacigalupi or don't even talk to me.

Huh?
- It's devastating. You're devastated.
i have no idea what you're trying to say, can you dumb it down for me?
- No it's already pretty stupid, but i can explain it, if you can take the brain damage.
  Ngmi is bay area VC nazi speak for 'not gonna make it', sometimes a noun ("all these NGMI's on the street scare me") as a way to separate themselves from the people they fuck over so they don't have to feel anything. Basically the worst people in the state.
  There's a tendency among that same set to see their favorite scifi stories as 'logic' because of course nobody anywhere has had a moment of humanities efucation since 1914. I would argue it should be classed as a mental illness, and is ehy we keep getting the vc set doing shit from dystopian novels like it's cool and good.
  Paolo Bacigalupi is a fiction writer whose biggest basic formula is 'write a near-future extremely-pulp story with realistic/likely ecological devastation as the backdrop' so he gets more taken more seriously than he should in all the ways hes not trying to and none of the ways he is. One of his better known works is 'the water knife' a pulp novel about a much later stage of the water wars of the american southwest. Kind of similar vibe as 'blade runner 2049' but that was a masterpiece, and hes just competent/a bit good but socially important; nothing he writes is quite that profound.
  So 'read this fiction writer trying to make idiots pay attention to impotant shit nonfiction writers were hammering alarm bells about thirty years ago or dont even talk to me' is kind of the most cringe way one could say 'learn about these structural forces wnd impending challenges that im very pessimistic about' without acknowledging that structural forces exist.
  Im pointing out that there are sociopathic assholes here who are totally willing to throw your¹ filthy texan life away for the same reason you're¹ willing to throw all these poor people who need help under the bus.
  ¹hypothetical you, who is both a texan and a piece of shit. They've got a spectacular ass, though.

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.

Also, youbknow, marines deployed to start depopulating california.
Can we not forget that part?
It isn't "breaking down", it's getting sabotaged by domestic terrorists.
- And corporate greed induced climate change but you said terrorists so yeah they're already included in your post.
The breakdown already happened. We are in a civil war. Federal taxes are now a theft without recourse under the threat of violence.
this is a bad sign.
Some of us out there consider it a very good sign, but yeah potato potato.
- People taking care of each other less is not a good sign.

They also blame every natural disaster on the rest of America.

Mmm, sometimes they blame the gays.
- That's actually Kansas, but Kansas might as well be Texas Concentrate.

#thaughtsandprayers

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

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
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.
- 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.

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!!!!