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Here's hoping those ass fucks in Texas get to see their fair share this bullshit. While they sit around climate denying they can fucking roast.
The residents of Texas are not completely to blame. Texas has the highest rates of voter suppression in the country. Secondly, the Texas education system has been built in a way to persist the current leadership in the state. And finally, many of the people live in poverty and will likely die for what oil execs and politicians have done.
Wishing this is short sighted and is blaming the symptom and not the root cause problem.
living in austin for 5 years taught that even the bluest texans are ardently pro-establishment.
that doesn't mean that all of them are climate deniers; but like their red brethren, they'll fall in line and vote for a climate change denier if it means their guy gets to win.
like most of the country, they hate their choices but will fight you tooth and nail if you try to change anything for the better; don't bother with benefit of the doubt when it comes to texans.
Let's not joke about this, people will likely die, and not the people you're mad at.
That's the problem. We poors are going to pay the price while the rich will be on their yachts circumnavigating the poles to keep fresh
One of the reasons why I went into infrastructure. I get to provide hospice care to the bulk of the human race and my chances at personal survival are pretty decent. The powers-that-be will still need someone who knows how the machines work.
The people I'm mad at are the ones who vote these fuck heads in. Honestly if them dying makes it likely that a republican won't pull a seat in the house or the Senate, I count that as a good thing. Fuck those assholes. They vote based on insignificant and petty issues drummed up by the conservative think tanks and not on any real issues. Critical race theory? Bullshit! Trans people trying to convert your kids or competing in sports "unfairly"? BULLSHIT! Illegal immigrants coming to kidnap or kill you or your family? Absolute HORSESHIT!!
These fucktards deserve ever extra degree of heat they get. I only feel sorry for the liberals who are stuck living with them. But only a little bit cause they need to light a fire under their asses and fight these bastards where they live.
I have a lot to say about how partisan politics turns decent people into rabid sociopaths who cheer for the violent deaths of people who fall on the other side of an arbitrary distinction, but I'm afraid saying so might put you squarely inside the picture you've just painted.
Oh, you mean the who "both sides are terrible" argument? Let us see. One side thinks we should invest as much government money as we can into education, the other wants to gut every dime and put all kids (who can afford it) into private schools. One side wants to ensure that children do not go hungry, the other is canceling student lunch programs everywhere they can. And, to the point of this thread, one side wants us to acknowledge our hand in climate change and find a way to mitigate it, the other wants to pretend it doesn't exist.
I'm not a radical for believing what I believe because what I believe is based in scientific fact and compassion for humanity. The "other side of the coin" is afraid that their tax money might, at some point, help a poor person in need.
Fuck your moderate ass. People like you are half the problem.
It's genuinely a bit shocking being called a moderate on a platform where I routinely get accused of being a tankie, and even more shocking to realize that I find the former to be more offensive somehow.
I'll say the same to you as I would any blood-thirsty liberal: no war but class war. I don't root for the deaths of my fellow working class americans simply because I suspect them of having supported a political movement based on a false premise, no matter how much their politics repulse me.
So go off I guess, but just be aware that while you're sitting where you are thinking of me as a part of the problem, I'm thinking the same of people like you who wish death and destruction against people who are under the same marginalization as you are.
Except the difference is I'm not voting for it. They actively choose to vote for the marginalization. They're happy to be slaves to their corporate masters.
And yeah, I do a hoop and a holler every damn time somebody dies a fucking covid when their Facebook page and every bit of social media they're on is telling everybody in the universe how much they won't use PPE or get vaccinated and will vote for politicians who tell everyone that the covid vaccine is some kind of poison.
I sing a song of praise to all the karma in the universe when one of these fucktards who thinks that global warming is a fucking conspiracy to push everyone into green energy for profit somehow dies of heat stroke or freezes to death because global warming is turning our climate pair shaped.
And I jump for fucking joy when a shitty old person who has consistently voted for a republican who has, yet again, gutted medicare and social security cries about being left in the cold with no money and no medical care. Cause FUCK every single one of them. They can rot in hell cause they are the cause of not only their own suffering, but everyone else's as well.
You realize the entire political system is a game right? And it's rigged? Realistically the Republican party has a 0% chance to get elected ever, if we just go based on popular vote. The average citizen has roughly 0 influence on the election, with how heavily gerrymandered districts are, with how heavily certain areas are "encouraged" not to vote...
The people in Texas don't want you to be in a heat wave either, in general. Only the mega rich who have no skin in this game, who can fly out to whatever tropical paradise has the best climate this time of year. And the ones who say they DO want that are, 9 times out of 10, just parroting whatever their favorite billionaire wants them to.
I support anger, I support aggression. Make our voices heard, but aim it at the right people. Fighting internally is what they want us to do.
Alright then, you do you.
As someone from Texas who isn't a climate denier, fuck off.
Also we're having severe thunderstorms nearly daily... I am not ready for the rebound of heat that's about to come.
Vote better. Or, if you already do, work harder to get the fuckers out of office.
Watch their power grid go down again
Well that's pretty misanthropic. Maybe don't take your frustrations out on the average citizen that probably has nothing real to do with this, and who are the only people who will suffer from the climate issues. Cruz sure won't.