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[–] [email protected] 33 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

To summarize: Texas allows itself to be governed via right wing ideology and right wing ideology makes for piss poor disaster preparedness.

Expecting your government to do anything at all to protect people from disasters is literally the opposite of right wing ideology. Disaster preparedness—in the form of warning systems and building regulations—are implementations socialism (and environmentalism).

If you're a conservative (or libertarian), little girls dying in floods every few years is your ideal scenario. That's literally what you believe in! That it's not the government's job to prevent such things.

And let's be honest: If you're conservative you probably don't believe in global warming either so this is just an "act of God" that no one could've predicted (except science did predict this). Clearly, God is punishing those little girls (or their parents) for... Living in Texas?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 17 hours ago

Article can be summarized thusly: They're morons.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Because Texans aren't very bright?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

They put self-reliance above everything else, while also not being all that self-reliant. So yeah, morons.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago

There are a lot of very bright texans, they're just concentrated heavily in urban areas, gerrymandered to hell and our opposition party is even dumber than the national democrats. Not that there aren't frustratingly a lot of really dumb texans.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

I mean they don't believe at all in federal government unless you're talking about ice raids or police. Then they also don't really believe in state government unless you're talking about bending over and spreading wide for industrial waste generating junk corporations. Then much of the state is unincorporated praire so you're not getting a local government that takes great care of the tumbleweeds. It's basically anarcho capitalism in Texas which is exactly why it sucks so much.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

I mean they don't believe at all in federal government unless you're talking about ice raids or police.

That's not true at all! How can you just ignore that they'll happily come to the fed and take all kinds of money (whether or not they use it for the intended purpose, or ignore disaster preparedness to spend the money on militarizing the cops)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

They're stupid and corrupt.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago

Uneduct and corrupt. It's not that they're genetically predisposed to have a lower intelligence, it's that their government actively works on keeping the majority of the population dumb as dumb people are easier to control and manipulate and lie to

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

Texas can spend all the money in the world on disaster preparedness, but it won't matter if Camp Staff has their cell phones and weather radios switched off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Texas seems to have the vibe that they are proudly uneducated

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago

Everything’s bigger in Texas.