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    7 months ago

    Texas deserves what it gets honestly. These people know what the issue is but keep voting against their own interest over and over

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      7 months ago

      Except there are a ton of people in those States that don’t vote against their interests and are gerrymandered out of winning

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        7 months ago

        Texas is not those states. Texas is deep red and always has been. Sure you can use that argument with swing states, but Texans would vote for a cannibal serial killer if he had a R in front of his name.

        Even after the massacre of their children, Uvalde county overwhelmingly voted Abbott, and reelected all the judges and sheriffs who did nothing while their kids died. Clearly Texans don’t even care about their kids or state, so why should I? They get what they vote for and my sympathy is at an end

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          Texas is not deep red. Texas politics is deep red, and is set that way by gerrymandering and toooons of voter suppression tactics. Texas is about as close to going blue as you can imagine. In 2020, the democrat governor candidate got 43.9% of the vote. That’s pretty dang close for being “deep red.”

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          There’s a lot of people that don’t vote because they think it’s pointless to vote against Republicans in a red state, creating a self fulfilling prophecy.

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          This tells me how little you know about politics. Texas in particular has a shit ton of blue voters, mostly located in cities, but because of gerrymandering their votes are weighed less. Plus most of the blue voters in Texas are people born there while a ton of red voters are people who moved there. You’re literally saying fuck you to people who don’t have the means to move. One (gerrymandered) county does not make a state as big as Texas

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            7 months ago

            These people didn’t slowly grip power on their own, they were voted in again and again long before anyone ever heard of what gerrymandering was

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              Just say you don’t care about people dude. Like you think they should all burn for decisions that the humans living there didnt even make and were made long before them. You, typing away, not realizing you weren’t born there because of the random draw of the universe.

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                7 months ago

                Those poor Texans 😭 I mean I rather feel bad and help out people in third world nations, the homeless, the disabled, not Texans though.

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                  No you don’t care about the homeless or disabled otherwise you’d care about the ones who live in Texas. You know how many poor Mexicans and black people live there?

                  You are nothing more than reactionary that lucked out into the right political movement. Your words are near indistinguishable from conservatives I’ve argued with just with different nouns.

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          Bruh 46% of the vote in 2020 was for Biden.

          Voter engagement and awareness is a serious problem, but your attempt to paint the entire state as raving fascists is at best very misguided.

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      Some texans have shit opinions yeah but there are a lot of people in texas and many of them simply do not have a say in policy not only due to gerrymandering but also due to wealth. You’ll find that conservative controlled states are often much more blatant in their preference for the owning class and unfortunately this means significantly worse social policy and a much more reactionary populace. Designating an entire state as barbaric or deserving of their treatment is just a form of orientalism.

      The graphs aren’t too important to my point but I had them on hand and thought you may find them interesting. I also want to stress that I am from Texas and very much not part of the right. No amount of voting harder here will fix anything

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