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I'm really getting sick of seeing all of this rhetoric from people on HN, reddit, etc. that seems to want to dance on the graves of a bunch of people in Texas w
by thepasswordis 6y ago
I'm really getting sick of seeing all of this rhetoric from people on HN, reddit, etc. that seems to want to dance on the graves of a bunch of people in Texas who have literally frozen to death.
It is especially ridiculous considering that many of these people doing the dancing are from California, and many of them have fled that state towards Texas, a place they now are demanding implement California-like policies. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.
California has massive wildfires, rolling blackouts, and deaths as a result of these things every single year and has for the last decade. It happens, like clockwork, every single summer. And yet every single year the state throws its hands in the air, blames the federal government, and waits until next year.
Texas is facing a once-in-a-century black swan event[1]. If Texas got a storm like this every February for a decade, and continued doing nothing about it, then sure, maybe they could start looking to others (although literally anyone except the Californians) for help.
Until then I hope that everybody either proverbially picks up a shovel, or closes their mouth and gets out of the way. There are people suffering. Stop trying to extract joy from it.
[1]No. The storm that Texas saw in 2011 is not comparable to this. Yes, there were recommendations made on how to mitigate catastrophic temperatures like Texas is seeing. There are also mitigation strategies for things like: war, flooding, meteor strikes, hacks, earthquakes, and other "acts of god". It is simply not feasible to put ALL of these recommendations into practice.
- panarky 6y agoYour argument is the textbook example of whataboutism.
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