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So you feel strongly enough about these issues that you don't want to live somewhere where there's more work to do, and where your vote could make a difference

by dkarl 4y ago

So you feel strongly enough about these issues that you don't want to live somewhere where there's more work to do, and where your vote could make a difference in the coming decades. Just "get this gross stuff away from me."

fundad 4y ago
Like the way conservatives discuss coastal cities?
ilikehurdles 4y ago
I lived in Texas for nearly 20 years, most of that time in Austin, and by all measures the politics has gotten more evil, not less. My “vote could make a difference” while stripping myself and more importantly my wife of rights we get to enjoy in every other state we’ve lived in. And while there are a dozen other unrelated reasons you couldn’t pay us enough to live in Austin again, it’s nobody’s duty to live their lives as an oppressed martyr to be a fraction of a number for your cause.
- dkarl 4y ago
  You are not going to executed, shot, denied an abortion, or otherwise turned into a martyr. I know that with high confidence because you're here, and because you're lightly talking about what major city you'd like to live in. The politics are important because of the people whose lives and bodies they impact, not because of our distaste for them. We live above the real consequences of the policies you named (outside of the very unlikely chance that we catch a random bullet.)
biggieshellz 4y ago
I have been a block captain with the Democratic Party in Austin for almost as long as I've lived here, and a voter deputy registrar since 2018. It hasn't made a bit of difference, and that's intentional. Anything good you do at the local level, the state government preempts. And the state legislature is so gerrymandered that even if you flipped the governor and lieutenant governor, you still couldn't roll back any of the awfulness that's already been passed. And there is no ballot initiative -- all the amendments on the ballot have to be proposed and approved by that gerrymandered legislature. That's why Oklahoma, Missouri, and Utah have medical marijuana and expanded Medicaid, and we don't.

by dkarl 4y ago

fundad 4y ago

Like the way conservatives discuss coastal cities?

ilikehurdles 4y ago

I lived in Texas for nearly 20 years, most of that time in Austin, and by all measures the politics has gotten more evil, not less. My “vote could make a difference” while stripping myself and more importantly my wife of rights we get to enjoy in every other state we’ve lived in. And while there are a dozen other unrelated reasons you couldn’t pay us enough to live in Austin again, it’s nobody’s duty to live their lives as an oppressed martyr to be a fraction of a number for your cause.

dkarl 4y ago
You are not going to executed, shot, denied an abortion, or otherwise turned into a martyr. I know that with high confidence because you're here, and because you're lightly talking about what major city you'd like to live in. The politics are important because of the people whose lives and bodies they impact, not because of our distaste for them. We live above the real consequences of the policies you named (outside of the very unlikely chance that we catch a random bullet.)

biggieshellz 4y ago

I have been a block captain with the Democratic Party in Austin for almost as long as I've lived here, and a voter deputy registrar since 2018. It hasn't made a bit of difference, and that's intentional. Anything good you do at the local level, the state government preempts. And the state legislature is so gerrymandered that even if you flipped the governor and lieutenant governor, you still couldn't roll back any of the awfulness that's already been passed. And there is no ballot initiative -- all the amendments on the ballot have to be proposed and approved by that gerrymandered legislature. That's why Oklahoma, Missouri, and Utah have medical marijuana and expanded Medicaid, and we don't.