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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 diffe

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.)