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As a not-Texan, almost all of what I hear about Texas is oil, conservatism, failed power systems during winter, anti-abortion-rights, and using immigrants as po
by the_jeremy 4y ago
As a not-Texan, almost all of what I hear about Texas is oil, conservatism, failed power systems during winter, anti-abortion-rights, and using immigrants as political theater by sending them to DC/NY. I don't know that the disdain is unexpected given the political leaning of people working in technology.
- sacrosancty 4y agoYou're probably living in a filter bubble. You'd be hearing only the same kind of things about California if you were in a different bubble.
- themitigating 4y agoWhataboutisn. He didn't claim what he heard was true. He didn't say he doesn't hear things about other states. Nor did he make a judgment about Texas. He only offered a possible explanation to the gp
- the_jeremy 4y agoI get most of my national news from NPR. What news am I missing about Texas? I guess I forgot the Uvalde school shooting police response in my list. I do hear bad things about California - homelessness, drug use, lots of petty theft that doesn't get prosecuted, ridiculously expensive housing, NIMBYs - but that's unrelated.
- sacrosancty 4y agoI'd better not get too involved in this because it's ugly politics nonsense, but it's easy enough to find criticisms of California for its power grid, leftism, pro-abortion-rights (which is obviously seen as a bad thing by many people), and political use of immigrants.