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> The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, a state agency that says it aims to protect the state's human and natural resources consistent with sustainable

> The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, a state agency that says it aims to protect the state's human and natural resources consistent with sustainable economic development, is reviewing the proposal and seeking public input. I mean this truly: stop asking for public input. This is one of the biggest problems in America, responsible for soaring housing costs, preventing us from making quicker progress on climate change, it is among the reason we have horrible traffic, it's reducing all of our incomes, and in general is making life in the West suck. The public has no idea at all. There is no scenario where public input is useful, outside of maybe a jury. We've got to rollback this stuff. The public should not be consulted on anything at all.

wonder_er 3y ago
The public input blocking improvement is a feature, not a bug. Think about who had the permission to vote, when voting was first deemed as a way to impact the world. 'the public' means 'americans' which means 'the norms of white people'. Colonialism, supremacy, violence, the carceral state. (Pardon the redundancy) American traffic planners use 'the public' has justification for the continued oppression of poor and minority people, via highways and refusal of services that would actually help the real public. Texas still has in its municipal governments and public populations, enough people that are disappointed by the end of slavery, that often enough the political will is indistinguishable from that of slaveholders. It's a feature, not a bug.