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It’s not the reason I call it a failed state but it does occur with more frequency than other states. It’s a matter of something that happens in an emergency vs
by rgrieselhuber 3y ago
It’s not the reason I call it a failed state but it does occur with more frequency than other states. It’s a matter of something that happens in an emergency vs ongoing issues.
- simonklitj 3y agoWhat is the reason, then, that California cannot be considered a first world state, and instead a failed state? And are there other states that used to have this designation, but have lost it in your view? Just curious.
- rgrieselhuber 3y agoExploding deficits, tent cities, shit covered sidewalks, blackouts, palpable corruption, to name a few. No, I don’t think it’s limited to California, that state just kind of serves as a time machine for the rest of the country.
- simonklitj 3y agoAh, okay. I think we have different ideas of what constitutes a failed state.
- arwineap 3y agoYou're being delusional. Maybe reconsider
- FireBeyond 3y agoNo, it doesn't. Texas has the most number of outages in the last 20 years of all states, where an outage is defined by the DOE has a power failure affecting 50,000 people or more. > https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/report-texas-has-the-most-major-power-outages-of-any-state-in-the-u-s/ https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/report-texas-has-the-m... It's amazing how much people will let their biases color their worldview. Texas has the most "ongoing issues" with power of any state.