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vintagedave 1y ago
This is a lot for someone to wade through, especially non-American. I dislike those HN posts with AI content, but I did ask an AI to summarise and explain (culturally and geographically) what I was reading. Maybe it will help others. https://chatgpt.com/share/686cfd32-f578-800e-997b-1fbee9c185e3 https://chatgpt.com/share/686cfd32-f578-800e-997b-1fbee9c185...
- VMG 1y ago
  I found the summary valuable.
  - actionfromafar 1y ago
    "People from Houston" is code for liberals for those who aren't familiar.
    - vintagedave 1y ago
      I wasn't. I thought Austin was 'liberal' city?
happymellon 1y ago
Reading this just reminds me that you need to be involved in local politics if you want change. They voted against building an early warning system because, as one person put it the money coming from FEMA was: > Resident 2: And I'm here to ask this Court today to send this money back to the Biden administration, which I consider to be the most criminal treasonous communist government ever to hold the White House. These are the gibbering idiots that will represent you. Biden wasn't even the most "Communist Government" of the previous 10 years. Not entirely sure (as an outsider) what makes him Communist outside of not throwing Sieg Hiels when he was elected.
- andrewl 1y ago
  For a lot of these people the term Communist is basically a synonym for sick or evil. I have seen very extreme people using Communist and homosexual interchangeably as terms for what they consider immorality. "They're homosexual, communists trying to destroy America." "It's a Jewish, homosexual agenda." "What about Senator John Smith's wife?" "She's a homosexual, too."
consumer451 1y ago
Wow, that is incredibly infuriating. Truly politics above all else. The political brainwashing there seems to be entirely complete. How would one even begin to undo that level of programming?

https://www.reddit.com/r/TexasPolitics/comments/1ltnjf8/we_have_floods_all_the_time_and_small_town https://www.reddit.com/r/TexasPolitics/comments/1ltnjf8/we_h...

vintagedave 1y ago

This is a lot for someone to wade through, especially non-American. I dislike those HN posts with AI content, but I did ask an AI to summarise and explain (culturally and geographically) what I was reading. Maybe it will help others. https://chatgpt.com/share/686cfd32-f578-800e-997b-1fbee9c185e3 https://chatgpt.com/share/686cfd32-f578-800e-997b-1fbee9c185...

VMG 1y ago
I found the summary valuable.
- actionfromafar 1y ago
  "People from Houston" is code for liberals for those who aren't familiar.
  - vintagedave 1y ago
    I wasn't. I thought Austin was 'liberal' city?

happymellon 1y ago

Reading this just reminds me that you need to be involved in local politics if you want change. They voted against building an early warning system because, as one person put it the money coming from FEMA was: > Resident 2: And I'm here to ask this Court today to send this money back to the Biden administration, which I consider to be the most criminal treasonous communist government ever to hold the White House. These are the gibbering idiots that will represent you. Biden wasn't even the most "Communist Government" of the previous 10 years. Not entirely sure (as an outsider) what makes him Communist outside of not throwing Sieg Hiels when he was elected.

andrewl 1y ago
For a lot of these people the term Communist is basically a synonym for sick or evil. I have seen very extreme people using Communist and homosexual interchangeably as terms for what they consider immorality. "They're homosexual, communists trying to destroy America." "It's a Jewish, homosexual agenda." "What about Senator John Smith's wife?" "She's a homosexual, too."

consumer451 1y ago

Wow, that is incredibly infuriating. Truly politics above all else. The political brainwashing there seems to be entirely complete. How would one even begin to undo that level of programming?