• @MaxVerstappen
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    -151 year ago

    Here’s a completely unbiased excerpt about the “worst” state of Texas:

    The Lone Star State keeps hacking away at inclusiveness, with laws targeting the LGBTQ+ population, voting rights, and the nation’s strictest abortion ban. Yes, there are enormous economic opportunities in Texas, and it is attracting people from far and wide. But this state also has some Texas-sized issues when it comes to life, health and inclusion. And it is one of the reasons that the state fell out of the overall top five for the first time in the 16-year history of CNBC’s rankings.

    • @rockSlayer
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      361 year ago

      Are you trying to say that laws that impact people’s control over their identity are ok?

      • @MaxVerstappen
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        Just that the article happens to align “good” with the Democratic party’s top social stances. I find it extremely hard to believe that the state that left-leaning people are flocking to is the worst in the nation.

        Look, I’m all for equal rights for everyone and the government staying out of people’s personal lives. I just don’t want the constant propaganda.

        • Zorque
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          211 year ago

          The propaganda… of judging based on those metrics you supposedly support?

          • @MaxVerstappen
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            -151 year ago

            It’s propaganda because it’s dismissing the idea that it’s generally a good state to move to economically. Lots of new high value companies setting up shop provide employment opportunities in a state where there is still land to develop.

            I mean, Texas would be too hot for me but it seems a little suspicious that there is not a worse state in the union than Texas according to this.

            By all means, if you can objectively come to the same conclusion as the article, great! I just don’t trust the validity of their findings and therefore categorize it as propaganda.

            • @[email protected]
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              141 year ago

              You can call it whatever you want, just know that you are badly misusing the word. Propaganda does not mean “anything I disagree with.” Never has.

            • Zorque
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              101 year ago

              Just because there are opportunities doesn’t mean they are good opportunities. And even if there are good opportunities, they don’t necessarily comprise all of them. Just enough to draw in some skilled workers (who are still exploited, just better compensated).

              But that’s beside the point. The implication of your comment is that the social issues are the ones that comprise the propaganda, not the economic ones. Just because you pivot to something else doesn’t suddenly mean you didn’t make that argument.

        • @[email protected]
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          111 year ago

          Says the guy bleating conservative propaganda.

          Respect for all is not a liberal propaganda conspiracy.

      • @candio
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        -261 year ago

        Your identity is your business, just keep it for yourself instead of trying to abuse women and remove their rights then you’ll become a better person

        • Zorque
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          161 year ago

          How is allowing people to identify as the gender that fits them abusive to women?

          • @[email protected]
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            -101 year ago

            No one cares what you “identify” as. Identify as a turkey for all anyone cares. The problem is with coerced speech and trying to invade sex-specific places and events.

            • @Nahlej
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              81 year ago

              Coerced speech? Invading? Boy that does sound scary.

              You have any other completely imaginary strawmen we should be hypothetically scared of?

              • @[email protected]
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                Coerced speech like how some places are now looking at making “misgendering” and “using the wrong pronouns” illegal.

                Not sure what word other than “invading” you would user for biological men going in to places designed specifically only for biological women?

                Do you even know what a strawman is?

            • @Ensign_Crab
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              -11 year ago

              Identify as a turkey for all anyone cares.

              Was “attack helicopter” taken?

    • @AquaTofana
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      21 year ago

      Um. Yes. It fucking SUCKS to be a woman, LGBTQ+ + community member, or a minority here in Texas. Good luck if you’re all 3.

      This state is a steaming pile of shit and a blight on America. I wish it would secede, but only after the government offers refugee status to those of us who are sane and want to leave.

      Then Texas can take its misogynistic, racist, bigoted, xenophobic self and go create its own country. And it can take Florida with it!

        • @AquaTofana
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          31 year ago

          Agreed. I was here for the 2021 Snowpocalypse. Bruh, idk how it was in more rural or northern parts of Texas, but in San Antonio the amount of snow was laughable for shutting the major metropolitan area down like it did.

          I was on call for my job and I had to go in three times, and other than under the overpasses where the snow melted and then froze, driving was a non-issue. And yet…businesses were shut down while we all suffered through the rolling blackouts.

          My husband and I were lucky, we were getting 15 mins of electricity every hour or so. Other friends were getting 3-5 mins sporadically. I could at least boil our eggs to eat throughout the week.

          And now with this heat wave, all over the place ERCOT is advising Texans to keep the thermostat at 80. And certain areas have gone through more rolling blackouts because the grid can’t sustain the AC draw. I’m flabbergasted at this state.