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House Republican threatens to withhold disaster aid from California amid deadly wildfires
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Or, you know, just moving there and voting those a-holes out of office? The average default Lemming reaction being violence is getting old.
I mean, the fact that those people would then have to live there kind of insulates the politicians from those consequences. It's not so simple to move your entire life, but to do so in order to live somewhere you don't actually want to, so you can be one small drop in the bucket toward maybe voting one of these jerks out 2 years from now? Ridiculous, quite frankly, and not something enough people would ever be willing to do (rightfully so) to turn the tides.
Californians have been moving to Texas and voting for decades without change. They have these red states so fucked on gerrymandering. Look at the voting district map of Austin TX and see exactly why that won't work. Those map drawing folks llooooove them a good snake drawing.
Right wing Californians keep moving to Ohio and being real assholes to us left wing ohioans. Like dude you moved to a major city, idk why you thought there wouldn't be a lot of queer and left wing people here
I assume the governor is elected by popular vote and not districts though right?
The Californians moving to Texas aren’t typically Democrats. California has more Republicans than Texas, after all.
There’s also just a lot of generally apolitical people who move to cheaper (generally red) states from California, New York, etc. for totally apolitical reasons. Not everyone cares about the cultural advantages of living in a city and just want a big house with a yard to have steak and potatoes in every night. They might as well move to Idaho and live their best life.
Not to pick on Idaho, specifically. It’s just a land where the potatoes and cows are plentiful.
Sure, but with tons of voter suppression and when a Democrat becomes governor in a state with a GOP controlled legislature, they transfer powers from the governor to themselves before the new governor even takes office.
It's happened 3 times in the last decade or less and since nobody did anything to stop it or even punish the ones responsible afterwards, it's going to keep happening.
Bruh, this fact right here is truly what made me give up on Texas. Gerrymandering IS a valid excuse for the federal elections.
But when Greg Abbott, and Dan Patrick won AGAIN?!, I immediately was like "Fuck this state and everyone in it. We get what we deserve."
Proposing a ridiculous solution like "just move there and vote" as if it is a viable option, is just as tiresome.
I'm not trying to be argumentative, but I get the same sort of feeling when I am told I should just pick up and move out of Florida when I've lived here my whole life. I don't like the bullshit policies these clowns like DeSantis put in place, but running away doesn't help things either. Better to try to work to make people see how shitty the politicians are making life for everyone here than running to greener pastures.
At least until the climate forces me out, which may come sooner than I want.
No worries, I don't take it as argumentative, just expressing your opinion, same as me. 🙂
My general thought is, if you don't like where you live AND you can leave, take action and go. But in many cases, leaving just isn't an option. I know this all too well. I hate Oklahoma. I hate the politics of it. I hate that it's always 20 years in the past compared to any other state. I hate the people wanting to strike up a convo while I'm in line to get my groceries. I hate the "good ol boy" culture and the obsession over sports trucks and hunting. I hate so much about this place. But I can't afford to leave. I've tried to save many times but wages are so suppressed here and getting an out of state job is such a bitch, I can't. Still trying a decade down the road with the same road blocks and will keep trying till I die.
But until then, I vote in everything I can. I try to make it work. I take opportunity to disagree with bad politics when I can. I try to make the best of what I've got. Because I can't do anything else. Do what you can, when you can, where you are is my general philosophy for this. Bit rambly but hope that makes sense.
Extremely relatable response and sounds pretty close to my situation as well.
Hopefully you've got some good friends to weather it with at least. That helps a lot for me.
Im confused as to why all these people who purport to hate their government, do nothing while living in a stand your ground state.
Lots of ground to stand on...
I'm a pacifist and even I think violence is a less unacceptable solution than moving to Ohio.
Now that many of them don’t have homes, provided they don’t get scammed out of their insurance money, moving to some of these states might be a decent financial option. Then they can vote these assholes out.