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Texas republican voters getting exactly what they voted for.
Pardon me while I laugh my fucking ass off.
Texas republican voters getting exactly what they voted for.
unfortunately, what they voted for also hurt (and in this case killed) a ton of people, who now have no recourse and get completely fucked. not great!
Yeah, which is why I don't think republicans should be allowed to vote. But that opinion isn't too popular.
And since they'll always be allowed to vote, and people like Boebert and MTG will always be allowed to hold public office (no matter how many innocent people die as a result of their participation in government), then all I can do is laugh when they get fucked.
The people who voted for these politicians are by and large not the demographics being fucked over by those policies. I also used to feel like the right response was to laugh at these states, and being reminded that people who didn't want these policies are still suffering from them didn't really convince me of anything--after all, collectively, isn't that the community they're choosing to live in?
What changed my mind about that is realizing the harm is disproportionately distributed. Disenfranchised people are LESS likely to vote republican but MORE likely to suffer the effects of republican government. So when "they get what they voted for", it's really, "the poor get what the rich voted for", and that doesn't make me happy to laugh at at all.
Yup. I didn't vote for those fuckheads, but guess who got displaced for a week because they didn't have power during that storm? Yeah, that's me.
Texas republican voters don't care, and the rest of the texans who didn't vote for this are also the most impacted.
Texas voters: [Votes for this]
Also Texas voters: 
Welcome to Texas: Corporations' lives matters, yours don't as much.
Republican court rules Republican board can’t be held liable for anything. Shocker.
Read that as EPCOT at first and was really confused what a theme park in Florida had to do with the storms in Texas haha
There's a decent chance some of the Texan politicians were hanging out at EPCOT while their constituents were at home without power, so you might not be too far off.
Because of course it would. Fuck living in Texas.