| ▲ | snazypaparazzi an hour ago |
| I think everything is consistent with the perspective Texas represents toward the united states. It's fine if Texas doesn't implement reforms and fails. (There are 49 other states and may the ones that invent or adopt the best practices survive.) |
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| ▲ | smt88 an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| What do you think “fails” means exactly? How does Texas fail in a way that doesn’t harm innocent people in both Texas and the rest of the country/world? Texas is larger (in both population and economy) than most countries in the world. |
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| ▲ | snazypaparazzi an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | The Federal government enforces a few rules and then leaves things to the state and people. Obviously that means the state and people have no nanny to protect them from consequences of their decisions. If they drain their budgets fighting the civil rights of their population instead of fixing a problem then they might look like a lot of bankrupt municipalities. The US is obligated to let that happen. | | |
| ▲ | autoexec an hour ago | parent [-] | | Not really. The federal government bails Texas out of the messes they get themselves into all the time (like their shitty power grid). Historically, Texas has often received more in federal funding than it contributes in federal taxes. | | |
| ▲ | golem14 4 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Is the Texas power grid shitty? Say, compare to California’s? | |
| ▲ | snazypaparazzi an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Sure, most of the South is in a hypocritical position of claiming to want the federal system I described, I want them to get it.. |
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| ▲ | fzeroracer an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | This is true, but Texans as a whole keep enabling these outcomes by both voting and supporting politicians that create it, as well as the state as a whole generally refusing aid. It's one of the (many) reasons why I immediately moved out of the state when I had a chance. There's only so much that can be done when a lot of the states politics and environment is wholly self-destructive. |
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| ▲ | luxuryballs 33 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] |
| fine for who? Texans? this is a silly mentality, no need to compare any other location, Texas as a standalone entity and the many stakeholders wouldn’t reasonably think it’s fine |
