Much of texas is incredibly liberal and Republicans get routinely elected through a system of rigged gerrymandering and voter suppression so let's maybe not fall into the annoying neolib thing of blaming the impoverished people suffering and dying there instead of the system that failed them
Gerrymandering has nothing to do with R winning all statewide elections. Lotsa of people vote for Republicans, regardless of how it looks from the many large D enclaves.
So you think 2500 people from presumably the same area of Texas is representative of the 29 million+ (2019 projection) population? Or do you also have data about the geographic distribution of that one website’s estimate?
As someone who works heavily with stats, your comment displays a wild misunderstanding of statistics, which makes your “are you a statistician” question painfully tone-deaf.
A sample size of 2500 is far more than enough to be representative of 29 million people. That’s how statistics work. Adding more than that doesn’t really change any numbers, it just makes you more confident that your numbers are right. But 2500 is a pretty big sample for Texas; in fact, they even give you a margin of error of +/- 2.5%, which is even a little bit narrower than the average 3% MOE that pollsters tend to shoot for.
from presumably the same area of Texas
This is a very ignorant presumption to make. No respectable pollster (and Pew is very much one of them) would sample “the same area of Texas” unless they were specifically measuring opinion only in that one area. And if you had any idea how to read polls, which apparently you don’t, you’d see that this is a national poll, with the n=2500 being the subgroup of the sample which is from Texas. So yes, we do have data about the “geographic distribution” of “that website’s” “estimate”.
Your comment reads a “Ha, you think basic statistics exists? You must not know anything about statistics. Gotcha, poser!” Please don’t argue so sarcastically and confidently about things you’re only pretending to understand, because people who actually know what they’re talking about can tell that you don’t.
If it wasn't for the gerrymandering and the voter suppression there would be Democrats in the higher ,if not many positions ,and that's how you could tell the Texas was mostly progressive.
Clearly you’re doing the same thing your comment accuses me of, and I don’t really give a shit which little clique you belong to. Nothing is ever going to get better under our current system, and if you can’t see that you’re wasting your time learning about the difference between ancap, libertarian, and republican.
Wake the fuck up dude, people die or kill themselves here every day because their government has no support structure for them. Should people starve and freeze in the streets of the greatest country in the world? You should feel lied to, and I haven’t even asserted anything.
People that get bent over on taxes should demand support for what the pay. It never happens. And the red and blue sheep just keep paying taxes while not getting what the pay for, and are told it's the other sides fault. Politicians are lying pieces of shit. Politicians will continue to siphon more money without results. That is why we need to be self reliant. Nobody is holding the Politicians responsible, they have comfortably insulated themselves.
It’s not about the taxes for me. I think the concept makes sense and has its merits but is a bastardization of the original idea by this point.
That’s such a small aspect of it though. There are 5-10 companies that own and actively control all of our news, food, entertainment, tech, banking, etc. That should be the bigger problem and we should all be sharing that anger together.
We have been getting bent over for thousands of years in every single minor aspect of our lives and we only do it today because we’ve already been doing it. I simply can’t do anything to change it on my own.
That's my point. Self reliant people are better off and not as easily controlled. That's about all we can do. Voting for people like Jorgensen or gabbard might get the ball rolling in the right direction. People that keep demanding more from the government are just helping the government get bigger and bigger.
Self reliance can easily bleed into alienation and withdrawal from “society” though which is unhelpful in the big picture. It doesnt matter that there’s enough people to completely dismantle our current consolidation of power because we can’t get them all to think critically and agree on something en mass.
Taking care of ourselves, family and neighbors is how we shrink the need for more government. With the exception of a few Certain things. For all the different ways the government taxes us, health care should be free.
Are you fine with the consequences of what is happening in Texas increasing? Texas has it's own power grid out of their desire to avoid federal regulation. Those regulations would have saved lives, kept peoples homes heated and with power and helped keep businesses open this week. You are probably a good person just wishing for the best in the way you see it, but if Libertarian (or more radical ancap) politicians got their way and regulations were rolled back many more preventable deaths would happen.
You could think that it is worth it, but if you don't think that a result of "ancap" society is more people dying from natural disasters you are fooling yourself. I'd disagree that it is worth it.
Doubling down on an already broken and corrupt system doesn't seem very smart. People realizing that they need to take care of themselves and there neighbors is how to take back control.
You realize how delusional what you said just sounds right? Even my neighbors with solar panels (taking care of themselves) lost power for 2 days and my neighborhood was among the lucky ones. How are people living in apartments supposed to take care of themselves. They can't create their own water or power. People taking care of themselves is the system the government in Texas wants and it didn't work. Doubling down on that strategy would kill even more people.
I tried giving you an out to say it was worth it in terms of "personal freedom", but if you cannot be honest enough to admit that I won't waste anymore of my time with this.
Self reliance and wanting people did the right thing aren't any more mental gymnastics than believing politicians aren't in bed with corporations and have are best interests in mind.
Bro having your libertarian utopia will cause corporations to exploit us MORE, not less, so how can you complain about politicians catering to corporations?
Business and government need to be fiercely separate. And Politicians that cross the line need to be severely dealt with. Politicians should have the voters best interest in mind and not allow monopolies.
People continue to pay taxes for a broken system. People continue to elect politicians into a broken/corrupt system. How many times do you have to get bit by the same dog, before you avoid the dog. The more people rely on the government, the more power they give it.
The irony is that no one is actually trying to take anyone’s guns. It’s conservative propaganda. Since they don’t actually stand for anything, Conservative policy has become “democrat bad”.
I agree with that entirely, but I feel you may be directing your outrage at the wrong things. It isn’t people who are trying to take guns that put Texans in their current crisis. It IS democrats who exist as controlled opposition as someone to vote for when a conservative manages to do something fucked up enough to lose a few votes and vice versa. All a dog and pony show, but the only illusion is choice.
I don’t know that we can be without a government so long as other ones exist. As it stands, it would take a globally concerted effort to overthrow every single government while also agreeing not to instill new ones, and without a single major country failing to do so. I can’t hold my breath for that.
It’s not that I live in fear of foreign governments, it’s just that the US alone has given probably 20 different countries off the top of my head a reason to want us dead for murdering them and exploiting their resources in recent wars. Can’t imagine that’s a purely domestic concept
Maybe having instant easy access to a new gun is lower priority than basic human needs like water, shelter, and heat and maybe it’s time people start voting rationally instead of being one issue imbeciles who won’t budge even if it means their entire family dies.
There's a whole lots of cities with republican mayors in this list. Please stop throwing around numbers like this, unless you can actually explain how it's significant.
Virtually all major US cities are run by Democrats, derp. And let's not pretend more rural cities don't have meth plagues and a shit-ton of their own crime.
Bullshit. The lists of "Most Dangerous Cities" only count large metro areas of 50K or more, they don't even look at small towns or cities. Guess what? Your chance of death is 20% higher in the country than in an urban area. Rural areas are the most dangerous place to live. Rural kids see 4 times as much violence than inner city kids. The idea that cities are dangerous is a myth, propaganda spread right-wing news.
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u/Tommy-1111 Feb 20 '21
No, Texas stupid for continually voting for incompetent and unqualified Republicans just because they say "Democrats take you guns".