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Originally Posted by Yardjass
The irony in here is palpable. Let me get this straight:
1. You don't like other people's "good ideas" being forced on you but you're perfectly fine with getting the government to force your "good ideas" on others. I hate to break it to you but that's not how that works. You either consistently fight that shit or sooner or later, the shoe will be on the other foot and you probably won't like it when it is heel deep in your asshole. There is a case for some government authoritarianism in a serious emergency. Unfortunately, despite your anecdotal experience (sorry for your loss), a bad flu with a much less than 1% mortality rate of mostly unvaccinated elderly that are now 85% vaccinated, is not anywhere near an emergency. If this virus was really as serious as people are acting, force, lies, and coercion wouldn't have to be used at all. People would comply simply because they're terrified of it.
2. Texas had a serious power problem once. Your state has had chronic problems with the power grid, the water supply, and wildfires for decades, and mostly due to the incompetence of your leaders. Pot, meet kettle.
3. Let's not act like the Republican party is the only one consisting of, and supported by morons. About 90% of the support base of both major parties, is complete imbeciles, and it shows. Pretty much all your flagship states are shitholes, just for different reasons. California is one of the biggest shitholes in the entire nation but the rest of us still have to endure their delusions of superiority as they type on an illegal computer, whist also contemplating basic essentials that the rest of us take for granted, like when they'll next be able to plug in their car or take a shower in their third world state.
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This is not a bad flu, no matter how you want to spin it. Mortality rates and hospitalization rates are entirely different, as are transmission rates. If it was just "a bad flu," it wouldn't have been the third cause of death in the United States last year- although you likely consider that to be an inflated number and incorrect.
California has had brownouts and blackouts, yes. California has problems with its water supply, as does Texas. Texas' forested areas are lower in density than California's, and don't have the same problem with extremes of elevation.
California being one of the biggest shitholes in the nation is always something I love to point out as being flat-out wrong in so many ways. GDP, tourist dollars, public lands... the list goes on and on.
Corbic, I have no idea why I continue to go back and forth with you. You have no thirst for knowledge and no zeal for the truth. Instead, you're a dog being led by Russians, Iranians, and Chinese disinformation farms and your false gods.