Texas charges prisoners 50% more for water as heat wave continues - eviltoast
            • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldOP
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              1 year ago

              The Republican party has been running on fascism since Goldwater made his 1964 presidential campaign all about opposing the Civil Rights Acts imo, the fact that we weren’t all talking about it so directly until Trump tore the mask off was a combination of it being a really disturbing thing we just didn’t want to admit and our culture being guided by privileged pundits and media executives and poloticians and think tank members and etc. who are too wealthy and white to experience the consequences of Republican racism

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        1 year ago

        And quite frankly, a significant number of Texans. Those people in Texas’s government are only in the government because a massive chunk of people voted them in, and then another massive chunk said “I don’t care lol”.

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          Austin and Houston have fairly liberal populations.

          But yeah, it sucks here. 1/6 of the texan population are immigrants, and 10% aren’t citizens and can’t vote. The right want you to victim blame. I’d encourage you to see it as people being oppressed by an overreaching corrupt government, similar to Florida. Sure there are idiots and racists but a lot of it is voter suppression and disenfranchisement