• Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    So here’s the thing. When they say “Texas” in the royal sense like all of Texas is trying to will something, what they actually mean is the people and institutions capable of affecting change in Texas. Essentially the government and it’s various arms.

    Due to the fact that lobbying is very real and backroom payments are allowed to be a thing, the government inevitably bends to the entities with the most money. Guess who those entities are.

    So when you say

    Maybe Texas should, you know, transition to selling wind energy so their economy doesn’t crash

    what you’re saying is

    Maybe all those people who make their obscene riches in oil should give up their golden goose and let other people make their money in alternative energy forms

    There’s no reality where they go for that. “Texas” is always going to fight tooth and nail to keep alternate forms of energy down, because the biggest money in Texas is oil. The people have no control over that.

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      1 year ago

      Last I checked, “the people” didn’t forget how to make guillotines.

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        1 year ago

        When was the last time you saw a guillotine anywhere other than France circa the revolution?

        The honest truth is that the Texas people arm themselves to the teeth in the name of controlling “undesirable forces”, then they let the media branch of the government fool them into believing that the undesirable forces they need to be armed against are drag queens and mothers looking to get abortions.

        It’s a class war fueled by the same people who don’t want the guillotines turned on them, and it’s effective. Hoping that the people rise up against it with the state of politics right now (at least in Texas) is a pipe dream.