Of all the Republican insanity, climate denial is the biggest head scratcher for me. It’s denying cause and effect. And they need a planet to live on too.
they benefit too much from fossil fuels
Cool. They’ll be taking it with them to the grave.
And us with it, but they don’t care because “they got theirs”
imagine a worldview where the most important thing is people respecting you as a man. Rugged jobs like coal mining or oil rig work. Driving heavy duty, loud, smoke spewing trucks or muscle cars. Eating the largest, most expensive meat, to fuel your very important muscles. Proving your worth through hard work instead of smarts. Throw in the gay rights movement, and now trans rights, now they feel like masculinity itself is being threatened. They want to keep eating steaks, they like driving their big truck, they dont want to respect non-masculine peers who dont work as hard as they do. I give you the driving force of rural America, and the wealthy people tapping into it.
I don’t disagree per se…but I think the climate change denial has more to do with being anti-democrat/liberal than being a man. Conservative women are also climate change deniers.
Like if you were to ask them if the earth is worth protecting, recycling, blah blah blah, they’d say yes. But as soon as you mention global warming, they say it’s woke.
Plus, remediation ought to check all their boxes
— huge business opportunities
— new jobs
— energy independence
— reducing our dependency on Chinese companies
But none of those things are important to Republicans. That’s just stuff they say.
That’s what I don’t understand, either. Even if they were a totally cynical asshole about it, a Republican should love the idea of getting rich by fleecing progressive “idiots”.
Hell, I’ve imagined designing Trump hats, shirts, and bumper stickers just to make money off his popularity, and then donating to a cause or charity Republicans despise.
It may have the worst ultimate consequences of much of the Republican insanity, but unfortunately I don’t think it’s confusing at all.
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Do something for the good of the entire world, or to put some money in the pockets of people who already have more than they can ever spend? Easy choice.
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Oh, the entire world can see that we made the bad choice on #1? Sooooo… guess what guys the bad consequences don’t actually exist! :D
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Their donors are mostly old, rich people. So they don’t care about what happens more than about 10-15 years in the future.
Does that mean they’re going to shoot the text books?
Really sick of my taxes going to these dumb hick states. Texans want to be independent? Ok cool then cut off all federal funding for a year and let’s see how that goes for them. Oh yeah how’s that independent power grid working out? Oh it killed a bunch of people then you made no changes at all? Clearly the answer is to stop teaching about climate change. Fucking idiots.
You act like the entire state wants the world to burn when it’s just a subset that consistently votes. I’d be willing to bet that the vast majority of Texans don’t want independence, and Texas isn’t among the worst states in terms of reliance on the federal government.
This kind of feels like saying, “Not all cops are bad, some just turn a blind eye when the others behave badly…” like that isn’t a big part of the problem.
Yes, and leaving out nuance will lead to dumb blanket solutions like “defunding the police” instead of careful police, justice, and social reform. It isn’t surprising to me that phrases like “ACAB” alienate families with people who’ve honorably served in our military/police force/other first-responder positions.
Florida here, and I’m sick of this horseshit. FFS, we voted Obama TWICE. We’re very close to purple. Just because our Govenor is an ass, I gotta eat shit on the internet all day long.
It’s more than just voter turnout. The deck is stacked. Like many red states, most of the blue voters in Texas are gerrymandered into a small handful of districts. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas’s_35th_congressional_district for an example.
Plus, ballots are being thrown out in Harris County + strict mail-in voting.
On the topic of gerrymandering, it’s important to note that a chunk of blue states do it too. It sucks that most of the country can’t get fair representation in their elections.
Oh yeah how’s that independent power grid working out?
Ironically enough, its been a huge boon for renewable energy providers. ERCOT auction rates effectively subsidize green producers at fossil fuel prices, so when the gas cartels squeeze the price up to $5000 MwH, all the wind and solar providers (which can flood the grid with energy to the point that they risk operating at a loss) pick up a massive ahem windfall on those last few MwHs sold.
Because building these facilities is so cheap and running them is basically free, the Texas Gulf Coast and the Midland area have been filling up with enormous green energy facilities to capitalize on these fossil-fuel cartel induced price spikes.
“Everyone, the anti-trans attacks didn’t work out for Virginia. Get out the dart board, let’s try this again.”
Texas sucks. Spread the word.
That’s not news they’ve been doing it since a Texan was president
Scientists will say anything you want to not lose their funding.
Congratulations, you boiled a complicated issue into a tweet by missing every fucking point.
by saying something this stupid, you only announce the fact that you are incapable of honesty, and you can’t comprehend people who are
I’m sure glad politicians aren’t like that.
Scientists out there spent literally decades studying the effect of greenhouse gasses, and you’re out here dismissing them without even thinking.
So what do you want them to do? Not say anything that might mean maybe we should clean up our behavior?
Do you also ignore your doctor and mechanic (let me guess, you don’t have either because you’re smarter than them right)? After all, they’re just saying anything to not lose their funding right? 🙄
Idiots will say anything to deny reality and keep gas profits going.
The great filter for humanity isn’t going to be scarcity, it’s going to be stupidity.
ok Boris.
How is it that Texas gets to define our textbooks again? Cali has more people. Shouldn’t they have the bigger market?
Texas has a looser curriculum. It is easier for Texan school books to get sold to other states than California
I think its also heavily regionalized.
So California tends to set the standard for the Pacific Coast / Mountain West. Texas book suppliers are heavily influential in Gulf Coast and Mississippi value school system. Florida and Virginia heavily impact the Atlantic Coast. New York and Massachusetts weight the NE corridor.
I also know there’s a not-insignificant amount of education that is Texas-specific. There’s a state requirement for middle schools to teach Texas History, as distinct from US or World History, for instance. And Texas science textbooks got caught up in the big fight over teaching evolution and sex ed, back in the 90s. So there’s a real bright line between what a biology, chemistry, and human health book will teach in the mid-00s, entirely dependent on which side of the Rockies you went to school.
