• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Agreed. The generalized FAFO needs to stop. Only 20% of Texans voted for Trump. Natural disasters don’t discriminate.

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      2 days ago

      Only 20% of Texans voted for Trump.

      17.5 million people can potentially vote in Texas.

      6.3 million voted Trump.

      4.8 million voted against Trump.

      Leaving 6.4 million who are fine with Trump.

      So, 12.7 out of 17.5 are either supporters or totally OK with it. That’s 73% who didn’t want to oppose this.

      That still doesn’t mean the other 1 in 4 deserves this, of course. But the “20%” number is bullshit.

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      21 hours ago

      But isn’t it just sweeping the root cause under the rug until the next inevitable disaster? If you don’t remind them that it’s their doing, they will definitely ignore it and do the same thing again, with the same tragic results. I don’t know if reminding helps really, but keeping silence about it definitely doesn’t.
      When a child hurts itself, you need to establish cause and effect relationship in their head, otherwise they will hurt themselves again

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          13 hours ago

          If you think in this categories, then it doesn’t matter, the cause is already lost. If it’s “The Left vs Texans” then yeah, nothing will help.
          But, next time some disconnected idiot from Texas asks “why should I vote Democrats” you can point them out all the cases when not doing so hurt them specifically. This is what you called reveling in their demise.

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            11 hours ago

            You’re changing the point. I said we should stop with generalized FAFO. As in, we should not be poking fun or finding joy in people suffering the consequences of their vote. If we lose our humanity, we’re no better than those we oppose.