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Texas figured this out? Texas? This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts.
Just because Austin is the capital, you really shouldn't confuse it with Texas. Austin isn't Texas.
Source: I am a former Austinite and one of the long time lobbyists for this program. I started harassing my contacts in 2015.
There's been a literal political war between the cities and the state for years. It used to be Austin vs Texas, but Houston and San Antonio have also joined in. Don't underestimate the impact a stubborn town with money can have. Look at Jackson, Wyoming. That county has stubbornly kept up the abortion fight, using every trick in the book.
Frankly if the aliens invade my plan is to give them Texas so they'll leave the rest of the world alone. Though... plot twist... I think they already did take Texas...
I did. I'm trying to be nonchalant about it since most of what I did was talk the ears off of people and put people in contact with others, but I can literally trace a line from it to an Yahoo group email I sent, and I've been freaking out a bit. I doubt the TXLege will let it get much further, but the proof is there.
If the program had an impact in a town as expensive as Austin, imagine what it could do to a more rural community. Everyone is full MAGA until they see that starving to death and/or being homeless doesn't have to be a constant threat.
EDIT: I scrubbed my reddit history but there were posts of me yapping about it on /r/Austin going back almost a decade.
there's a lot of 'texas' in austin. it's inescapable. plenty of 'good ol boys' around, they're just outnumbered in the city itself.
Sure, but that applies to everywhere, even California. Don't forget that California was very red and even gave us the Reagans. It was the progressive cities that turned that state around. Texas is in a similar situation, unless young progressives decide to abandon the fight and move elsewhere.