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Honestly, I’m all for tech continuing to move to Texas. Want to make Texas blue? Keep sending tech jobs there.
I hate to wreck this beautiful dream, but tech is not nearly as blue as everyone thinks it is.
I've never spent time around big tech types where the split wasn't 30% libertarians, 30% right-wingers, and 30% american-style liberals.
The problem there is the libertarians land all over the damn spectrum but you end up basically the same place you do everywhere else: it's a 50/50 split.
And let's be honest, the expectation here is that a lot of the employees won't move.
If the goal is to avoid "liberal bias", or whatever, moving the people from California to Texas won't do a damn thing. What you do is you move the jobs somewhere unpalatable, knowing full well this will let you do a mass layoff without it being a layoff, because people "chose" not to move to where their job is.
So we're going to get a couple of jobs, but they're going to be filled by people already here.
Texas here. There was an influx of techie movers from blue states during the pandemic. Abbott won. Trump won. Even Rafael Cruz won, and no body likes that guy.
Yep. Texas has been just-one-more-thing-happening from going blue for 25 years now.
So far, not a single damn one of those things, or even, somehow, the aggregate change of ALL of them has resulted in shit.
Cities are just as blue as they were, and the rest of the state is just as red, and the Republicans have remained in charge throughout it all.
And, before someone goes 'but gerrymandering!', the (R)s are maintaining control even in state-wide elections that are just a matter of getting more votes, too, so while you can argue that some of the stuff is probably gerrymandered, that's not the root cause of it either.
Another handful of people moving here isn't going to make one single bit of difference, and anyone thinking otherwise after literal decades of this kind of wishful thinking needs to take a deep breath and some introspection and figure out why they're still willing to buy that line.
Demographics aren't destiny either. The whole electorate moved red last cycle. It really isn't enough to "these people have stereotypical liberal attributes, they'll flip this state blue!". They won't.
On the bright side, Zuck's influence on California politics is going to drastically decrease.
I'm in IT. One of my coworkers has said he's farther right than Limbaugh. He's otherwise a really nice guy. 🤷
Doubt
Not that I know everything about him but if he didn't say that I wouldn't have known. He's even told me a bit of his personal life in which government assistance saved his bacon and corporate America screwed him.
It's a little difficult to separate the politics off and put it into a different category altogether. He supports having the government be shitty to people he doesn't like. I have no doubt he could be nice in the pejorative sense -- like in the difference between nice people and kind people or in the "nice guy" meme sense -- but many doubts that he's actually a really nice guy in any sincere way.
It's easier to say you just don't really know him. I think it's similar to the neighbors saying how the serial killer really seemed like a great guy when the reporters interview them. He wasn't a great guy, you just didn't know who he really was.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7vvxE-gdQ2Q
This bit I feel like is the best explanation of what people mean when they say this.
I'm gonna go ahead and guess he knows fuck all about rush Limbaugh.