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Is there honestly anything more cringe than Texas?
this post was submitted on 25 Dec 2024
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Missouri, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, Utah, Oklahoma......
I dunno. No state's population is so full of itself as Texas' is.
Considering how big Texas is, that must make them incredibly full of themselves.
I'm told places like Austin are pretty progressive. I don't really know.
Austin is deeply up Austin's ass
Lol yes. And the state government goes out of its way to fuck with anything Austin does that is progressive.
Also it's full of fucking NIMBYs, just look at the camping bans.
Everyone I've met there has been just the most insufferable uber liberal mother fucker. They'll talk about how bad people of color are treated at one moment and then call the cops when they see a black person moving in the next. Like you said, it's NIMBY central. Even people from Houston are less insufferable
Yeah that's every Democrat Liberal "Haven" just insufferable liberals with money thinking that makes them better enough to speak on behalf of others.
You want to go where people are actually progressive or understand the struggle, find the city sections where people still work for their meager bread. You start to understand why every single city would go blue until the Democrats lost even their pretend love for the working class. It's hard to not want actually better for others when you are surrounded by people also struggling but making it work.
Austin is a place for people who only pretend to know strife and have the money to hide it anyways.
I work in the Austin area and have to drive 90 minutes to work because the housing prices in Austin have tripled in the last few years.
So is St.Louis, but it's still in Missouri.
Depends on what part of Texas you're talking about. Also, a lot of "Texas pride" is supposed to be somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
Yes, wealthy people, like Barbara Bush, existing, and commenting on things about which they have zero knowledge.
Really expected Mississippi to be at the top of the list.
Oh dang yes. The very first.
You forgot North Carolina.
It has some very cool artists there though. I won't write it off entirely. I lived there many years ago.
Non-politically, itβs a great state. Very beautiful; demure even. Itβs the shitheads in charge that ruin it for everyone.
Fucking rich people and their stupid fucking mouths wagging.
Awful.
She was an out of touch cunt like her husband
But her eldest son was so not out of touch that people wanted to have a beer with him. Even after the fucking war crimes. That fam can fuck right off.
... that's not what that snippet seems to be indicating.
Aged like fine wine
His statement did. He did not.
As the wine ages, the cask rots. We already got the wine - what remains is garbage.
It technically could be true, but it also sounds insane. I might be in a minority, but I hope my house (and entire city) doesn't get destroyed by a hurricane, even if I got to stay in a 5-star hotel afterward
Yes because you totally want all your possessions and neighbourhood washed away just so you can live on the charity of the Ritz Carlton until they get sick of being helpful.
The rich think them taking a piss on your face is them doing charity.
How would the orphans even survive if we didn't have workhouses for them though!?!