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You really have to be an asshole to live in Texas at this point

Terrible take. A lot of us can't "just move elsewhere." All the surrounding states are still pretty conservative and shitty, moving isn't free, and you can't just sell all your shit and hitchhike and expect to be welcomed with open arms.

It took all of my measly life savings just to move, I still struggled with housing and finding a job for months, healthcare is a removed, CoL is higher, and I have to live in the city long enough to find my footing when I was raised to be accustomed to smalltown life. Don't get me started on the weather and day/night cycle and difference in climate, nature, environment. There's a bit of culture shock there.

And if all the non-fascists left, where are they supposed to go en masse? Somewhere that's slightly better? Overwhelm blue states that aren't prepared infrastructurally? A lot of the time, this kind of mass migration overwrites local culture and just ends up recreating the problems of the homeland. You're telling me California can handle an influx of 12,000,000 psychologically damaged texans who need to be deprogrammed and integrated?

Those are my comrades that are stuck in that hellhole, not some faceless NPCs who love trump and wholeheartedly support the decline towards theocratic fascism. That's our home as much as it is the fuckin nazis', and it sucks shit to be lumped in with them just because we're not gung ho about completely starting over when we barely scraped by to begin with.

Fuck you.