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[Muppet of a Man]

Texas is full of conservative Hispanics though.

Religion is a hell of a drug.

 

[Vilix]

Whataburger sucks ass. Give the. Canes chicken. That is the good stuff.

 

[mavo]

Texas is full of conservative Hispanics though.

I mean i assume most of hispanics in Texas come from its bordering states, which tend to be conservative too and kinda share a similar culture (North Mexico is the right wing section of the country).

But we cant fool ourselves and act that for many of these people who love Texas as a conservative heaven use conservative basically as a code for white/WASP and laugh at the idea of white hispanics, so is still funny to me.

 

[Nicolada]

Orange County went blue in 2016..

This really surprised me when it happened. I hope it sticks.

 

[Muppet of a Man]

How about this.

How about we stop giving a fuck about political beliefs and start caring about your fellow man.

These are your people and your neighbors. You are a part of a community. Just because they vote a different way does not make you a better person.

I think most people care about others' humanity outside of politics. It becomes very difficult to not dislike people when you realize they are racists, social Darwinists, or just plain "fuck you, got mine", especially, for instance, if you have a loved one whose future would be adversely affected by conservative policy (e.g., their shitty proposed healthcare laws).

 

[Hooligan69]

Omg that pic is down the street from me. Lol

Not a day that goes by that I don't see a CA license plate. I'm always bitching about it. People are moving out here because of the jobs and not conservative views. Plano area has so much growth especially with the Toyota HQ, and the Cowboy training center. I want people to stay away. Traffic is becoming a bitch.

LOL, and I'm seeing tons of Texas license plates this year. Either they're moving here to get away from red Texas, or doing so as a cross-move to Conservaderp Springs.

Either way, they've made rush hour hell the past year.

 

[excelsiorlef]

How about this.

How about we stop giving a fuck about political beliefs and start caring about your fellow man.

These are your people and your neighbors. You are a part of a community. Just because they vote a different way does not make you a better person.

Nah political beliefs are literally the core of what you believe in.

The time for kumbaya with Republicans has long since passed.

 

[Shamrock7r]

Never understood the glorification of Texas by conservatives, considering Hispanics are about to overtake whites as the majority (something like 41 vs 40 %).

You will find just as many Hispanics with conservative views as white people in Texas, at least that's what it feels like

 

[Sirpopopop]

People leave California. People & businesses come in to fill the void. That California economy is still driving GDP growth in the country.

 

[Korey]

Nobody's posted this yet?

 

[Ottaro]

Whataburger sucks ass. Give the. Canes chicken. That is the good stuff.

I'm gonna have to ask you to turn in your cowboy hat.

 

[Dragoon En Regalia]

Yup, I could have guessed this would be about McKinney. McKinney and Frisco are where they are all moving.

Frisco's got that sweet massive investment and business relocation thing going for it, and house prices are low. It's no wonder so many people, let alone WASPs and growing families, flock to it.

That bubble analogy is interesting because me and some of my more liberal friends that used to live in McKinney used to describe McKinney as a bubble. A lot of the younger people I grew up with had no idea how the world worked outside of McKinney and just based all their political views on what mommy and daddy told them.

No more a bubble than many bedroom communities across the southern U.S., but yeah, McKinney's always felt rather out of touch. Many of my childhood friends were either ignorant/uncaring towards politics and socio-economic issues, or they were dyed in red early on and educated to vote Republican for the rest of their lives. Also, lots of helicopter parents...mine included. My folks are long-time Democrats, though.

 

[Nafai1123]

Don't let the door hit yah...or do. IDGAF.

 

[uncelestial]

Austin's pretty cool. I've never lived in California, but people I know that have compare Austin to a Californian city.

It's not even close. Austin would like to think that but it's more like Portland with a fetish for cowboy aesthetics and barbecue and tens of thousands of frat boys/sorority girls flooding the nightlife.

I like Austin, the live music scene is great, I was born there, I'm even getting married there next week, but as a resident of SF, just no.

 

[Laiza]

News article from 2027: Oklahoma becoming a magnet for Conservatives fleeing Texas.

This got me good.

I can see it now...

 

[Mathieran]

Conservatives, by definition, live in a bubble. They have an insular, homogenous culture and ways of thinking, especially since most are so knee deep in religion and ethno-centricism.

Also, there is literally like zero diversity in most of these heavily conservative areas.

Oh, I know better than anyone about conservative bubbles. I grew up in rural North Dakota.

 

[opoth]

An entire moving company specializing in relocating snowflakes into safe spaces? Sad!

 

[User Name Here]

No please come. Because it already wasn't hard enough wanting to vote Democrat here lol

Why don't you guys swap citizens?

Spoiler

lol

 

[BobLoblaw]

well...bye.gif

 

[lukeskymac]

Following the defeat, he and his wife concluded that their home state is controlled by what he referred to as an ultra-far-left ideology.

Just slightly left of center is "ultra-far-left" in the US apparently. Says more about his extremist leanings than California's.

 

[Codeblue]

I can empathize. I'm trying to get the hell out of Oklahoma. If I'm going to pay taxes, I'd rather do it in a nicer state that doesn't employ blatantly bigoted representatives. Just saving up money until I can move out to the West coast.

I'm not expecting a utopia by any means, the environment is just so damn hostile here.

 

[pigeon]

This has been happening for like twenty years.

I'm pretty sure I can find posts from last year or the year before from people saying they were leaving California because of the taxes and talking smugly about how the state was bankrupt and businesses were all leaving.

"California in decline because of godlessness" has been the conservative narrative since, what, the 70s?

Wake me when the white supremacists move out of the Santa Cruz Mountains. That's when you'll know things are really starting to change.

 

[Tezzeractor]

Yep. My

Spoiler

verging on alt-

right wing sister desperately wants to cut ties with us and move to Texas when she gets her financial independence.

 

[Maximo]

How about this.

How about we stop giving a fuck about political beliefs and start caring about your fellow man.

These are your people and your neighbors. You are a part of a community. Just because they vote a different way does not make you a better person.

 

[ryutaro's mama]

I love Texas, but there's only a few places I'd want to live. Austin being number one.

Dat County Line BBQ.

 

[OrangeGrayBlue]

Guess we can put a hold on those "Texas turns purple" predictions that people have been making.

That's kind of a knee-jerk reaction. Texas is still very much becoming a purple state. The amount of people who would move to a different place in the same country strictly for their political beliefs is probably not that significant.

 

[Foffy]

If Cali is such a shithole, why is it one of the top 10 economies in the world? Isn't this something that gets conservatives a nice stiffy?

It has problems, but they're largely climate and wealth inequality...a theme found in a growing number of locations.

 

[Ogodei]

Guess we can put a hold on those "Texas turns purple" predictions that people have been making.

These people are badly outnumbered by Latinos growing into the voting pool and liberal young people flooding into Austin and Houston for work.

 

[digdug2k]

Guess we can put a hold on those "Texas turns purple" predictions that people have been making.

LOL. I think this author is trying to conflate, "texas is expected to see population growth" and "here's a couple conservatives that moved to texas" to men "all conservatives must live in texas"

 

[mj1108]

Following the defeat, he and his wife concluded that their home state is controlled by what he referred to as an ultra-far-left ideology. "And that left ideology in California are largely wealthy liberal coastal elites that I believe controlled most of California through politics and fundraising and policies, hands down," he said. But, he added, "when you get to the inland part of these states — the Inland Empire, the Central Valley — these are areas where you have working poor people that are living largely impoverished and forgotten."

By "coincidence", those are Conservative areas. Conservatives prefer impoverished, poor and forgotten.

 

[pompidu]

I love how Democrats just withstand the nation becoming more and more right wing, but the moment a state starts swinging the other way conservatives flee like it's absolutely unbearable.

I have learned that conservatives doing a lot of talking but never do the walk. Biggest group of whiney bitch ass pussys ive ever seen.

 

[UserNotFound]

Isn't that available in every state except Hawaii?

No?

It has been illegal for decades to write white codes into housing and into communities. Religious exemptions are still allowed, somewhat.

 

[Lightning_Roller]

How about this.

How about we stop giving a fuck about political beliefs and start caring about your fellow man.

These are your people and your neighbors. You are a part of a community. Just because they vote a different way does not make you a better person.

When they vote for fucking racism, bigotry and hatred, I could a give a good goddamn about my fellow man, thank you.

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

How about this.

How about we stop giving a fuck about political beliefs and start caring about your fellow man.

These are your people and your neighbors. You are a part of a community. Just because they vote a different way does not make you a better person.

No, it most definitely does in some cases.

 

[M52B28]

"Liberals"

I would like to have a chat with this man in person just to tell him how much of a dumbass he is.

 

[Pizza]

Y'all conservatives can go ahead and just move to the ocean instead. Please don't make it any harder for Texas to turn blue.

 

[Timeaisis]

Please don't move to Texas. That goes for everyone.

 

[Persona7]

People leave California. People & businesses come in to fill the void. That California economy is still driving GDP growth in the country.

Lately I have been seeing arguments from conservatives about how businesses are leaving California in droves and the economy must be bad since they are raising taxes.


Of course they also don't offer any evidence or link to gas tax increases and other misleading things.

 

[MC_Hify]

Apparently, the real reason Chabot is leaving is because his wife got a job with the Texas Republican party.

 

[Sr Kitsune]

I'm going to fav this, so I remember to check if Texas went blue. lol

 

[entremet]

If Cali is such a shithole, why is it one of the top 10 economies in the world? Isn't this something that gets conservatives a nice stiffy?

It has problems, but they're largely climate and wealth inequality...a theme found in a growing number of locations.

Agriculture, Hollywood, and Tech.

But have you seen LA county rents? Home prices? It’s rather insane. Forget about SF if you don’t have rent control.

 

[BlastProcessing]

How about this.

How about we stop giving a fuck about political beliefs and start caring about your fellow man.

These are your people and your neighbors. You are a part of a community. Just because they vote a different way does not make you a better person.

If only it were so easy. John Pavlovitz actually covered this pretty well.

I know you may believe this disconnection is about politics, but I want you to know that this simply isn’t true. It’s nothing that small or inconsequential, or this space between us wouldn’t be necessary. This is about fundamental differences in the ways in which we view the world and believe other people should be treated. It’s not political stuff, it’s human being stuff — which is why finding compromise and seeing a way forward is so difficult.

It's not about just about political beliefs. When you have the leader of one party publicly praising Nazis and white nationalists, you are well past it just being about politics.

 

[Not]

I'm going to fav this, so I remember to check if Texas went blue. lol

We're gonna follow this guy around state to state

Spoiler

I'm trying to cheer myself up

 

[NeOak]

Texas is full of conservative Hispanics though.

You're thinking of Florida and the Cubans there.

 

[kitsunelaine]

How about we stop giving a fuck about political beliefs and start caring about your fellow man.

Caring about fellow men or not... Hmmm. Sounds like a political belief to me. Guess I have to get rid of that too?

 

[Zoe]

You're thinking of Florida and the Cubans there.

Nah

 

[UltraMav]

As someone who lives in the armpit of California, there is a solid sense of the state's Republicans having an immense persecution complex. But in a way, I agree that people should probably try to move into local governments that they agree with, which is why I plan on fleeing to Northern California as soon as it's economically feasible to do so.

Edit: Also, the weather here sucks ass.

 

[besada]

How about this.

How about we stop giving a fuck about political beliefs and start caring about your fellow man.

These are your people and your neighbors. You are a part of a community. Just because they vote a different way does not make you a better person.

Because political beliefs and action are important and profoundly effect people's lives. It's difficult to care about your fellow man when he supports legislation to throw you out of the country, or supports a police force that kills people like you with impunity.

The entire idea of ignoring politics is so naive as to be stupid. Politics is how we decide who gets what and how people are treated. The only people capable of ignoring it are people fine with the status quo.

 

[TheOctodad]

Twin Cities welcomes all you progressives who want cheaper cost of living, good jobs, and a nice city. We're on track to endure global warming quite well.

Spoiler

As long as you can stand the cold.

 

[QuantumZebra]

So what exactly is he scared of? Legalized weed?

Well he voted against it.

I truly have no clue how anyone could vote against that. Being a Republican must be the most depressing shit ever.