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As a Liberal Texan, there are a lot of great, progressive places in Texas. Generalizing a whole fucking state is pretty shitty. You realize how many millions of people live here?
Yes, our governor sucks ass. The state is jerrymandered into Republican control. However, as someone who has travelled and lived in over two dozen states in the US, I can tell you I've seen some of the biggest Trumpers in rural "blue states" like California.
Don't blanket assume everyone is a gun toting, Trump voting Republican just because a state OVERALL votes a certain way.
Objectively speaking, you have to admit that if you are from any other states and visit Texas you would more likely be harassed by law enforcement or be a target for being an outsider. Does that mean that the citizens are all a reflection of that? Not really, but it would be very hard to convince a tourist (international or otherwise) to visit a state that has a backwards viewpoint that bleeds into their justice system.
Case in point, this women gets smoked and no charges are being pressed.
Fuck this opinion. Every last member of my family is in Texas. From Austin to Ft. Worth. All the women are liberal and all the men are gun toting MAGAs. Maybe one brother is just a conspiracy-minded libertarian, but the rest are MAGAs. I still love them and visit them, but I don't want them having any legal jurisdiction over me or my kids.
People can be great, towns and cities can be nice, but corruption from leadership can ruin it for everyone. True for a state, the same for a country.
Agreed, but much like all Americans aren't assholes because of the Federal government being Trump's cronies, generalizing the entire state of Texas as "a shithole" is what I find offensive.
It doesn't even matter what people on the Internet think of you. Wake up from your defensiveness. America is already at the point now where we are going to have to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Texas has long been a lost cause.
then direct your ire at all the Americans ruining your reputation.
Well tough shit