• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    Then proceeded to talk about CT holistically

    CT fits inside Dallas city limits.

    And I didn’t talk about CT holistically. I very explicitly noted how the state suffers from extreme degrees of wealth inequality and segregation. The bits that get glazed by CNBC’s elitists are never Bridgeport or Derby.

    But you know what I can talk about Texas holistically because I left due to the Government of Texas. Specifically how I don’t feel comfortable raising a special needs child and a daughter there. How the Attorney General is under FBI investigate, has been through impeachment, and is a front runner for the Senate. Or how Greg Abbott left us to freeze in 2021 and then didn’t do a damn thing about the grid afterward.

    If you want to dig through the trash can of the state, I’m happy to see you Abbott and raise you Rowland, a shamelessly corrupt Bush Era crook who sought to rig the state’s elections and embezzle campaign money, while packing its state’s prisons full of the homeless and unemployed. Pardoned by Donald Trump back in his first term, incidentally. Thank your MAGA neighbors for buying him that Get Out Of Jail Free card.

    Or Joe Lieberman, the war-mongering ultra-Zionist who has haunted Democratic Politics all the way back to the Clinton Impeachment, dumping billions of American tax dollars into bloody wars of conquest while backstopping the insurance industry that makes so many Connecticut residents so filthy rich. While he worked hand-in-hand with every Texas neocon ghoul from Phil Graham to John Cornyn, nobody in your state seemed to care enough to vote him out.

    I stuck around in Texas 10 years longer than I wanted to, because I thought I could make a difference.

    Enjoy Linda McMahon as a neighbor, then. Try not to let her husband rape your kids and shit on their foreheads.

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      A few things of note. First Rowland is no longer in office. And they actually start impeachment before he resigned and they still convicted him. Yet, Texas keeps electing these corrupt pedo protectors. The things he did that caused him to leave office and get convicted are what Abbott and Paxton would call a Tuesday. But yeah, lets bring up Senator who left office in 2013 and is dead. Ignoring Ted Cruz actively working to overturn the 2020 election.

      And by the way, CT does not fit in Dallas city limits. Just to clarify Dallas is 385 sq miles. Connecticut 5,543 sq miles. Giving you the benefit of the doubt, we’ll say you meant the DFW metroplex, as in the counties of Dallas, Tarrant, Collin, and Denton, then you get 3,649 sq miles. Slightly more comparable in size. Now tell me Dallas, Fort Worth, Plano, and Denton all have the same economics, culture, and demographics. Or if you really want to make it closer in size in we can add Wise and Ellis county. Because using your logic cities like Decatur and Ennis are comparable to Frisco and Arlington.

      Also, isn’t Linda in DC now dismantling the Department of Education, making state without strong public education focus, aka Texas, even worse off than they were before?

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        Texas keeps electing these corrupt pedo protectors

        Going right back to the McMahons with this one. Vince has been outed as a serial rapist repeatedly. Still calls Greenwich, CT his home-sweet-home.

        Nevermind four prominent Connecticut residents, none of whom have been charged with a crime.

        And by the way, CT does not fit in Dallas city limits

        The Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex covers approximately 9,286 square miles, making it larger than Rhode Island and Connecticut combined, with 8,991 square miles of land and 295 square miles of water

        Now tell me Dallas, Fort Worth, Plano, and Denton all have the same economics, culture, and demographics.

        They have many of the same damned people. From the Bush Family transplants back in the 1960s to the Frontier Communications CEO who relocated his firm just a few years ago. New Englanders have been flooding into the Gulf Coast for my entire life. I know because my family was part of the big Exxon wave that came down in the 80s. Most of my friends and neighbors were from families originally in Chicago or Massachusetts or California.

        Cities like Austin and San Antonio keep sucking in the world’s worst billionaires, from Mark Cuban to Elon Musk. Coastal freaks from the right-wing shitholes of academia and business have absolutely ruined the state, buying it up and mutating it into whatever Ronald Reagan and Ayn Rand dreamed up together a generation ago.

        I give CT hell, but you can go anywhere that’s got money and find rich assholes scrambling to pay a slightly smaller tax bill who come down here in waves. Texas has been outright colonized but coastal fucks.

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          9,286 square miles

          That definition goes all of the way to Oklahoma, but you miss my point. Even in an area smaller than the state of Connecticut you get insanely different cultures. The point being, you can’t say that all of Connecticut is the same because it is smaller than Texas.

          But serious if you only argument is the fact that Vince McMahon lives here then like I said, I’ll take it, over the fuck sticks Nazis living in Texas.

          Have fun in the Texas heat. I’m going to take my dog for a walk in one of the 2 free state parks within 10 minutes of me, in 80 degree weather. Goodbye

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            It also seems worth noting that none of the shitty people he mentioned are elected officials in CT. “A terrible person lives in state x” doesn’t really reflect poorly on the rest of the populace the same way electing that person to represent and have power over you does.

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            Have fun in the Texas heat

            Strangely enough, you’re getting the brunt of it this year. Maybe consider going carbon neutral some time before it’s too late, since you’re all liberals up there who will definitely do that… eventually.