• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Agreed. The generalized FAFO needs to stop. Only 20% of Texans voted for Trump. Natural disasters don’t discriminate.

    • Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de
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      7 hours ago

      But isn’t it just sweeping the root cause under the rug until the next inevitable disaster? If you don’t remind them that it’s their doing, they will definitely ignore it and do the same thing again, with the same tragic results. I don’t know if reminding helps really, but keeping silence about it definitely doesn’t.
      When a child hurts itself, you need to establish cause and effect relationship in their head, otherwise they will hurt themselves again

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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      Only 20% of Texans voted for Trump.

      17.5 million people can potentially vote in Texas.

      6.3 million voted Trump.

      4.8 million voted against Trump.

      Leaving 6.4 million who are fine with Trump.

      So, 12.7 out of 17.5 are either supporters or totally OK with it. That’s 73% who didn’t want to oppose this.

      That still doesn’t mean the other 1 in 4 deserves this, of course. But the “20%” number is bullshit.