Lame sauce. Can our elected officials just freaking decriminalize weed instead of worrying about dumb crap like this?
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Elect better leadership. A state government run by a criminal mafia isn't going to operate in your best interest.
Edit: Of course I've got some raging prick cussing me out below because I said go vote. You can't even tell a Texan to vote without them giving up. This is the reasons the Republicams run this state. The voter suppression they cause can be overcome with effort, which was my point.
But the voter suppression caused by the apathy and laziness of the masses is not something that can be overcome from external forces. So either spend your effort in response to this crying about voting being impossible or work to coordinate.
I already know the outcome after having this conversation in Texas constantly for the last 20 years.
As someone from a deep red state, thanks for the advice. I didn’t realize it was so easy to get around gerrymandering, voter suppression, and the like. I’m glad you showed me the light!
I was removed from the voter rolls in Texas 5 times and still managed to vote. Cry to somebody else. It's just another form of voter suppression that I was sick of listening to while working to get the people of Texas to vote.
And you don’t think that suppression has anything to do with why Republican fascists win? Telling us to vote harder… smh.
Yes, it does. But I know what it takes to get it done, and I know the voting aged people in Texas don't care to get off their asses to do what is necessary.
You think crying nothing can be done about it was going to make it better? And the reality is most Texans welcome the likes of Cruz and Abott.
Every time somebody says go vote, some lazy loser cries about how hard it is, another form of voter suppression.
No, I’m complaining about assholes who don’t live in red states blaming the victims of republican governance. There has been a systematic disenfranchisement of vast swaths of the American electorate. Telling the victims of that that we just need to vote harder is asinine.
What we need is solidarity from outside, not sniveling bullshit advice.
Edit: also, fuck off. I live maybe the hardest life of anyone I know. Taking care of my extremely ill, bed bound wife for ten years. I still make it to every fucking election and my wife still votes, even though it causes her unbelievable pain. But even with all our motivation I can’t throw off the yoke of my oppressor because voting in a rigged system is fucked. It is so fucking infuriating to listen to people like you condescend.
So who are you talking about? I lived in a red state?
“Lived” unless you are dead it sure sounds like this advice is from someone outside.
So? You're not going to convince me it's not possible.
I also wasn't too lazy to find a way to leave the state while living out of my car. Because I was sick of the older Republicans and the lazy apathetic youth with a million excuses about why they couldn't fight for their rights.
You are the victim of your own laziness and blame others for taking action because it disproves your can't do anything attitude.
Go tell more Texans to give up on voting. Yall chose this shit.
I'm not going to chat with the person of a million lazy excuses about why they are not responsible for their own ability to vote.
So instead of voting, you took the lazy way out and went running with your tail between your legs. Just another "lazy youth with a million excuses about why you couldn't fight for your rights."
You come in here acting like a fool when you did the exact same shit that you're accusing people of, and you wonder why you get met with hostility? Maybe take a step back and look in the mirror before you mouth off. Because I dunno if you smoke pot, but you sure look like one in here.
Sounds like my comment on laziness found its mark with people too lazy to vote.
Nah, I just hate that holier-than-thou attitude that you got because you and I are lucky enough to live in places where we don't have to deal with the crazy bullshit places like Texas heap on top of the normal crazy bullshit like not making voting days holidays and closing the polling places before people get out of work. You're blaming them for being too lazy to vote when you yourself skipped outta town instead of voting. Would've mistaken you for a Trumper if we weren't literally talking about how awful they are, with the way you make assumptions about people.
That attitude ain't gonna get those asses out of office any faster. It's just gonna make sure that when the jackboots come for you, no one will have your back.
Lmao, I'm not the one stuck in the fascist shithole state. I get to enjoy watching them lose pornhub, abortions, and soon to be contraceptives, because they insist on voting for fascist trash.
Try not to take a highway while pregnant and leaving the state, a miscarriage can become a murder lol.
Feel free to keep crying in response. I'm just going to keep trash talking the shit these people put up with while insisting they have to sit on their asses instead of vote.
The only way to motivate the lazy, hateful people of Texas. Give them something to hate.
I was hopeful that you might see the hypocrisy of what you're doing and stop making a fool of yourself, but I don't care what you do. I have no skin in this game, and you're a free person, you can make your own choices like a big boy. And you've shown that you're just another Republican anyways. All too happy to see pregnant women die and victim-blame because it doesn't directly affect you, and ignoring any information that doesn't fit your narrative.
Don't worry, the leopards are coming for your face, too. Texas ain't some other country, what happens there affects you too. I'm sure the Democrats of Texas will be all too happy to motivate you to go vote when the fascists are knocking on your door. Gotta give you something to hate, or you'll just keep making excuses.
I sure hope this asshole doesn’t have the leopards come for them. Mostly because I don’t want vulnerable people who this guy throws under the bus to be harmed.
Because I’m not a raging narcissist who can only think of themselves.
It is baffling to me how someone can say people who live in a state are to blame for their situation when at least 40% of voters vote against fascists. It is like seeing 60 cents on the table and insisting it is a dollar.
Agreed, the hypocrisy on display is fascinating to me. Apparently hates the people in charge, and yet is all too happy to see them hurt people who voted against them, like he claims he did?
It'd be one thing if he was laughing at the Republicans who now can't access porn, but he's laughing at pregnant women who might die or end up in jail due to the abortion bans too? Does he think trans kids deserve to be denied access to healthcare for not voting hard enough? Where does he draw the line. Does he draw a line somewhere at all?
It's clear he has that good old Republican "I got mine, fuck everyone else" and "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" mindset now that he managed to get out of Texas.
I want you to know that I read like 10% of your first fit and nothing else. Once you announced that you weren't from or in Texas, I didn't find your input very relevant.
Okay? Good for you? Do you want a gold star for your MAGA hat or something?
We already knew that you ignore any information that doesn't fit your narrow worldview, just like any other Republican.
Lmao. I'm not the one funding the Republicans.
Enjoy paying your taxes. You're funding drowning children in the Rio Grande.
I get it, you really wanted me to know how much you don't read my responses and don't care, baka, but at least look at the context of who you're replying to so you don't make yourself look like an even bigger cunt than you already have.
But based on your replies so far, aren't you happy those kids are drowning? After all, they're in Texas, so it's their fault for not voting hard enough.
So now I’m too lazy to leave my home? Read a couple posts up asshole. My wife is completely bed bound. We can’t even leave the house. Have some goddamned humility for once.
Most people in red states are being abused by our governments. It isn’t our fault and assholes like you who think that are bad people.
Yes, it is your fault you can't find a way to vote. And you are participating in voter suppression as an active advocate.
You are half the problem with Texas.
Also, I have chronic pain and chronic headaches. I guess that makes all your asshole comments fucked up suddenly?
Hey asshole, I said that me and my wife vote every election even though it causes her immense pain.
Cool, does her pain also make you spread voter suppression tactics?
Go vote for Trump loser.
Jesus, and I thought you were just an ass. Here you are making fun of a woman with chronic pain who does the exact thing you're calling people losers and lazy for not doing. What a scumbag.
I bet you think the dead kids in Gaza deserved it for not voting hard enough or just leaving, too.
What a narrative you've painted.
I bet you're a Russian propagandist trying to stir fake story shit to divide voters in America.
Ah yes, the good ol' "I'm not an asshole! The Russians are plotting against me to make me look like an asshole!" defense. Nobody needs to pretend to make you look like an asshole, you've shown your whole ass all over this thread.
Hey guys I’m not from America but I do hate fascists as do both of you.
It hurts to see you fighting each other instead of our shared enemy.
Gotta try and find a way to mend fences here my dudes.
How can I @ the other user from this post?
Don't bother, he'll just take offense at you trying. If you look at the other comments, I and several others tried to point out how hypocritical he's being victim-blaming the people doing the things he says they're lazy for not doing when he himself gave up, and he just became more and more belligerent. Here, he made fun of a guy's wife who has disabling chronic pain and accused him of "voter suppression" because of it. In another comment, he made fun of women no longer having access to abortion. He's not looking to fix things, just a target so he can make himself feel better.
He came in here to hate Texans and nothing you or I say will change his heart. You can't fix that any more than you can compromise with fascists.
And how many non- republican leaders did you manage to get elected? Clearly you un-purging yourself did not result in not "electing a state government run by a criminal mafia"
Come on bro, think about what you wrote, you literally proved his point. Whether it was true or just some shit you made up, you gotta either lie better or truth better.
I now live with non Republican leadership, so clearly I was capable of taking action to find governance worth supporting. You have to assume so much to justify your laziness.
I fought for new leadership in Texas and had these same discussions with people unwilling to get off their asses and vote then as I am having with you now. I drove people to get registered to vote and volunteered for political campaigns. I informed people when I was removed from the voter rolls and asked them to check their status.
In the end, it was always lazy people unwilling to stand up for themselves.
What are you doing for the upcoming election bro?
Okay but is pornhub banned under that leadership, yes or no? Or do you get a special exception cause you tried so much harder than everyone else in that district the gerrymander mafia left you?
See what I mean? Your point is moot. Not even picking sides, I live in a lefty state, I have no skin in the game. I was just saying your argument is self defeating because you picked a flawed approach, defending something that already played out and lost. You just gotta work on your tactics in these type of convos, that's all I'm saying.
No? I have pornhub lmao.
Got it, so now we've established you were just talking some bullshit you made up, and/or that you failed to effect the change you condescendingly told others to effect with your initial self-defeating comeback and left the state you claim to have un-purged yourself from five separate times. 👍🏻
You really do suck at this man.
You're not too bright eh? Try reading the thread.
This you?
This also you?
This also you?
THIS. ALSO. YOU?
So you either live in Texas where pornhub is now banned, the LITERAL topic of this post, making your JuST eLecT Nu LeEdeRShIP comment the dumbest thing ever said, which explains your absolutely impressive number of downvotes, OR....you don't live in Texas and are talking out your ass. Still. Inexplicably, despite how many people have pointed out how stupid you sound.
Which one is it Mr. "You guys can't read"?
Impressive number of downvotes? My main comment is at +80 lmao. What does that say about the dude getting downvoted arguing with the impressive number of downvotes and helping me get back on a positive trend?
Try reading that information again and thinking a little bit.
Lol, my scores are at zero, the only one downvoting me is your salty ass. Are you gonna keep huffing your own farts and rolling the same line out again and again, or are you gonna set us all straight there Captain?
Here I'll make it simple - do you, presently, live in Texas?
If yes, your entire argument train is asinine because despite all your grandstanding, you failed to do the thing you told everyone else to do (like it was ez) leading to pornhub being shutdown in your state.
If no, you're talking out your ass because you couldn't affect ANY change in Texas and left.
Dude's in here literally talking about how he gave up and ran away rather than fighting against the fascist government, and he thinks he's won and is better than the people who can't turn tail like him. Can't find entertainment like this on TV, that's for sure.
It's ez guys, just leave Texas, run to a blue state, and then condescendingly tell Texans to just vote harder like 200 years of racism, gerrymandering, and voter suppression is their fault.
My favorite is that he turtles and says "you guys can't read" when you point out how fucking stupid he sounds.
Lmao, you're now digging down to bonding with the dude who can't even read.
Yup, you sure showed me.
Then why didn't you vote to change the law after the first time it happened?
I led voter initiatives over 4 elections. What exactly are you doing about it? How many people have you registered to vote?
And how did that go? Did you successfully end the problem? I vote, same as you. Difference is I'm not in here chastising people and telling them that these issues are their fault for not voting hard enough.
So you just vote? That's where your responsibility begins and ends?
Yea, that's my point. Lazy.
Aren't you the guy who suggested people simply "elect better leadership"? I'm just asking how that went for you. If it's that simple, all your problems must be solved right?
Never said it was simple. I said it was a battle that voting aged people of Texas are too lazy to engage in.
At no point did I deny the election interference. I simply said it could be overcome, but not by the people of Texas.
And I told you all the next solution. Leave.