Texas is planning to make a huge public investment in space

"Further investment will cement Texas as the preeminent location for innovation."

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[Sajuuk]

Texas answering the age old science fiction question of "how did these regressive fucks make it to space?".

Subsidies.

 

[Sajuuk]

I often tell my daughter this to cheer her up. Even the red states like Texas are only slightly red (52.1% in 2020) and blue states are only slightly blue. I don't think it is fair to lump everyone into one color and dismiss the entire state regardless of your political persuasion. In 2020, approximately 5.9 million people out of a state of 29 million people voted for Trump and it is called a "red state".

The general population leans slightly conservative, but the state legislature is so deeply conservative you might as well call it the red planet. It's going to get worse before it gets better, because those 5.9 million people are the ones writing all the laws and writing all the checks.

 

[Sajuuk]

I waver between hope and hopelessness regarding the Texas state legislature, but I think people like this guy, a former high school classmate of mine, deserve a lot of credit for fighting the good fight. You shouldn't paint all Texans with the same brush.

Where in my post do you think I'm painting all individual Texans with the same brush?

I am painting the state legislature with the same brush, because conservatives have an unbreakable super-majority in it. That's not up for debate.

 

[Sajuuk]

That's an interesting way to spell Democrat ...

I know you're, like, an obvious idiot troll, but this is really a pet peeve of mine: there is no "Democrat Party".