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Like @anon27554371, I have family who have been in your position. I’m not a Texan, but I grew up in Kansas as a liberal, so I’m from the general neighborhood. Please take comfort in the fact that there are many of us here who value you and your contributions, and we’re all here to provide whatever support we can.
And absotively, posilutely fuck cancer.
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That was only looking at the highest polls like Rasmussen. If you aggregate the polls, he rarely exceeded 40%.
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Yes, of course, places where the president has a lower rating are the places where there are a lots of people refusing to be vaccinated to spite the libs,
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Damn, you’re genuinely making me emotional and homesick from across the world.
With all of this legislative nightmare, though, I’m strongly conflicted about any job roles in Texas. I’m a product of Texas public schools and universities, I’ve got hundreds of students there, almost all of my family’s there, but even now I’m wondering if it’s just too much to jump back into a place where the state government is likely to create more and more direct risks for my family.
I’m also worried that, with all this influence, the next big social impact to be made in my field won’t be able to really find traction in Texas.
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Per Fivethirtyeight’s poll aggregator he spent most of his presidency in the 40-42% range. Which was obviously 40-42% higher than it should have been.
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Discounting his honeymoon phase through April 2016, then the artificial spike at the beginning of the pandemic, that averages out below 40%.
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Here’s another chart that shows it a bit more clearly, but you and I just disagree on the meaning of “rarely exceeded 40%”, I guess.
Not much point at arguing back and forth over a couple percent, the only reason I mentioned this is because we underestimate the support of our political opponents and overestimate the support for “our” guys at our own peril.
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Fair. We also welcome defeat too often when we talk about “47% of Americans support him.” No, 47% of 50% of Americans support him. And only half of those are die-hard Trumpers. The other half would vote for a chunk of coal with an (R) on it.
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Understood.
Some days I am too, and I live here.
It’s nigh impossible to forecast the future in a place like Texas, a diverse, raucous, rambunctious, volatile, lovably eccentric huge place thoroughly pwned by the petroleum industry, venture- / vulture-capital funded real estate developers, and increasingly co-opted by a vocal minority of self-identified religious purists.
At least the food here kicks ass.
We have some committed, fair-minded state representatives who try to hold the line, the inclusivity-kindness-equity-sanity line. This’un’s mine:
(the thread is worth reading–she’s one of the Texas Dems who broke quorum and went to Washington DC to lobby for the John Lewis Voting Rights Bill)
All this to say, some of us are trying to work the injustice problem(s) here, and the situation is not entirely hopeless.
But.
If Texas ends up going [even more] to hell in a handbasket, it may be that your position in Canberra can be leveraged as a bolthole, a potential safe haven if your family and friends do really need to GTFO.
It’s so hard to know if the proverbial water in the Texas pot is truly too hot for us frogs. It’s true some of us are looking for potential offramps and exits, especially those of us who will never pass because we are brown/black/lefty/women (I’m three outta four).
Greg Abbott’s been really busy wallet farming to his constituents’ detriment if also sometimes demise:
and throwing red meat to the Republican base by undermining the rights of people who his base deems worthy of such cruelty, as many posters upthread have already documented well.
If you are in a position to help us in Texas in any way, please consider pitching in from where you are, help is great.
And please use your absentee ballot, in case you still are registered to vote in Texas.
And/or, please consider just fostering your community in Canberra and reminding them to stay human and fight The Greed Community there.
But you know all this already.
If you happen to have the opportunity in Aus to shake hands with any of the fine crew at The Juice Media, please let 'em know they’ve got fans in Aus… tin, Texas.
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