The Texas way: why the most disaster-prone US state is so allergic to preparing for disasters
The Texas way: why the most disaster-prone US state is so allergic to preparing for disasters
To summarize: Texas allows itself to be governed via right wing ideology and right wing ideology makes for piss poor disaster preparedness.
Expecting your government to do anything at all to protect people from disasters is literally the opposite of right wing ideology. Disaster preparedness—in the form of warning systems and building regulations—are implementations socialism (and environmentalism).
If you're a conservative (or libertarian), little girls dying in floods every few years is your ideal scenario. That's literally what you believe in! That it's not the government's job to prevent such things.
And let's be honest: If you're conservative you probably don't believe in global warming either so this is just an "act of God" that no one could've predicted (except science did predict this). Clearly, God is punishing those little girls (or their parents) for... Living in Texas?
isnt texas also reliant federal dollars via having tons of US military bases there.
Because Texans aren't very bright?
The Lone Brain Cell State
They earned that one star sticker in school and are so proud of it.
There are a lot of very bright texans, they're just concentrated heavily in urban areas, gerrymandered to hell and our opposition party is even dumber than the national democrats. Not that there aren't frustratingly a lot of really dumb texans.
They put self-reliance above everything else, while also not being all that self-reliant. So yeah, morons.
Bingo.
Article can be summarized thusly: They're morons.
I mean they don't believe at all in federal government unless you're talking about ice raids or police. Then they also don't really believe in state government unless you're talking about bending over and spreading wide for industrial waste generating junk corporations. Then much of the state is unincorporated praire so you're not getting a local government that takes great care of the tumbleweeds. It's basically anarcho capitalism in Texas which is exactly why it sucks so much.
I mean they don't believe at all in federal government unless you're talking about ice raids or police.
That's not true at all! How can you just ignore that they'll happily come to the fed and take all kinds of money (whether or not they use it for the intended purpose, or ignore disaster preparedness to spend the money on militarizing the cops)
They're stupid and corrupt.
Uneduct and corrupt. It's not that they're genetically predisposed to have a lower intelligence, it's that their government actively works on keeping the majority of the population dumb as dumb people are easier to control and manipulate and lie to
Everything’s bigger in Texas.
The bigots,the morons, the assholes...
Texas can spend all the money in the world on disaster preparedness, but it won't matter if Camp Staff has their cell phones and weather radios switched off.
You couldn't even be bothered to read the article could you?
Here's a fun fact for you. Outdoor sirens can be heard by people, regardless of the status of their electronic devices.
As the article states. Texas seems very willing to spend enormous sums of money on disaster recovery, but very little on prevention, as the mentioned siren system was shut down in the Texas Senate for the reason of "too expensive"
The siren system was shut down because the technology was unreliable and giving out way too many false alarms -- to the point where the residents were just ignoring it. It is a difficult problem because you need to give enough possible advance warning to evacuate, but not so much that they start tuning it out altogether. Even modern first-world countries struggle with this.
Texas seems to have the vibe that they are proudly uneducated
if they wernt they wouldn't have energy sector completely controlled by an oligarchy, texas most resemble russia out of all the states.