Back in 2006/2007 I was reading Slashdot for tech news and stuff. I started noticing that a lot of newer content was just linking to Reddit posts, so I figured I'd cut out the middleman and jumped ship to Reddit.
A blatant lie.
In 2020, 66% of the voting population actually voted - and this was a record high!
Of those, 46.48% voted for Biden/Harris.
So that's just under 1/3rd, or 30.68% of the voting population of Texas.
Now, do I feel for these folks? Yes.
Is it terrible that they're being disenfranchised by their state and local governments at every turn? Also yes.
Is this going to make me feel at all bad if the state whose main claim to fame is keeping slavery going an extra 2 years splits off, only to get gobbled up by Mexico?
It doesn't help that the news focuses on murders and gun crime over anything else, and provides a megaphone for copaganda with zero analysis. If it bleeds, it leads, even if it's a lie.
I put my first model up on Cults, Thingiverse, and I think one other site... so far only the Cults one seems to have gotten any traction, so I'm focusing on that.
Being able to act hypocritically, flout the rules and regs, and get away with it is political Viagra to these assholes. It's what they live for. It's impossible to "catch them" in flagrant acts of hypocrisy because the act of you noticing them being douchebags but not being able to stop them gives them massive power boners.
*tract, apparently.