• masterofn001
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    151 month ago

    Can we get 25 million volunteers to move proportionally to red states for the next few years?

    • @yeahiknow3
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      211 month ago

      I moved to a red state. Absolutely awful. Don’t do it. Texas is an irremediable shit hole.

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          I’m in Austin, TX. I’ve lived on two continents, three countries, ten US states. This region of the world is by far the worst place I’ve ever lived… fellas, I lived in a third world country and Texas is worse. It’s dystopian. You can’t go outside. It’s 100 degrees half the year with high humidity. The air is dirty, polluted, full of allergens. People burn garbage everywhere. There is no wildlife. Trash in the street. Everything is dead, except a few biting insects, there’s no living creatures — not even birds. Dogs chained outside in the heat. Nature is dying, yellow and faded, except for the artificial grass — a rare sign of life (until the water runs out). Houston meanwhile is a gridlocked pile of parking lots and dirty overpasses built on a swamp, so whenever it rains it floods (which is comical — why does anyone live here?). Don’t come. There is no hope.

              • @BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
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                61 month ago

                Then it sounds like your one and only job (keeping her happy) is the best fucking job in the state. Ignore the shit around you and grind it out until you both save enough to move away or she promotes into another location.

                • @yeahiknow3
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                  61 month ago

                  You’re so right. Thank you! I am doing my best. Thanks for your kind words.

    • @5715@feddit.org
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      101 month ago

      Half a million movers per month would both wreck California and rural states real quick.

      • @Wrench@lemmy.world
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        71 month ago

        Also Cali would turn red quickly. I don’t think our voter numbers show the true story. There are a lot of MAGA crazies in CA. I just doubt they bother voting atm because they know it’s pointless.

        • @5715@feddit.org
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          11 month ago

          That’s a bit incomplete.

          Those who stay back would find cities, economy, infrastructure and culture crumbling and uprooted. Ghost town culture doesn’t exactly inspire hope and confidence.

          On the other hand, there would be somewhat of a plague syndrome benefitting those.

      • @michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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        They want to pass a law that says you have to get the majority of the majority of counties and they have 256 mostly small rural counties some with less than 100 people in them.

        I did the math and you could hold the majority of the majority with as little as 4% of the vote.

        If you try to be cute and take over a bunch of small counties the law could just be further amended or you know they could just not find your bodies.

        I’m staying in blueland