Want to keep telling me how bad California is? ?

[msc545]

Power outages

Nearly 300,000 homes and businesses in Texas are still waiting for power to be restored a week after Category 1 Hurricane Beryl made landfall last Monday.

[Drewtate]

It's summer and most texans prep.

I would also point out that there are currently 181,399 people currently without power or utilities all year round and their toilet is a pavement.

I will tell you how bad california is. In 2022 over 800,000 fled california for other states, the year before it was the same , the previous 5 years it was 600,000. In all 6 million californian refugees have fled for brighter futures from californian in the last 20 years. In 2022 california lost $24 billion in tax revenue due to this.

[MicahRaine]

[KrakenAttackin]

Bro, I worked at LAX for several months and the codified corruption by the LA city was astounding.

[Drewtate]

Watched a documentary about the great californian water heist. At the time of california's biggest water shortage in history and they were blaming global warming and urging us all to us electric cars california was using more water than ever and their agricultural sector was the most productive it had ever been.
Also saw how it was perfectly legal for a corporation to steal water to sell from small towns by drilling their ground water.

[KrakenAttackin]

@Drewtate Exactly right. The hypocrisy is stunning.

[msc545]

That is not surprising...

[Agape93]

How many wildfires did California have? How many water shortages? How much crime?

[StudyingAuthor]

I thought we were talking ab California... I'm confused.

[exitseven]

Elon musk just moved Space-X to Texas from California. Gavin Newsome just signed into law that parents do not have to be told if their child gets sexual reassignment treatment. I guess that was the proverbial straw that broke the camels back.

[msc545]

Kids have been badly injured, thrown out of their homes, and sometimes killed when parents were informed but not told ahead of it happening. This is NOT about sexual reassignment treatment but more about pronoun changes...

[exitseven]

@ Taking parents out of the loop by government agencies is wrong. If somebody did that with one of my kids it would be met with violence.

[msc545]

@exitsevenW ould that be before or after you beat the hell out of your kid?

[exitseven]

I would not beat my kid. More like some school administrator or liberal doctor that would see the end of a baseball bat.

[msc545]

Well okay. So just like as any other right winger you would use violence on somebody because that is your go-to solution for almost everything. That is just terrible and absolutely reprehensible.

[exitseven]

@msc545 Sometimes you just need to get their attention.

[msc545]

I'm really sorry but even thinking those kinds of thoughts is pretty bad.

[exitseven]

@msc545 people are inherently a violent species. It is how we evolved. Violent species for a violent planet.

[msc545]

Please don't presume to tell me how people are. I know far better than you do how people are and they are not particularly violent. At least not most of them are. Pretending that your violent thoughts are inevitable does not get you off the hook for this.

[msc545]

If you want to get the attention of other people because you are concerned about some matter, you might try talking to them instead of beating them half to death. I realize that doesn't seem very macho probably to you, but it is a lot more civilized than your ideas.

[exitseven]

@msc545 No, just because you deal with patients does not mean you know more that I do.

[msc545]

It means that I know a lot more about how people think.

[msc545]

Are we supposed to worry about what Elon Musk does or believes?

[exitseven]

If I was Gavin Newsome I would be concerned that another larhmge corporation along with hundreds of taxpayers citizens are fleeing the liberal policies that are driving people out of California by the tens of thousands.

[msc545]

It is just more for the rest of us. Nobody cares except you, and you don't even live here.

[exitseven]

What happens when you are the only person left in the state not on welfare?

[msc545]

That is a ridiculous Fantasy.

[exitseven]

A journey starts with a single step. California has passed that first step 4 exits back.

[msc545]

Stop. You don't live here and you have no idea what is or is not happening here.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

There are bad places of Pennsylvania have poor electric companies.

[NathanDavis]

the hurricane plus... over a dozen tornadoes, don't forget those... lol

[coachTanthony]

Yes California is a tax ridden cesspool. Texas has nothing to do with that.

[Drewtate]

800,000 fled california in 2022 and 800,000 the year before, 600,000 in the 3 years before that. Something like 6 million have fled california in the last 20 years.

[msc545]

@Drewtate So?

[Sevenpointfive]

i'm sure it's about the same. i can't afford either of them