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I had a feeling r/politics had become a bastion for retirees with too much time in their hands, but wow- my God, I’m as surprised as I am flattered. By all means, fight the axis! 🤣
Anyone else feel bad for the people of Dallas, Houston, and Austin for being stuck in that hellscape of a state? >

The local governments are so far left in those cities/counties that it’s not an issue.  If you know anything about the Republican philosophy, it’s all about local control.  They haven’t let the local control go unchecked, but Texas is very much controlled locally.  
Also, the Republican Party in Texas is willing to work with the Democratic Party to make Texas the best state it can be.  People are moving here from all over.  This is something that the Feds for both sides should learn from. >

This does not pass the smell test. Look at Abortion.  Look at Abbot.  Texas is a Christian white nationalist dystopia >

Just like any state, the big cities are not that, at all. >

These were states that were fine for years and then got hit by waves of people who bought into fear redirecting and felt their states were the “end all be all”. Then they started getting governors who did what they wanted and people let them. Soon they just brainwashed everyone in believing in them and here we are. Did not happen over night. Texas was a 30 year build and Florida was 25 years. >

The far right axis of evil. >

aka "TeaBaggia." >

Both governed with scientific ignorance and religious bigotry and homophobia. >

Axis of Evil. With the 5th and 11th Circuits nearly as corrupt as SCOTUS, both states will be the models for cruelty and malfeasance in all other Red States. >


With a dominant contingent of conservative Cubans and Venezuelans, Florida Latinos enjoy more power in their state and in Washington than Latinos do in Texas. Florida’s 27-member congressional delegation is 26.5 percent Latino. Latinos occupy high-level statewide and county posts and make up around 20 percent of the state legislature in Tallahassee. 
By comparison, Latinos are under-represented in Texas. Only 19 percent of the state’s congressional delegation—the second largest in the country—are Latino. The state Legislature is 61 percent white, though the state is only 39.4 percent white. 
There is, to be sure, Latino local political power in many Texas communities, especially around the Rio Grande Valley, but the state is run by primarily white Republicans.  
Republicans, once slow to recognize the explosive growth and potential political influence of the Latino population—60 million nationwide, the country’s largest minority—are pouring money and deploying their staffs to conduct outreach and gain their vote. They’ve had mixed results in Texas but success in Florida, where Latino-backed Republicans scored victories in the midterms, most surprising in Miami-Dade, a longtime Democratic stronghold. >

Who gives a shit, man? Like, it's a dumb thing to say, but people say stupid things all the fucking time. Why do you guys somehow think the use of this word is a critical issue for national politics? 
Seriously, I'm sick of hearing about this imbecilic shit. Come up with more relevant things to talk about. >

The enforced use of this word on the latino population comes off as very conceited. Why should they change their language to suit this American flavor-of-the-month cause?
On a grander scale, it is rather one small symptom of a greater problem.
>Seriously, I'm sick of hearing about this imbecilic shit. Come up with more relevant things to talk about.
This is a useless statement. >

Lol "enforced". Anything to feel persecuted. >

You don't think it's being forced into language? >

No-- I've never once been forced to use it in my life. I've seen it online and few times-- 75% of the time from folks like you pretending it's some major plank of the liberal agenda-- and heard it once or twice on NPR, but I've never seen anything resembling "enforcement" of the term. What does that even mean to you? Jail sentences and work camps for people who don't add an "X"? It's Qanon level nonsense. >

Well sure, no one is putting putting a gun to your head and forcing you to say it.
But this term is used in all major corporate media publications. And corporate media tends to drive mainstream ideas and thought(At least for now, their ratings have been on the decline for the last decade).
It's not hard to come to the conclusion that the end goal here is to replace the term Latino entirely. >


But this term is used in all major corporate media publications

Major corporate media also uses "latino", "latina", and "hispanic", so what evidence do you have that the end goal is to replace anything? It's just another term that's sometimes used. No enforcement, no replacement-- just you and Sarah Huckabee Sanders making shit up to avoid talking about issues that actually affect people. >

the far right ~~Axis~~ Asses. 
ftfy >

I sort of miss the days when Wisconsin seemed the most extreme example.
(Sorry, good people of Wisconsin.)
Edit: though now that I think about it, that was around the time Kansas did too. >

I’ve lived in both states. Originally from New Jersey / NY.
It’s more different than most of the countries in the EU are. >

Have you lived in many EU countries? Because one of the only things they have in common is that they all hate when Americans make this comparison lol >

Texas: Own the Libs and remember the Alamo!
Florida: Derp! >

Texas: our power grid can't handle the extreme of winter. or summer.
Florida: Get your checkbook out Libs, it's hurricane season. >


Florida: Get your checkbook out Libs, it's hurricane season.

fuckin lawl >

I’m from Florida and I love a lot of things about where I live. I love the “colorful, lawless swamp” vibe, I like that we’re known for being ridiculous, and I especially love the beaches and nature preserves. We’ve also got some seriously good music happening in places like Tampa, Gainesville, and Tallahassee, and great visual artists all over the place. 
I’m a die-hard liberal and I always will be. I know I’m not alone out here. I remember in 2018 how incredibly narrowly DeSantis beat out his democratic challenger - it was neck and neck til the end - and it feels like living in an alternate reality, a dark timeline. 
Anyway, people of America, know that not everyone in Florida loves this over-makeup’d gorilla that’s running our state. It’s mostly just the metric fuckton of old people who do literally nothing but wake up and flip between Fox News and golf until they go to bed at 6pm. Predictably, most of us millennials feel that we’re overdue for a regime change. 
Hopefully next election we’ll get a stronger democratic challenger than in 2022 (we got stuck with the oldest, whitest milquetoast former republican Charlie Crist, the worst possible candidate). There are a ton of liberals in Florida and plenty of blue strongholds (most cities with universities). 
I got the chance to say it to his face once so I don’t feel bad about saying it here:
Fuck Ron DeSantis. 
I would pay for the opportunity to tell him in person to go fuck himself again. And that he looks like the bad guy in a movie where some kids are trying to save the youth center from being torn down. >

My theory about Florida and Texas having such consistently conservative voting records for the past 10 or so years is that the major cities get out-voted by the outlying areas. I'm not just talking the bumpkin towns of a thousand people that are hours away from the city. Look up any congressional map of TX or FL. For instance, you could drive down I-275 across Tampa Bay, and on the other side of the water from the Democratic 14th district is the Republican 16th district. Contrast that with California or New York where you could drive an hour away from San Francisco or NYC and still be in a Democratic congressional district.
Heck, in Florida's case, one major city leans Republican - a significant portion of the city of Miami (the 26th-28th districts) elected Republicans to Congress, and Miami has had Republican mayors continuously since 2009! >

That’s absolutely the case, I think that’s the way it goes in general. Cities with universities vote blue and smaller towns and suburbs typically lean red. I’ve lived all over Florida and that’s the story every time >

Italy and Japan in WWII.  Florida and Texas now.  Not much difference. >

Scary how similar they all are >

These two compete who can be the more evil and hateful for America >

Let's be more accurate and label them as proto-fascists. >

Oooohhhh somebodies shopping WW2 narrative soundbites…. It’s a mistake guys, nobodies still alive that remembers that war. Keep pushing the domestic terrorist soundbite, Millennials still remember the war on terror….