Thinking about how every major city (except fort worth) in Texas is blue, votes democrat in every election, is majority liberal/left-leaning. It’s driving me insane okay. The majority of Texans live in or around the major cities. Land does not vote.
75% of Texans live in BLUE!!!
This makes me want to put a toaster in the bath tub okay bye!!!
You guys don’t get it, like if you’re not from Texas you don’t get it. Most people here seem to just wanna keep their guns and like not have to pay high taxes, but thats were their “"conservative ”“ views end. Texas is a minoriry-majority state. Dallas and Austin have some of the biggest LGBT populations in the US. To even call Texas a red state is CRAZY TO ME. ITS GERRYMANDERING!
People really need to remeber that most red states are only red bcs of voter suppression. Time and time again looking into the actual political leanings of populations has proven that if every single American adult voted the republicans would never win another election anywhere and that’s without getting rid of gerrymandering and the electoral college. This is why they’re obsessed with making sure it’s as hard as possible to vote, it’s the only way they can stay in power and they know it. They’ve known it since the goddamn Civil War, fuck since the dawn of this country. It’s always been about making sure the "right” people are in power by only letting the citizens who will vote for them have the ability to do do so.
And, incidentally, this is why Arizona has gone blue. Despite being a historically red state we have laws to protect people’s right to vote and make it as easy as possible, and it’s telling as fuck that the second the tide began to turn in 2020 the republicans here immediately started trying to implement voter ID laws and ban mail in votes. They KNOW they will lose if they let everyone vote and so they rig the game as much as possible.
This is part of why you shouldn’t write off places like Texas and Florida and other red states bcs they keep voting red. The majority of their populations are NOT republicans and the only reason republican candidates keep winning is because they have suppressed voters at every step of the process, going so far as to throw out hundreds of thousands of votes in some areas in Texas on a bs technicality that would have likely meant Beto O'Rourke’s victory over Greg Abbot.
It’s fucking rigged. That’s why they keep winning. So stop writing off these states as lost causes just because of their elections, damn near EVERY American state has a population whos majority leans left, they just continue to have their rights stripped away by corrupt leaders who know the only way to win is to cheat.
No wonder they have so obviously turned against Democracy.
^^THIS THIS THIS
Almost every single red state is a hostage situation.
Also Republicans/Conservatives from out of state keep moving here.
I’ll keep banging this drum forever, but 2018 is the most stark example. If only people who were born in Texas voted, Beto O'Rourke would be in the US Senate right now, not Ted Cruz
Wanna know why Beto lost by only 2% in 2018 and 12% in 2022? It’s out of state conservatives.
Conservatives from out of state keep coming here because they think it’s this state is a conservative paradise where they can do what they want carte blanche.
I’ve seen Texas get progressively worse year after year, and not just politically. The drivers have gotten worse and more aggressive, especially in Austin where this wasn’t as much of a problem.
People have become even more invasive and hateful towards the LGBTQ community and PoC, especially in the suburbs. Our housing prices have shot up faster than anywhere else in the nation.
You can track the continued left-ward movement of places like California and Colorado with the right-ward shift of Texas, because they keep fucking moving here. I’m sure you can say the same thing about Florida, they just got a whole new set of conservative boomer retirees moving there and Trumpists moving to be closer to Mar-a-Lago.
At this point, the best option for my partners and me is to just leave Texas and take the places of the shitty OoS Conservatives that moved here.
Yes we need more chaste twee baby gay romances like heartstopper and yes we also need more shows where men fuck raw to express their love for one another like Élite and yes we need more toxic gays having hate sex like Interview with the Vampire and yes we need more incidental gay characters like the dads in cartoons like Owl House.
It’s not a competition! It’s a hoard and I’m like a gay little Smaug.
the normalization of porn in mainstream media is a weird take to have
Normalization of gay desire and yes, even gay sex, is paramount to gay liberation actually.
Kind of a random hill to die on rn but “You’d eat this thing you hate if you got hungry enough” does not set a reasonable expectation of what “hungry enough” means for people with food problems.
Like, are we talking “stomach grumbling” hungry enough, or “can’t stand up” hungry enough? Cause personally, I can make myself eat a bit of a pork chop if I’m barfy and shaking and can’t see straight anymore, but if it’s down to “black out for three days and wake up angry and confused” or “willingly swallow prosciutto”, I’m having sleep for dinner. And I know this from experience.
People without food problems don’t seem to understand this and it drives me insane. “Hungry enough” is for shit like chewing drywall because the alternative is death or cannibalism.
If I say I can’t eat something, It means I can’t eat it. It Is Not Edible To Me. It’s not even appetizing. It literally does not register as food. You might as well hand me a rubber duck.
And it’s frustrating!! Trust me, I wish I wasn’t like this, too!! This isn’t a choice!! I know it can be rude!! It’s embarassing!! It’s complicated and annoying and irrational!! That doesn’t fix the problem!!
I just wish people didn’t treat this sort of thing as “being picky” or lacking willpower or basic manners or something. I can’t make myself eat certain foods the way you probably couldn’t cut your own fingers off. Does that make sense? It’s not just food. Fuck
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Not to put you on blast here darlin, but if pinto beans and black beans were exactly the same then why would it matter to you if you switched them? It’d be the same experience, right? Even if you were allergic or had a sensitivity or a nutritional issue?
Also, your daughter in law is a grown adult who is perfectly capable of figuring out for herself what can and cannot go into her body, and if it wasn’t important to her, then she wouldn’t have told you. If it didn’t matter, if it wasn’t worth communicating for some reason, she probably would have kept it to herself. She decided instead to communicate with you so that you could meet somewhere in the middle, because she trusted that you would be courteous about it and she knew it would come up in the future- meaning she hopes or expects to continue socializing with you in the future.
Like, I completely understand that not knowing *why* is frustrating, but sometimes people have problems and it’s not my job or my business to solve them
Thank you for saying this OP.
Lots of people, my family included, don’t get it. And like, I was a massively adventurous eater before I developed symptoms that are likely MCAS, so I can understand mild confusion (“you like escargot, calamari, and oysters, but could never in a million years eat clams?” like yeah it’s weird but (icarly meme) I do not control the food sensitivities).
But like… confusion is different than refusing to believe me. *I* get confused about my food issues sometimes. But to actively say “oh you’re just a picky little princess” and force the kid that you bragged as a toddler “would eat all their veggies including spinach all the other parents?
Like my parents would always be like, about the like 3 things I ever had issues with "oh you’d eat it if you were starving” and maybe some of the milder ones I could but the worst ones would cause me to gag until I threw up and then I’d end up starving AND dangerously dehydrated! Like… GAH.
(Honestly this ties into a post I’ve been thinking about making, how so many abled people cannot fathom the idea of bodies being incapable of doing stuff short of being literally paralyzed, and even then they’ll usually think people can do a modified variant. Whether it’s working or food they go ‘well I can do it so everyone can’ and like… *shoves dictionary definition of disability at them*)
(An additional note: OP and others may not consider this specific issue a disability, so I’m using that word to describe my own experiences only.)
Yeah, I have ARFID (avoidant restrictive food intake disorder, common amongst autistics & other people w sensory issues) and was. Badly traumatized as a child because I was a “"picky eater”“ who was forced to eat things I found disgusting. I do not trust anyone who talks about ”“picky eaters”“ like the very act of having specific food needs is some grievous insult against the foundation of society. My relationship with food is still fucked up because of this, because instead of acceptance and accomadation I was forced to sit at the dinner table, crying and embarrassed, for hours as I forced myself to eat small bites of things that caused me physical distress in order to earn the right to leave.
And for me, I can generally tell when something will trigger my sensory issues. Yet every time I was told "you have to try something once before you know!!!” despite the fact I was always right, and then sometimes I would be told “WELLL you actually need to try something ten times before you can say you don’t like it!!!” which just feels like my family was mad I didn’t like the bullshit food they forced me to eat after I said I wouldn’t like it.
The way some people talk about us is just so fucked up. Person in the screenshot is a very very tame version, but some people get so personally, aggressively enraged by the idea of someone being “picky” about food. As if it’s something we do to personally fuck with you, and not something that leaves you alienated from so much of society. Because it’s not fun for you to go out to eat, it’s not fun for you to eat at parties or events, meals with family and friends is stressful, you never know if you’ll have access to a safefood in public, and even if you do you are hyperaware that you are eating a “kids meal” or a “snack” while everyone else happily eats the grown-up food that disgusts you. I’ve had multiple times where I almost start crying at a dinner with family because I order something, it’s not good for my ARFID, and I get so viscerally embarrassed and ashamed that I can’t be normal.
& that’s not even getting into the health affects this has had on me– yet people act like it’s a quirky life choice. I def agree w stellalunasys; abled people (ableism as a capitalist system in general) don’t understand the idea that disabled people NEED to listen to our bodies to survive. It’s not just a matter of something literally stopping you. An abled person COULD stick their hand into an open flame, they literally have that ability, and yet for some reason they don’t! Almost like they know it would seriously hurt their body!
And like honestly even if it WAS just somebody being picky? So what? Everybody deserves food they want to eat, which is apparently a wild concept for some people but wishing starvation on someone so that’ll they’ll eat something that you’ve deemed essential is not a normal reaction. Wanting to force someone to eat something they don’t want to is a really gross and unhealthy way to interact with someone. Even if you don’t personally get it it’s not your job to disprove or force an expansion of someone’s dietary wants.
This is a lot like forcing kids to hug adults when they don’t want to. Forcing anyone who is relying on you for safe autonomy (bodily autonomy, choices around what to eat) to do something they don’t feel comfortable with is going to teach them that they aren’t allowed to establish boundaries and it causes so many other issues as they grow and makes them feel unsafe when they’re grown.
Here’s a shoutout to anyone who stood up for their food boundaries!
forget fast fashion in 2023 the only viral trend i wanna see is workers unionizing
oh hey look what game it’s time for:
Every time I see another thing like this, my firm adherence to the idea that history is complicated and big events can’t be laid at the feet of a single person gets a little shakier.
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