How the fk did Abbott win?!?!? I just can’t! 🤬
@MoonFish As someone in Texas, I can offer some insight.
It's a generational thing. The children have parents who have parents who have instilled a 'don't think, just vote straight GQP or the world ends and they will take your guns'.
You have to remember that public education is a mess here, some of the worst in the USA. Health care is nearly dead last.
What sells here is hate. Right now, that's hating on specific brown people and LGBT people.
It works. This is Texas :(
@mouses God help us!! 🤬
@MoonFish No real God in Texas. We are loaded with hateful "christians" who use bits of pieces of the bible that justify being hateful and intolerant, and ignore the rest.
The only God here is supply side white jesus. You know, the one that hates everyone LGBT, respects the ultra rich hoarders, and justifies the hate they learned from their parents. Same cycle since the late 1980's, but it's getting really scary now.
I went from comfy alone outside to 'do not leave the home without escort.'
@mouses sigh! I have no words
@MoonFish 99% of my free time is consumed with thoughts and wishes that I had the money to just get the fuck out of Texas.
It's so unsafe here for me. Two awful beatings in for me, the second one needing cosmetic surgery to repair.
Local bastard cops are 'looking into it' for the last two months. They literally laughed at me while taking my statement and one of them told me 'maybe if you would dress and act like a man this would not happen to you'.
I hate it here.
@mouses What the actual fk!?!? I am so sorry you have to endure this crap. Absolutely unbelievable. 🤬🤬🤬
I hear ya… maybe it’s wise to move.. ugh that really sucks.
I’m so so sorry
@MoonFish Thanks ❤️
It's not been a lot of fun :)
@mouses hang in there.. like I am. 💙
@MoonFish Sometimes that's all we can do!
@MoonFish Same. Living here sucks and human life is cheap, even more so if you happen to be transgender :(