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kleinbl00  ·  785 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Texas Electric Grid Failure Was a Warm-up

If I were a data-scraping online activist I would most likely have already built a twitter bot that grabs power outage tweets and their geolocation and then cross-references a Texas outtage grid with racial demographics.

I would be primed and ready to go to paint 'em all up as a bunch of civil-rights-abusing sacks'o'shit.

I'd likely have a class action lawsuit template ready to file.

I'd probably even be ready to pump a bunch of images and videos of black and brown people in the dark, ready to grab them and push them the minute they hit the intarwebs.

The Texas Republican Party seems to be hoping that they'll be able to ride out a crisis of racism, greed and deaths-from-hypothermia, rather than planning a way out of a crisis of racism, greed and deaths-from-hypothermia and unless I have grossly overestimated the resourcefulness of their opponents, they are in for nearly as rough a time as they are poised to create for their non-Republican constituents.





ThurberMingus  ·  785 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    The Texas Republican Party seems to be hoping that they'll be able to ride out a crisis of racism, greed and deaths-from-hypothermia, rather than planning a way out of a crisis of racism, greed and deaths-from-hypothermia

The plan all along was protect power with redistricting and then hope that enough minorities buy the 'fiscal conservatism protects you from paying for *them' blather to keep the demographic shift from wiping them out before the next round of redistricting.

I don't think they'll survive the demographics forever, but it won't be quick and I won't be surprised if the TX GOP still has power the next time we redistrict in 2030.