It’s like when anything really unexpected happens. Like when there is a public shooting, loads of people always say (from the safety of their couches and computers) how they would have fought off the shooter. But in real life, people mostly don’t. Or how in movies when someone does something really insulting, the…

Yes of course Austin is cheaper than the Bay Area or NY. But then people move here from those places and drive up rents/prices here b/c they think it’s so cheap. It really doesn’t matter how cheap it is for people who live elsewhere. For the people who live here, they are being driven out of the city. They can’t…

I’m hoping you are being sarcastic? Detroit is extremely segregated. I don’t know how racist it is as I do not live there, but I can’t believe that there’s something in the water that makes them less racist than everywhere else in the US.

Jesus, the elitism. And what the fuck is wrong with cowboy hats or sitting outside? The only weird thing is that you saw a place that had a lot of pests that were unfamiliar to you. Every other thing in your post is a projection of your own prejudice and feelings. Imagine if you had said something similar about a…

In theory, whatever. But think about where that leads. Sugar related penalties? Sports related? Also who decides what’s the definition of natural? Butt sex? Eating red meat? Who enforces? Going to film how much sugar I put in my coffee? If I use a condom on my hookup? Investigate to see if I smoke? I get the logic…

Also, it’s not just smokers that get lung disease and lung cancer.

Yes. Travis County Dems is really active, and because they’ve been entirely ignored by the DNC for years now, they are more progressive than many local county Dem orgs in areas that the DNC actively campaigns. They have a bit more leeway as well. That’s a good place to start. Depending on if you are a liberal Dem or a…

Fuck you, Heartfelt. Seriously. I’m sure you think you are helping, but you aren’t.

And what city in the US are you pointing to as not racist or not segregated? And those property value rises are from people from outside moving in- let’s keep that in mind.

Yes I get really sick of this shit. We’re literally fighting for our lives, and the people who are supposed to be our allies just sneer and make insulting jokes that ridicule the people here who could maybe be won over if they didn’t RIGHTFULLY think that coastal urban liberals hate them.

Also the Valley and El Paso- totally blue, pretty big progressive scene.

Well that’s fine for you and your wife, but since Austin, Houston and Dallas are all among the ten fastest growing cities in the country, really the only thing you posted is “I would never live there”. Which is fine, but it’s demonstrably not a trend.

Sure, but the Democrats would never, in a million years, say they support candidates who are anti-gay marriage or whatever. It’s only women’s rights that are politically acceptable to ditch.

Your one sentence response to my comment about the work the left was doing was:

Today the DNCC chair came out saying they would fund antichoice candidates.

You saying a thing (Bernie only for white men) without any evidence or context doesn’t make it so. But just to be pedantic, I want to point out that “unfortunately” has nothing whatsoever to do with what is surprising or expected. In any case, he is a flawed left of center career politician, like I said, that wavered…

OMG are you really doing this on purpose? What I’m saying is, you have this idea that leftists are a bunch of white men. I understand that you have this idea based on some shit you read on Twitter or some shit you either misunderstood about the term ‘identity politics’ (and you didn’t respond to my discussion of it so…

Nah. It’s already a minority majority state. The cities are growing- Houston and Austin are among the fastest growing cities in the country, and they are pretty liberal areas- Austin is basically leftist even. And every other big city in the state is already blue- San Antonio, Dallas, El Paso already- plus the entire…

I guess the primary difference is that I don’t agree with the Dems 80% of the time. The only thing I agree with them on is their much better policies towards the environment and rights. If they also falter on the issue of rights, why in the world would I vote for them?

I’m really not sure what you are trying to say here since who was talking about setting up successful leftist governments? What I’m saying is that when you are actually working with orgs fighting for the things you are talking about (like, if you work with NARAL or NNAF or any of the immigrant and antiprison groups or…