Analysis: Texas power outage leaves officials working political angles

Re:Analysis: Texas power outage leaves officials working pol... by sep_field on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @08:09PM (#26174169)

Capitalism working as intended was the main driver of the Texas power shortage. Texas' grid was explicitly designed to profit off of shortages, which is why it has always been kept separate. Former governor Rick Perry said Texans would rather have no power than have federal regulation of their grid. The mayor of Colorado City Texas said the government owes the people nothing and that the strong will survive and the weak will perish.

Until we have socialism, exploitation and abuse of the poor will continue.

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Re:Analysis: Texas power outage leaves officials working pol... by betwixthewires on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @08:53PM (#26174499)

So I don't know if you read the terms of service for this site, but it isn't Reddit. While any topic can be discussed (and is), this site isn't about shilling your pet political ideology and character attacking political opponents.

If you want to have a discussion about the merits of different political ideologies then do that. But this is not a community designed for you to crusade.

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Re:Analysis: Texas power outage leaves officials working pol... by sep_field on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @09:29PM (#26174743)

Directly quoting people is not character attacking them:

Here's a screenshot of what Tim Boyd (the mayor I quoted) said, in his own words: https://twitter.com/Holiday1326/status/1361808806515253248

and here's Rick Perry in his own words: https://www.republicanleader.gov/whats-up-in-texas/

I'm not in any way mischaracterizing what these people say and therefore it is not a character attack.

You may disagree with my conclusions, and you might even be justified saying my conclusions don't belong on this site, but you can't just imply I'm lying or simply trying to make people look bad.

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