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Boy, that power grind in TX they refused to connect to the national grid because they didn't like all those regulations and that is wholly owned by a private corporation is operating swimmingly this week!
Good thing those those nanny state experts didn't force them to adequately maintain that grid! And it's definitely great that they're unable to import power from, say, Florida right now!
Texas grid fails to weatherize, repeats mistake feds cited 10 years ago
Libertarian paradise!
“No one owes you [or] your family anything,” Tim Boyd, previously mayor of Colorado City, Texas wrote Tuesday in a Facebook post. “I’m sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout!”
Yeah, fuck you and your family! Bootstraps motherfucker, have you heard of them!?!?!?!
The Texas power grid failed mostly due to natural gas. Republicans are blaming wind turbines.
Pass that buck like a true Patriot!
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday February 18 2021, @12:15AM (5 children)
But hey, on the upside...fewer Texans :D
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @01:55AM (3 children)
Along those lines, a friend linked a tweet about a prepper in Texas who was all set for the end of the world, had his piles of canned food and everything....
...wait for it...
and only had an electric can opener!
Poor idiot, all he can open is beer until the power comes back on.
I offered to send him my spare SwingAway, but of course he doesn't trust the US Mail to deliver anything, so that was a non-starter.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday February 18 2021, @03:55AM (2 children)
That story is so damned silly, no one should really respond to it. But - anyone with a pocket knife of any kind can open a can of baked beans. It's hard to believe that any prepper doesn't have an official K-rats can opener, but let's just say it's true. Survival knife, folding knive, tactical knive, utility knife, a moderately sturdy steak knife - damned near any knife will open a can. If you can't figure it out, you deserve to go hungry. No, I don't mind that you cut your fingers a couple times while figuring it out.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @05:09AM
Worst comes to worst, even a bludgeon will open cans. It's obviously fake.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @07:05AM
Runaway trolled hard, again. This is becoming not even entertaining. Runaway, go stick your head in the Well-head, and make sure your family don't die of CO2 poisoning. Don't be so stupid, Runaway.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @05:07AM
Let's see, your tribe tends to believe the government can save them from everything, make them all rich, and solve every problem in the world.
The other tribe tends to believe government is, at best, a necessary evil, completely inept, and they want nothing more than to be left alone.
Guess which tribe is dying when the systems in place go down for a few days.