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State's Rights! Free Market! Independent! Power Grid!

Journal by DeathMonkey

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!

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @06:26AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @06:26AM (#1114366)

    I haven't seen a complete run-down, but of the cases I've seen mentioned, more of the realistically power-outage-related ones seem to be due to morons' attempts to generate heat (burning their house down or idling a car in the garage until they CO themselves) than exposure. And then there's the good old car crash fatalities; I guess we're supposed to pretend that if only the electric were running, Texicans would have the winter driving skills of midwestern snow-hogs.

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday February 18 2021, @03:54PM (1 child)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday February 18 2021, @03:54PM (#1114467) Journal

    There are 24 dead people and none of them were in car crashes.

    I'm sure their families will take much comfort in the fact they died trying to not freeze to death instead of freezing to death.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @09:38PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 18 2021, @09:38PM (#1114603)

      It's interesting that as crises returns to society, so too does natural selection. It's macabre to say the least, but the sort of people starting uncontrolled fires in their own home, or not understanding that filling your house with CO is dangerous - well, they are not exactly fit.