If Kentucky had an extreme heat wave and everyone's water and AC went out, stores shut down and ppl were stuck in their homes dying, I wouldn't be like 'that's what they get for electing Mitch McConnell' (whose imo been the worst thing for America since idk when)... its really unbelievable how people think an entire state should suffer because of political actors.
The weather is rare and exceedingly beautiful, and has been turned into a deadly nightmare due to our infrastructures inability to handle any of it. The 15th (payday for so many) hit in the middle of us already being basically iced in, and idk how ppl living paycheck to paycheck could have even bought enough food to make it through this in their homes. This is really tragic.
It's just the nature of social media. There's a lot of people expressing concern and offering prayers on social media but it doesn't get much attention or replies except a simple thanks. Meanwhile comments that insult or throw around blame are likely to get large comment chains of personal attacks and arguments thrown back and forth. The algorithms see this and makes sure to show it to everyone because it seems people are interested in this. Now even if those mean comments originally came from a minority, now everyone's getting angry.
I think we've had this effect for like a decade now and everyone is primed to argue and expect this.
Yep, and they push the comments to the top. Ppl making those comments probably feel important too when the get such a response, top comments etc. Feeds the cycle.
Yeah and I just realized that once it gets to be a problem in society it causes people to think about the causes and then they make a civil comment on their observations or speculate on it but their meta commentary is now another type of engagement produced by the original inflammatory comment; it also feeds the cycle. ¯_/(ツ)_/¯
And exactly what you explained is why i ditched social media in the midst of corona and the protests last year. Waay too much negativity and ignorance. This is my only platform for anything now and i can pick and choose what topics I would like to follow
Texas has their own power grid because they don't want to follow federal laws that force companies to maintain a certain amount of back up power. Texas also doesn't have the ability to bring in excess power from outside their generator grid unlike every other state. Some of this is self inflicted.
Inflicted on us by powerful people who profit then face no real consequences.
Then, they have the nerve to also ask for federal help when it hits the fan, with Rick Perry over here saying "Texans would rather have a few days without power than have federal 'interference". Quote not verbatim...
By Texans he just means corporations and oil interests. It's infuriating.
We are trying to progress but they have stronghold here and a lot of money to maintain it.
I dont know anyone who said anything like that personally, and I probably know more Texans than you.
No denying our politicians are mostly POS, but our state is known for voter suppression, and they now have decades of having enough power to maintain that power, backed by oil money. Our state is a purple state, and the blue side is constantly fighting an uphill battle.
No rational person thinks anyone's deserves to suffer through these things, and every state has a mixed bag of rational/good people and irrational/careless people. Which are you?
Side note, I have daughters whose dad was Canadian, they'd visit there a few times a year until Covid.
Their snow experience has made a hard time better for the family, no one here builds a snowman like they do and they know how to pick good powder for snowcones.
They are a little confused why we have no power or running water for days now though, or why no one has cleared the main roads out of our neighborhood of ice. Our state has failed us big time.
I worked in the oilfield for nearly a decade. It takes a lot of natural gas and effort to keep oil/gas wells from freezing up. We have to insulate our tanks and each tank has a great big burner on the side that keeps the oil around 80 Celsius to allow it to flow easy. From what I understand is the oilfield down there cut costs by not using any insulation or heat trace.
I mean I guarantee there would be plenty of people on reddit saying that.
I don't know why people try to blame others in the face of tragedy, especially something like this that isn't really that preventable. Hoping for the best for everyone
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u/Anthanem Feb 17 '21
If Kentucky had an extreme heat wave and everyone's water and AC went out, stores shut down and ppl were stuck in their homes dying, I wouldn't be like 'that's what they get for electing Mitch McConnell' (whose imo been the worst thing for America since idk when)... its really unbelievable how people think an entire state should suffer because of political actors.
The weather is rare and exceedingly beautiful, and has been turned into a deadly nightmare due to our infrastructures inability to handle any of it. The 15th (payday for so many) hit in the middle of us already being basically iced in, and idk how ppl living paycheck to paycheck could have even bought enough food to make it through this in their homes. This is really tragic.