A rant from a 6th generation Texan.
The last thing we need in North Texas is more f*g people.
The influx of people from failed states and nations is killing any common culture and driving prices and tempers up. (Not that we had much culture outside of TexMex, farms and suburbs to begin with... ) But the price is turning from mostly nice with an occasional challenge from "Muther" Nature to "F this place."
It's rare to find a majority Texas born office place or new sub-division. Everyone is from CA, NY, IL, MX, India or somewhere not Texas. Texas is the latest gold rush for all the carpet baggers and locusts. (Cue the Brian Burns song...)
It's quickly turning into California. Politics, water issues and failing power grid included. Traffic has tripled in the last decade and the amount of farmland that has turned into exurbia and strip centers in that time is insane. Property assessments and taxes have more than doubled or tripled in the last 5 years.
Dallas has had two tornadoes in the last two years and a major one hit Garland in 2015. Not to mention the one in FW that took out all the windows in the Bank One tower a few decades ago.
You can tell the smart natives because they have the weather and radar apps pulled up on their smart phones most of the year. You can tell the older North Texas natives because they can rattle off all the major storms, (Tornado, Hail, Winter, Wind, Dust, Mud, Flood... yes Mud..), in their life and dismiss the 2011 heat wave 'cause they lived through the summer of 1980 with a shitty swamp cooler in the house and no car AC. (I had to work in the heat outside both of those summers. Try felling a hackberry tree in 115 degree weather with an overheating Skil...)
Denton County has become a mess in the last decade with the folks fleeing further out from Dallas. Collin County isn't much better. The difference between Dallas County and Denton and Collin is that Dallas County is run by corrupt Democrats and Denton and Collin Counties are run slightly better by corrupt Republicans. Tarrant County falls somewhere in between.
As for the jab. Companies and other organizations can still mandate it and fire you if you don't respect their authority. This is allowed in Texas due to it being a right to work state. Many of these institutions are still run by people from CA, NY, IL or DC that still suck elite c*s on the golf course and trust the MSM and drink the Flavor Aid. (Hopefully we never have to go back to the office full-time, because half the team will quit..)
And if you do move here, don't bitch about the drivers because most of them are not natives. Also don't ever mention how nice the weather/beach/mountains are back "home", because we will ask you to return.
I would say try Oklahoma instead of Texas, but most of them moved to Dallas years ago...
At least they don't have to skin and dress other wild game...
"Master Chef Redneck -Today's elimination challenge: Squirrel. You must trap or hunt, prep and cook an amazing 5 star dish. You can use the ingredients from Mama's garden or the local Walmart."
Was abused as a kid, so I saw lots of messed up shit from dysfunctional parents and their "friends". Also spent half my childhood on relatives farms to get away from my parents. On the farm they raised and slaughtered their own livestock.
Haven't been much shocked by any media since, but disturbed by the growing open acceptance of perversity. But that is a baser nature of mankind... Infinite Perversity in Infinite Combinations...
I don't think it is a false flag.
BLM, leftist and many Dallas area folks hate Highland Park with a passion. It shows how dysfunctional the rest of Dallas County is...
BLM was going to show up and march through the area and decided it was a bad idea since Highland Park has an unofficial militia with their own medics and a firetruck. (As well as a well funded official police department...)
Also Highland Park is the home to key patriots that investigated the corrupt Dallas County election and helped push the Texas legislature to start election reform.
It's always been a fantasy party that's been co-opted by the elite and crazies. Scratch 5 libertarians and you will get 7 unworkable policies and 9 insane beliefs.
"I will support smaller government, weed, public nudity and the letter K stricken from the alphabet..."
The dystopia we have now is a far cry from the cool tech-fantasy-shit in Gibson books.
Cyberpunk wasn't a genre of anti-capitalist fiction, it was a sub-genre in SciFi literature that was interesting for a decade because most of the mainstream SciFi at the time was trope and fucking boring. Eventually matured and was integrated as part of the greater genre.
The anti-capitalists seized on it since it aligned with their fantasy evil corporations Luddite attitudes. But they also latched on the Brunner's earlier fiction which is the origin of modern cyberpunk.
As for "Blade Runner", more film nerds like the movie than others. Nobody want's to live in that world or fantasize about Telsa's joke of a truck.
And most sane Gen-Xs aren't nostalgic about fantasy material things, we remember a time with some goodness that wasn't completed fucked up yet by the greedy Boomers in charge...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boO4RowROiw
This isn't far from the truth. Know a guy whose grandfather got disinherited 'cause he married an Irish girl in the 1940's...
I have no faith that the majority of consumers would adhere to any sort of boycott for any length of time.
I agree with you. Entertainment should be the easiest area to boycott because it's optional, not necessary. Plus there is so much choice.
Knew a gentleman that was a hardcore IT worker rights person. But then Disney outsourced their IT and forced their native workers to train the foreign replacements, he still went gaga over their shitty Star Wars movies.
I have in-laws that are uber Pro-Trump and America First. But they still support NFL, NBA and MLB including the Mavericks owned by Mark Cuban the CCP dick-sucker. But they are more unWoke than me, because they participated in a Trump rally, even though they still go to movie theaters.
Lord forbid you call them out on their hypocrisy!
Denton is a cross between Austin, retirement homes and the worst of East Texas.
The colleges there make it more stupid.