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Fuck the Texas legislature. Houston is the most diverse city in the US and tends to lean progressive. Austin is (was, before Joe Rogan moved in) also progressive and is proud to "keep it weird"...as long as it's white people weird.
SOURCE: I lived in Austin for 20 years.
My hatred for Texas extends FAR past politics. I hate the climate, I hate the layout of its cities, I hate the weird state obsessed culture, I hate the all-hat-no-cattle bravado that a good chunk of the population seems to have. I hate the frequent hurricanes. I hate the frequent heat waves. I hate the mosquitos. I hate the ticks. I hate that all the cities are like 3 hours apart.
I. Fucking. Hate. Texas.
I left for all the same reasons and more. There’s fucking nothing to do there! Even in towns of 200k people there’s absolutely nothing to do! At least where i grew up
I always said if you're bored you're boring. If you can't find something to do, make it. Which, day after day is exhausting as fuck and why I keep trying to convince my wife to leave my dreary ass hometown.
Rogan didn't cause Austin's deterioration, he just profited from it
He's a reference point, not a cause...well, not entirely. Him, Elon, Oracle, Salesforce, etc., all significantly increased their footprint in Austin during COVID, and they brought with them a flood of right wing tech douches. For his part, Rogan brought every edgelord talentless "comedian" to town to perform in his new club. Now "Austin Comedy" is almost and adjective for comedy based exclusively on being racist and offensive.