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[–] 224 points 1 year ago (9 children)

LMAO. Are you finally figuring out what's wrong with privatizing, eh guys?

"Texas f--king blows," comedian Shane Gillis said in a June episode of the Andrew Schulz podcast, recalling a storm that left his Austin home without power for three days. "It's hot as f--k. The second we ran out of power, the house was 90 degrees and bugs came in immediately."

"They're on their own power grid, like f--king idiots," Schulz added.

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  • [–] 138 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Every season has some kind of power problem and they keep trying to blame the renewables as if it wasnt the thing actually saving them from worse outages.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    yep. it's hilarious considering how crazy texas benefits from their frankly enormous renewables - they're propping up ercot, not hindering it - and with more battery storage units coming online daily it only gets better... but texas is so tonsils-deep on fossil fuel that they'll just lie and pretend it's a problem.

    Another thing: texas still doesn't allow elon to sell cars in texas. elon doesn't want dealers taking a cut, and texas is tonsil deep on auto dealer political contributions they force Tesla to sell online, you can't go into a Tesla showroom and pick out your car. After you order online that car has to be then shipped from out of state! it's fucking bonkers. THEY BUILD THEM THERE LOL

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_US_dealership_disputes

    Texas man... so blatantly awful

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Good. Fuck that racist douche.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I assume you're talking about Gillis; Schulz is an even bigger asshole than Gillis too

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Yes, sorry I should have been clear. I don't know of Schulz at all.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago

    Are you finally figuring out what's wrong with privatizing

    Oh no, no. No. No, these are "comedians, podcasters, and UFC fighters" so while they define an open mind and good works, they actually won't learn a damned thing or do anything about it.

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