Texas officials acknowledged some errors after they stripped Medicaid coverage from more than 2 million people, most of them children. A ProPublica and Texas Tribune review of records shows that these mistakes and others were preventable.
This story and its ilk is awful, but saying “the cruelty is the point” is reductive and unhelpful. If you really think the majority of Texas favors cruelty for its own sake, then you should turn off your gadgets and disappear. Go away and fuck off.
Not the majority, but definitely the controlling faction of its state government.
I mean, to get hyper technical, they have associated this general type of cruelty with moral righteousness and fiscal responsibility.
So they are doing things that are cruel. Those of us not caught up in their cult can see that they’re doing it because of greed, tribalism, and religious indoctrination. The cruelty is the point, but they’re not doing it just because they like being cruel. They’re doing it because being cruel is virtuous, makes them feel superior, and makes them money (note, not all of these apply to everyone; these are 3 different motivations for 3 different groups). This type of cruelty, for one or more of those reasons, is seen as a GOOD thing.
So yes. The cruelty is the point. It’s not incidental, it’s not an unfortunate byproduct of some other goal. It is cruel and they are intentionally trying to be cruel.
This story and its ilk is awful, but saying “the cruelty is the point” is reductive and unhelpful. If you really think the majority of Texas favors cruelty for its own sake, then you should turn off your gadgets and disappear. Go away and fuck off.
Not the majority, but definitely the controlling faction of its state government.
I mean, to get hyper technical, they have associated this general type of cruelty with moral righteousness and fiscal responsibility.
So they are doing things that are cruel. Those of us not caught up in their cult can see that they’re doing it because of greed, tribalism, and religious indoctrination. The cruelty is the point, but they’re not doing it just because they like being cruel. They’re doing it because being cruel is virtuous, makes them feel superior, and makes them money (note, not all of these apply to everyone; these are 3 different motivations for 3 different groups). This type of cruelty, for one or more of those reasons, is seen as a GOOD thing.
So yes. The cruelty is the point. It’s not incidental, it’s not an unfortunate byproduct of some other goal. It is cruel and they are intentionally trying to be cruel.
Yes. Fuck Texas politics.
That’s a straw man.
Well then go stick a wet finger in the ear of Ted Cruz
Ok, he will probably shrivle up like the wicked witch of the west touching water.