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Ok lets take Texas for example. As of Nov 2020, 35 high tech companies have moved to or built new facilities in Austin TX. That is just Austin, just one city in Texas. They aint moving to Alberta, and they aint moving to Canada. I seriously doubt that you had 35 high tech companies relocate to your entire country last year. Hewlett Packard, Oracle, and Tesla among others are calling the lone star state home now.
They don't need to move here because they already have a presence here. For example there is a big presence of Oracle in the Waterloo area as they hire straight out of the university. HP has offices in Toronto and Mississauga (a friend of mine worked for them under Incident Response). It's Tesla is the only one that doesn't have a presence yet, but I'd imagine it will eventually. Virtually every major silicon valley tech company has a presence in Canada. Mainly because we have some of the highest influx of highly trained tech professionals because our country isn't run by a party of racists as often as yours is.
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Most of them are fleeing that socialist paradise of California. If they are fleeing socialism and big government, then they are NOT coming your way. I bet that a lot more Canadians are looking for work in Texas than the other way around.
It's ironic that you're calling California socialist when the reason Texas is seeing an influx of companies is because of subsidies from the Texas government. That's corporate socialism, you know that right? But socialism is okay when it helps corporations. Not when it helps poor people. Republicanism 101.
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The power went out for a couple of days in some parts of Texas. Big whoop. Shit happens.
Tell that to the people who died. Tell that to the people who's homes were destroyed by burst pipes.
I thought the south was supposed to be known for hospitality? Not ambivalent cruelty.
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Power outages happen all over the world. I do not recall you lefties taking commie California to task when they were going through rolling blackouts a few years back. That lasted a lot longer than a couple of days. How about the time that commie New York City went black in the middle of the day and everyone had to walk home? All the posts on here was about poor California, poor New York.
I love that you're having to call them commie. I thought you were better than that. But you're right, if they have clearly warned about issues with their infrastructure that cause power to go out to millions of citizens for days at a time and result it damage to millions of homes and lives lost, they absolutely should be taken to task for it.
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They were victims. They did not deserve what was happening to them, yet somehow Texas does. I call bullshit!!! Certain regions of Canada have lost the power for several days.
Since 2010 the only major power outages that have lasted beyond a couple hours have been because we got covered in an inch of ice everywhere knocking trees down and damaging power lines and transformers or because of hurricane level winds doing the same thing. You can't compare the events that cause widespread outages in Canada and what Texas got.
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The people of Texas are tough, independent people. They can handle a few days without power. They will never be whining for big government to come wipe their asses for them. They did not get where they are by being a bunch of pussies.
Then why were all the Republicans screaming for help from Biden? I guess federal aid is okay when it's Texas but not when it's New York. Ask Ted Cruz.
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Every region has had power outages before. Snowstorms, tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes, you name it.
A few inches of snow and a few days of sub zero temperature =/= hurricane. There is a reason no one shit on Houston when it got hit by a massive hurricane. No one expects infrastructure to realistically stand up to that sort of event. Texas absolutely could have withstood that snow storm if your politicians weren't such self serving c unts. Fuck your filter.
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Tough independent people who fought for their independence against overwhelming odds, formed their own country, and later joined the U.S. of their own free will are NEVER going to turn into a bunch of spineless leftwing pussies now matter how much you lefties want them to.
No one alive in texas fought for independance. What an absolutely asinine thing to say.
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Their hardships and tribulations are like a badge of honor to them. Whatever they have, they got on their own. The U.S. government did not bail out Texas against Santa Anna, and they are not bailing them out now. Returning SOME off the money that Texas has sent east through their oil revenues is NOT a bailout. If the left demanded that it be called a bailout, than the good people of Texas would refuse the money. The U.S. is LUCKY to have Texas as a member state, not the other way around.
Imagine thinking like this.
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You might want to compare your unemployment rate against Texas, your cost of living against Texas, your weather against Texas, etc., etc., Texas pretty much blows Alberta out of the water in EVERY way. NO corporation is picking Alberta over Texas. NONE!!! Not even in the bizarro world.
Did you just try to compare weather?
Yes, we have control over the weather here in Canada.
Sound a little butt hurt that your state couldn't handle a little snow. Maybe elect people who don't suck next time.
CKA Elite 
