The all-Republican court narrowly found that the nonprofit corporation operating the state’s electrical grid qualifies for sovereign immunity, which protects government entities from lawsuits.
Yeah, which is why I don't think republicans should be allowed to vote. But that opinion isn't too popular.
And since they'll always be allowed to vote, and people like Boebert and MTG will always be allowed to hold public office (no matter how many innocent people die as a result of their participation in government), then all I can do is laugh when they get fucked.
The people who voted for these politicians are by and large not the demographics being fucked over by those policies. I also used to feel like the right response was to laugh at these states, and being reminded that people who didn't want these policies are still suffering from them didn't really convince me of anything--after all, collectively, isn't that the community they're choosing to live in?
What changed my mind about that is realizing the harm is disproportionately distributed. Disenfranchised people are LESS likely to vote republican but MORE likely to suffer the effects of republican government. So when "they get what they voted for", it's really, "the poor get what the rich voted for", and that doesn't make me happy to laugh at at all.
There's a decent chance some of the Texan politicians were hanging out at EPCOT while their constituents were at home without power, so you might not be too far off.