I love how when you talk to Texans. They’ll say the cities are cesspools of liberal waste. But then you point out the hate in the small communities around the cities and then they get chatty. Oh it’s not that bad. It’s not terrible.
No bro. It’s terrible. It’s a shit hole. And you’re lying to yourself if you don’t believe that.
I’m a Texan and the cities are the only half decent parts of the state.
I just can’t deal with your side walk situation. That shit was a death trap in Dallas. Literal sidewalks lead you into highway on ramps with no crossing paths for anything. Wtf
It’s fucking awful. The roads aren’t any better
They hate liberals, but want the liberal culture and benefits. Losers.
I’ve really enjoyed the stream of articles about people who bagged on coastal cities moving to Texas and finding out why you don’t want to live in Texas. I knew just from a connecting flight in Dallas Fort Worth airport where we had a layover. So many cowboy boots, cowboy hats, and huge belt buckles. I don’t trust anyone who dresses like that not to suck.
Good, hope they hate it and also lose a lot of money.
I’m in Southern Europe. I have very dear friends in Dallas and Austin. I’m welcome to their homes any time I want. The thing is that I know that if I go, the only worthwhile thing would be being with friends. I’ve been to Dallas twice, and really don’t know why anybody would go for tourism.
That plus the danger of entering the country.
Never have i seen so many billboards and ine story buildings
Dallas destroyed a relationship I was in. It was such a bad time that we just broke up afterwards. I can’t really explain it. But it’s a terrible place to go to.
Fuckwits do stupid things. News at 5.
He has friends?
well he certainly HAD friends, but he eschewed them all for unfunny sycophants whom would make a particularly clingy remora uncomfortable
In 2020, Joe Rogan moved from Los Angeles to Austin after visiting and realizing he didn’t have to wear a mask at a restaurant.
What a profoundly stupid man. Him and all his idiot followers deserve far worse than they’re getting.
Lol he moved for tax reasons but that probably wouldn’t play well with his listeners
He moved there because he didn’t want to wear a mask during COVID times? Lol that’s so stupid that was just a temporary thing anyways who bases their life decisions on something so stupid?
He’s there because there’s no income tax and he didn’t want to pay on the Spotify deal.
Very stupid people. Like Joe Rogan.
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.
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.
“I do not know what a generator is”
Good. Fuck that racist douche.
I assume you’re talking about Gillis; Schulz is an even bigger asshole than Gillis too
Yes, sorry I should have been clear. I don’t know of Schulz at all.
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.
Ah yes, the one star state. How could you expect anything more?
Lol, never heard that one before
I lived in Austin from 1999 until 2023. The irony here is that the main reason the city is soulless is because of the steady influx of douchebags like themselves.
In the 90’s Austin was arguably the slacker capital of America. The dot-com bubble killed that but after the bubble burst the tech folk that stayed behind decided to do their own thing. The Austin tech sector had a distinctly relaxed vibe. It felt sustainable and it felt like everyone knew each other. Big city tech center with a small town vibe. The downside was that we didn’t have much on the way of amenities. Prices were low and a concerted effort was made to revitalize downtown. Soon we had good food, great bars, low rent, and a genuinely fun city to be in. Then the douchebags caught wind of it, prices skyrocketed, and they ran out everything that made the place a joy to be in.
Austin can still be great, but it will never be L.A., and thank god for that.
LAs biggest advantage is that it was able to utilize its oil wealth, farming industry, and trade advantage to turn itself into an absolute beast of an economic driver. It’s basically an Engine on a big piece of industrial equipment, it smells like shit and it ain’t pretty but it damned well works. No other city should be LA because one is more than enough. I say all of this as an born and raised Inland Imperial I fucking hate LA, if any one talks shit about LA without having at least honorary Southern Californian status I will flay them alive and then dump them in the Salten Sea.
Grew up in SoCal, been back many times to visit family over the years, I don’t see why anyone moves there who isn’t aspiring artist of some kind - and even then… good luck!
High cost of food and supplies, excessive housing costs, droughts, wildfires, car-centric everything yet questionable civic planning, smog haze basically daily, termites eat your house every few years, and the sprawl… Jesus. Knew an old hat Boeing engineer who built his dream home way outside the city, and over the decades his commute went from 45 mins to three hours. Before he took early retirement he found a carpool buddy to trade off days driving so at least one of them got to use the time effectively.
But hey! It’s right by the ocean, and the weather is perfect - if you love cloudless sunshine and hate season.
Yeah I generally concur don’t know why anyone would want to actively move here, I could kinda get Eastern California up against Nevada or even NorCal but choosing to move to LA is questionable. I do generally want people to stay out of San Bernardino as well since well most of these bastards are overflow from LA and can be quite annoying. My kin settled here so I ain’t moving, ancestors killed too many Mormons for me to piss off anywhere except maybe an independent Scotland.
I do love the mountains and the desert, mostly because they eat dumbasses and spit out heatstroked morons and or corpses.
Also fuck housing tracts haven’t you motherfuckers heard of townhouses or gods forbid multi residential buildings? Stop building mcmansions in fire zones you ignorant cunts, the lands relatively cheap because it burns every 5 to 10 years. I wish the state would buy up some of those 1940s-1950s era housing tracts bulldoze them and build something with even slightly high density, preferably with mixed commercial use.
Dunno, ancestors like that should get you a warm welcome most places
Yeah but we split blood here, not somewhere else. If my ancestors pulled the same shit in IDK Nevada I’d still feel the same way. Also I gotta stay to correct the Seventh Day Adventist issue, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
moved from New York City to Austin in 2023
“I just wanted to move to a place where you can do standup during the week,” Gillis told Theon Von in 2024. “Forever it was just New York and LA, now you can do it in Nashville in Austin.”
But according to his own words, he was already living in a place where he could do standup during the week??
“I’ve been canceled!” says the comedian who is on stage and being broadcast nationally.
Says Dave Chapelle in his latest Netflix special.
Last two or three, I lost count.
I have not watched the last couple because I don’t care to watch someone bag on trans people for 20 minutes while being unfunny then unironically say essentially " it’s fine I have a trans friend"
I forced myself to watch the first Netflix one to see if it was as bad as people said, and it absolutely was. Really disappointed.
Heard the follow ups were more of the same and took their word for it.
He didn’t say that, and I don’t think he’d agree with any statements implying that he has been. The racist podcast jokes that surfaced during his SNL stint weren’t terribly defensible, but he’s never seemed like the type to cry cancel culture. I recall he shrugged off his SNL firing pretty quickly. Maybe he’s said otherwise more recently, I dunno.
FWIW his whole career arc seems like what would happen if SNL tried to hire Nick Mullen.
I was making more of a joke about the trend of comedians whining about being canceled while on stage, like Dave Chappel. No idea if Gillis did it himself or not.
Oh OK, yeah. Good grief Chappelle is fucking intolerable these days. And I don’t think it’s all chalked up to him changing, I feel like cowriters kept him from punching down too hard back in the day.
Yeah, I liked him a lot more before his stand up routine became about how he was ‘canceled’ and had one trans fan. I just don’t get how he didn’t understand the latter was the same thing as having ‘one black friend’.
I think he was legit cancelled after the Chinese slur incident.
If you are referring to Shane Gillis, he is currently on tour: https://www.shanemgillis.com/
Getting kicked off SNL or a show or two for a short period of time isn’t really being canceled.
I’m just curious, to you what is not being canceled look like? Because according to you being canceled means getting multiple Netflix specials and your own show and hosting big events and touring successfully. I think most people would call that extremely successful. I think a lot of people would kill for that level of success. And yet that’s being canceled to you. So what is not being canceled?
Emphasis on was. Bro, I don’t care. But people might not be aware that he was fired from SNL as his career was beginning to take off for using the word “chink” which sounds like it would fit most anyone’s definition of cancelled. His career has since recovered, obviously.
So canceled means not getting a job because of your past of using racist comments. Good to know.
Canceled is getting the job then getting fired cause of an old clip. Deserved or not it fits the definition.
So anytime you don’t get a job you’re being canceled?
He got a job on SNL and within 24hr someone had dug up an old podcast clip and he got canceled for that.
He wanted to move to a red state where he could do standup during the week.
Good. That’s what your sycophantic behavior gets you.
Good. Now fence off that shit state and leave them there to rot
