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Calling California a “failed state” over this seems absurd when the most extreme example in recent history is the Texas freeze power outage in 2021 which left 4.5 million homes without power for several days during winter storms. Somewhere between 250-700 people died because of it.

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It’s not the reason I call it a failed state but it does occur with more frequency than other states. It’s a matter of something that happens in an emergency vs ongoing issues.

What is the reason, then, that California cannot be considered a first world state, and instead a failed state? And are there other states that used to have this designation, but have lost it in your view? Just curious.

Exploding deficits, tent cities, shit covered sidewalks, blackouts, palpable corruption, to name a few. No, I don’t think it’s limited to California, that state just kind of serves as a time machine for the rest of the country.

Ah, okay. I think we have different ideas of what constitutes a failed state.

You're being delusional. Maybe reconsider

No, it doesn't.

Texas has the most number of outages in the last 20 years of all states, where an outage is defined by the DOE has a power failure affecting 50,000 people or more.

> https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/report-texas-has-the-m...

It's amazing how much people will let their biases color their worldview.

Texas has the most "ongoing issues" with power of any state.

Reoccurring problems in California compared to a single storm in Texas? lol

LOL indeed:

Report: Texas has the most major power outages of any state in the U.S.

> The study, which covers a time span of 20 years ... looks at a 20-year period from about 2001 to 2021. That’s really the basis of the data, the Department of Energy > https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/report-texas-has-the-m...

Sounds like Texas has rather a lot of "reoccurring problems". More than California, in fact.

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