This doesn’t deserve down votes. Any person that has a higher chance of making a difference should take action. E.g. The President could make a phone call, etc. If Texas is lobbying then why not urge those people to speak up.
The entire business case for Texas is its lack of ethics and regulation, that's the whole reason startups want to invest to begin with. For every 'ethical' company that might balk at Texas' brutal policing and justice system, there's ten in line behind them wanting to know who to pay to rough up unionists and troublemakers.
And I promise you - earnestly, on a stack of Bibles if you want - that no amount of money can make Greg Abbott give a single rat fuck. This man's administration booby-trapped the Rio Grande with buoys outfitted with saw blades and razor wire then threatened civil war when the Biden administration complained about it. He once said the only reason Texas doesn't shoot anyone crossing the Mexican border on sight is that the federal government would consider it murder, and I strongly suspect he was making air quotes when he said "murder."
Texas harbors neither the governor nor the government you come to appealing to common decency or empathy, and Big Tech is mostly fine with that. This whole line of inquiry is a farce.
Ah yes, "NO U," an example of the high quality deeply intellectual riposte and political commentary that makes Hacker News so much better than the rest of the internet. My pants are quite literally aflame from the heat of that burn.
