California and Texas both epitomize the two forms the USAmerican state is taking as it marches into its own terminal collapse. California - my home state - embodies capitalist technocracy, where rents and property are prohibitively fuckhigh, literally hundreds of thousands of people sleep in the streets while just as many homes sit vacant for real estate speculators, and politicians are bought and sold by the tech and entertainment industries. Texas embodies the right-wing populist fiefdom, where the government crassly targets and stokes up fear over gender and sexual deviances, strictly controls women and reproduction, works to institute de facto theocracy, and is beholden to energy and resource industries. The issue of “gun control” is really a matter of how the state wants to enforce violence: with advanced, militarized police in technocracy, and with deputized settler mobs in populism. They’re both just equally violent manifestations of the same settler-colonial capitalist state in its death throes, and will increasingly merge with one another until the system of mass death and suffering finally comes to an end.

Amerikkka is the Hydra's neck.