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Badger of Basra posted:https://twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/849037799445733376 I engraved a bible of his once - he'd frequent the Catholic supply stuff I used to work at whenever there was a Lege session going on. And that's my personal anecdote about an rear end in a top hat.
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https://www.texastribune.org/2017/04/04/austin-bus-crash-brings-concerns-about-texting-and-driving-ban/ Some good news, although Perry is still a dickbag for vetoing it in 2011. My city has a no texting ordinance and they ticket the gently caress out of people for it; would be great to see it implemented statewide.
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American nativism: bad Austin nativism: good??? http://kut.org/post/op-ed-austin-native-citys-narrative-increasingly-formed-transplants This really pissed me off for some reason. Partly because of the implication that only people born in Austin should get a say about what happens here, and partly because of the implication that everyone who moved here is a rich hipster. Also that if you're not from Austin, you're "transient."
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IT BURNS posted:https://www.texastribune.org/2017/04/04/austin-bus-crash-brings-concerns-about-texting-and-driving-ban/ It's retarded because it's already against the law and our retarded police are going to have a great time with this
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Badger of Basra posted:American nativism: bad Isn't the same with any big/growing city? People come up with some kind of arbitrary way to distinguish the "good ones" (themselves and the people they like) from the "bad ones" (insert petty bitching here.) Give it long enough and the transplants'll be doing it too.
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Keeshhound posted:Isn't the same with any big/growing city? People come up with some kind of arbitrary way to distinguish the "good ones" (themselves and the people they like) from the "bad ones" (insert petty bitching here.) Give it long enough and the transplants'll be doing it too. Yeah I'm sure it's the same for any city that used to be small(er) and is getting big(ger). But now people are doing the complaining about the city I live in so I'm mad!
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Badger of Basra posted:American nativism: bad No one should be proud to be from dove springs
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Badger of Basra posted:Yeah I'm sure it's the same for any city that used to be small(er) and is getting big(ger). But now people are doing the complaining about the city I live in so I'm mad! But don't you see? Now you're doing it, too! You've become what you hated, the cycle is complete!!! Less faceriously, as a recent arrival to Austin who isn't planning on staying for the long haul, I'm oddly ok with "transient" as a label for myself. Kind of lovely to talk about everyone new that way, though. Where does public radio find these people?
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Badger of Basra posted:American nativism: bad What the gently caress is he "rallying" for? Anything specific that "transients" are doing? Are people moving to Austin and just saying "hahaha gently caress this place, I live here but I ain't from here." quote:"It is entirely likely that by the time I am ready to buy a home, I won’t be able to afford to live in the neighborhood I grew up in." That's everywhere in Texas you dumb gently caress. Houses aren't loving cheap. This isn't the 1950's where everyone gets a house. What the gently caress is this guy even talking about? He's a faculty member at an adult education writing school and this is the worst opinion article I've read all year. NPR should be embarrassed that they posted this.
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As an Austinite since 1998, I've noticed that usually the native Austinites are usually more chill about how things have changed. It's the people who moved here 5-10 years ago who seem to be pissed off about all the people who moved here <5 years ago.
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LanceHunter posted:As an Austinite since 1998, I've noticed that usually the native Austinites are usually more chill about how things have changed. It's the people who moved here 5-10 years ago who seem to be pissed off about all the people who moved here <5 years ago. I think it's because we got our frustrations out a while ago. Also we remember the 90's when Austin was kinda sleepy trying to get someone, anyone to move in. Meanwhile a lot of newer people have had this image of the city sold to them, and then when that image doesn't always work out they look for people to blame. Obviously when it comes to traffic the proper solution is to blame anyone newer than them who came here for clogging up the roads that they thought were perfectly fine 5-10 years ago (they weren't, they were always some level of clusterfuck, but newer people think they were). Also when it comes to traffic, I think the longer you're here, the more likely you are to figure out "avoid commuting along I-35 if you possibly can" which does wonders for lowering blood pressure.
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Badger of Basra posted:American nativism: bad Agreed, it's such a dumb problem. People shouldn't talk about how great their city is for decades and not expect people to move there. The natives that think only they should have a say in the city should have done a better job with infrastructure/transportation planning. Maybe Austin will get a light rail by 2040. LanceHunter posted:As an Austinite since 1998, I've noticed that usually the native Austinites are usually more chill about how things have changed. It's the people who moved here 5-10 years ago who seem to be pissed off about all the people who moved here <5 years ago. This always makes me laugh because I came across a lot of it also. Anyone that moved to Austin this century and says things like "don't move here" or "Austin is full" can gently caress off. EwokEntourage posted:No one should be proud to be from dove springs Spacebump fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Apr 5, 2017 |
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Badger of Basra posted:American nativism: bad It should piss you off, it's stupid as hell. Nativism is stupid in all its forms. If someone is a valuable member to a community it doesn't matter where you were born or when you arrived. It's nice to have historical context if you have it, but society isn't something that should be frozen in amber forever-unchanging. This guy should grow the gently caress up.
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I was born in Austin, and there is something to be said for the effects of the growth pushing lower and even lower - middle class natives out of the city, but I don't blame the transplants for that. It does feel like Austin is gradually becoming more and more of a playground for the rich sometimes though. Also our roads are loving garbage, of course. edit: Only 90s kids will remember when 78704 was 787affordable. Sardonik fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Apr 5, 2017 |
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Spacebump posted:
Don't have to be proud of it. No one is like yea I'm glad I grew up around 12th and airport or 52nd and rundberg. People proud to be from terry town or people repping the 49 are stupid as well
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I'm glad I grew up around MLK and Springdale.
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Office Pig posted:I like to think this suggests that Rick Perry really is doing nothing whatsoever as Secretary. Low Energy
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Nativism is dumb yeah. There's also the "narcissism of small differences." I'm from DFW, lived in Austin for awhile, and now live in DFW. Cities and places are primarily about options, but people are more or less the same wherever you go.
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I'm from Georgetown am I allowed to complain or what?
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Xibanya posted:I'm from Georgetown am I allowed to complain or what? Only if you invested with this guy: http://techcrunch.com/2017/02/16/transcend-vr-sues-investor-mike-rothenberg-for-fraud-and-breach-of-contract/
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Whoa, wait this isn't the worst though? What happened? I thought the House was full of irredeemable shitheads who would always mash the "gently caress the poor" button whenever they had the option.
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PostNouveau posted:Whoa, wait this isn't the worst though? What happened? I thought the House was full of irredeemable shitheads who would always mash the "gently caress the poor" button whenever they had the option. No, that's the Senate. The House is the only reason we haven't had vouchers for a long time.
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Badger of Basra posted:No, that's the Senate. The House is the only reason we haven't had vouchers for a long time. The House has a block of reps from West Texas and super-rural areas who don't want what little tax money they have for the, like, one school per county in their district to get siphoned away for charter and private schools in Dallas and Houston. They know that never in a million years will there be a charter school opening in Upton or Crockett County, so why should the reps from there give those schools any state money?
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LanceHunter posted:The House has a block of reps from West Texas and super-rural areas who don't want what little tax money they have for the, like, one school per county in their district to get siphoned away for charter and private schools in Dallas and Houston. They know that never in a million years will there be a charter school opening in Upton or Crockett County, so why should the reps from there give those schools any state money? [Suburban conservative voice] why do y'all hate freedom?
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The trick is to make rural Reps choose between a reprehensible act, or slightly defunding 6 man football.
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Also in today's Texas House does something potentially good https://www.texastribune.org/2017/04/06/amid-clash-over-procedure-texas-house-moves-defund-enterprise-fund/ Texas Tribune posted:The Texas House on Thursday voted to defund Gov. Greg Abbott’s Texas Enterprise Fund, a controversial economic development program, and use that funding for services for vulnerable children. The fact that this amendment was put and passed through by someone from my home area of the Rio Grande Valley and somewhere as small and isolated as Mission/Palmview makes me so happy. Even more so that it has Stickland throwing a poo poo fit. RGV represent! Also worth noting that while Stickland was going on a tirade members started filing out to go watch The Masters. Jiro fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Apr 7, 2017 |
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I find opposition to feral hog measures very suspicious and am reminded of the end of Animal Farm.
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I'm on board with literally anything to piss off Stickland, gently caress that guy forever.
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Yep, but on the other hand incidentally loving over cities is not cool. I really hope that is on something that never would get passed in the first place
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Yep, but on the other hand incidentally loving over cities is not cool. I really hope that is on something that never would get passed in the first place It's the budget.
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Hmmmmmm, tough call. Definitely punishing a town harshly for its shitbag rep, but then again they did elect a huge shitbag to represent them soooooooooo ...
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yeah, but not everyone did. If there only was a way to target stuff only for people who explicitly voted for htings...
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Badger of Basra posted:I don't think you can ban republicans from using the roads smart cars  *doo doo dooooo* "I'm sorry, I see youre a fuckwit voter. As such your car is not allowed to proceed onto this TXDoT roadway. You always have the option to take public transportation. Good Day."
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Bedford's roads are already doing just fine. Really, spending more state money on the already-pristine roads in that suburb is complete pork.
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gently caress it, civility died ages ago
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Mayor of Houston is a danged weeaboo. https://twitter.com/sylvesterturner/status/850409538306134021
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Badger of Basra posted:Mayor of Houston is a danged weeaboo. It's not full weeaboo until we see a fox tail coming out the back of that suit. We need those pics to confirm.
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