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I feel like if Ted Cruz loses every Republican in Texas is going to have a good cry like loving finally it's over.
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https://twitter.com/QuinnipiacPoll/status/987314958516932608 I wouldn't be surprised if were were among the last holdouts when some federal law or ruling legalizes it by fiat though. Looks like they are going to do a special election for Farenthold's seat https://twitter.com/amanbatheja/status/987326287499980801 Should give us a better idea what the voting landscape looks like in the state zoux fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Apr 20, 2018 |
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Badger of Basra posted:https://twitter.com/corbettsmithdmn/status/987351002155282432?s=21 They should have directed him to 9th grade English
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/QuinnipiacPoll/status/987314958516932608 Republicans were 43/51/6 and age 65+ were 40/51/8 so how do you think the legislature is gonna read that poll? I bet they'd legalize it in exchange for slashing the franchise tax though
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This little turd https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/987417466027507712
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FBS posted:Republicans were 43/51/6 and age 65+ were 40/51/8 so how do you think the legislature is gonna read that poll? Didn’t they already kill the franchise tax (so they could create a spending crisis)?
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No they're phasing it out by applying any revenue over X amount to buying it down, but yeah they desperately want to kill it.
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zoux posted:This little turd He is actually the worst person Like Stephen Miller levels of bad
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Badger of Basra posted:Didn’t they already kill the franchise tax (so they could create a spending crisis)? They cut the rates significantly two sessions ago but left it alone for this biennium.
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No Safe Word posted:He is actually the worst person It's so fitting for LaPorte/Baytown/Deer Park 
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https://mobile.twitter.com/CNN/status/987509783602368512 Teach the controversy!
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It's a fine assignment, so long as the answer is all negatives and no positives. You could engage with kids who list positives and have a class deb- Nevermind.
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:It's a fine assignment, so long as the answer is all negatives and no positives. You could engage with kids who list positives and have a class deb- Look, I oppose the school-to-prison pipeline with every fiber of my being. But if there was ever a time for it, it's for anyone who makes so much as a mark on the 'positive' side.
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:It's a fine assignment, so long as the answer is all negatives and no positives. You could engage with kids who list positives and have a class deb- Well if it's in the context why did slavery even exist, I could see a legit reason to ask it. But I'm not willing to give southern schools that benefit.
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The kid had the right answers though. Positives in the lives of slaves “n/a”. Negatives: everything else.
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zoux posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/CNN/status/987509783602368512
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zoux posted:In further Texas education news It's amazing how immediately hateful all these assholes are, they don't even hesitate anymore.
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zoux posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/CNN/status/987509783602368512 Seems pretty straightforward: Positives: The Emancipation Proclaimation, Reconstruction, the victory of the North in the Civil War, Sherman’s March to the Sea
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Sir Tonk posted:It's amazing how immediately hateful all these assholes are, they don't even hesitate anymore. This is... I don't know what to say here. I know George Clayton. I have worked alongside George Clayton. He's a gay Texas Republican, with all of the baggage and bigotry that you would expect from being in that situation. He's one of the most intelligent and thoughtful people that I know. He is an incredible teacher. I cannot defend his statement here, but I am shocked by this statement that he made. He isn't what you would expect from seeing this single post on Twitter. Obviously he has issues, but all I can say is that I know this man personally and this does not capture his entire character.
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litany of gulps posted:I know this man personally and this does not capture his entire character. Well it's now all that anyone who doesn't know of him will ever want to know of him. It may not have been his entire character, but because he couldn't keep mouth shut, no one knows or really will care to know what other potentially fine features he may or may not have. They just know the rancid core of xenophobia and racism at his core.
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litany of gulps posted:This is... I don't know what to say here. I know George Clayton. I have worked alongside George Clayton. He's a gay Texas Republican, with all of the baggage and bigotry that you would expect from being in that situation. He's one of the most intelligent and thoughtful people that I know. He is an incredible teacher. I cannot defend his statement here, but I am shocked by this statement that he made. He isn't what you would expect from seeing this single post on Twitter. Obviously he has issues, but all I can say is that I know this man personally and this does not capture his entire character. Yeah his Twitter is full of dumbass statements not just one. Nothing about him comes off as intelligent.
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Alkydere posted:Well it's now all that anyone who doesn't know of him will ever want to know of him. It may not have been his entire character, but because he couldn't keep mouth shut, no one knows or really will care to know what other potentially fine features he may or may not have. They just know the rancid core of xenophobia and racism at his core. Yeah, no one put a gun to this guy's head and made him seek out some minority valedictorian's Twitter to post his racist poo poo on, and apparently he's done to more than one minority student. So gently caress the hell out of him.
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Alkydere posted:Well it's now all that anyone who doesn't know of him will ever want to know of him. It may not have been his entire character, but because he couldn't keep mouth shut, no one knows or really will care to know what other potentially fine features he may or may not have. They just know the rancid core of xenophobia and racism at his core. DangerZoneDelux posted:Yeah his Twitter is full of dumbass statements not just one. Nothing about him comes off as intelligent. Zwabu posted:Yeah, no one put a gun to this guy's head and made him seek out some minority valedictorian's Twitter to post his racist poo poo on, and apparently he's done to more than one minority student. So gently caress the hell out of him. Hey, I get it. I can't really defend him. But people are complicated. His Twitter may be completely insane, and obviously he's got problems. One of the interesting things about SA is the scope and reach. I know this guy. I can only say that he's easily among the most intelligent people that I have ever met. He is clearly an idiot when it comes to racial issues. Make of that what you will. Turn him into a villain from what you read on the internet. That's fine. He obviously is a villain. But villains are complex, and I can at least offer a perspective that informs you about that complexity.
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litany of gulps posted:This is... I don't know what to say here. I know George Clayton. I have worked alongside George Clayton. He's a gay Texas Republican, with all of the baggage and bigotry that you would expect from being in that situation. He's one of the most intelligent and thoughtful people that I know. He is an incredible teacher. I cannot defend his statement here, but I am shocked by this statement that he made. He isn't what you would expect from seeing this single post on Twitter. Obviously he has issues, but all I can say is that I know this man personally and this does not capture his entire character. https://twitter.com/SBOEDist12/status/979369663397269504?s=19 https://twitter.com/SBOEDist12/status/985986731349602306?s=19 https://twitter.com/SBOEDist12/status/841387952722833409?s=19 https://twitter.com/SBOEDist12/status/837351636393725956?s=19 https://twitter.com/SBOEDist12/status/830420165787516928?s=19 Thats just from a merry stroll through the comments and his tweets. I'd say his character is poo poo.
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Elmnt80 posted:https://twitter.com/SBOEDist12/status/979369663397269504?s=19 lol
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Elmnt80 posted:https://twitter.com/SBOEDist12/status/979369663397269504?s=19 I get it, like I said. All I can say is that I know the man. If you talked with him, you may have walked away with a different perspective. It isn't as easy to interpret as this makes it seem.
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It sounds like you don't know the man, only the man he is pretending to be. As soon as he is given a platform to express himself where he isn't subject to the social conditioning of not saying heinous poo poo in front of others, this is how he uses it. That should tell you something.
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Doom Rooster posted:It sounds like you don't know the man, only the man he is pretending to be. As soon as he is given a platform to express himself where he isn't subject to the social conditioning of not saying heinous poo poo in front of others, this is how he uses it. That should tell you something. Frankly, I can see why an old, gay, white, Republican in Texas is a racist. It excuses nothing. It does tell me something, and I'm ashamed for him. But I know that he has taught in classrooms full of people that aren't like him, doing his best to help kids that aren't like him, and I know that he's done a good job. I have gotten into arguments with him (he was my boss), but the argument was never about anything racial. It was always about the best way to approach teach older kids what matters. He has been on the school board before, but he was never one of the people putting absurd content into the books, he was always one of the people maintaining the integrity of the institution. He clearly has problems, but turning George Clayton into a villain is... a mistake. There are far worse villains here. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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He's a bad dude, stop defending him. Sorry that he successfully gaslighted you though.
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i dont see how you can argue that having a bigoted man in charge of minority majority public schools is good because of other traits, perceived or otherwise. sounds like a glaring issue to me.
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The one takeaway I see is affirmation that people with lovely beliefs can live next door and generally get along with you - and even do some good - as long as certain subjects never come up. Paul Nehlen isn't less of a racist because he's not torching mosques every night, and the Austin mailbomber (which I can speak about on some level because I live here) reportedly did some okay things in his life before he terrorized a city. Evil shouldn't be normalized and it shouldn't lead to paranoia, but it's important to accept that it can be in ostensibly unlikely people who don't twirl their mustache. If I'd worked with him for years and had witnessed him generally doing good things, I'd be a little less hostile in confronting him. I'd also be furious with him and would be wondering if I had missed something in the daily grind (possible I didn't, but worth an inventory).
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No Safe Word posted:He's a bad dude, stop defending him. Sorry that he successfully gaslighted you though. No. You don't get it. He is a bad dude. But I won't stop defending him, because the superficial portrayal of him doesn't really explain who he is. People are complicated. gently caress you.
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litany of gulps posted:No. You don't get it. He is a bad dude. But I won't stop defending him, because the superficial portrayal of him doesn't really explain who he is. People are complicated. gently caress you.
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litany of gulps posted:No. You don't get it. He is a bad dude. But I won't stop defending him, because the superficial portrayal of him doesn't really explain who he is. People are complicated. gently caress you. You're making it sound like the "superficial portrayal" he's being criticized for is based on a hit-piece news article about him rather than the bigoted things he is personally posting on his public social media account. I mean people can have many facets, but I'm criticizing this particular one, which is 'imply to students of color celebrating their admission into a good college that they didn't actually earn it'. Just because he's done good things doesn't change the fact he is maliciously and deliberately attacking minority students. Why are you dying on this specific hill? Why do you care so much that we're calling a guy an rear end when he's proudly showing it to the world? If he believes so much in the "integrity of the institution", he could not be a racist piece of poo poo (or as you put it, "have problems"). And I'm going to go a step further and say, how can you be certain that he's done a good job teaching minority classrooms? If he's going to ask random kids on twitter whether or not they got into a good college based on 'merit or quota', I'm going to assume that carries over into his classroom demeanor. And I'm also going to assume the person you know isn't the person his students know. gently caress him, and gently caress you for trying to defend him. I hope he never gets a job again, and any positions he's held get filled with someone who believes in the "integrity of the institution" and is also not a raging bigot. kurona_bright fucked around with this message at 06:43 on Apr 22, 2018 |
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litany of gulps posted:No. You don't get it. He is a bad dude. But I won't stop defending him, because the superficial portrayal of him doesn't really explain who he is. People are complicated. gently caress you. The "portrayal" is coming from the words of the man himself you weirdo.
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Asking if they got in because of AA is incredibly rude, but a big part of that is because it’s incredibly likely that they did, in fact, get in because of AA. Asking Trump at a social event if he’s cheated on his wife lately would be rude as well. What I’m saying is this dude is an rear end in a top hat, but not for the reasons you think. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Are you that girl from my home town that sued UT for not letting her in and somehow got all the way to the Supreme Court? Which later they revealed that her average grades were just average and minorities with better grades than her weren't accepted to UT either. Or are you the 75 year old lady in my neighborhood screaming about Muslims and then posting on Nextdoor why no one will come do her landscaping for $10 an hour in the middle of July?
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