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i took an uber home last night from a party and the driver was incredibly pissed about texas losing yesterday lol
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Hooray for tortilla tech!
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https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1574404001793277952 Sure why not. Sounds like our business. unrelated: people in Texas who are proud of their German or Czech or whatever white people heritage: stfu There isn't even a "german" heritage, the country didn't exist prior to the 20th century, and almost all white people here are descended from one of the various teutonic tribes that swept through western Europe every hundred years or so
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1574404001793277952 Herr, das ist ein Wendy's.
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Oh, I'm one-eighth Wendy's!
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Yeah but kolaches. Must I eat a danish instead?
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mfers not even calling them klobasneks
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In 5th grade one of the teachers tried to tell me that my grandfather's family was Russian, not Prussian. While they had spent time in western Russia prior to emigrating to the US, I assure you my name is entirely German in origin. gently caress you, Mrs. Nunn
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https://twitter.com/bradj_TX/status/1574423620235022336 Texas politics editors rending their garments and gnashing their teeth as the lead extends to several furlongs.
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but beto was "closing the gap" all summer!
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JUST MAKING CHILI posted:Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, renamed Texas A&M University 1963, historically was an ag school so has Aggie as the student nickname (like Utah State or New Mexico State), which became aggy as an insult from those dirty teasips in Austin. Oh yeah, another vital part of A&M culture is intense homophobia directed at UT as an institution and Austin as a city. As much as we recognize ITT how bad Austin's racism can be (particularly compared to its liberal self-image), College Station is a thousand times worse. Imagine a college town that, instead of having the general young progressive vibe of every other college town, had the social values of a lovely white-flight suburb. That's College Station. zoux posted:unrelated: people in Texas who are proud of their German or Czech or whatever white people heritage: stfu That's some bold loving talk to be spouting on the eve of Oktoberfest.
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https://twitter.com/AshleyRParker/status/1574145305213272064 (darkly) lmao But it's insane the amount of blood and treasure we are spending on a fake problem that doesn't exist, and so doesn't exist in Florida that DeSantis has to borrow our legally present asylum seekers so he can do a big stunt that immediately blows up in his face
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it'd actually be pretty interesting if he lost by ten. loopy was -13.3 in 2018 in arguably a better national environment
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i say swears online posted:it'd actually be pretty interesting if he lost by ten. loopy was -13.3 in 2018 in arguably a better national environment The more credible the candidate, the harder the GOP election machine works. Wendy Davis lost worst than pretty much any Dem previously or since and it's not like she was a worse candidate than Chris Bell
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LanceHunter posted:Oh yeah, another vital part of A&M culture is intense homophobia directed at UT as an institution and Austin as a city. I feel bad, cause I know there are a few aggies here, but. . But yeah. That was deffo my impression if the place. Like... as individuals, there were good or nice people there, but as a whole? This thread skews left, so College Station, and aggies were never gonna be our jam.
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College Station is called that because the university was the first thing there. It predated the railroads. The entire city exists around the university in a way that I'm not sure is true for any other school or town
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Why would Abbott help facilitate DeSantis' stunt in any way? That's his main not Trump rival, plus it's just DeSantis stealing Abbott's thunder doing the stunt Abbott invented in the first place. I don't really understand this.
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zoux posted:College Station is called that because the university was the first thing there. It predated the railroads. The entire city exists around the university in a way that I'm not sure is true for any other school or town yeah as an ag college it needed the open space, whereas other college towns had the school spring up from local demand. even new mexico a&m has a hallowed, storied history in las cruces: quote:Said institution is hereby located at or near the town of Las Cruces in the County of Doña Ana, upon a tract of land of not less than one hundred (100) acres, This land could be contiguous to the main Las Cruces irrigating ditch, south of said town. Zwabu posted:Why would Abbott help facilitate DeSantis' stunt in any way? That's his main not Trump rival, plus it's just DeSantis stealing Abbott's thunder doing the stunt Abbott invented in the first place. I don't really understand this. he didn't, he was as surprised as anyone when the plane touched down at martha's vinyard. the entire point is that it's an increasingly-heated rivalry that could soon pop off hard
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zoux posted:NYT story quote:“Love Florida. Love Texas. Love Florida more,” Jeb Bush, a former Florida governor with deep familial ties to Texas, said when asked about the rivalry between the two states.
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love me florida love me texas love florida more simple as
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i say swears online posted:he didn't, he was as surprised as anyone when the plane touched down at martha's vinyard. the entire point is that it's an increasingly-heated rivalry that could soon pop off hard But weren't DeSantis' trafficked migrants from the Texas border? Did he send people into Texas on the down low to work this stunt?
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Zwabu posted:But weren't DeSantis' trafficked migrants from the Texas border? Did he send people into Texas on the down low to work this stunt? yes. TXGOP had zero idea. my conjecture but abbott was loving furious (i'm right) i say swears online fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Sep 26, 2022 |
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lobster shirt posted:love me florida please love
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Zwabu posted:But weren't DeSantis' trafficked migrants from the Texas border? Did he send people into Texas on the down low to work this stunt? No they were from San Antonio
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i say swears online posted:yes. TXGOP had zero idea. my conjecture but abbott was loving furious (i'm right) So they went and hunted down immigrants in another state so they could kidnap them on the taxpayers dime? That’s extra malicious
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LanceHunter posted:As much as we recognize ITT how bad Austin's racism can be (particularly compared to its liberal self-image), College Station is a thousand times worse. Imagine a college town that, instead of having the general young progressive vibe of every other college town, had the social values of a lovely white-flight suburb. That's College Station. Bryan at least has a distinct culture from College Station (and predates the university as a train stop outside of Houston), and has more of a blue collar townie vibe with a lot more diversity, but yeah still a small city in Texas. Over time I think just more of the white community is just segregating in College Station. Both cities also have very high post secondary education levels, and some of the political nuances that come along with that. As much as I like to hate on Aggies, the political slant of the student body is definitely oversold and focuses on a vocal minority. Plenty of decent people come from that school, and it really isn’t super different from UT.
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zoux posted:Bryan is actually worse. That was definitely true when we were kids, but then a ton of the white people just moved to College Station. The socioeconomic divide is way more stark now too.
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The Corps experience and A&M made me into the bleeding heart liberal I am today compared to the typical dipshit libertarian-esque type I was earlier in college. The student section is definitely like any regular 'ol college campus
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DuckHuntDog posted:Bryan at least has a distinct culture from College Station (and predates the university as a train stop outside of Houston), and has more of a blue collar townie vibe with a lot more diversity, but yeah still a small city in Texas. Over time I think just more of the white community is just segregating in College Station. Both cities also have very high post secondary education levels, and some of the political nuances that come along with that. Trump won Brazos County by >14 points, in 2020. Aggies are more politically conservative than the nation as a whole, which means that compared to other college students they are wildly conservative. There's certainly a fair number of folks going to A&M just trying to keep their heads down and get a (genuinely world-class) agricultural education. But they are the ones who are in the minority, and the campus culture is designed to minimize them while amplifying the more conservative voices. I used to go to the poetry slams in Bryan many years ago, where a lot of folks who generally didn't fit into the typical Aggie mold (queer folks, POC, etc) would end up. The number of stories I heard about the casual and constant harassment lot of them endured was shocking.
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Here's my go to example in that regard. After 2004, a polling firm tried to find the college campuses that voted the most for each of the candidates. What you would expect is that the winner on each side would be a statistical outlier, likely a small, ideologically focused private campus and that is indeed what the found as regards Kerry, with some tiny private liberal arts school having the highest proportion of Kerry voters. For Bush it was Texas A&M. A&M's enrollment in 2005 was 45,000.
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zoux posted:OFC I haven't been to BCS since 2005 maybe? If you haven't been since then, you probably wouldn't recognize the town. It's kind of sad because it is the same size now as the glory days of Austin, but it is home to a certain population that will never do anything cool at all ever. A total waste of potential
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