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Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

blackguy32 posted:

I don't think it's that, I think people overestimate how liberal Hispanics are. They are not the block that African Americans are when it comes to voting.

Na we don't vote, like at all.

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Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

If I was a Castro I'd literally wait for these Democrats to die off, they're poo poo and wouldn't get me anywhere nice.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

They should do what they do, but keep they mouth loving shut and stop trying to book TX pols to loving tv programs.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Pretty funny how he's basically cancelling Perry's economic sponge program because he thinks government shouldn't choose winners in business, when literally every government on earth does. Doubly :wtc: because somebody in class whom I figured for a hippie was actually libertarian and believed that nations shouldn't promote tourism.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007


Correct only the conservative members of us vote with any regularity. In Texas it's very much a "why bother" attitude when you know the guy in the literal chair is calling you, your friends, and family from the third world.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Randandal posted:

Unironically equating border security with racism is another reason why most people don't take Democrats seriously.


And thus Republicans will continue to stay the gently caress out of the White House.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

If Abbot can resist Un-constitutional Arizona type laws, he probably won't be too bad. Too.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Vote in rich people, because rich people get things done, all the East side voters want is handouts.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Badger of Basra posted:

Yeah I've seen some mailers and a lot of insinuations that Martinez is too dumb to be mayor because he doesn't have a degree. Which was obviously a huge impediment to being a council member and head of Cap Metro.

Is Austin a Mayor-centric or City Manager type city?

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

This doesn't do away with local bans does it? Because that's loving nonsense.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Alkydere posted:

Speaking of bag bans, my parents went grocery shopping in Austin the other day and had about half of their reusable bags stolen out of their cart when they weren't looking.

The situation was so bizarre that all I could do was imagine it as a Kelly cartoon.

Liberalism spawns new-crime that wasn't there before!

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

I'm worried about the state of our highways and with the expansion of oil-gas, trucks are cruising those roads in greater quantities. Two instances already in the past year, large rocks, not pebbles, have threatened to launch through my windshield into a passenger's face. I don't begrudge the driving trucks, but drat some of the state highways are not that great to be on.

Mock liberals in the news and in legislation til the end of the earth, but keep our roads good please legislators, it is an endearing quality that my car has lasted as long as it has because our roads were mostly alright for so long.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

ReidRansom posted:

Open carry will almost certainly happen this session, and I'm OK with that. Campus carry may happen also, but I'm not as OK on that one.

College kids can't afford guns or 3D printers.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Hmm no Heckler & Koch, not real Texans.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

An Angry Bug posted:

So is there a lot of crossover with Linux advocates, or...?

That guy will definitely be eating something off his foot later.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

My favorite part of that documentary is how absolutely "300" the Mexican atrocities resemble Persian atrocities.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

radical meme posted:

I was intrigued by the scenes showing American Indian involvement. I seriously didn't remember, was probably never taught, anything significant involving Indian tribes in the Texas Revolution. A quick google lead me to the fact that there are two Indian Reservations in Texas; something else I never knew. I implore the Alabama-Coushatta tribe to immediately build a casino on Lake Livingston. The Kickapoo tribe's reservation is on the Mexico border, south of Eagle Pass and I'm not going anywhere near that place.

The native involvement in this is good because the United States used native troops pretty much throughout the expansion of the West, many were hard fought enemies and then they joined once they lost so they can fight the stronger Indians who they originally quarreled with before the US Army and settlers showed up.

Other than that I'm pretty sold on Bill Paxton, it would be nice if they show his staunch opposition to joining the Confederacy despite the piece being more antebellum.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

zoux posted:

"Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible."

I remember a teacher getting mad a student wouldn't put his hand to his heart for the Texas pledge in high school.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

You should never try to rock the boat in Texas, you will fail, utterly.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007


I don't care what mil/gun types think. Tacti-cool guns suck and I wish they'd stop putting an M4 stock on everything.

Wood stocks, and the original cannon on that flag are way way better, and modern gun people have no taste.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

KIM JONG TRILL posted:

Perry's challenge to his indictment was denied. Case will proceed.

Bueno.

unrelated:
I hope the new legislature makes the cottage food law a bit better, maybe allow offering custards and perishable poo poo.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

He is correct, those 'activists' so poisoned the well on that issue. It was a slam dunk red-meat law to please the base, but imbeciles took it way to far and the people within the movement were legit shady individuals, like the suicide-murderer.

Campus carry is whatever. There's not going to be heroes. Even if I was carrying during class hours, if I heard anything remotely like a school shooting was happening I'd get the gently caress out, not look for the perp.

Edit: never mind that universities will lock down and students shouldn't be wandering around with a gun drawn like some movie hero, the police can't be sure who you are, or what you're doing. I guess you can blast through the door, but gently caress everybody and anybody behind potential door though, huh?

This poo poo is dumb.

Nonsense fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Feb 12, 2015

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

ReidRansom posted:

No, I read it. Doesn't make theirs not legal even if no one else is able to yet. It's also a major crack in the dike; now that one license has been issued, special circumstances notwithstanding, they're going to have a difficult time continuing to justify denying others who may not be in the same situation. I don't think there's any way to legally justify that only people about to die may get gay married.

They might be petty and try to target the license of the couple that was allowed to get it, creating actual injury and yeah this poo poo just cannot stand any longer. They'll try though.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Ken Paxton is the next President of the United States because he sided with Christian liberty.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Oh by the way, just my opinion here, but I think they sell illegal narcotics out of their store, because how do you honestly believe those kind of people ever made a living on anything?

*bulldozes entire block to throw a plutocrat party*

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

A militia dude tried to shoot a police officer after a traffic stop, heard it was a border town.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

VOX is poo poo because they don't have comments. I want to read comments defending the Senator, only post those sources in the future thanks in advance.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Not to mention Uber threatens municipalities who try to hold their employees accountable like they're loving Lexcorp or something.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Better throw in PRO CHOICE in there Highly Politicized DPS.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Breitbart's not even approaching it from the the correct angle, they just think the law will prevent video taping being able to truthiness all those FALSE POLICE BRUTALITY reports. Also they can be dismissed as libertarian trash by the establishment.

edit: We're a reactionary pit, they'll do whatever it takes to keep things Top Heavy.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

zoux posted:

It'll have a much harder time in the House. Pancho Nevarez has a built in opposition tactic with a media narrative that writes itself. Also, Strauss has kind of been flexing on the Tea Party members this session.

Unrelated, were you the one who made that single space infinite garbage dump?

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

zoux posted:

Huh?



Also Open Carry is in a House committee today and the gun rights people are appearing as sane and courteous


I'm not listening to it but I'm following the live tweets and these guys are saying some seriously nutso stuff. An ex-con who did 18 years saying he needs a gun because "there is evil in this world that I cannot describe".

You had a Cities: Skylines av before your current one about the trash dump. Thought it was that special modded trash dump.

Also I wish the ex-Con fought instead for the right to vote rather than wield something that will probably put him back behind bars.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Send that fucker to die in the desert President Cruz.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

What a horrific bill. It will overwhelmingly pass.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Nobody misses shrub pugs no matter how bad the Republican field has become.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

The military runs exercises along the border a lot, but they don't give a gently caress because nobody here was that paranoid, and also there weren't enough white people to feel threatened. BASTROP COUNTY IS A STEP TOO FAR OBUMMER!

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Hot Dog Day #91 posted:

I'm actually really surprised by the reaction to this. I figured the crazy "government going to get me" people were scared of Obama's secret police forces, e.g. ATF, irs police, and the BLM.

Being scared of the U.S. military conducting training in your community is a new one on me.

These people believe he nuked New York City.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Badger of Basra posted:

Please, they believe he nuked Charleston

Even Obummer has me spinnin'!

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

I rather like Austin, don't care if people are offended by that.

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Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Straight up cut highway funding if Abbot signs that SCOTUS bill, which would come well after the ruling, knowing this poo poo house.

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