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Alkydere posted:Oh, I knew there wasn't going to be any chance. It's just that I really, really do not want to look forward at how bad it's gonna be.
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With 16% reporting, the governor's race looks like: Abbott: 59.2%. Davis: 39.2%. Context: In comparison, the last race finished with Rick Perry at 54.97% and Bill White at 42.28%.
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Oil! posted:I voted for the reanimated corpse of the first President of the Republic of Texas and it looks like he lost too. A shameful Texan. -- Abbott is leading in Harris and Bexar with more than 30 percent counting in each. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7lGGhHZSZs BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Nov 5, 2014 |
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It's super bad because Davis was supposed to improve on White's performance, a signal that Texas was gradually turning purple and worth it for outside investors. Instead she's doing worse. Meltdown. Worst case scenario.
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She's still falling! It's a race to see how low she'll go. But a lot of the Travis votes haven't come in yet, it looks like.computer parts posted:Maybe running a bland white person in a minority-majority state is not the best strategy! Democrats nationally bet the farm on women's issues, because of insulting things Republicans said last cycle which cost them seats. But because the Republicans have toned down the social stuff this time, doesn't rebound to the Dems' benefit. Abbott is winning with women, which will make the walls of the TDP's headquarters start vomiting.
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Interesting thing: Austin might elect its first eco-socialist to the city council, Susana Almanza, who is leading in District 3. Former Brown Beret, too. BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Nov 5, 2014 |
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Badger of Basra posted:She's the one running against her brother, right? I'm not sure if she'll be able to win the runoff, but I would be glad for her to. My friend in District 4 is going to be running against a crazy Alex Jones-ite in a runoff, so I'm hoping Austin doesn't get to Weird and he can win easy.
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So here's the view from a conservative think tanker in Austin:quote:Here’s your rundown of just how big the Greg Abbott victory is in TX-Gov this evening. Whatever side you’re on, it’s a historic, dominating win — nearly a 20-point margin between him and Wendy Davis at this writing with c.60% of precincts in. All the following numbers are subject to change, of course. Nevertheless:
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Xen Tricks posted:How does a state with a ballooning hispanic population overwhelmingly elect a racist and whatever Abbot is?  Exhibit B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAL6sX-5ZSs First Latina first lady of Texas. VitalSigns posted:I don't know, how does a campaign against women's health win women by 10 points? BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Nov 5, 2014 |
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Her campaign was such a cynical and demagogic attempt at creating a cult of personality, when she was such a waxwork, I couldn't. I abstained. I voted for Van de Putte, though.Badger of Basra posted:I voted for Spicybrown.
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If I was Julian Castro I'd be angling for a vice presidential nomination.
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ReidRansom posted:He's cabinet level now. HUD Secretary. He was likely tapped for that specifically to give him a shortcut around the statewide race thing.
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Randandal posted:Oh that's weird lol I didn't know that had happened. Still think it's racial pandering but whatevs Shifty Pony posted:The mayoral map is pretty depressing too: I'm not super-into Martinez, but Adler struck me as someone who was more interested in telling people what they want to hear. Also watch these ads. Oh God the Adler add... so twee! Agggghh. Gack. http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2014-10-17/10-1-ticker-election-updates/ The Martinez ad is great.
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Texas Democrats remind me of the opening scene in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Lots of flailing around, and every time he thinks he's going to make it ... KA-WHAMMO down he goes again, and even more spectacular than the last time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9_m8eVdU2U fade5 posted:In interesting news, and in contrast to the constant string of Republican victories, Republican Susan Reed is no longer Bexar County's District Attorney; she was defeated by Democrat Nicholas “Nico” LaHood. Susan Reed has been DA for 16 years, so this is a bit of a shock; I thought LaHood was just a sacrificial lamb. The win is partly due to greater than average turnout in Bexar county, but also largely due to Thomas J. Henry, who dumped an absolute shitload of money into the race. BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 10:57 on Nov 6, 2014 |
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Dante Logos posted:I took it a good number of BGT people took the election results badly. Where does the organization go from here? The other thing is that Texas Dems really have nothing to lose at this point. So Evan Smith wondered why they don't just run hard to the left on a roll-up-the-sleeves, barn burning progressive populist campaign next time. Because why not?
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Trabisnikof posted:The TDP is entirely a losers' guild at this point. That is to say, the drama gets the fiercest when there's nothing of value to fight over. They take a "you come to us" attitude about candidates and races.
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Also Evan Smith went lol at "smartass West Austin Democrats" or something like that who voted for Patrick in the primaries because Leticia had it in the bag, and Patrick was the opponent they wanted. Well, they got what they wished for.
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Badger of Basra posted:Did anyone actually do this? I know Democrats who voted for Dewhurst but none who voted for Patrick. computer parts posted:Another reminder that Wendy Davis lost half of the 18-29 vote.  Randandal posted:Lol what an idiot, but maybe he's playing the long chess game the same way I was when I voted for Cruz in the primary. If a Republican is going to win no matter what, why not try to get the craziest Republican available so that the GOP brand might be hopelessly damaged by the next election cycle? BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Nov 7, 2014 |
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Shifty Pony posted:PODER is a strange bird. It started as a group opposed to the East Side getting shat on by industry and helped get a whole bunch of tank farms moved away from residential areas. Now it is really hard to pin down exactly what it exists for. Ostensibly it is anti-gentrificaion but that seems to be defined as "whatever Susan Almanza personally dislikes this month". Recently their target has been urban farms. Which was weird because their evidence for this was the Chronicle giving favorable coverage to her brother Pio. BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 07:36 on Dec 18, 2014 |
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zoux posted:The thing is is that the legislation that has been floated, and likely will be again, limits the privilege to people 21 and over, so there goes a quarter of all students. I would be shocked if the number of students CCing on UT campus is in the double digits. There might be some college republican types that carry just to carry after it passes, but in a few years, almost no one will be armed. This is all a bullshit non-issue drummed up by NRA legislative consultants who believe the fight for the second amendment must continue on all fronts at all times. Svanja posted:I do not want anyone carrying guns on campus (I'm at Texas State). It absolutely would not make me feel any safer. I can't fathom how they think it would make campus security's job any easier. Though I have to say I've never been convinced by the pro-carry types who say it *will* make campuses safer. The weapons are concealed. Few people carry them. There's no way to rationally judge your level of safety vis-a-vis concealed carry in an environment like that. It seems crazy to me to think you're safer or less safe depending on something you can't actually evaluate. Even if it's allowed, you can't *assume* anyone is carrying. As a security "solution" to campus shooters, it's insane. BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Jan 28, 2015 |
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In my high school we had an assembly featuring some guys who'd rip phone books and coke cans in half and preached Jesus. ! it was The Power Team. They were literally on Walker Texas Ranger. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI-MUOZq_-E BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Mar 4, 2015 |
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San Antonio is definitely the least pretentious (overall) of the major cities. Dallas still has that #1 spot. Yes, even more than Austin.
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Randandal posted:Austin is by far the most pretentious city in Texas, I'm not sure how anybody could live talk to people from both cities and not come to that conclusion. 
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Killer-of-Lawyers posted:I never got that. At some level these guys have to realize that the Feds, with their jets, tanks, and cruise missiles, do not care about how many handguns or AR-15's with heavy barrels for shooting the blue helmets when they come you have. So I think the logic for the Second Amendment stands. But what I don't get is how so many of the people who are really insistent about that -- and actively prepare for it -- are in absolutely no physical condition to jog down the loving block, let alone fight a war with anyone. I wanna say to these guys: You're going to fight the government? Please. You have trouble fighting over a parking space at the Golden Corral.
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zoux posted:Yeah quash insurgencies in countries that are entirely jungle or mountain. Not in countries with extremely well developed infrastructures that facilitate the movement of troops and armor. I think Baghdad might be the largest city in terms of population the U.S. ever fought a war in. You scale up to some American cities, and there's no historical precedent. BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Mar 25, 2015 |
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People say shutting down traffic just makes people angry, but that can be good I think. Basically the tactic is to be so annoying that people eventually cave just so you stop bothering them. The problem is making it clear what they're supposed to cave in to. Anyways, a friend of mine who works for a left-wing nonprof in the city hates it how all the activist groups have their rallies at the capitol. "Unless you have 10,000 people or more do to it somewhere else." Because optics. The huge building and vast lawn makes you look small and insignificant. Especially on the weekends when there's nobody in the building. The protesters stage a die-in and the only people watching are other protesters. If they hadn't blocked I-35 no one would have even heard there was a protest going on. BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 06:35 on Sep 20, 2015 |
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I'd note that I don't think Houston is exceptionally bigoted (at least compared to Dallas-Fort Worth), the difference is that the city limits of Houston consume a lot of the suburbs which are far more conservative. Once you get outside Dallas city limits and into the sprawl where 2/3rds of the population lives, anti-discrimination protections evaporate. Toronto is another city like Houston, very different obviously, but a similar dynamic where they annexed a bunch of suburbs and found themselves with Rob Ford as mayor.
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e_angst posted:The whole "Austin is so white" line is concern-trolling bullshit from people outside of Austin who want to try and find some kind of flaw with the place. Meanwhile they are sitting in cities that are fully under the thumb of evangelical churches, real estate developers, and/or the oil industry. Or they're in suburbs that as so segregated they make Austin look like the Bronx (hint: don't try and talk about how Dallas is so much more diverse than Austin when you actually live in Plano). But what's the beef with Plano? It is arguably more diverse than Austin. But that's a testament to how much Plano has changed in the past 10 years. http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/texass-cities-one-big-dysfunctional-family/ BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 08:37 on Nov 13, 2015 |
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Numlock posted:Have they ever been to Houston? "White" is not how I would characterize the city at all.
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^ Yeah, that.oldpainless posted:Does anyone in this thread actually like Texas? About Texans? My answer is that most things about Texans you've read are true, but this doesn't come through in everyday life so much because most people just mind their own business and go about their day like anywhere else. Like the person driving next to you on the highway might be anticipating the imminent Rapture and destruction of all nonbelievers. But you'd never know it.
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computer parts posted:It's almost as though the point was that Austin is no better than the rest of Texas, not that Austin is uniquely horrible. And there's a sort of city-sized nationalism that plays a role. People attach part of their identity to where they live and get mad if other people bash it, which is understandable. Despite being very liberal when I've been in other states and someone talks poo poo about Texas I get uncomfortable. I almost turn into this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ_PwD0gOSo And related to this is a need to denigrate your rivals who are close by to boost yourself. I think this is really monkey-brained stuff, like the apes fighting at the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey. It's just not sensible. enraged_camel posted:If you don't think Austin is better than the rest of Texas, you're either a religious gun-nut (Dallas) or a pollution-loving oil & gas worker (Houston).
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:I really only hear the "blue in a sea of red" thing from non-Texans who moved here from out of state to justify moving to Texas/why Austin is ok despite Texas Bad. Austin has some quirks but the differences in cities is often talked about as differences between the people who live in them. I used to think more like that, but looking back I realize we highlight those difference for pretty ugly, vain reasons. Fact is that people are pretty much the same everywhere. The real differences are material, spatial, etc.
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zoux posted:Great Observer article about Stickland's Tea Party rally this week, as well as the broader temp of the House.
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The number one issue affecting Austin is affordability. Without a doubt. I've had several friends leave because they encountered this dilemma: To afford Austin's luxuries requires working more hours, which means less time to enjoy the very things you're paying a premium to do. The result is to say gently caress it and move, where at least you'll have more money, or more time.
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PostNouveau posted:Pardon me, but gently caress Texas A&M and their creepy fake army that worships a dog. And there was chalk graffiti in a pedestrian tunnel which said "Life goals =" and a stick-figure drawing of a two-parent, two-children family. My oh my, this is very different from Austin... It was pretty lovely in its way, actually. They deffo take advantage of "space." oldpainless posted:How ironic that such a liberal hippie city can only be truly appreciated by the rich conservative capitalists thst they hate. oldpainless posted:I don't know what that word means BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Jan 21, 2016 |
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I live in Austin. Does anyone want a free microwave. Otherwise I'm giving it to anarchists. You have one week.
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You've given me an idea...Watermelon Daiquiri posted:make a cyclotron fade5 posted:Give it to the anarchists.
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