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  2. Hmm… did he Swim4Texas?
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  4. Do you understand how much smarter and more capable and free thinking and curious you are and most of the people on the forum are than +/- 90% of the population?
  5. But have they? That’s what I meant about a feedback loop. When a person are so blinkered by their community they don’t know basic facts we all take for granted, and at the same time progressives have withdrawn from their geographic and online spaces, can we really say they made a choice?
  6. All good points- I’m strictly speaking to why and how Hispanics vote in line with all of their other socioeconomic indicators- that is, the ones who look like Republican voters outside of being Hispanic usually vote Republican. I’m not using ignorance as an excuse, I’m pointing out that ignorance is a fact and part of the human condition. It’s just the fog of war at this point, and a lot of decent people wind up on the wrong side of those. So as we’ve discussed many times before, we’re left with the choice between politics, or politics by other means. I prefer the former, but I’m reluctantly willing to accept the latter.
  7. For a lot of reasons, but I think the there are two main ones: 1) There is no common history, cultural or ethnic background between groups of Hispanics. Most have a Spanish derived last name and know some Spanish, but many don’t even have that. “Hispanic” is a description of a group that isn’t a group. 2) To the extent there is a common thread, it is that a large number are in the United States because an ancestor wanted what what white Americans have - land and opportunity. Hispanics have a lot more in common with Irish Americans than they do with American blacks, and are following a similar pattern. I don’t agree. Lots of extremely decent people support Trump. They are just trapped in a feedback loop of community and propaganda that is very difficult to penetrate.
  8. Now? ‘Twas ever thus. My favorite stories from the 2008 campaign were the canvassers in Virginia and North Carolina reporting back about old white racists saying they planned to “vote for the n*gger.” A good candidate can be male, female, black, white, gay, whatever. They just have to be a good candidate. It’s built on inherent qualities and personality, not assembled out of policies and soundbites. A good candidate can “walk with kings, but keep the common touch.”
  9. It’s good to be in the center during an election. It’s bad to be moderate. Those things are not the same. That’s what the consultant class doesn’t understand. I have this conversation with a democratic operative friend of mine who still thinks Democrats need to “moderate,” and that’s wrong. Democrats need to occupy the center. Right now the center is angry.
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  11. Sure. But only with fallacious arguments that don’t make sense.
  12. Back on track! Got my shit back together and along the way learned a very important lesson: Swing practice immediately after a heavy lifting session followed by 35 minutes of intervals is really dumb. Because exhaustion was preventing muscles from firing in the right order or at the right time, I should have just rested. Instead I made some new bad habits, broke my swing, and it took 2-3 sessions to get back on track. I did nothing but drills for 3 days, which was tedious but when I got back over the ball yesterday I was back where I was before and even making decent contact off the tee for the first time. Today was my best range session ever - 60 balls, 20 each of PW, 9i, 7i. Only completely fucked 5. My slice is getting better, mainly because I'm doing a better job of setting up, and straightening my swing. I'm not taking anything like hard swings, I'm just focused on rhythm and fluidity. Progress! Not sure I want to add in a 5i yet, I may just work a 6 iron into practice and then add woods and tee shots. Question for the real golfers: do I even need to play with 3-5irons anytime soon? I've also been practicing chipping and putting a couple times a week, and for reasons I can't explain it seems pretty natural. I'm putting the ball where I want it inside of 100 yards pretty consistently and my putting seems ... decent? I need to dedicate practice time to getting out of sand. Funny about this - I bought my clubs during the COViD period when everybody was running around taking up new hobbies and frantically buying sporting goods, so there were no left handed sets for sale anywhere. I found a guy in Cedar Park to make me some. Nice guy, but he sort of cobbled them together based on components he had and it didn't matter anyway since I didn't actually take it up until 3 weeks ago This morning at the range I was talking to a much more experienced lefty who asked me if I got my clubs at a garage sale, not because they were terrible, but because he didn't understand why a beginner would be using low profile irons with extra stiff shafts. I was intrigued by this, and borrowed a Calloway Edge 8iron they had inside. Suffice it to say that was a completely different experience. So, I went home and watched a couple of video reviews and my new Calloway Edge Set from Costco will be delivered tomorrow. I'm sure if I improve I'll have to upgrade at some point, but this seems like a better starting point than were I'm at with what I've been using.
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  14. He’s a dipshit from Sherman who played water polo at Pepperdine before running a magazine about quinceañera planning. No, really.
  15. How the fuck the consultant class forces Colin Allred down our throats instead of Roland Fucking Gutierrez is beyond me.
  16. This is not how you humblebrag
  17. My daughters and I talk about this. I’ve always been puzzled about where the idea of on-campus indoctrination comes from. I don’t think humanities and liberal arts faculty are any more or less tolerant of dissent than they ever have been, and so also frankly don’t think curricula and professors usually have the ability to dictate a point of view to their students. My daughters have said they think it’s just a matter of exposure to other students and new places, because the only kids they have seen do 180 ideological turns in college are kids from sheltered, homogeneous environments who see the world outside for the first time and realize that things are not as they were told. There’s a prog-left version of this too, but the Republican small city kids learn that cities aren’t dangerous, liberals don’t hate the free market, people don’t get third term abortions other than in medical emergencies and white Christian political conservatives are the discriminators more often than they are the object of discrimination. And it is not extremely important also that college is where the gay kids from those environments finally have the space to accept themselves for the first time. And then they come home from college, and the parents blame woke indoctrination, when it was really just seeing the world outside the cloister for the first time.
  18. Amarillo doesn’t get enough run for having great weather. It’s windy, but it has four seasons and since Covid had the happy impact of reducing my ability to smell shit while leaving my ability to smell food untouched, I feel like it would be a good option (if my wife didn’t hate Amarillo).
  19. Fond is the right word. I’ve got a soft spot for both of those guys (for different reasons) and it makes me less of objective.
  20. Wordle 1,516 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I feel seen
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