Everything posted by Bozo_Casanova
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
Great post. Another part of the disconnect is that they have a very narrow and misleading understanding of the city based exclusively on what they hear from others where they live community and see policing, ie, they don’t get to understand the city the way a civilian does. For example, a few years ago an officer talked to me about how different Mueller was from the “gangbangers north of 51st.” You know, the mean streets of Windsor Park. It also creates multiple other problems, like a feeling of being able to violate basic standards with impunity. 6th street is basically safe, or in any case is less dangerous than it was in the 90’s. But because of media and politics, people in places like Leander and Liberty Hill are absolutely convinced that 6th street is a dangerous, lawless wasteland. My daughter worked on Dirty 6th street when she was 15-17 at a coffee shop, usually early mornings to afternoon. She dealt with all sorts of craziness from homeless people, but never felt unsafe when she was working there, except when she was being hit on at 16 by a married officer while their colleague looked ashamed, but did nothing. She was even uncomfortable when he came back later trying to “escort her safely” to her car because of the “danger” and that he even had the gall to say “I wouldn’t let my daughter work down here.”
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
Good
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
Sure they effect you, but (and I sincerely mean no offense here) what I’ve found is that APD’s most ardent defenders and Garza blames (and, to be clear, that’s not you) tend to live outside the city limits and don’t pay for the generally underwhelming service we are currently getting. Furthermore, the majority of officers don’t live in the city and many of them never have.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
Then she went on Twitter and seemed to blame some combination of a heavy workload and fear of being the sole vote against, which is not an excuse I have ever seen before from a council member for a vote they regret.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
I have literally never downplayed the shittiness of Garza and personally attempted to recruit* both primary and general election challengers So… no. That said, it is a fact that Garza’s shittiness is directly provided as a justification both here, in real life, and sometimes officers themselves and their union for why the police product we get from APD is so mediocre. What part of Austin do you live in? *as far as I can tell nobody good wants the job 🤷
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
Who downplayed Garza. Quote from Brisket or me please, since you are responding to us. It doesn’t seem unreasonable to want a great police department for my city or to believe that some of the best paid police in the state should be among the best police in the state. Maybe you should have higher standards about how your money gets spent. If you live in Austin and pay taxes here , I mean.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
Somehow that’s Garza’s fault according to this board. Meanwhile FIVE police officers were available to mostly watch a sixth officer search one handcuffed woman and her car on Pershing the other day. Before they let her go, I mean
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Wordle [spoilers inevitable but discouraged]
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Trump’s America
They don’t need to.
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Colin Allred, doing what nobody asked
Hey did yall know he used to play football? He’s meeting communities where they come together, which is a very normal thing football players say about going to football games Trump doesn’t play football! Football union member Colin Allred takes his old football union card to breakfast His football union card just had a special day Hooray for all football So many typefaces! Such big football forearms Linebacker time is not normal time
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Trump’s America
No. Thats how “serious resistance” would start.
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RFK Jr. off the chain and off his rocker
That’s correct. And whereas the age of the mother is relevant as well, the age related risk that gets almost no public discussion at all is the age of the father. And what’s really interesting is that the age of a father also seems to impact the outcomes for their grandchildren, likely because of the relationship between paternal age and mutations of dominant genes.
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RFK Jr. off the chain and off his rocker
You know it’s funny about autism. Yes of course the broader definition and wider screening play a role, but there’s this one HUGE risk factor that is well understood, isn’t even controversial, and it increases the risk of autism by ~20%. It also increases the risk of many other things. But people don’t want to hear about it.
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SJSU Game Thread
I pity the fool
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The Trump Economy
Edit @Pato del Muerto beat me to it
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Colin Allred, doing what nobody asked
I think he’s similar to Ike. He got the aptitude, but finds the whole thing distasteful. I think it’s unlikely, but I’ve heard people from across the political spectrum are begging him to run.
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Colin Allred, doing what nobody asked
I sense real widespread anger at Allred for his conduct in the last campaign among more active the grassroots Democrats here in Travis County. Does it go beyond Travis and you think they sense it at the donor/SDEC/Exec level?
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Trump’s America
Penthouse Forum has really gone downhill
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
I think some of y’all just have low standards and would rather pay through the nose and passively accept whatever you get than demand responsive, effective, professional policing. At least when there’s a salad scandal to complain about, amirite?
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
This is a management problem, not a motivation problem.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
I keep saying “he sucks” about Garza so the bolded text above is … quite a leap. examples:
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Texas Rangers 2025: Pitching has been fire. Bats not so much.
I think I could make that throw to third with one hop in 8th grade.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
The DA sucks! You should run against him! But none of that justifies the police not doing their jobs.