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  1. 15 hours ago, BurntEyes said:

    There have been two cities that passed a similar ordinance.

    While the sample size is very small 100% of the known data set is in absolute stark contrast to his position.

    For some reason he believes, based on wishes and hope I guess, that this will have little to no effect on Austin and at worst almost no negative impact.

    No logical person, based any of the data available could draw that conclusion.

    There is nothing in the data from the cities that have tried this to show that this helps everybody out.  This notion that "oh, things haven't really changed in the past 12 days" is absurd - it's not about day-to-day, it's about the fact that over the last 12-24 months, things have progressively gotten worse, and this is just going to accelerate things, rather than to address the problems.    

    Short term, things will get worse, and the City Council and their staffers will say "Oops, we didn't do enough, the problem is still getting worse!"  At which point they will probably try and open up some public parks to camping, or overspend on more properties, among other things.  I think they and their staff are that stupid - making it easier for addict panhandlers to feed their addictions, yeah, that's a winning strategy.  

    Long term, up until now, we;'ve had a lot of people who were either turning a blind eye to the problems, or were ignorant, or were just....polite, for lack of a better word, about the issues of the homeless.   That's going to change very rapidly - arguably, it already is, because these folks have been seeing more and more camps over the past year or two along the overpasses, etc.  and now they are facing the prospect of much more involuntary contact with them.  Like I said, these folks will elect people whose platforms are focused on cracking down on the homeless, and we might very well see things get worse for them.

     

     

  2. 48 minutes ago, sunset87 said:

    One of the most aggy things they do is the whole nickname deal. They literally have nicknames for every starting player on their fball team.  Is this fucking kindergarten??

    Odd as hell.  Bunch of them had hats that said "PTCHR" and the rest had hats that said "CTCHR".

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  3. 1 hour ago, utee94 said:

    This is why their lies and false claims about "revenue superiority" are even MORE stupid.  If you actually believe those lies, then it makes their complete lack of athletic success look even wore by comparison.  But, stupid gonna stupid.

    Not every football team can claim to lose in a half-billion dollar Kroger's.

  4. 10 hours ago, lemonlime said:

    How the fuck does what we do or do not owe migrants have anything to do with treating human beings with basic decency. Not even kindness. Just not abject cruelty.

    We don't treat other human beings as human because we owe them. We do it (or don't) because that's what decent people do (or evil people ignore)

    He's the asshole who, when the ship is sinking, hops in an empty lifeboat and starts rowing away, yelling "FUCK YOU, I GOT MINE".

    We don't need to give these kids $80,000 beds, but we can spare enough for the necessities.

  5. 3 hours ago, Fozzz said:

    This is a great interview with Manuel Zeleya on the Honduran coup that occurred with the support of the Obama administration.  The coup and the events that followed have just a little bit to do with why so many people are currently fleeing that country. 

     

    Thank you for introducing us to Anya Parampil

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  6. 6 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Seems that there’s an assumption here that not only will a Democrat win next year, but will have a second term, so that her first opportunity will be in 2028.  What if it’s biden?  8 years at his age?

    She's 29 now, 30 in October.  I don't see 35 year-old AOC running in 2024, at least not at the top of the ticket.

    edit: Js1 has the right idea - she could easily pick up Schumer's seat in three years.

  7. 2 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    It’s important to remember what the IRA troll accounts were pushing.  The ones I was following were pumping out some of the most racist and xenophobic messages I’ve ever seen on twitter.  I ended up unfollowing Pamela Moore before the election because her stuff was so offensive/disturbing/misleading.

    This is what her profile page looked like in 2016:

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    This was a Kremlin troll account. 

    It could resemble just about any twitter account from Lubbock.  

  8. 9 hours ago, retread said:

    Maybe this deserves its own thread, but in a lot of the threads in this forum, we see the flowering of all of the ugly, quiet beliefs held by Rs, both politicians and voters. You see a Border Patrol FB page with 9,000 members which derides the immigrants trying to reach the US. 

    Is it just the echo chamber of the internet that is facilitating this and shining a light on it? Was Trump the one catalyst missing from the equation to set off the explosion?

    Back in the 80s, there were bumper stickers that said “Ronnie says fuck the poor”.  Remember the Jack Chick tracts?  Remember all of our meddling in Mexico and South America?  The War on Drugs sure as hell put a lot of “undesirables” behind bars.   People Trump’s age were around for segregation.  Wallace’s segregation speech was less than 60 years ago, and you know the racist assholes around then passed plenty of that down to their kids born in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

    Those are just some random examples pre-internet.  

    The internet and Fox News certainly don’t help things, and neither does it help to have an ever-growing group of people who feel like life is fucking them over, and they need scapegoats, such as scary brown people from below the border.  

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  9. 3 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:


    I hear you, but how can anyone prove a thing is NOT happening? Isn’t the burden on people saying there’s a conspiracy to demonstrate some kind of evidence?

    $5 million sure seems to point to a lot of evidence.  

    Or maybe the City Council and their staffers are just a bunch of fucking morons who don’t care about wasting taxpayer money.  

  10. 2 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Sorry, I was making a dismissive joke at your expense. I should have made that more clear.

    I got the joke, but seriously, your staffer buddy should try and explain that little purchase.  That’s the makings of a good little conspiracy theory right there.   Preferably explain it without PowerPoint, and with proof that nobody on the City Council is getting their palms greased and/or doesn’t have any friends/relatives/backers making money off of it.  

  11. 17 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:


    Oh hey I followed up on your theory. When the laughing stopped the staffer I spoke with said “if we were capable of conspiracy we would have passed CodeNEXT.”

    Have your staffer buddy explain why the city dropped $8.6 million on a property appraised at $3.6 million.

  12. 10 minutes ago, Chrispy said:

    Absolutely. The man this child trusted more than anyone in this world turned out to be the man she should’ve feared the most. 

    The country that this man trusted is the country that creates the shitty conditions he was leaving.  

    This is on us, but the GOP doesn’t believe in taking responsibility.  

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  13. 2 minutes ago, Modessit said:

    It will henceforth be known as "Chet Steadman's mom pissing on a flat rock". Let it be known.

    And if somebody accidentally substitutes “cock” for “rock”, that’s okay.  

  14. Quote

    The government’s own internal watchdog warned as far back as May that conditions at an El Paso, Texas, border station were so bad that border agents were arming themselves against possible riots, countering Friday’s assertion by a top Trump administration official that reports of poor conditions for migrants were “unsubstantiated.”

    In an internal report prepared by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General and obtained by NBC News, inspectors noted during a May 7 tour of a border station in the El Paso sector that only four showers were available for 756 immigrants, more than half of the immigrants were being held outside, and immigrants inside were being kept in cells maxed out at more than five times their capacity.

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1025136

  15. 22 minutes ago, Jack said:

    It's horrific that some people would rather risk their child's life than see them grow up with a slightly lower standard of living in Mexico or a South American country.

    Unless you are 100% Native American, or your family came over in the past 3 generations or so, one or more of your ancestors risked their lives so that their descendants would have a better life here.  

    Hell, you probably have an Irishman or two in your ancestors.  

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