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hayden_horn

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  1. it's a fucking sickness. whoever posted that tweet above where he compared himself to al fucking capone had me in laughing in hysterics. i hate this man. what is wrong with me?
  2. wait, heb is closed. fuck
  3. jesus mary christ, i forgot about that
  4. +1 to aisd for canceling proactively. this is much better to me than shitting around waiting until 7am tomorrow to call it.
  5. you are right in that it had an excacerbating effect, but i've been taking shit from my london colleagues over aisd closing at the drop of a hat for more than a decade now. it seems that no matter what the school district does, it hems and haws and drags its feet and ends up making the wrong decision anyways. fuck it. err on the side of caution if you are uncertain. cancel. just fucking make the decision so people can plan. also, understand that you aren't dallas or houston. we are austin. don't stay open just to stay open. this city can't handle it. talk to the surrounding districts, maybe. coordinate. plan. HAVE A PLAN. fuck. even if you don't, just make one. call it. that all makes sense. but everything seems to be doing that heading south thing when you can sense things are wrong, you don't know why, but you just know. when the messages are all mixed, its time to just cancel everything.
  6. this i get, and this should be the message. but this is ominously reminiscent of that snow day aisd wouldn't cancel, then people couldn't get their kids because it started snowing at noon or whatever. how is there not a fucking clearly eloquted (is that a word?) policy for this shit by now? we fucking know this is going to happen a couple of times a year. put a fucking time and temp and precip or not on it and let's all move forward with our lives. it's the fucking wishy-washy guessing i can't stand.
  7. i don't fucking get it either. i keep text my wife "what am i missing," checking my phone, getting more alerts of places closing, looking outside, i see nothing. a cold day in january. i mean, are we going to cancel over a cold rainy day? jesus. i don't even see it getting below 32. sure, that'll freeze some overpasses, maybe. delay school or cancel it, i don't really care. but i'm not at all ready for mass power outages or my gas heat going off. what the hell am i missing?
  8. and i've repped everyone in this thread since that episode because.
  9. so i don't know what to say. that was an amazing episode. i'm still reeling. for those of you asking if that was in the game, i'll answer in spoiler tags, but i'm not spoiling anything, i don't think. and they did it in a way that i don't think i'll ever see done again. that was incredible. just fucking incredible.
  10. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11692549/Memphis-DA-rule-charges-against-officers-scene-Tyre-Nichols-beating.html huh. weird.
  11. because there are way way way more racists out there than we realize. modding this relatively sane board exposes me to plenty of racism and has since the shag days. you can definitely see it in the rep histories for sure. i always find it funny that people think that's anonymous. warning: if you go looking you will be disappointed at some point or another. they are everywhere.
  12. no shit and 100% correct. i'm only just now scratching the surface of racial inequality in this country, and i only just started really digging. and before that i thought i understood race relations and history in this country. i've made statements like "we're 50 years after the civil rights movement!" and "are we in a post racial world yet?" i didn't realize how racist i was being. i actually thought i was being reasonable. that's the thing about ignorance. you can learn what you don't know, but you can't magically know what you don't know. that's why i asked @52-80 if he asks himself critical questions before posting.
  13. it's really bizarre. i mean, i don't want to go full cloak conspiracy, but this dude seems to be firing people with whom he politically disagrees. it's his radio business, so it's his call, but the market is primarily austin, not bastrop or lampasas.
  14. and i missed this post. great fucking post.
  15. agreed 100% - and you did a great job of what i was trying to say. race is nevertheless inescapable in this instance. it is impossible to overlook. you have to put in some real effort to be race-blind to this issue.
  16. fair enough to ask questions - lord knows i've asked enough in this thread. i answered in line above.
  17. hey, man, i told her to stop calling me.
  18. i think it's important to note that my poist wasn't directed as a rebuttal to yours. i get what you are saying. i'm sorry if it seemed like i was coming at you - that was not my intention. i agree with you 100%, and i hope there are no riots, just peaceful marches and candlelight vigils. i really hope we can get to a point where cops are only accidentally killing people rather than BEATING THEM TO DEATH.
  19. i know, i know, but you can only hit your dog so often before it bites you or somebody else. and that bite might actually manifest sometime when you aren't hitting the dog. but guess what? the dog thought you were going to hit it again and it's sick of your shit.
  20. i know i'm repeating myself but i'm going to post this THIRTY-FIVE YEAR OLD song: and again, for reference, these issues are still very manifest today. take a couple minutes and actually LISTEN to the lyrics and THINK for a goddamn minute about why they are saying these things THAT ARE STILL HAPPENING TODAY. for reference, 35 years prior to this song's release, it was 1953. right around the time of brown v boe. just for reference.
  21. when people are uniformly angry and act out en masse against power, is it their fault? my kid throws a tantrum at the store because they haven't eaten for 6 hours. is it their fault? some of it. some of it is mine. some of it is unfortunate timing. but my child's distress is real and he's not just having fun at my expense. sometimes, i think many of yall view race relations the same way. like black people are just having a go at white people. that they invent reasons to get angry and it doesn't have to do with generations of systemic oppression. OF COURSE THEY ARE FUCKING PISSED.
  22. no. that's also a racist red-herring. the platonic/ideal condition, as i've been trying to learn, is to be impartial as possible, race-conscious, culturally aware, and try to use that information to make the best decision you can. by race-conscious, i mean that in a positive context, but it can also make me weirdly self-conscious in a way that i'm still not comfortable with, but that's okay. i used to say "i don't see color" or similar shit like that. it was racist. of course i saw color. of course people see my whiteness. of course i see that hot girl over there and the sweathog dude on the harley. we make judgments every day. the key, i'm learning, is mindfulness. asking yourself critical questions all the time. it sucks and it's hard. i get tired of doing it. that's why i asked you if you think before you post. i haven't always thought before posting, and this is definitely the board to shoot from your hip, so i get it. but where you fall down is looking at a work in progress, seeing an improvement, and declaring it done. race relations will never be done. black people have shit to think about also. we all have shit to think about. that's part of being a human. also part of being human, sadly, is the casting out, either metaphorically or literally, those who look or act or believe differently than you. i'm just telling you that is what you are doing even if you do not realize it. like knows like. i used to do it all the time.
  23. see, but you do care enough to post and share your opinion. look, i'm just warning you that you sound like a racist rationalizing his beliefs. you don't care that i think that, great. but it's how you are coming across, and i like to think of myself as fairly reasonable. but when you start using coded racist language, i get annoyed. "there's less racism now than ever before" is a racist loser argument. there's always work to be done. yesterday's improvement over "deplorable" doesn't mean we cannot make an improvement tomorrow to somewhere north of "terrible." and i am convinced that you are trying not to see race here. like, that you are a racist, whether or not you are intentionally is another argument altogether. here's a small challenge: do you agree that the behavior of this female black police chief firing 5 male black police officers for killing a male black person (i would go further and put in the descriptor BEATING HIM TO DEATH but whatever) in the timeline she did it was appropriate? i actually say it should be quicker. i would argue that if i and four friends of mine went and BEAT SOMEONE TO DEATH, we wouldn't be waiting weeks for justice. why has it taken so long to release the video? but, for the sake of exercise, let's plsay pretend for a minute and take race and gender out of everything i said above: do you agree that the behavior of the police chief firing 5 officers for BEATING A PERSON TO DEATH in the timeline done was appropriate? yes? why isn't it done so quickly in other cases? would race have something to do with it? especially the race of the officers and the chief? whose race do you deem more important here: the victim or the perpetrators or the chief or the community being policed or what?
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