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  1. 1 minute ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

    Guess l give you points for cutting to the chase and being honest about it just being about not wanting “those people” that rail may bring. Would contend most of them wouldn’t be getting on or off the train at the maybe 1 stop that would be in Afron Oaks and would just pass thru on the way to downtown or the Galleria, but never gonna find out who’s more right about that anyhow…

    According to our Mayor, “those people” don’t go to the Galleria area so transportation for them is unneeded.

  2. 2 minutes ago, troph said:

    I respect your position. I haven’t made the purchase since he became a whackadoo. I won’t buy one for at least 3 years. I’m not selling my car. It’s not a present issue so let’s just move on. 

    Dude I’m not considering anything. I said I would buy the best EV at the time. 3-5 years from now. You fucking lost it on me. It’s a bit much man. 

    Fair enough. I get pretty worked up about shitheads that punch down and that’s all Elon does these days. I consider him to be a purveyor of hate and evil and I think he’s a danger. I want to live in a world of acceptance and, for some reason, I don’t think he agrees with me.

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  3. 18 minutes ago, hornian said:

    My wife and I went Rivian and never looked back. The R2 and R3 come out in 2026, but for us, the R1S is the perfect car. And the new refresh of the R1S has a 1,025 HP quad motor model that does 0-60 in 2.5 seconds that will be out next year. Since, you know, 835HP/2.9 seconds 0-60 on the current quad motor wasn't enough. 

    I’m seeing a lot more Rivians on the road lately. At first I didn’t know if I liked the look or not, but they’ve really grown on me. I’ll be interested in seeing the R2 and R3 on the road. 

  4. 2 minutes ago, troph said:

    Thanks for telling me how to be me. Lose respect for me for a purchase I haven’t made yet and may not make three years from now or not. I don’t care.

    hornian mentions rivian I haven’t spent one second looking at them or any other EV. When I need one I’ll look and pick one that makes sense for me. 

    I’m not telling you how to be. I’m just flabbergasted that you would even consider a Tesla at this point. You do you. You yourself said the decision could be open to criticism.

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  5. 4 minutes ago, troph said:

    And not to stay on the derail but hey …

     

    What about the restaurant we went to for lunch? I didn’t check. What about the waiter who served us? What about Old Navy, Lowe’s, Petsmart we went to today. Oh and then H-E-B and LuLu, what about Porsche, our maid, my kids teachers, our school board, city council, HOA, oh the state bar and each of my clients. Man I could go on and on. My activism has always been up for criticism, but I do it my way by being better than just about everyone around me and the fact that I’m trans doesn’t matter.  Then one day the hater finds out I’m trans but I helped him get rich, or bailed his ass out, or I’m their neighbor, or their fishing buddy or whatever and their view of how dangerous we are is shattered. So buying or not buying a car as a form of activism is for comfortable cisgender folks. My activism is just living a well adjusted life with a smile on my face and I don’t really need someone’s respect who has lost it because in 3 years I might buy another Tesla. 

    Did the restaurant you had lunch at have a big banner outside that said “Queers not welcome?” Does Charles Butt spread racist propaganda in his stores? When I shopped at my neighborhood HEB last weekend, it was totally decked out for Pride and the workers were wearing shirts that say Here Everyone Belongs. Maybe it’s window dressing since I live in the gayborhood. I don’t know. But I do know that I won’t support a business if it’s led by a person who openly and actively spews hatred. It’s pretty easy.

  6. 13 minutes ago, troph said:

    So which car companies are trans positive? Lead by CEOs and major shareholders who are trans activists? Reality is I’m not asking for your respect and I’m not buying another Tesla right now either. So your demand for ideological purity is first premature and second wildly myopic and simplistic.
     

    You can respect me or not, but I have to function in a world where every moment I’m dealing with people who might hate me with consequences that could ruin my life. it’s why I’m not fully open outside of this site. I think you fail to realize how impossible it is to live a life of ideological purity as a trans person in a cis gender world. we are not made for this world, we just are not. 

    I spend more time ignoring the hate or concealing myself than just about anything I do.

    So to be perfectly honest, buying a car is the least of my worries when it comes to living a fulfilling life where my family - my wife and kids the ones I promised a good life - are not dragged down by my constant personal existential crisis. 
     

    and then there’s the planet to save…

    and don’t take this the wrong way, I’m happy to talk about it more if you’d like. I’m not offended or upset I just think exercising your allyship is easy, living as a happy well adjusted trans person in society who can thrive and be a positive is really fucking challenging. 
     

    and in 3-5 years if a better EV is out there I’m sure it’ll be the one we buy.

    I have no idea which CEOs are trans positive or trans activists, but I do know a CEO that promotes hate and gives a platform to others to spread hate and attack others. It’s not ideological purity, as you put it, to make an easy decision not to support a company that is led by a super shitty human being that constantly punches down. You claim to spend more time ignoring the hate, and in this case, I believe it since you’re completely ignoring one of the main sources of promoting hatred. There are a lot of car companies out there and it’s easy to not support the one led by a bigot.

  7. 21 minutes ago, troph said:

    I might buy one again, depends on who makes the best EV at the time.  Would my decision be up for criticism? Sure. 

    Wow. Gotta say I’ve lost a little respect for you in this statement. You would be supporting a person who actively hates you and others like you and would prefer you don’t exist. Just driving a Tesla seems like a slap in the face to people like you, IMO. 

  8. 3 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    You've posted that on multiple threads now. It's even funnier that you, for some reason, care about people talking about the guy who has been the lead columnist for the hometown newspaper for the last 200 years. 

    Lulz, I had to go look. Right you are. I should probably go review my previous night’s posts when I post late at night while drinking. Still cracks me up how people get so bent out of shape about a hack columnist for a shitty newspaper.

  9. 21 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

    I went to watch this last night. What I felt about this movie is that the subject would have been better covered in a 1 season series. The movie ran a little under two hours and it felt rushed and parts were skipped. Austin Butler’s character blended fairly well with this cast. I wish Michael Shannon’s character had a bigger role, especially in a movie like this. I would have had him and Butler switch roles or at the least the positions in the hierarchy of the gang.

    Is Austin Butler still playing Elvis in this movie?

  10. 1 hour ago, troph said:

    How the market responds by driving stock values higher is somewhat irrelevant. I’ve driven two Teslas since 2017, I’ve found build quality to be fine - warranty has been good, helps to have 1/5 the total parts of an ICE car. I also find my 2016 X to be on par with 2021-2023 model cars when it comes to tech and features. You can hate all you want but Tesla forced innovation, changed the auto industry for good and is a dominant force and player. 

    It’s honestly shocking to me that you still own a Tesla given everything Elon stands for. How do you square supporting him financially while he foments hate?

  11. 8 minutes ago, troph said:

    that's amazing. RIP to her. #40dogs is our official hashtag when I used to post more on insta and I've got a necklace that says "fortydogs" in cursive my wife gave to me on my bday. 
     

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    love his music. Top 5 all time for sure.

    Looked at the necklace before I read the post and thought it said Farty Dogs.

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  12. 5 minutes ago, C-Man said:

    Co-Author of Louisiana 10 Commandments Bill goes on CNN and tries to defend this idiocy.

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/20/politics/video/louisiana-classrooms-ten-commandments-sanchez-ventrella-cnc-digvid

    Outdone by the fine politicians in Louisiana, Dan Patrick has a dad that Texas wasn’t first.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4733538-texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-ten-commandments

  13. 19 minutes ago, PvilleStang said:

    Which party enacted Robinhood / recapture?  I'll give you a hint: it was before Texas turned red...

     

    I think the bigger thing: it's political suicide to try to undo the current arrangement, as the benefitting ISDs are loving their golden goose and don't want to lose funding to their golf courses and water parks.

     

     

    Would diverting funds from those ISDs to fund private schools be political suicide? Because one party is going hard in the paint with that agenda right now.

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  14. 1 hour ago, ousux said:
    3 hours ago, Cairn Horn88 said:
    The cost of beer at stadiums 2023:
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    Froggy has to pack their stadium somehow now that we'll never play there again.

    Hmmm. I have season tickets at Amon Carter and go to 3-4 games per season. I would love to know where one can find one of these $3 beers. They do have a pregame “happy hour” special one hour before kickoff and even that’s $5 IIRC.

  15. 14 hours ago, tchookem said:
    15 hours ago, royiv said:
    Big improvement over Beto? Like him or not, he ran a competitive campaign against Cruz in 2018. Since then, Cruz has become even more unpopular in Texas yet he will clean Allred’s clock by a significantly wider margin. Allred is running the most milquetoast campaign I’ve ever seen. Solid D’s will still vote for him because he’s not Cruz, but he’s doing absolutely zero to excite voters on either side or down the middle. For a big rough football player, he’s taking it easy on wimpy Cruz.

    Beto did one thing... he got around Texas. I think that made a huge impact. Talking everywhere, red counties and blue. He actually listened and talked to them. I think it could work for Allred too. His football background will open a lot of doors easier than they opened for Beto. Now, getting his message across, I don't know about that. I think taking some suggestions from Beto might be a good idea. I'm sure suggestion one is to actually have a message.

    It could work for him. The problem is that he’s not doing it. At all. He has no message. He’s not visible. He’s not kissing hands and shaking babies. The dude is invisible. At this point in the campaign, Beto was everywhere. He was generating energy, he was meeting voters, he was holding town halls, etc. It was all getting tons of free media attention, both local and national. I follow politics more than the average bear and I’ve seen nor heard nothing from the Allred campaign since the primary and even then it was just annoying daily texts hitting me up for money. He’s been a totally disappointing candidate so far, IMO. I hope he can pull something together and make it competitive.

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  16. 7 hours ago, Chopper said:

    If you can't turn out enough voters who want to oust Ted Cruz (not saying you have to win, just that they need to motivate turn out) you're not going turn out voters in close down-ballot contests, as well. IMO. Also sorry to hear y'all think Allred sucks. I'm in CO so knowledge about Tx politics is limited, and was hoping he'd be a big improvement over Beto.

    Big improvement over Beto? Like him or not, he ran a competitive campaign against Cruz in 2018. Since then, Cruz has become even more unpopular in Texas yet he will clean Allred’s clock by a significantly wider margin. Allred is running the most milquetoast campaign I’ve ever seen. Solid D’s will still vote for him because he’s not Cruz, but he’s doing absolutely zero to excite voters on either side or down the middle. For a big rough football player, he’s taking it easy on wimpy Cruz.

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  17. 2 hours ago, 52-80 said:

    An interesting observation is how in a conversation solely about automotive manufacturing and finance you cant refrain from pivoting instead to other men and their assholes. 

    Freud would have a field day with that. 

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