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We’reTexas

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  1. Dumb question from a transplant: is there really true in-person voting in CA? All Californians were mailed recall ballots. In San Francisco County, voting in-person voting is just filling out a mail-in ballot on-site. It’s pointless. Regardless of how other counties conduct elections, I’d think the universal mail-in ballot would undermine the national narrative of Dems voting by mail and R’s voting in person. But it should give Newsom an edge by making it easier for otherwise apathetic Dem voters to vote.
  2. My favorite was when baby Gaga began copying and pasting Facebook posts as arguments in the CRT thread.
  3. CNS News lol got a chuckle out of seeing a Hunter Biden headline for the first time in a while.
  4. Antone’s is still around but unfortunately it’s history and significance isn’t really appreciated, which is unfortunate because it’s one of those unique Texas things this thread is about. I’d add parisa in Medina County.
  5. We last drove through the area last October. Around Eureka (maybe Klamath) we saw a jacked up F-250 with a huge Trump 2024 sign. Couldn’t tell if the dude was a pessimist or an optimist.
  6. Oh yeah, I get what you mean. I was just pointing out that Cajun country is west and south of New Orleans, and New Orleans Creole is the product of the port city’s confluence of French, Spanish, Afro-Caribbean, Italian and Irish immigration. It’s a common misconception to conflate the two because they are from south Louisiana, but they have distinctly different roots. It’s all in the gumbo. I would argue there is definitely a “New Orleans restaurant”, but that’s for a different thread.
  7. Yep, lots of hiking. Eureka is kind of shitty but has a nice little downtown. Stopped in Crescent City once during a road trip and there’s a surprisingly nice brewpub there.
  8. Will vote no for the recall. Live in SF and signed both petitions to recall the DA (first has failed) and the school board.
  9. New Orleans creole Thai - northern, Isaan Vietnamese - being a Houstonian, biased to southern Chinese - Szechuan BBQ - CenTex
  10. FQF canceled, not like it’s a surprise at this point.
  11. It might work. I spent four months in NOLA during winter/spring. Bohemian oasis in the sea of MAGA fuckery it is, I found New Orleanians taking it as seriously as I’ve seen in the Bay Area. But more importantly, Louisiana gonna Louisiana. Once local governments discovered COVID fines were a cash cow, they were all over enforcement. It’s why contact-tracing lists were required long after they went out of fashion elsewhere. The issue will be with crowds hanging out on Bourbon. The city could never find a workable solution at the height of the pandemic (they even briefly banned go cups) and I doubt they will going forward.
  12. I want the city to be as smothering with its enforcement as it was last summer with its nonsense parklet rules (full meals, no standing, etc). I am tired of this shit. So happy it’s flat out full vaxxed too.
  13. I mean, I guess, but the FDA advises against it and another (non-peer reviewed) study found it had no effect whatsoever. But seriously, horse paste.
  14. San Francisco to require full vaccination for most indoor activities.
  15. Holy shit r/HermanCainAward? That’s incredible.
  16. I’m sure he’s never had a problem taking his shoes off at the airport.
  17. I don’t know if he started it, but he certainly propagated it.
  18. No, of course not. Apparently Joe Rogan completely misinterpreted a 2015 study on the phenomenon. From what I can tell, the current dominant variants, if you will, of ill-informed views on Texags/TD are (i) you can still get it/pass it so there’s utterly no point*, (ii) the vaccine is causing the super variants and (iii) IVERMECTIN!!!! *As a corollary, the eradication of polio appears to be a big “checkmate lib” talking point. I have no idea why. As it turns out, COVID led to a suspension of WHO’s polio immunization campaigns last year, leaving 30-40 million kids without inoculations. So aggy is fucking up polio, too.
  19. The common complaint on TexAgs seems to be that it isn’t apple-flavored enough.
  20. Alright, we have facts that can be readily observed and proven or disproven. Trump did not win the election, there was no voter fraud (and never has been meaningfully), Obama was born in Hawaii, John Kerry actually did earn those medals, there were never any WMDs and Saddan Hussein didn’t have fuck to do with 9/11. And there are phenomena that can be only understand through the scientific method, but have been so thoroughly researched that they are tantamount to fact: climate change is real and caused by humans, and humans evolved from apes. There have been hundreds of think-pieces over the past five years about the need for a common understanding of facts to have a social discourse, so I won’t go into that. But one can absolutely be comfortable in the conviction that another’s belief, perception or skepticism is incorrect. I’m not going to respect a person’s decision to deny the unanimity of modern medicine while they go to the fucking Tractor Supply and fight for the last of the apple-flavored horse dewormer. But more importantly, this ignorance (and that’s what it is) is the product of decades of misinformation by the conservative movement. You had, incredibly, never heard of Emmitt Till - do you know think the CRT thread would have gone differently if you had?
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