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It's mind-boggling, frankly. It's possible he was approached and declined, but I have difficulty believing that.
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Absolutely, but that's a tough nut to crack when you live in a city full of young single adults like Austin. The average age here is very young, which doesn't typically lead to terribly thoughtful voting. Unless you have a plan for shifting the demographics significantly, it's not going to change. Austin is not a kid-friendly city (surprisingly bad in terms of schools, available activities, etc. - especially when it was known as a good place to raise kids just a generation ago), so most parents get the heck out of here once they hit a certain age, leaving young childless voters to elect similarly minded goobs into office. Most of the parents left here are those who can afford million+ homes and private schools, along with the high tax rates and general cost of living, so not a huge group. It's not really any worse than a city dominated by old folks, though, where absolutely nothing is ever approved if it costs money and nothing ever changes. It will be interesting to see if Austin's demographics age at all over the next couple of decades with all the transplants sticking it out, or if we continue to see people reach their thirties, settle down, and then get the fuck out to someplace with affordable housing and decent schools.
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I know that there's a cultlike movement out there to ban circumcision that can grab hold of those so inclined, but to feel that strongly about circumcision can only mean one of two things: He is the rare recipient of a botched circumcision; He's not circumcised and is upset that women, in significant numbers, prefer circumcised cocks (which might be the only reason needed for continuing the practice). Otherwise, holy shit. Comparing it to female circumcision is fucking loony.
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Completely agree regarding the police failing to do their job. They're only one part of the system, though. When the other parts will do absolutely nothing at all, there is plenty of blame to go around. The police can arrest every homeless person in town over and over and over but it doesn't solve anything and doesn't get those folks the help they need. Despite a couple of attempts to paint this with a partisan brush, it's possible to think the police in Austin are useless and sandbagging while at the same time lamenting the failings of the criminal justice system and mental health resources available to address things as well. Our DA sucks, our police department sucks, and our city council sucks. All of this can be true without political sides coming into play. Austin is a failed city on many levels, and the blame for that can be spread around widely, including up to the fuckery of the state government and its influence here. But locally we're a complete and utter embarrassment of a shitshow. Admitting as much shouldn't be shameful if you don't let politics get in your way.
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'Too late to edit, but I should have credited JFK with the Community Mental Health Centers Act in the early sixties. That's what emptied all of the government-funded hospitals. Add on the lawsuits that made it extremely difficult to commit someone involuntarily, and the gutting of funding from the feds on down, and you get what we have today. We prioritize autonomy above all else in America. In general, I support this. It's who we are and how we got here. But sometimes, things like beneficence, justice, or just plain old ethics dictate that autonomy should take a backseat. The homeless/mental health crisis is one of these times.
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No doubt Reagan and the congressional R's are responsible for gutting crucial funding, which remains a major issue to this day, and they deserve all the heat for that. State politicians deserve their fair share as well. Here in Texas the waitlist for the state hospitals is atrocious, all while we sit on a giant rainy day fund. It's stupid. However, the ACLU is responsible for making involuntary commitment damn near impossible. While well-intentioned, their actions have as much or more to do with the volume of mentally ill people on the streets today than the lack of funding. You can't force these folks to get help, and without that stick, many won't get it. Then you have cities like Austin, where the complicated scales of justice and fairness rarely tip towards reason, and you have a DA who refuses to prosecute these individuals just about anyone, perhaps with good reason due to mental health issues, but is just fine releasing them back on the streets to attack another innocent bystander rather than have them wait for a hospital bed in a jail cell, which sucks for them but is better for society. There has to be a way to force someone like that into treatment or otherwise get them out of society where they are clearly incapable of functioning and pose a threat to others. The abuses of the past don't mean we can't find a humane way of dealing with sick people today. The rock-throwing homeless piece of shit is back at it in the NW Hills area after having done countless amounts of damage to vehicles and injuring numerous people. He's been arrested numerous times, only to be sent right back out there to harm people. All you have to do is stop showering and act a bit nuts, and you too can get away with attempted murder in this town. The end result of these policies is that he's going to kill someone, and/or he'll piss off the wrong driver and they'll kill him (which obviously isn't exactly helpful for this mentally ill man). Doing nothing just encourages citizens to take matters into their own hands, which none of us should want. These are wholly failed approaches that result in a worse situation for the sick individual and for the rest of society. The answer to getting homeless people housed and cared for is involuntary commitment and treatment (not in all cases, obviously, just when medically necessary - which is extremely common in that community. Otherwise, we can all just continue volunteering at shelters and donating money to well-intentioned nonprofits, which will undoubtedly do some good for those few who seek help, and meanwhile the mentally ill homeless will continue to lead miserable lives and cause harm to our communities and never improve their situations. It's all fucked and makes me angry just thinking about how screwed up it all is with little that can be done.
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And that reason? The ACLU.
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Well, yeah. I meant not the type of dumbass one typically associates with pit bull ownership. These folks are dumbasses for sure, just educated dumbasses, making it all the more mind bottling.
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Tiny-dicked Dumbfuck with Guns Meta-Mega Thread
Samson's Wig replied to Beau Vine's topic in Daily Texan
Well, if there were ever someone I might support being shot... -
The latest get your ass back in the office story: AT&T
Samson's Wig replied to Buzzrock's topic in Daily Texan
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A pit mix attacked our dog while my wife walked him last week. The pit lives in a house with kids, which blows my mind. They are seemingly ordinary folks, even though they both work in IT, with a stone-cold killer living in their house in a nice neighborhood (the point being these weren't dumbasses training their dog to fight or anything along those lines, this was a family pet). The owner couldn't do shit while my wife kicked his dog repeatedly, trying to break it up. Neighbors came to the rescue eventually. You shouldn't have an animal if you can't control it. The dude couldn't even pull the dog off, or wasn't willing to (he also won't answer his door when I've knocked on it a few times since to try and discuss what happened - so he's basically just a pussy). Dealing with the city over something like this isn't pleasant, but dogs like that should be put down, and the people who own them should spend some time in jail after an attack happens. Where I'm from, that dog would already be buried, but we're following civilized city-folk guidelines here, i.e. waiting for the authorities to ever do anything, knowing that they probably never will. Fuck pits and their owners.
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I don't know how anyone can keep this straight.
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Hygge is a joke. Danes are happy because they expect everything to go terribly. When things are only mildly shitty it's like a wonderful surprise for them. In general, they are a nation of sedated cows, contentedly chewing cud while simultaneously waiting for the sky to fall. An excellent social safety net and general blandness of existence will do that to a people. It has a quiet beauty to it, but doesn't leave room for much vitality, creativity, or inspired living. It also doesn't leave room for much poverty, anger, or resentment. In short, this woman clearly went inside to take a shit and died of boredom while sitting there trying to feel cozy about her constipation.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Samson's Wig replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Are they really, though? -
Bullies making fun of my kids
Samson's Wig replied to Fluoxetine HCl's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
Same here, and agreed. -
Bullies making fun of my kids
Samson's Wig replied to Fluoxetine HCl's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
It sucks, given how completely fucked up school policies are regarding situations like this, but the old-school ways are sometimes still the best ones. Teach your boys how to break someone's nose. If they are slight of frame or just can't throw a punch, they're likely carrying around steel water bottles which will do the trick just as nicely. One time is all it will take, and no one will fuck with them again. Should be the oldest boy and then make sure word is spread that if anyone fucks with his brother, they'll get the same treatment. It's not pretty, it's not progressive, and it will come with consequences. But those consequence might be worth it depending on how badly this is fucking up your kids' mental health. -
The APD should shut the fuck up and do their job. The citizens here are young, entitled morons and vote accordingly, but voters in every city are one flavor of stupid or another. It's no excuse. The local government is a complete clown show, unfortunately. Abbot and co. have worked for years to figure out a way around home-rule cities, and Austin is their primary target. They've chipped away for quite a while now, and I fully expect they'll force control of Austin one way or another in the not-too-distant future. Austin has not done itself any favors with the complete shit show it has devolved into. If a takeover somehow magically results in funding for our schools staying where we fucking pay them, I might even begrudgingly support it. I'm tired of my kids not having available drinking water while suburban kids run around in palaces that we subsidize for them. AISD was a hairs breadth away from being taken over right before the pandemic and got a hall pass due to the shit show of the last few years. It's hard to imagine anything got better in that time (we all know it has gotten worse). So we're likely a year or two away from the state in charge of the schools, and after this latest turn of events I'm sure they're figuring out how to take over APD. There won't be much left for the city to do but continue to bend us over for water and electric rates while delivering terrible service and build more bike lanes for those two or three old guys to use every now and then.
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It's not easy putting on the nonsense show Baptists insist upon, whether you're a minister or a member of the congregation. I don't miss it a single bit. I'm not sure it's a good thing that ministers have slowed down the wholesale slaughter of their middle-aged wives so they can now focus singly on diddling kids, but I suppose it's a "one step at a time" type situation. With any luck, there won't be any Baptists left in another generation or two and everyone will breathe easier - especially women and kids.
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Allen Outlet Mall Massacre
Samson's Wig replied to DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt's topic in Daily Texan
You sound so sure of yourself, and yet . . . -
Tiny-dicked Dumbfuck with Guns Meta-Mega Thread
Samson's Wig replied to Beau Vine's topic in Daily Texan
I'm conflicted. I might have equal disdain for a pencil dick who carries a gun when out for a jog and a jackass who doesn't leash his dog. Hmmmm Any way to put both of them in prison? My folks live in a very rural area where asshole city folk drop their dogs off when they get tired of them, which, from time to time, leads to packs of aggressive wild dogs attacking people. I don't fault someone in that scenario, especially an older person, for carrying protection. The linked story above sounds like it was in an urban/suburban area though. -
MaybeACoordinator has passed away - Official Farewell Thread
Samson's Wig replied to Brisketexan's topic in Daily Texan
Damn. Seemed like a really good dude. I never met him in real life, but I enjoyed his writing over the years and enjoyed his posts here. Here's to going out with as much grace and dignity as possible. -
Want to charge your Tesla? That's a blasting!
Samson's Wig replied to DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt's topic in Daily Texan
Really? I know that Elon stans and Maga types have melded into a single hivemind of sorts, but I still see progressive-looking tech dorks driving them (although that could be simply a function of the fact I'm surrounded by them where I live. I just assumed most Maga types can't afford a Tesla. Thanks for ruining this for me. -
Flight disrupting assholes Thread of Shame.
Samson's Wig replied to crash_davis's topic in Daily Texan
I'm glad to see a Yankee break the continuous string of Texans acting like assholes in this thread. It seems like flights in and out of DFW are involved in at least half of these incidents, with Atlanta coming in a close second.
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