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  1. DanRydell
    They had no reason to know I did not have a warrant, or a weapon in my car.
  2. DanRydell
    Yes. I will absolutely disagree with that.
  3. DanRydell
    Yup. No use of force policy is going to result in the right decision being made 100% of the time. But errors should be made on the side of underusing lethal force, not overusing it.
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    It's not that exciting. I was 17. I was pulled over with some friends while driving around on Halloween. I was asked to get out of the car, which I did. I was told I was pulled over because my car matched the description of a car that had thrown an egg at a small child and caused him to fall and break his arm. I don't know if that was true but they repeatedly tried to intimidate me into allowing them to search my car so I deduced they didn't actually have enough to search me or they wouldn't keep asking for permission. I told them to go ahead and detain me if they have probable cause to do so but otherwise I'm going to go ahead and leave, walked toward my car while telling them to go fuck themselves, got in my car, and drove off with my friends. It wasn't the best way to handle things but I was a teenage shitbag libertarian know-it-all.
  5. DanRydell
    I've walked away from cops and into my car while telling them to go fuck themselves. I didn't get shot. I didn't even get arrested.
  6. DanRydell
    There’s a reason it’s called the slippery slope fallacy.
  7. DanRydell
    There's quite a difference between a song that was written by someone who happened to be racist and a song that was written to be performed in a minstrel show whose title adopts a Robert E. Lee slogan. I'm not saying the latter means the song should be banned or cannot be enjoyed or appreciated but if you're going to have an honest dialogue about it, you can't completely misrepresent the history like that.
  8. DanRydell
    I think at most schools the AD actually pays the full tuition to the university so it's a bit of a windfall to the university since the marginal costs of enrolling an additional 250-300 students are certainly less than tuition for each of those.
  9. DanRydell
    You're incredibly butthurt for someone who started a threat to complain about other people of being butthurt. You're outraged that a woman was widely derided for engaging in the adoption version of poverty tourism, exploiting that for her commercial gain, and then pulling the parachute when the going got tough and making it clear that despite her bullshit, he adoptive kid was clearly less valued than her bio kids.
  10. DanRydell
    For someone who fancies himself a major player in this game, that was one of the more disastrous HOH reigns I can recall.
  11. DanRydell
    TDCJ has always kinda done this. If you’re Jewish or Muslim, you’re not forced to eat pork but the alternative is just a double serving of whatever non-meat item was being served.
  12. DanRydell
    TDCJ has always kinda done this. If you’re Jewish or Muslim, you’re not forced to eat pork but the alternative is just a double serving of whatever non-meat item was being served.
  13. DanRydell
    It’s weird how the cities your ilk deem to be shitholes (Austin, NYC, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, LA, DC, Chicago) are also regularly among the most in-demand cities in the country.
  14. DanRydell
    Unfortunately thanks to people like you there is little correlation between good decisions and popular ones.
  15. DanRydell
    Or rather than do dumbass shit like tax people on unrealized gains, tax income instead. If people don't want to pay high income taxes, they can earn modestly.
  16. DanRydell
    That’s because property taxes are dumb and should be replaced with income taxes.
  17. DanRydell
    Because Hollywood a business and people don't buy tickets to original movies anymore. 3 of the 25 highest grossing movies in domestic box office last year weren't sequels, remakes, or based on some sort of existing IP.
  18. DanRydell
    Plenty of us with families also think suburbia is a total fucking hellscape.
  19. DanRydell
    double post
  20. DanRydell
    Of course. My whole point was that it’s property values forcing people into the suburbs, not property tax rates.
  21. DanRydell
    The City of Austin has a lower property tax rate than a lot of the suburbs, including Kyle, Bastrop, Cedar Park, Elgin, Hutto, Lago Vista, Leander, Liberty Hill, Lockhart, Manor, and Pflugerville.
  22. DanRydell
    The sources of that $2 billion are city property taxes, CapMetro funds, and federal transportation funds, none of which are allowed to be spent on AISD schools.
  23. DanRydell
    It’s an elected office. Self-aggrandizing is part of the gig.
  24. DanRydell
    Is that dumbass shit really your response? Christ I’d forgotten what an insufferable shit you are.
  25. DanRydell
    I’m not aware of any other non-profits whose President blew the whistle on them like this so unless you are then no, there aren’t any similarly situated organizations to single them out from.

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