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I think that it’s now safe to say that we Texans now live in a failed state.  30 years of GOP rule, setting our own standard, living the “Texas Dream,” which they’ve bragged about relentlessly…and let

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Young voters have to rise up and take this state back …..  

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We had three miscarriages between our first and second child, two of which were late and required D&Cs. Without them there's almost no chance we could have had been able to have a second. Fuck any

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i mean, when he said "the parents support it", that was pretty much the proof of the simulation.  Sadly, all through history the parents justifying the child-rape because it was a relative/clergy member/teacher/community elder/et. al. has been a huge enabler.  And the parents feel shame and then take it out on the kid of all people.  That's the whole fucking sadistic cycle right there in a nutshell, never mind the law itself.  it's this perpetuating cycle of "dammit Jimmy, respect the priest", "Come on Janie, you should marry old man Smithers from over the 'holler!"  or "Keep your mouth shut about this and quit tempting the coach with your cute smile and sassy curls young lady!"  

The kind of parents that speak up for 12 year olds entering wedlock maybe, kinda, sorta should be investigated.  That's a whole other "To Catch a Predator" spinoff series right there.  If you have a child under 18 and are invited by someone who wishes to ask for your minor child's hand in marriage, you have seriously fucked up in life and I hope you walk in like Tommy in "Goodfellas" to a barren room with easy-to-clean tile

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10 hours ago, YGIFS said:

i mean, when he said "the parents support it", that was pretty much the proof of the simulation.  Sadly, all through history the parents justifying the child-rape because it was a relative/clergy member/teacher/community elder/et. al. has been a huge enabler.  And the parents feel shame and then take it out on the kid of all people.  That's the whole fucking sadistic cycle right there in a nutshell, never mind the law itself.  it's this perpetuating cycle of "dammit Jimmy, respect the priest", "Come on Janie, you should marry old man Smithers from over the 'holler!"  or "Keep your mouth shut about this and quit tempting the coach with your cute smile and sassy curls young lady!"  

The kind of parents that speak up for 12 year olds entering wedlock maybe, kinda, sorta should be investigated.  That's a whole other "To Catch a Predator" spinoff series right there.  If you have a child under 18 and are invited by someone who wishes to ask for your minor child's hand in marriage, you have seriously fucked up in life and I hope you walk in like Tommy in "Goodfellas" to a barren room with easy-to-clean tile

Is some of this coming from the "trad fam" types who want the young males to be paired off before the female has a chance to develop her own ideas, thoughts, and plans for her future? Between the Andrew Tate types and the evangelical dating = courtship to marriage, it seems to be some of the same backlash against educated females being able to leave unsatisfactory and/or abusive marriages w/o becoming destitute or when males decide to trade in first model for updated younger model, again, not plunging the first wife into disarray because she can advocate for herself. In our culture, there is still a fair amount of 'boys pursue sex' with no family/societal shame but girls are not "permitted" to admit to have desires period. (Eve in the garden syndrome). It's toxic for whatever gender to which it's applied.

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1 hour ago, Bookman said:

Contrived? Do you dispute that Texas state taxes are regressive by design? 

I am not really disputing anything. I pointed out that the way the data in that tweet are cut and presented is contrived. Like if you look at that tweet and the first thing that enters your mind isn't "Why is 19% of the income distribution missing and why were those particular segments selected, in particular the combination of the middle 60%?", we can't be friends.

 

Now, I can guess why those decisions were made, and I will probably be right. Thus my original comment.  

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1 hour ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

*watches the Texas GOP wrestle with their angry Frankenstein base in the front yard*

https://www.newsweek.com/texas-independence-republican-party-court-1856413

 


please do it, today

 

harris, bexar, travis, el paso, fort bend, couple of dfw counties are fine staying in the US as the new Texas 

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1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

I am not really disputing anything. I pointed out that the way the data in that tweet are cut and presented is contrived. Like if you look at that tweet and the first thing that enters your mind isn't "Why is 19% of the income distribution missing and why were those particular segments selected, in particular the combination of the middle 60%?", we can't be friends.

 

Now, I can guess why those decisions were made, and I will probably be right. Thus my original comment.  

Don't think that's "contrived" but I see your point. 

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2 hours ago, Anastasis said:

I am not really disputing anything. I pointed out that the way the data in that tweet are cut and presented is contrived. Like if you look at that tweet and the first thing that enters your mind isn't "Why is 19% of the income distribution missing and why were those particular segments selected, in particular the combination of the middle 60%?", we can't be friends.

 

Now, I can guess why those decisions were made, and I will probably be right. Thus my original comment.  

Still doesn't change the top 1% or bottom 20%.  

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Don't think that's "contrived" but I see your point. 

"having an unnatural or false appearance or quality"

I think that use fits the situation. The cut and presentation of those data are unnatural and create a false appearance, for the reasons that I pointed out previously.  But either way, not something to bog down on. The caption that accompanied the tweet was "Texans actually pay more in taxes than Californians do, unless those Texans are in the top one percent of all earners." That caption is objectively false, and that is obvious if you look at the full dataset (available at the ITEP website).  In fact if they cut the data differently and you could get at the median income level, I would bet a good sum of money that the data actually show that the majority of Texans pay a lower percentage in state taxes compared to CA.

 

57 minutes ago, TDunk said:

Still doesn't change the top 1% or bottom 20%.  

Agree, I would also like to the see the bottom 20% broken down in 1, next 4, and next 15. Or even better, maybe the entire data set broken down by 5% intervals. 

 

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11 hours ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

*watches the Texas GOP wrestle with their angry Frankenstein base in the front yard*

https://www.newsweek.com/texas-independence-republican-party-court-1856413

 

I'm just guessing, but I assume the same sort of person who wants Texas to secede is also scared of Mexico. Do they think that the <50% of the population who'd stay, leaning heavy on goobers, nuts, and geezers, are going to stop La Marina if Mexico starts drinking tequila and says "Fuck eet?"

Or is the play in their mental world that Texas just sorta pretends to be a country, all them libtards leave, everybody gets a deep voice again, and for some reason Big Daddy US Military still swoops in when commanded to because Lo, Behold How Big Our Cigars Are?

Or have I already thought this through more than the secesh have?

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2 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

I'm just guessing, but I assume the same sort of person who wants Texas to secede is also scared of Mexico. Do they think that the <50% of the population who'd stay, leaning heavy on goobers, nuts, and geezers, are going to stop La Marina if Mexico starts drinking tequila and says "Fuck eet?"

I've told all the secession types I know something along the lines of "Texas has 30 million people, more Hispanics than whites, far more Catholics than Baptists or any other group, and shares a 1,200-mile+ border with 127 million Catholic Mexicans with half-a-million active troops, and you think things are going to go well for Texas if we secede with our mighty 2,800 DPS troopers and our heavily gutted 19,000-member Texas national guard (which will lose all of its heavy gear to the feds, and a big chunk of the Guard will probably leave Texas as it is)????"

None of these people ever stop to think about that. 

These are the idiots who think that if shit hits the fan, the dozen or so deer that they think are on their property are going to keep their family fed, regardless of the dozen+ armed families that live within a few miles. I had this very conversation with a relative earlier, who tried to brag about the number of deer on their property and they seemed to think our ancestors lived off of deer.  I had to explain to them that deer was practically a delicacy back then and you were more likely to be eating fish, squirrels, and rabbits, especially if shit hit the fan in this day and age -half the deer population would probably be killed off in the first month or two.  People don't realize how much meat they eat.

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"having an unnatural or false appearance or quality"

I think that use fits the situation. The cut and presentation of those data are unnatural and create a false appearance, for the reasons that I pointed out previously.  But either way, not something to bog down on. The caption that accompanied the tweet was "Texans actually pay more in taxes than Californians do, unless those Texans are in the top one percent of all earners." That caption is objectively false, and that is obvious if you look at the full dataset (available at the ITEP website).  In fact if they cut the data differently and you could get at the median income level, I would bet a good sum of money that the data actually show that the majority of Texans pay a lower percentage in state taxes compared to CA.

 

Agree, I would also like to the see the bottom 20% broken down in 1, next 4, and next 15. Or even better, maybe the entire data set broken down by 5% intervals. 

 

Twenty percentage intervals. 
 

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https://itep.org/whopays/california/

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https://itep.org/whopays/texas/

of course, I can’t read all of the image. I have no doubt you will correct my interpretation of these charts, which is the top 20% of income earners pay 15.9% of state expenses in Texas, and 31.7% of state expenses in CA.https://itep.org/whopays/california/ 

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6 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

None of these people ever stop to think about that.

Long range planning, even for the off-the-grid types, still takes them by surprise because of the little details to which we've become accustomed. If, for example, secession was not a peaceful transfer of all the various entities, and even if they and their neighbors formed a little militia under some sort of agreement, one little siege would likely lead to capitulation. The reliance on so many things that we take for granted suddenly become evident. Safe water and food seem simple and yet...cell service and being able to travel to buy whatever seem simple and yet...to what lengths is one willing to go to survive? History and the past show us, when we aren't too blind to see it or illiterate to read it...

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Thanks for posting. I’ve never read the full story. Truly amazing. “We don’t want someone who’s biased running our journalism department, unless they’re biased towards our politics.” 

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6 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

I have no doubt you will correct my interpretation of these charts, which is the top 20% of income earners pay 15.9% of state expenses in Texas, and 31.7% of state expenses in CA

LOL. You’re trolling.  

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Long range planning, even for the off-the-grid types, still takes them by surprise because of the little details to which we've become accustomed.

Being cut off from SuperCuts and Chili’s during COVID 19 took a lot of these people by surprise and broke them.  

Who knew a lack of access to cheap haircuts or shitty appetizers would cause panic attacks among the preppers?

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Being cut off from SuperCuts and Chili’s during COVID 19 took a lot of these people by surprise and broke them.  

Who knew a lack of access to cheap haircuts or shitty appetizers would cause panic attacks among the preppers?

You’ll have to pry my southwest egg rolls from my cold, dead hands.

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Being cut off from SuperCuts and Chili’s during COVID 19 took a lot of these people by surprise and broke them.  

Who knew a lack of access to cheap haircuts or shitty appetizers would cause panic attacks among the preppers?


they can just door dash 

 

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Is some of this coming from the "trad fam" types who want the young males to be paired off before the female has a chance to develop her own ideas, thoughts, and plans for her future? Between the Andrew Tate types and the evangelical dating = courtship to marriage, it seems to be some of the same backlash against educated females being able to leave unsatisfactory and/or abusive marriages w/o becoming destitute or when males decide to trade in first model for updated younger model, again, not plunging the first wife into disarray because she can advocate for herself. In our culture, there is still a fair amount of 'boys pursue sex' with no family/societal shame but girls are not "permitted" to admit to have desires period. (Eve in the garden syndrome). It's toxic for whatever gender to which it's applied.

Get them before their brain develops is also their education/religion policy.
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I wonder how the "Come and Take It" crowd would react when they realize they'd have to stop at a border crossing and show their passport to visit the Golden Nugget in Lake Charles or when they get off the plane and go through Customs in Vegas, etc

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I wonder how the "Come and Take It" crowd would react when they realize they'd have to stop at a border crossing and show their passport to visit the Golden Nugget in Lake Charles or when they get off the plane and go through Customs in Vegas, etc

Laugh now, Libtard, but stand in front of a mirror so you can watch your own jaw drop when Louisiana, Vegas, and all the non-California Southwest join Tekshas after they secede too. They'll be sort of probationary Texans, or maybe separate-but-almost-equal Texans. They'll love it.

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I wonder how the "Come and Take It" crowd would react when they realize they'd have to stop at a border crossing and show their passport to visit the Golden Nugget in Lake Charles or when they get off the plane and go through Customs in Vegas, etc

I would just cut off Texans from traveling in the US for a decade following secession.
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Any ut alumn that still supports or votes for the Texas maga gqp slate, should be repeatedly kicked in the balls 

they’re on a mission To tear down the school and rebuild it as the university of trump at austin 

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I would just cut off Texans from traveling in the US for a decade following secession.

Here’s what I would do:

I would send in the First Army from the North and the Third Army from the east. Any service US service members in Texas that seceded and/or took up arms against the US would be summarily executed. The 2nd & 5th bomber wing would destroy any targets way before the armored divisions enter. 

Any citizen that materially aided the secessionists would be tried and jailed.  

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment would be sternly enforced, thus no Texan alive would be allowed to hold office until a Texan born after secession reaches age. 

Guns would be banned in Texas. 

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When the Cato Institute says your dead last in personal freedom

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/politics/yall-itics/texas-rankings-last-dallas-personal-freedom-cato-institute/287-91807d11-1b84-4886-9482-e53096276558

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Reality doesn’t live up to reputation when it comes to freedom in Texas.  The Cato Institute, a Libertarian think tank, recently updated and expanded its comprehensive study “Freedom in the 50 States,” which measures economic, social and personal freedoms at the state level.

And according to the study, Texas ranks dead last in personal freedom.

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We define freedom in a very traditional American way, right? It’s the right to use your life, liberty and property as you see fit, consistent with the equal rights of others,” William Ruger told us on Y’all-itics. “And then we look at these policies and we, again, we call balls and strikes and this is where it ends up.”

William Ruger, one of the study’s two authors, has been working on the freedom rankings for 15 years. This is the study’s seventh edition. Ruger, a one-time Texas resident himself, says many Texas leaders resist the notion that our state ranks last in any category, much less the freedom category. And he says they assume something is wrong with the study.

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But Ruger says the study is sound as they look at more than 230 different policy issues, so he argues there’s too many for any one issue to push the state over the ledge.

In the personal freedom category, those policy issues range from gambling and educational freedom to marijuana and alcohol freedom. They even look at incarcerations and arrests.

 

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