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Lote posted:Yeah. Bryan and College Station can be it’s own thing. Like Montenegro or San Marino.
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:I was thinking North Korea. An isolated, nuclear-armed enclave that worships giant statues of football players. Fallout: College Station.
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It would be perfect for a Fallout game. I took a trip there once and was impressed by the gigantism of the A&M campus and the student troops marching around. If a totalitarian regime were to take over Texas, it would mold it in the image of A&M.
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May 17, 2018 21:46
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You could make a pretty good Fallout: Texas. They usually compress their space, like Fallout 3 crammed a lot of the farflung DC metro area into a much smaller space. Just take the next step and put all of Texas in one.
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May 17, 2018 21:54
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It even comes preloaded with its own cult, saving us from Bethesda's writing.
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An Aggie myself, I can't honestly dispute any of this.
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Dameius posted:It even comes preloaded with its own cult, saving us from Bethesda's writing. maybe we should try for Far Cry: College Station too then?
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This thread has made me realize Fallout College Station would own.
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No Safe Word posted:maybe we should try for Far Cry: College Station too then? I just finished FC5 and it could with minimal effort be in CS instead of Montana.
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I don't know if this is a coincidence or not, but Malcolm Gladwell's podcast did a thing recently on the possibility of Texas dividing itself. How when Texas was admitted to the Union, it was given permission to subdivide, and that congressional permission still legally stands. All it would take is action from the Texas legislature. I can see them drawing gerrymandered lines encircling the border lands, SA, Austin, and Houston and making that one big super liberal state and then dividing the rest into several red wastelands who would each send two Ted Cruzes to the Senate. edit: https://overcast.fm/+NG9L1B8JM
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duodenum posted:I don't know if this is a coincidence or not, but Malcolm Gladwell's podcast did a thing recently on the possibility of Texas dividing itself. How when Texas was admitted to the Union, it was given permission to subdivide, and that congressional permission still legally stands. All it would take is action from the Texas legislature. That would also have the effect of seceding the House permanently to Democrats
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May 18, 2018 00:45
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This will never happens, the US Constitution article IV, section 3 addresses how states enter the union. quote:New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress.
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yea all the "TEXAS WAS SO BADASS IT WAS GRANTED SPECIAL PERMISSION" stuff is 100% bullshit. The constitution is super crystal clear that when you join the union you don't get to just divide yourself up without federal approval.
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PostNouveau posted:You could make a pretty good Fallout: Texas. They usually compress their space, like Fallout 3 crammed a lot of the farflung DC metro area into a much smaller space. Just take the next step and put all of Texas in one. Only if Obsidian makes it.
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sexpig by night posted:yea all the "TEXAS WAS SO BADASS IT WAS GRANTED SPECIAL PERMISSION" stuff is 100% bullshit. The constitution is super crystal clear that when you join the union you don't get to just divide yourself up without federal approval. But my elementary school teacher said the flag was special!!!
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Despite it being in the constitution, it is not without prescident. Virgina split into 2 states when Virginia joined the union and West Virginia told them to gently caress off and joined the union as a seperate state. In theory, Texas could leave the US, split itself into multiple states and then the individual states rejoin the union. 
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Dameius posted:Fallout: College Station. I'd play it. And also a computer game set here.
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https://twitter.com/AP/status/997481601922629633 Santa Fe HS near Galveston. It's over, and remember to treat everything you hear reported over the next 24 hours skeptically. https://twitter.com/ScottMcGrew/status/997484633695469570 Good god zoux fucked around with this message at 15:39 on May 18, 2018 |
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:I think a San Antonio council member had also boosted the Bandidos at one point, but yeah, bad timing considering that last year the Fort Worth Bandidos leader got 45 years for murder. What always bugs me is what happens to the developments/contracts/public-private parnerships that are caught up in the scandal? Like, why aren't they seized and auctioned, or taken over by the city as part of the city? It's like how some contracts are established with bribery, and yet once established are honored no matter what comes out of the woodwork with respect to the getting them in place.
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JUST MAKING CHILI posted:This will never happens, the US Constitution article IV, section 3 addresses how states enter the union. sexpig by night posted:yea all the "TEXAS WAS SO BADASS IT WAS GRANTED SPECIAL PERMISSION" stuff is 100% bullshit. The constitution is super crystal clear that when you join the union you don't get to just divide yourself up without federal approval. Federal approval was granted, apparently, when Texas was admitted to the union (which I mentioned in my post). The podcast goes over what semicolons mean, the words "but," "nor," and other legal details. According to the podcast, Texas was offered the opportunity to subdivide because of the whole slave state/free state conflict leading up to the Civil War. It was just a fun diversion, don't get too worked up about it.
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Houston Chronicle is reporting 8 deaths so far: https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Shots-fired-at-Santa-Fe-High-School-12925050.php
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/AP/status/997481601922629633 How broken does your brain have to be not only to head over to a school shooting situation that may not be over, brandishing a gun, but that the first thing you think when you hear about a mass school shooting is “dammit they gonna try to grab ma gunz again” rather than be concerned and horrified?
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May 18, 2018 16:59
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is he the good guy with a gun
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Shear Modulus posted:is he the good guy with a gun We can confirm two out of those three things.
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duodenum posted:Federal approval was granted, apparently, when Texas was admitted to the union (which I mentioned in my post). The podcast goes over what semicolons mean, the words "but," "nor," and other legal details. According to the podcast, Texas was offered the opportunity to subdivide because of the whole slave state/free state conflict leading up to the Civil War. Yeah, I agree that it’s a fun thought experiment but it’s also one of those totally bogus Texas myths that really should be put to bed. Maybe it was authorized 170 years ago, but Texas isn’t splitting into five states now or any time in the near future of the United States.
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Zwabu posted:How broken does your brain have to be not only to head over to a school shooting situation that may not be over, brandishing a gun, but that the first thing you think when you hear about a mass school shooting is “dammit they gonna try to grab ma gunz again” rather than be concerned and horrified? They prioritize their toys over other people. JUST MAKING CHILI posted:Yeah, I agree that it’s a fun thought experiment but it’s also one of those totally bogus Texas myths that really should be put to bed. Plus there was that brief period where they left and came back that might have changed their entry concessions a little bit.
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Zwabu posted:How broken does your brain have to be not only to head over to a school shooting situation that may not be over, brandishing a gun, but that the first thing you think when you hear about a mass school shooting is “dammit they gonna try to grab ma gunz again” rather than be concerned and horrified? Also reminds me of that poker playing celebrity during the Vegas shooting who was livestreaming himself while asking a cop to hand him a weapon while bullets were flying around, and the cop was like "wtf no. I don't know you. Get away from me"
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https://twitter.com/TomNamako/status/997557776850268162 I'm so sick of this loving poo poo, that the only thing that doesn't cause these constant mass shootings is the availability of guns. Fewer loving doors, my god
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We need door control. The wide availability of doors cannot continue.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/TomNamako/status/997557776850268162 That sounds like an Onion headline. "In a stunning move, Texas okays universal background checks for door transactions, limits the amount of doors that may be owned and bans automatic and semi-automatic doors. Door-rights advocates outraged."
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VitalSigns posted:We need door control. The wide availability of doors cannot continue. Patrick doesn't go far enough in my view, though. Like a Texan Enver Hoxha, I believe we also need fewer windows and more bunkers. BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 00:02 on May 19, 2018 |
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duz posted:They prioritize their toys over other people. Well, in the spirit of this thought experiment, that's one of the arguments for - the Supreme Court has held that Texas never left the Union, it was just in rebellion. "When Texas became one of the United States, she entered into an indissoluble relation. All the obligations of perpetual union, and all the guaranties of republican government in the Union, attached at once to the State" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._White).
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/TomNamako/status/997557776850268162 lmao
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That's right up there with sea levels rising because of too many rocks. There is a specific kind of foolish reductiveness that some never grow out of.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/TomNamako/status/997557776850268162 Wow, just wow. Of course what are the kids supposed to do during a fire? All file out through the single point of entry/exit? Also if the school needed to evacuate and the shooter knows everyone comes out of one single door, wouldn't that just mean the new method of doing one of these shootings would be to pull the fire alarm and wait outside for everyone to be in a huge group? I now realize I have put more effort into thinking about this problem then Dan Patrick has.
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See the problem is that you have to start from step one of "you can't regulate guns in any way" and then try to come up with a solution.
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Zil posted:Wow, just wow. Clearly the answer to kids dying in fires is more fires, don't you see how this works. "Fight fire with fire" my pa always said.
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It's gonna be cool next session when they pass a school door bill and nothing else
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Badger of Basra posted:It's gonna be cool next session when they pass a school door bill and nothing else Arm the teachers! But don't let them strike! I'm dreading the next university shooting, when we'll start forcing professors to carry guns too.
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