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https://twitter.com/lmcgaughy/status/1007695609221013506 See, there are a handful of mentions about homosexuality in the Bible, mostly old testament next to rules about cutting your hair and making women on their period go camping, I think there's one in one of Pauls epistles. Of course, you know what's in there a whole bunch? Money is evil, poverty is closeness to god, and Jesus said himself "Pay your taxes" and "stop hoarding money". zoux fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Jun 15, 2018 |
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/lmcgaughy/status/1007695609221013506 Yes, but churches are profitable companies that are also non-taxable. Why would they ever choose to include those parts into the sermon?
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Reik posted:I see a lot of Beto lawn signs in my Dallas suburb neighborhood. I'm not surprised. Hell, I see some here in Waxahachie.
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so anything fun happen at the republican convention other than the Cruz wing's dude hilariously taking over after pretending to have always been on the trump train and not running around on the convention floor trying to tell delegates to 'free delegates' to gently caress Trump?
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I don't know about you guys but even in my super red county, I don't get the impression that many of the GOP voters actually like Ted Cruz very much. Even though they will still vote for him, my impression is that many of them see him as the slimy opportunistic politician that he is, and I've heard many comments to that effect, even among people who are super right wing and obviously GOP voters.
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Zwabu posted:I don't know about you guys but even in my super red county, I don't get the impression that many of the GOP voters actually like Ted Cruz very much. Even though they will still vote for him, my impression is that many of them see him as the slimy opportunistic politician that he is, and I've heard many comments to that effect, even among people who are super right wing and obviously GOP voters. poo poo I didn't know you were in Texas too.
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Zwabu posted:I don't know about you guys but even in my super red county, I don't get the impression that many of the GOP voters actually like Ted Cruz very much. Even though they will still vote for him, my impression is that many of them see him as the slimy opportunistic politician that he is, and I've heard many comments to that effect, even among people who are super right wing and obviously GOP voters. They also don't like Trump that much either, at least on a personal level.
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George W. Bush, for as much of a disaster he was as president, is still pretty widely respected among this sort. I don't quite know why but he almost embodies a kind of patrician father figure? That has a lot of appeal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64MkJ1fe46c
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https://twitter.com/Dallas_Observer/status/1008099414202830848quote:Miller is the blonde, frosty-white smiled, big-personality stereotype of Dallas women, at least to people who don't live here. She drives a white Mercedes-Benz G-Class. She parks it at her home in Frisco. And every morning she cooks breakfast for her husband, Vaughn Miller, a real estate developer. Ever since she left her hometown of Jonesboro, Missouri, escaping to Texas in 1983 with her guitar player boyfriend at the time, Dallas has been her spot. She first landed in Houston when she was 18. She had spent her childhood in poverty, her parents on welfare, but as it is for any natural Dallasite, Houston was more than she could bear.
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He started painting portraits of wounded veterans which generates a lot of cachet with folks who lack a memory or critical thinking skills
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it feels like this is always code for 'too many minorities'. Like, I know the demos are about the same on paper but it always feels like everyone who says 'no I LOVE Dallas but I can't stand Houston' is one line away from bitching about rap music or something.
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dallas (dfw) is the worst (non-college-station) part of the state
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Shear Modulus posted:dallas (dfw) is the worst (non-college-station) part of the state
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Shear Modulus posted:dallas (dfw) is the worst (non-college-station) part of the state As someone from Waco, what about Waco?
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sexpig by night posted:it feels like this is always code for 'too many minorities'. Like, I know the demos are about the same on paper but it always feels like everyone who says 'no I LOVE Dallas but I can't stand Houston' is one line away from bitching about rap music or something. While I only lived in Dallas a short while that was my impression as well. Super white and boring as hell. Somebody told me when I moved here that Houston was “The New York City of Mexico” with the tone that this was awful and scary but it’s been awesome.
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Badger of Basra posted:As someone from Waco, what about Waco? at least if youre in waco you have a chance of dying in a fire (waco is pretty strong competition. its pretty loving terrible and i imagine it was made by someone drawing a box around TCU and the surrounding few miles and ctrl-c, ctrl-v ing it an hour and a half south) Shear Modulus fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Jun 16, 2018 |
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TCU played Stanford in the Alamo Bowl last year and after being downtown that weekend I'm pretty sure that was the whitest and most Trumpy and rich-rear end in a top hat-infested San Antonio had been in decades
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https://twitter.com/james4texas/status/1008109396663160832?s=21 Normal political party
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Badger of Basra posted:https://twitter.com/james4texas/status/1008109396663160832?s=21 Every time I see something like this for a split second I think they will finally start driving people away from the party but then I remember everything just shifts crazier with them. Two years ago every republican was giving some slimy non answer about how "build the wall" didn't mean a REAL wall and now they're putting forth bills to throw $25 trillion at it.
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sexpig by night posted:it feels like this is always code for 'too many minorities'. Like, I know the demos are about the same on paper but it always feels like everyone who says 'no I LOVE Dallas but I can't stand Houston' is one line away from bitching about rap music or something. There is a Parks and Recreation episode, wherein at a public forum there was an old white lady who opposed the idea of a new park javing a basketball court because basketball courts attract certain undesirable people. She is the living embodiment of Dallas.
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Those Dallas people would be infuriating (well, they are) if they weren't so funny, and they're funny because they think they're normal. Like the "lady" acting like she's living in Downton Abbey with the bag of Fritos lmao
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This is very local but Deb Armintor won a city council runoff in Denton: https://twitter.com/DentonRC/status/1008188708581978113 Armintor is a progressive-liberal UNT professor and was running against real-estate broker Aaron "Fuzzy" Newquist who actually secured more votes in the first round, but failed to get enough to win outright. What probably sunk his chances in the second round was this ad:  (Gregory, the city council member whose name is listed as endorsing Fuzzy on that ad, pulled his endorsement afterwards, saying it had an "underlying tone of racism.") The ad was specifically targeting voters in Robson Ranch, a suburban HOA development (houses in the $300,000-$700,000 range) to the city's southwest. A lot of landlords live there FYI. Illustrated by me with the wine glasses:   The ad lost Fuzzy some support among city "elites" who have preferred local races remain ... local -- and non-partisan. It also likely created a backlash and mobilized the numerically greater liberal voters who may have stayed home. In the end, Fuzzy only carried the more affluent (and newer) suburbs to the south and some western precincts that are too underpopulated to matter. Robson Ranch provided roughly 1/3 of his total votes:  They should break away and form their own city IMO BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 05:55 on Jun 17, 2018 |
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/lmcgaughy/status/1007695609221013506 LOL funny to see this guy pop up. He goes to every SA city council meeting and rants, quite a site to see. He really is prolific, I see him at every large political related thing in this city.
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Dameius posted:There is a Parks and Recreation episode, wherein at a public forum there was an old white lady who opposed the idea of a new park javing a basketball court because basketball courts attract certain undesirable people. Oddly, though, I know a few black folks who moved to Dallas from Austin and swear that Dallas is a better/cooler place for them to live than Austin. I legitimately have no idea what's up with that.
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LanceHunter posted:Oddly, though, I know a few black folks who moved to Dallas from Austin and swear that Dallas is a better/cooler place for them to live than Austin. The women like the Trumpette in the Dallas Observer article is more a living embodiment of North Dallas, or in her case, the less ridiculously affluent Frisco whites. Unfortunately, they're the image we kind of present to the world and is why the rest of Texas wants to destroy Dallas and salt the earth. We probably deserve it. But actually, we're a very diverse city. Please love us oh God we're so insecure. Edit: Dallas has a better gay nightlife too -- sorry Austin. BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Jun 17, 2018 |
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I've lived in Austin for two years and I don't have any trouble believing that at all. The city is white as gently caress.
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LanceHunter posted:Oddly, though, I know a few black folks who moved to Dallas from Austin and swear that Dallas is a better/cooler place for them to live than Austin. Dallas proper is way less racist than Austin. Austin keeps its racists within the city limits, along with a couple hundred thousand in WilCo.
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I like living in Dallas / DFW I'm not going to defend it beyond saying it's a fuckton better than Wichita Falls
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Was gonna say the cool things people find in Austin are probably white as hell. Dallas is also cool if you're Asian, Austin didn't even have an H Mart until this year.
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im in austin and have both rich tech friends buying condos on the east side and have poor norteno musician friends protesting gentrification poo poo kinda sucks around here recently also being twenty miles from the center and paying $1000/month in rent is bad too
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Austin is largely a town of pussy hats, especially when the suburbs are factored in. There's some genuinely good folks here as well and I dig a lot about living here, but Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio are considerably more diverse.
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Kunabomber posted:Was gonna say the cool things people find in Austin are probably white as hell. Dallas is also cool if you're Asian, Austin didn't even have an H Mart until this year. But also, because it takes effort to try [and also: you risk embarrassing yourself / revealing your ignorance and implicit racial biases etc.], there's a tendency for some whites to just go "gently caress it!" and become reactionary assholes and Austin is full of them too, or they drift over to the alt-right. The bigot's refrain is never "I hate you" but "why are you making me hate you?" Or "I tried to be nice and you rejected me so therefore you're the bad one."  They think they're the ones who are oppressed. They're wrong, but that's how the bigot's mind works. Anecdotally the Austin subreddit is a horrible place and the comments there are worse than the Dallas and Houston ones. Aliquid posted:im in austin and have both rich tech friends buying condos on the east side and have poor norteno musician friends protesting gentrification https://twitter.com/NaveedAJamali/status/1006219383100674048 ^ Actually a San Marcos guy but he was crewed up with a group that squared off in the East Side with anti-gentrification protesters:  Dude on the right's sister owned the cafe that was being protested. Though it's not really fair to Austin as those guys are scattered all over the state and have singled out Austin for their antics more than anything. BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 07:46 on Jun 17, 2018 |
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Shear Modulus posted:dallas (dfw) is the worst (non-college-station) part of the state Hrm what if you live in the panhandle?
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:I'm heading to the Panhandle tomorrow will send updates I'm already here - you will find that there is very little here. It's an uglier, less humid version of East Texas
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JosefStalinator posted:I'm already here - you will find that there is very little here. It's an uglier, less humid version of East Texas Land/rent is cheap, the net tends to be half decent because there ain't poo poo to do, and the roads are like a quarter mile wide. Tap water is funky and hard as can be. Oh and everything is brown due to a thin layer of dust you can never fully remove because parts of the area are still beatup and scarred from the Dust Bowl. Or at least that's how it was when I lived in Lubbuck.
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isk posted:Austin is largely a town of pussy hats, especially when the suburbs are factored in. There's some genuinely good folks here as well and I dig a lot about living here, but Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio are considerably more diverse. All anyone really needs to remember about Austin is that when the bombings started, the first couple victims were minority, and the police didn't bother investigating too hard because "you never know, they might have done it to themselves."
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Shear Modulus posted:dallas (dfw) is the worst (non-college-station) part of the state Someone hasn't been to east Texas. or San Angelo.
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Our Brave Land Commissioner doesn’t support this, but also it’s the Democrats’ fault https://twitter.com/by_jmiller/status/1007686570059673600?s=21
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