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Offline Michael Hardner

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Texas Culture
« on: July 06, 2017, 11:29:47 am »
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/10/americas-future-is-texas

Looooooooooooong read, but it has it all:

-Bathroom bills
-Right to Carry
-Religious nutbars
-Hunting Pigs from Balloons

And the inevitable slide towards chaos that we will be following, unless things get *really* bad, in Canada.

Read it before posting here thanks.
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Offline cybercoma

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Re: Texas Culture
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2017, 12:17:27 pm »
The best damn beef barbecue in the entire world.
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Re: Texas Culture
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2017, 10:05:44 pm »
I have been slowly working my way through the article. It is, as you say, a long read.

So far the article addresses the objections I was expecting to raise before I started reading:

 -Texas isn't a monolith (anymore than Alberta).
 -rural/urban divide is highly prominent ("FM Texas" vs "AM Texas" as the author puts it. again much like Alberta.)
 -gerrymandering gives rural voters overrepresentation.

Still working my way through... have yet to reach the part where we determine why Texas is "the future" or why this may come to Canada as well.  As Canada's electoral board is a supposedly non-partisan and independent entity, we should be less subject to gerrymandering.

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Offline Michael Hardner

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Re: Texas Culture
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2017, 05:37:52 am »
Spoiler: they don't ever really explain WHY Texas is the future, but nonetheless you can see things going this way at least stateside.

Hint: Leave your browser tab open to the article and nibble at a paragraph or two at a time.
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Offline Michael Hardner

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Re: Texas Culture
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2018, 08:00:35 am »
http://deadstate.org/candidate-for-texas-school-board-preschool-will-make-your-child-a-homosexual-muslim/

Texas culture BUMP BUMP BUMP

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Mary Lou Bruner, a Republican candidate for the state school board of education in Texas, is getting some media attention for a series of bizarre Facebook posts about pre-K programs.

In the posts, she alleges that “The GLBTQ agenda is one of the big reasons the liberals want 3-year-old and 4-year-old children to attend public school Pre-K programs. The federal government wants to indoctrinate the little children, teaching them a homosexual marriage is just as good as a marriage with a father and a mother.”

These claims, which come on the heels of a Facebook post in which she claimed that President Obama worked as a prostitute in order to score drugs, suggest that Bruner has an odd fixation with homosexuality as well as a distinctly surreal worldview.
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Re: Texas Culture
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2018, 08:58:04 am »
Quote from: MH on April 28, 2018, 08:00:35 am
http://deadstate.org/candidate-for-texas-school-board-preschool-will-make-your-child-a-homosexual-muslim/

Texas culture BUMP BUMP BUMP

by the by: was there ever a statement, an explanation, as to the rationale/meaning behind a somewhat catch-all attachment of the word 'culture' to the many, many thread titles where it has been applied?
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Offline Michael Hardner

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Re: Texas Culture
« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2018, 09:08:49 am »
I had decided earlier in my new job that 'everything is culture'.  Which is a purposeful overstatement about how important culture is.

As such, I was framing many posts as culture questions.
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Re: Texas Culture
« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2018, 10:42:55 am »
Quote from: MH on July 06, 2017, 11:29:47 am
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/10/americas-future-is-texas

Looooooooooooong read, but it has it all:

-Bathroom bills
-Right to Carry
-Religious nutbars
-Hunting Pigs from Balloons

And the inevitable slide towards chaos that we will be following, unless things get *really* bad, in Canada.

Read it before posting here thanks.

I think this para explains everything (Spoiler alert!):

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Evan Smith, of the Texas Tribune, has closely followed thirteen legislative sessions. He noted that, even as Dan Patrick and his Republican allies slashed government services, they allocated eight hundred million dollars for border security. “White people are scared of change, believing that what they have is being taken away from them by people they consider unworthy,” he told me. “But all they’re doing is poking a bear with a stick. In 2004, the Anglo population in Texas became a minority. The last majority-Anglo high-school class in Texas graduated in 2014. There will never be another. The reality is, it’s all over for the Anglos.”
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Re: Texas Culture
« Reply #8 on: May 01, 2018, 10:01:09 am »
The place belonged to the Mexicans first anyway. They have just found a way of taking it back without a war. :)
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