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Out of curiosity, was reading through posts from February to see how this board reacted to the Murphy commitment and LOL:27 points
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bitching about immigrants not paying income tax while simultaneously bragging about paying immigrants with cash so they can avoid paying income tax. i did not have that on my bingo card.17 points
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If you told me in 2009 we’d be wandering the wilderness for the next 12 seasons, be TCU’s bitch and only play for 1 Big 12 championship under 4 diff head coaches in those 12 years, I’d assume you got lost in the Amazon and stumbled upon some plant no human has ever seen and you ate it.14 points
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The dude gave you half of your username and then you disparage him like that...fucking yts.13 points
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Jerry O’Connell : you want to see a dead body Corey Feldman : nods Jerry takes Corey to see Tate’s football career.13 points
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I believe Charlie's dad and grandfather were roommates here.12 points
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Also, just a sideline to discuss immigration in general, philosophically, because it's come up twice in the past few days in our family. First, took my old man out for his birthday this weekend. Now that he's alone, he's doing a lot of reminiscing, and wants to talk about family history and whatnot. So he got talking about his parents, including the chapter where my grandfather and his family fled CDMX under a flag of truce during the revolution, probably around 1912-13. They were loosely affiliated with the regime, and had a price on their heads, so they hauled ass with what they could get in a wagon and headed north. My great grandfather knew a man he'd done business with in Del Rio. He reached out to him when they reached the crossing. The man -- god knows who it was -- was an angel to my family. He had an extra small house that was unoccupied, and he told my family they could stay there as long as they needed to. And they did. They eventually got jobs, paid rent, etc., although they never moved back to CDMX. When the heat died down, and my grandfather was older and working in Del Rio, he would eventually go back to visit, and ended up buying a ranch in northern Mexico and moving his family (including my to-be-born dad) there. So, bottom line....a chunk of my family arrived in Texas literally as refugees fleeing a war, just over 100 years ago. They found safety and shelter here, provided to them by one Texan in particular. It provided them a launching pad to rebuild their lives, and provide for the next generations. I am a grandson of not just immigrants, but a refugee. And the second story was the message from my son today, in Berlin. He's over there to study, but he still needed to go through the German immigration office process to get his study visa. It's an intimidating process -- lots of information, details, and paperwork, and you know, orderly Germans. And, an 18 year old boy who often has his head up his ass. He had to take two trains for an hour to get there. He arrives, and their rule is that you need a KN95 mask (everywhere else, a surgical mask will do). So in the 6 minutes before his appointment, he sprints down the street to buy a pack of masks. He comes in, and there's an Iranian dude at the window, facing the same conundrum -- "I don't have that kind of mask." The boy breaks open the three pack and says "I got you, dude," helping out a grateful man in the immigration office. He commented that the office was full of a cross-section of humanity, all there to do some work towards their status in Germany. The interview was entirely in German, and the boy's German is...ok, but not fluent (that's why he's there). He had to walk through the whole bureaucracy, worried about whether he would get his visa, stumbling through the interview some. But he got it. And when we talked through the process after he got home, he said "the visa I was applying for was one of the easiest ones to get, the rest are harder. Mad respect for immigrants in ANY country." That thought really hit me. He's a young man with resources, people who really helped him get prepared, and plenty of safety net behind him. Many immigrants are not. They are living their lives out on a limb, working and hoping for that next chance, for the visa to come through, or even just not to get caught so they can stay safe and alive in a country illegally. We all can and should believe both that countries should have borders, and an orderly system, AND that human beings crossing borders should be treated humanely, and that we should be as generous as we reasonably can be with opportunities. I'm here because of compassionate people in America who opened their doors to a refugee. A lot of you probably are, too. It's a huge part of our national story. It's a huge part of who we are.10 points
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That’s odd for a program with such a strong moral compass.10 points
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I gave your dad a tonsillectomy last night*. *since no one was stepping up to make a mom joke10 points
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We can absorb them. We choose not to. Notice how Haitians are treated vs. Hispanics? Up until a few years ago (do not remember the year), but if a Haitian and a Cuban stepped on Florida shores at the same time and were detained, guess who got sent back with no hearing. And for the record, the Haitians have better rum. Do not fool yourself. Mexico does not stop Central Americans from crossing into Mexico to appease the US. They do it since for everyone who gets here one less Mexican can. We absorb what would be a powder keg if everyone HAD to remain. I just was told I am running a ag development program in Haiti starting this Spring. I cannot wait. I love that place. The sadness is around you, but a strong and proud people. I have lived there. I have worked there. I would move there again. Culturally they are not "Latin American" but are more akin to West Africa. Think Liberia during the shit years. That is Haiti always and we have no problem letting it be that way. Concerning our aid to the island. Other than a few solid NGO's, it is a joke. It is where the UN trains their peacekeepers to go to Africa. It is where lies are told. It is not one party or the other, it is both. I believe in our foreign policy through aid. I hate how we handle Haiti.10 points
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That's all nice Brisket, but have you considered the cost to the rest of us? Thanks to America letting you in, we have to put up with all these fucking words in your posts. There's just too many.9 points
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Go back to the football board.9 points
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Why should we hear about the vast majority of them when most were probably pissed off teenagers who probably spent the night at a friends and were back the next day. If thats the point you want to make, let me know the actual number of indigenous people missing in Wyoming now and how that figure compares with other races. blatant misrepresentation of data annoys me whether it supports my positions or opposes them. Thread derail over.9 points
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I am really irritated with BLM in NYC at the moment. Rather than talking about how Vaccine mandates can disenfranchise people of color and protesting on the UWS, use your outreach and get more people of color to get vaccinated. At this point, I do not care what race you are, if you have chosen to not be vaccinated, you should be shunned. You are part of the problem. Fuck you.9 points
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If it is any consolation, Eddie Resse has led Texas men's swimming to 10 consecutive Big12 championships and 5 of the last 6 national championships. Hook 'Em8 points
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There sure is a shit-ton of angst for a recruiting class currently ranked 3rd on 247.8 points
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This is completely shocking and I for one am greatful that our $9.95ers would never ever stoop to such schenanigans:8 points
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This is why Casey is our destined QB to lead us to the promised land. It's fucking storybook.8 points
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This is at least a principled and dignified way to go. Not sap resources from others and quietly die alone in a mess of your own making. Props to this lady. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk7 points
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Everyone's favorite FAFO subreddit was profiled on Slate. https://slate.com/technology/2021/09/hermancainaward-subreddit-antivaxxer-deaths-cataloged.html7 points
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most of the negative impacts are far more harmful for the immigrant family than the rest of us, and that's to what i was referring. we have guys like fatty paying an undocumented worker in cash with no sense of hypocrisy or irony. we've driven them underground and artificially lowered the cost of doing a good job because they have no means to appeal it, or they risk deportment. it's actually fucking tragic.7 points
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Get the vaccine, or don't. I don't give a shit. Just don't go to the hospital when you get sick cause fuck you.7 points
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After Backe got in that brawl, Lance Berkman was on one of the sportstalk shows and I think Zierlein asked him some question like "What is Backe's deal? How do you end up fighting cops at a wedding reception?" "Well, the thing you have to remember about Brandon," Berkman replied, "is that Brandon is not an American. He is from Galveston."7 points
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Wonder how many posters will do a walk-by to scope out the crowd that shows up and just keep walking.7 points
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Let’s see: Repeated glorification of rape, check. Threatening members of the board and their families with brutal violence, check. Consistently trying to act like know-it-all insider while being consistently wrong, check. Being a sensitive little bitch about his supposed cousin, who is a grown ass man and can clearly take care of himself, check. There are many more minor things but I’ll leave it at that.7 points
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