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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Jesus. It’s worse than we thought
  2. I’m sorry I don’t have one goddamn second for purely representational arguments about what color of well connected ivy-leaguers get to talk.
  3. The government is carrying out literal purges and these silly mfs are worried about who gets to talk on cable news. We are cooked.
  4. Wordle 1,525 4/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  5. Oh right. I think I had some $20 chilaquiles there a few months back. It was decent but expensive and full of insufferable single millennials with loudly ticking biological clocks glaring at each other.
  6. There’s this joyless vegan restaurant on Toomey. I can’t remember the name, but it’s fucking terrible. You’d love it.
  7. I’ve never heard of Joann’s. Some kind of clip joint, I take it? Do scantily clad women sit down at your table and strike up conversation before asking you to buy them some Cucumber Fingers?
  8. I never order that drink because most bartenders make it so poorly, and a bar one is legit terrible.
  9. What’s gone underreported is the new admission requirement that the brow of applicants be inspected for the outward signs of moral defect or onanist tendencies.
  10. If you are looking for a model, go see Community First Village on Hog Eye road. People say that’s too expensive, but in reality it’s much more cost effective than anything else, for the simple reason that it works.
  11. The irony is that Bernie has been on the receiving end of the purity tests as often as not- Hillary Clinton and The Groups burned him at the stake for suggesting that rural Vermont and New York City should have different approaches to gun regulation.
  12. Opening this thread like
  13. Thank YOU for giving a fuck about the human being sitting in front of you in a world where most people just look away.
  14. Well, there you have it. Nothing ventured and predictably, nothing gained. The problem in a nutshell. It depends on the person- there are a lot of populations involved here but I wouldn’t use labels at all when talking to a person. I’ll ask how long they’ve “been outside,” or “where do you stay.” Hurt and wounded isn’t a bad sign, though- it’s a sign of life. The more comfortable a person is with their homelessness the less likely they are to get out. You know, this is a funny one. Giving people money is a dilemma because a most of them do use it in irresponsible ways, very often to hurt themselves. They will buy food and necessities, but even those choices are often bad. I don’t want to help pay for the fentanyl that kills someone. On the other hand- giving them money gives them some agency back, and also shows that they are cared for and therefore worthy of attention. They feel visible . It’s tough. My problem is that I don’t like just walking by. So what I try to do is carry around $2 bills and give those away, because they don’t see many of those, and they think about it before spending it. They see it as a possession.
  15. So… this is an incredibly good example of the distance between the academia, policy think tanks, and ideology that powers the progressive movement and the people the movement seeks to serve. I understand you are coming from a good place, but it really doesn’t. Im not picking on you. This is a PSA: “Unhoused” does not provide more dignity and less stigma. It obscures reality and confers the moral license to look away. I spent years actively volunteering with the homeless. I’ve cooked for them, cried with them, washed their feet, raised money for programs, spent the night with them at the cold weather shelter and so on. My wife volunteers with a homeless support program. My mother was homeless, and died as a result of her homelessness. So that’s my bona fides on this. People who actually spend years with the homeless mostly hate the term “unhoused.” It reduces an extraordinarily complex and devastating syndrome to a real estate problem. They are not just ‘unhoused’ people. They are homeless people, which is to say they are trapped in a self-reinforcing process of slow dehumanization, spiritual/psychological decay and isolation. To call them “unhoused” implies that the problem can be solved by providing housing only, or housing first, and that simply isn’t true. In some ways that’s as bad as sending them back to the jungle or to jail, or perhaps worse than jail, since jail offers the remote but occasional possibility of stabilization and rehab. Anyway, sorry to go off- but I speak for a lot of people on this one. Just say homeless.
  16. What David French doesn’t understand yet is that the law can’t protect what people in power won’t protect. One side is doing politics. The other is doing politics by other means.
  17. Skinny women can do this for you:
  18. About a year ago at some kind of community forum in Austin I saw a (white) TravCo Democrat put a question to a woman like this: “as a member of the east side LatinX community, what do you think of this proposal?” And this lady looks confused and says “as a member of what?”
  19. Good. Do you then understand why it might be a problem to call people LatinX if they don’t like that term?
  20. Are you saying that it’s fine to call a trans woman “he” or “him?” Everybody loves big titty white women
  21. I understand your point (and I think you get mine) but: if people have preferred pronouns I want to know and will use them. I also don’t want to misgender people, or deadname them, or for that matter even mispronounce people’s names. Or call people by a married name if they either didn’t take it or got rid of it. It’s important that we don’t disrespect people by assigning them an identity they don’t accept. It’s not the same as gender, clearly, but the problem with “LatinX” is that it disrespected many Hispanics who didn’t and don’t see themselves as LatinX. At best, it presented progressives and Democrats as hopelessly out of touch, but for some it is offensive.
  22. Well, that and Democrats campaign like they are trying to win a high school debate when they should be trying to win a popularity contest or sell a product.
  23. CSB: many years ago some local politicos thought I was considering a run for something. One of the local Republicans met with me, and when I reminded them I had a long and public history of voting and supporting Democratic stuff essentially the message was - we don’t care what you’ve done in the past and aren’t going to dictate any positions in the campaign. We only thing we ask is that you not criticize President Bush or the Governor. If you can handle that, we’ll help you with whatever you need to win. Then the local Democratic people came to see me. Their message was - you’re trying to skip the line, and that *may* be OK but you need to meet with this list of groups and clubs, and you better get your check book out and contribute to these people and these causes. Once you do that, we can revisit the topic. And that was for an office that had been held by a Republican! And the Republican who ended up running won.
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