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Listened to the live Q&A session tonight. The director of planning came off pretty sharp but pretty much every other person, including Superintendent Segura, came off pretty unprepared and incapable. The call started late, had technical difficulties, then had 10+ min of the consultant moderator going over needless administrative points before they actually got to the Q&A. Anything on this topic should always be prefaced with the fact that AISD is only in this position because of the restrictions that state and federal govt have put on them; give the district $800M more in funding and all of a sudden every body with kids in AISD would be more than satisfied. I am focused on SW Austin and here were my other takeaways: Seems like they focused more on distance than commute when redrawing zones, which is stupid as fuck. They moved a bunch of people from Gorzycki to Small middle school, meaning families are going from a 1 min commute to a 20+ minute commute even though the distance is only a couple miles different, because to get to Small they’ll have to go thru the Y (290/71 split) in Oak Hill. To their credit they said they are looking at it so I have hope they’ll fix it. This was the only change that affected my family so I’m hopeful, but if they don’t fix it a ton of well-resourced people are going to be fucking pissed. It doesn’t seem like they put much thought into how many families will go private due to these changes and how that will affect district funding. Eanes being its own thing is really fucking up the high school zoning. There are a bunch of kids in SW Austin that are gonna get royally fucked having to go all the way to Crockett or Austin High instead of Bowie, when really most of them should be going to Westlake if they aren’t going to Bowie. Segura gave lip service to a question about transfers for folks who purchased a home specifically for the schools they were zoned to; he said they were looking at it, but my takeaway is that those people are fucked. Same thing around families who have been rezoned between kids and want their subsequent kids to go thru the same vertical the previous kids went to. Overall most of the responses were non-answers, especially during the academic and transfer portions.
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This is the exact way leading Democrats should be speaking about anyone associated with the GOP. “Dumb motherfuckers” “fucking liars” “evil pieces of shit” “shitty morons”…these should all be commonly repeated.
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Thanks for posting. I read that when you posted it earlier. There’s some bullshit in there but overall it’s a pretty clear picture of why Thiel is evil and crazy.
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I think Thiel is one of the top 10 worst human beings on the planet. Super rich, super crazy, super evil. A true 21st century Bond villain. He basically single handedly decided who would be vice president. Scary shit.
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What exactly is “speaking out”? I think a lot of people, myself included, are “speaking out”. That shit isn’t working, and the next step involves a lot more risk.
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I think a major question of this moment is: at what point do sane people engage in violent resistance? Trump has clearly done a lot of authoritarian shit over the last 9 months, so why haven’t we seen widespread violence in opposition of those things? It’s one thing to talk shit on the Internet and lament how crazy/bad things are. But if all these things are as bad as most of the regular commenters on this thread are saying they are, then doing shit like message board banter, voting, peaceful protest, etc. is all weak, pointless, and woefully inadequate. Of all the commenters talking shit about people downplaying things, I am pretty sure none of them have actually done anything other than whine about how bad things are and maybe donate a few dollars to opposition groups. But taking meaningful action involves serious consequences. It means risking your life and the safety of your family. That’s a different animal. And for just about everyone, the tipping point for choosing that path hasn’t yet arrived, and it’s very very difficult to determine what that point will be and how to recognize it when it gets here. I do think there’s a chance some real shit could go down on Oct 18.
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War on Woke? Lately Trump looks like he’s fighting a War on Stroke…and losing.
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There are really only 2 types of candidates the Dems should be fucking with: the type you just described, who rail against the GOP and the crisis they are creating (using a lot of cuss words while they do it), and the type like Talarico, people who can effectively challenge the notion of the GOP as the party of religious people. These milquetoast Allred McGrath types are fucking losers.
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McCormick and Garcia are for sure gone. Only one of Dubon or Urias will be kept. Jesus Sanchez will probably be dumped. Trammell and De Los Santos are potential non-tenders. All totaled, if they cut/trade Garcia, McCormick, Sanchez, and Urias, they’ll enter the offseason $30M-$40M under the CBT threshold. If they were also able to shed the bulk Walker’s salary they’d be in really good financial shape; $50M-$60M is a very healthy amount to work with considering their needs (2 SP and a backup C).
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Have you ever been married? THATS WHY THEY HATE IMMIGRANTZ!
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Do I get to start the James Talarico thread?
Snake Diggity replied to tchookem's topic in Cloak Room
Anyone still saying “Trump has a plan” is a hopeless moron. That person is not worth wasting one second of energy discussing politics. Fuck that dude and everyone like him all the way up their ass. Also, Talarico doesn’t lay out his legislative plan in any given speech, for 2 reasons: first, he knows that’s not the way to generate campaign momentum in an election like this, and second, he’s running for Senate, not President; I don’t think it makes much sense for a senate candidate to lay out a bunch of legislative priorities they determine <1% the vote for. Also, it’s pretty find out where he stands on the issues and what his legislative “plan” would be as a Senator, if you’re willing to spend 15 minutes looking on the internet. -
I think that guy might just be the 2nd shittiest human being on the planet.
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My wife, setting up her new phone: “Surry, play some music. Surry, play some music. SURRY! Play some music. SURRY!…” Me: “What are you doing. Are you trying to say ‘SIRI’?” Surry. wtf.
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That’s the most disheartening part of all this. The powerless feeling that my only option is let the fuckers win by pulling my kids out of AISD and putting them into private schools. I REALLY do not want my kids going to a religious school and really don’t want to close them off from experiencing diversity, but I’m also not going to let them get a shitty education. It’s all fucked. Fuck the state govt all up their ass with a hot iron poker.
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We got rezoned to a lesser rated middle school which is 3 times further away than the middle school we were previously zoned to. Cool. And fuck my life.
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