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Celery Man

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  1. 2 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

    Mexican Mexicans aren't even the same. You got sing-song ranchero Mexicans up in Pancho Villa land, you got Regio Monterrey Mexicans who make natural Romney Republicans, you got your Tapatio in Guadalajara, your Jarocho in Veracruz who stepped right out of a 1930s movie about dockworkers, you got your Chilango Mexico City crypto-commie Buddy-Holly-glasses-wearing UNAM profesora, you got Yucatecos who are "Mexican" the same way the IRA love Queen Elizabeth, you got throwback almost Mussolini dudes marching down the street a bock away from the Workers' Party, (and since it's Mexico the graphic design is simultaneously retro and stunning), you got Yaquis don't know the Otomis don't know the Nahuatl speakers who amongst themselves have a bunch of dialects that theirs is right and all the others suck, you got Pocho-wannabees staring at their phones and saying weird English stuff like "Thanks God!" or "I must to go!", you got your Frenchies and Spaniards and Lebanese Arabs (called Turcos for clarity) and every nation of East Asia referred to as Chinos. You got your old-school Catholic, your atheist, your Jew, your crypto-Jew, your college kid thanking Tlaloc for rain, your Pentacostal speaking in tongues, and 3 or 4 Mormons. You got blond Mennonites selling cheese in the middle of the intersection speaking the most back-road Spanish you ever heard. The Mennonites, not the cheese.

    can you get a Mexican guy to do ^that like \/this?

     

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  2. I think Austinites broadly speaking love the cultural aspects of Texan-ness and dislike the political aspects of Texan-ness (and alternately love Austin's role as the haven of lefties and weirdos).  Strong disagree that that equates to Austinites not liking Texas or Texans.

  3. 24 minutes ago, Elvis said:

    An absurd waste of everyone's time and money to accommodate the smallest fraction of a percentage of the mentally ill population.  SJW eff off.

    except it's literally free and simply involves being a decent human being

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  4. 14 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

     

     

    It was a 400 Billion dollar deal that would create one million jobs in a clip NPR played earlier today.

    yep, heard him say it was a million jobs today.  riiiiiight.

  5. That, and plenty of hispanics who are not even remotely immigrants.  Poor hispanics, blue collar hispanics, middle class hispanics, upper middle class hispanics, rich hispanics.  Oil money hispanics, ranching hispanics.  Dudes named Juan who don't speak a lick of spanish but know the fuck out of SQL.  Dudes named Juan who wash dishes.  Etc etc.  Diverse in terms of country of origin (where applicable) and food/custom/etc but also in how they fit in and relate across all of the other socio demographic categories in a state which has been red for decades.

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  6. 2 hours ago, Lobo said:

    Interesting statistic...about 30 people move out of Austin each day.  Granted many of them are staying in Central Texas, but that's a decent chunk leaving every day.  Of course, that means a net increase of about 100/day, but that part doesn't get covered very much.  Austin I.S.D. is hemorrhaging students. 

    The "I would only live in Austin if it were the old Austin from 30-40 years ago" has completely jumped the shark.  When somebody wants to wax nostalgic, I'm the first to pull up a seat and chat having been here 25 years myself.  But if they make that declarative statement like they're being remotely original, I just pass 'em by.  Nothing new here except some cranky asshole bitching about other people deciding to have families here.  It's not new, it's not poignant, it ain't even interesting.  If you're green, you're growing.  If you're ripe, you're rotting.  Much of this country is dying, we're lucky enough to live in a place that's booming.    

    It is curious how some hardcore anti-immigrant Texans think a Mexican coming here to take a landscaping job or handyman service calls is somehow taking a white man's job.  But then a computer programmer from San Jose or an engineer from Newark or a finance guy from Chicago (whom are all either White or Asian in this scenario), those guys are literally coming here to literally take a job away from a Texan and somehow we just kind of accept that, make some anti-California joke, and move on.  One of them is coming here to just compliment the economy, the other is coming to Texas to literally snatch away a job from a white native Texan and you can't see the difference.  That's comical and that explains how our elections turn out I suppose /noCR

    Can't have the jobs at all without people moving here from out of state to take some of them.  It's a good thing.

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