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Texas Republicans have decided on a platform that includes abolishing minimum wage, cancelling climate research, banning the teaching of evolution at schools, and repealing the voting rights act, among other things, but hilariously (or depressingly) the one thing on this laundry list that people are angry about is their plan to "rehabilitate" homosexuals, a practice that many say is harmful.
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Don't kiss an elephant on the lips today.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 10 2014, @12:11AM
I wasn't aware that SN was trying to become HN 2.0. I don't like this moderation system, but that was a minor grievance (especially since I rarely comment anyway). The fact that anonymous users are penalized is ridiculous, but I was willing to look past that. However I won't tolerate this. Nope nope nope nope. Sorry, I don't come here to see clueless americans bickering about their laughable political system and patting each other on the back for being "so progressive!" I've had enough of your stupidity. Time to find another place to get my news. Good luck with whatever it is you're trying to achieve here.
(Score: 2) by hubie on Tuesday June 10 2014, @01:52AM
What is HN 2.0?
I'm also curious how the lameness filter works. I couldn't post just the above sentence because of too many caps.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday June 10 2014, @02:06AM
Homeshopping Network? I was thinking, "Walmart, clean-up in aisle Five!" (too soon?, or not Texas?)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 10 2014, @02:31AM
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday June 10 2014, @07:25AM
In some places, they refer to Tejas as "Southern Wyoming". All hat, no cattle, who shot JR?
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday June 10 2014, @03:29PM
The hell? Texas doesn't even share a border with Wyoming. It's 2 freakin' states away through Colorado and (Oklahoma|New Mexico).
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 1) by redneckmother on Tuesday June 10 2014, @04:29PM
Check out the historical maps of Texas. An early one can be seen at https://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/atlas_texas/texas_land_grants.jpg [utexas.edu] and shows parts of current New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Wyoming were once "Texas".
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday June 10 2014, @04:55PM
Even on that map, Texas barely has a border with Wyoming.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday June 10 2014, @06:53PM
You didn't get it? The "some people" who say this might be Americans, and that means they are "geographically challenged" (See Miss Teen South Carolina, 2007). Or it was intended to be a spiritual relation, the kind where Petroleum substitutes for cattle ranching, and brings about intellectual decline, moral collapse, and the rise of rather bizarre Republican party platforms. And Cheneys.
(Score: 1) by Yog-Yogguth on Tuesday June 10 2014, @12:06PM
I'm wondering if the AC meant Huffington Post (or am I too getting the name wrong?). I kind of sympathize with his general point and I think a lot of people are sick of the Republican/right vs. Democrat/left charade and fake debate. Neither does it matter if anyone or everyone thinks they're all on the right (because right is bad and they're all big government racist fascists I mean look at their history [wikipedia.org]) or all on the left (because left is bad and they're all big government racist fascists I mean look at their history [wikipedia.org]), it makes no difference.
One has to stop ideology (it's a circus of vampires). One has to stop putting everything in one great big bag or sausage where the vast majority of people don't get any power to debate and decide among the nearly infinite possibilities on each specific issue.
And most "issues" aren't and shouldn't be political at all: like leaving people the hell alone even if you don't like or agree with whatever. Those are cultural and social issues and ultimately politics doesn't help but only makes it worse.
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(Score: 1) by Refugee from beyond on Tuesday June 10 2014, @06:56AM
Considering how my own country like to 'import' foreign ideas (all the while wailing about how everything outside of us is zomg teh bad) I'd like to keep an eye on those things. But then again, Russia don't need no stinking lessions in being idiots about sexuality among other things.
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