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Siding with the working class. America first in tech, economy, and education. Unapologetically American. Chess & Dog lover
Free State of Florida
Joined February 2022
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I wonder if Mr. Robinson lives in a run-down, crime-infested neighborhood and eats food that he gets from Walmart?
I love this song. It's haunting and sorrowful.
Graham Parsons' voice is so emotive.
About his mother, who died of complications from drinking on his HS graduation day.
"Her words were her memories / Her friends were the best / But she drank all day and the night also / To balance the rest"
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My neighbor Frank
You don't need to be rich to enjoy Florida water. You need redneck engineering, an inflatable SUP, a lawn chair, and a $12 umbrella from Dollar General. 😎
Florida Man doesn't take no for an answer. He Cletus-Clampetts a yes together and breezes past the jet skis like a drunk Tim the Temu-Tool Man Taylor.
The climate change yacht people are still miserable in floating air conditioned prisons. This guy is floating on a pool toy like he owns the Gulf of America...
Want happiness? Be like Florida Man. 👍
I was a National Merit Scholar about a hundred years ago.
It wasn't reserved for the school's top students. It included anyone who hit a specific test score.
I aced the math and scored just high enough in language to squeak past the cutoff.
Heritage High School in Frisco, Texas National Merit Scholar group. Careful, they don’t like when you notice things.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
National Merit Scholars qualify via top ~1% PSAT/NMSQT scores in their state. Selection is solely score-based and race-blind; no quotas or displacement of others.
nationalmerit.org
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They are acting like Americans, not Indians.
Eff the haters.
I support this video 100%
The Druid were on the island known as Ireland first.
The Irish slaughtered them and replaced them.
And then the Irish migrated to the USA.
American Nativists desperately wanted to keep them out in the 1840s but failed.
"Or to put it another way, this tweet/photo might be the worst argument for the "smart" anti-immigration cause, because it is simply racist/retarded argument."
To add to the deluge ---
What's funny about this is it might be single worst image to argue against immigration.
These are probably children of high skilled Indian immigrants (mostly around Dallas area), who came for jobs in IT, engineering, and finance. Most are probably citizens now, as are their parents, and they have done very well, by all measures.
High skilled Indians are as model an immigrant group as you can find, by whatever metric, you look at. For Eco types they add to the GDP/capita, so graph goes up (they do not end up on social services, they are gainfully employed.) For the social fabric types, they have strong families, low crime, high social functionality, and so that graph also goes up.
For the cultural realist types (things like group characteristics are real, and matters), Hinduism might be the OG prosperity theology -- the idea that material success is evidence of cosmic/divine favor* -- so they fundamentally align with the American Dream.
That these kids are at the game, indistinguishable other than ethnicity, is snapshot of all of that. American kids being American kids.
Maybe your argument is we need a time-out and so you want a new Johnson-Reed Act to halt immigration for several decades to a trickle, to allow a period of assimilation, to strengthen the social fabric, to put American workers first, etc.
But even that act wasn't a freeze, and wasn't neutral, favoring immigration from different cultures over others, specifically at the time Northern Europeans (and Latinos because farming industry lobbying), and any new act, based on the same SimCulture mentality, would almost certainly want the kids pictured below.
Or to put it another way, this tweet/photo might be the worst argument for the "smart" anti-immigration cause, because it is simply racist/retarded argument.
*PS: That is an over-simplification, but the reality is high status Hindus don't have any problem reconciling their faith with career ambition, and wealth. The reconciliation was done long ago, as anyone who ever attended an Indian wedding can tell you. Gold Gold Gold
Hilarious clip of Shane Gillis explaining why Alabama football desegregated
youtu.be/_g7DOAxcZnU?si=4HlG…
If you told me that Richard Hanania tried to whip up racial resentment by painting with broad strokes with a single person's tweet, I would have assumed it was a day that ended in Y
If you told me that one day there would be Texas Republicans openly embracing white nationalism, I would've assumed blacks and Mexicans would be their main targets.
Instead, it's Indians.
This reflects how Republicans have become the party of losers. They're no longer worried about crime or minorities getting welfare. The energy is all coming from society's most bitter failures. richardhanania.com/p/they-ev…
Florida Man V retweeted
I'm gonna break this gently to you: the Top 5% Any Texas High School actually works against Indian-American students, who are more concentrated in the most competitive top academic high schools in the state.
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Replying to @iowahawkblog
I think this is wrong. Communities that don't give a shit about their schools get to put their top 5% into the best states universities. That is not equality- that is equity.
The best students should get the slots.
Florida Man V retweeted
The University of Texas (and TAMU) heavily emphasize instate admissions, more than pretty much any other prominent state school in the USA. It's notoriously hard to get into as an out of state student.
Their automatic admissions program does a great job of recognizing merit without penalizing kids from poorer school districts. Graduated in the top 5% from a Texas public high school? Congrats, you're in. Home schooled or non traditional school with a 36 ACT or 1570 SAT? Congrats, you're in.
That's why these guys are at UT, not some secret conspiracy. Anyone on this hellsite claiming that their precious 5.0 GPA 1600 SAT "Heritage" child was denied admission to UT is lying through their teeth.
admissions.utexas.edu/apply/…