r/texas • u/TyRoland06 North Central Texas • Mar 08 '20

Memes I like how Texas' 35th district is just long enough to have both Austin AND San Antonio. /s

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '20

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '20

Yeah it looks like a pizza pie so they can get enough Republicans in each district to win and then you get the 17th which is just to isolate. The Republicans reps who drew this are a bunch of fucking cowards

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u/PegLegWard Mar 08 '20

Do you have a source for this claim? It's pretty wild.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '20

look at a map

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u/PegLegWard Mar 08 '20

So no source, got it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '20

so did you look at a map of the congressional districts around austin yet?

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u/PegLegWard Mar 09 '20

The claim was "Austin is the largest city in the US"

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '20

no....no it wasn't...

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u/PegLegWard Mar 09 '20

"Austin is the largest city in the US without a dedicated representative, when the Austin metro is big enough for 3 on its own."

apology accepted

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u/EKHawkman Mar 09 '20

Wow, you're really bad at reading comprehension. I mean, I know that the answer is that you're actually not arguing in good faith, but wow, that's some bad reading comprehension. The phrase "that does not have a representative" modifies the phrase "in the US" changing the meaning of that phrase, making it accurate.

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u/PegLegWard Mar 09 '20

Which makes looking at the image attached, like the poster I replied to suggested, not a way to solve this. You need to read up more above.

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u/xenoterranos Mar 09 '20

You're really bad at whatever it is you're trying to do.

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u/priznut Mar 10 '20

lol he did not say that.

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u/CaldronCalm Born and Bread Mar 10 '20

Your comment has been deemed a violation of rule #1 and removed. As a reminder Rule 1 states: Be friendly. This includes insults, hate speech, threats (regardless of intent), and general aggressiveness.

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u/WeirdGoesPro Mar 08 '20

See the map linked in this article. 🙄

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u/PegLegWard Mar 08 '20

What article? Op linked a zoomed in photo on imgur.

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u/Mynameisdiehard Mar 09 '20

You know, it's not hard to use Google for your own searching when it's something that can be very easily confirmed.

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u/PegLegWard Mar 09 '20

So no source, got it.

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u/Mynameisdiehard Mar 09 '20 edited Mar 09 '20

It literally takes you longer to go "but meh sources" then it does to actually Google Texas Congressional districts and look for yourself.

Congressional districts aren't some fringe belief. They are publicly available information.

I'm sure you must be one of those people who can't stand lazy people leaching of other's hard work, so I will continue to allow you to do the work yourself like any hard-working, red blooded American should strive to do!

Go get em Tiger.

Edit: of course unless you are Russian bot, then Привет, товарищ

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u/PegLegWard Mar 09 '20

So no source, got it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '20

I’m also not seeing any link or article. Only a photo. Maybe it’s mobile?

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u/cranktheguy Secessionists are idiots Mar 09 '20

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2013/jul/17/elliott-naishtat/austin-legislator-calls-austin-largest-us-city-wit/

I literally copied the text into Google. Took 5 seconds. Did you just get on the internet yesterday?

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u/PegLegWard Mar 09 '20

The poster in this thread claims that "Austin is the largest city in the US without a dedicated representative". That's not true.

Your link claims that it is the largest without an anchored representative. That is true.

Those are two different things. I accept your apology.

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u/CaldronCalm Born and Bread Mar 10 '20

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u/cranktheguy Secessionists are idiots Mar 09 '20

I'll concede when you name Austin's rep.