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Those spikes don't hit the top of your cab on the way in? :D
They do that's why I have to look at my seat every time I get in my truck and lean the seat all the way back when I get in my friends car. You can see my spikes sticking up but no body in the seat. People tend to look at him weird. I use to have hang my head out the window in my brother old truck since it was only a 2 seater.
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Oh shit, a picture thread! Oversized shirts are the best though. I should have saved some from when I wore a lot of T-shirts. Nice design on that one, I'm jealous. ...aaaaaand it's my face in a library. Because I work there and why not. Cq5rTzol.jpg Edit: Fixed it nvm

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Yeah, the thing about Houston and its suburbs is that there's still a pretty big population of old white people who hold staunch Republican views for no good reason. But we also have a lesbian mayor, so I like to think it's trying. The continued diversification of the population is probably helping to some extent, but at the same time, my old school district shows what's wrong with it, still, too--we were featured for being about 25% of each major ethnicity (in this case, white, black, Hispanic, Asian), but can you guess what my school was like? 45% white, 46% Asian, or something to that effect. And the aforementioned old white people make up most of the vote around there, of course. Blah.

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Yeah' date=' the thing about Houston and its suburbs is that there's still a pretty big population of old white people who hold staunch Republican views for no good reason. But we also have a lesbian mayor, so I like to think it's trying. The continued diversification of the population is probably helping to some extent, but at the same time, my old school district shows what's wrong with it, still, too--we were featured for being about 25% of each major ethnicity (in this case, white, black, Hispanic, Asian), but can you guess what my school was like? 45% white, 46% Asian, or something to that effect.[/quote'] There's nothing 'wrong' with ethnic homogeneity in and of itself. And maybe it's my environment here on a college campus but cultural diversity seems highly overrated and superficial in practice. Beyond the parameters like skin color and national origin, most college students believe more or less the same nascent sentimental grab bag of half-baked left-wing opinions. This leaves room for serious disagreements to happen only over really worthless things like movies or celeb gossip. That's not to say I've any love for these boorish xenophobes on the Republican party either, I prefer a party that has its own platform rather than simply inverting everything Democrat out of some misguided sense of what the term 'opposition party' means.
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Of course there isn't anything wrong with it (though personally I prefer being in diverse places), but I was thinking (somewhat tangentially) about how we have a lot of people here who I think would prefer a greater amount of liberal policy, but still end up electing staunch conservatives to local offices because it's mainly the staunch, gonna-vote-to-keep-mah-gun-rights people who do the voting.

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That's a good point. I hate it when people get cynical about politics without realizing that the reason they system is broken is because they don't get off their asses and vote for candidates they actually want.

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Yeah, it's very troubling. Political apathy amongst those with less radical views seems to be contributing to a lot of the smaller, more extreme movements that are popping up in the sense that it gives them more sway. And when it comes to movements on the right (namely the Tea Party), it's not helping that the more stringent ID laws in places like Texas are disenfranchising precisely the people who would counteract them.

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