dean16z (Redemption Arc)

I've been watching the Frohorse tick chart 4 hours a day since the day it deployed. You think I don't know what's coming? Saddle up.

The Netherlands’ most wanted druglord recently had a baby with the daughter of Sierra Leone’s president and now runs his operation from there, having bought off the entire country, even appearing in photos with the country’s head of anti-drug enforcement

MEN ONLY!!!! What saved you when you were at your lowest?

I am so discouraged. I’ve applied to over 1000 jobs from front desk person, bartender & literally everything in between. I have my Masters. I have a great resume. What am I doing wrong?

The fact that there is a blending of Spanish and Anglo culture where the two civilizations met in the southwest does not preclude the objective fact that the land was completely untamed, lawless and only very sparsely populated until the Anglos conquered it. In the case of Texas specifically, the entire state was built by the empresarios. There were some 2,000 Tejanos in all of Texas, and Mexico could not convince people to settle the land because of its isolation and inherent danger. Hell, they struggled to even civilize northern Mexico in what is now Sonora, Coahuila and Chihuahua. Then the Anglos came to Texas by the tens of thousands and killed and conquered and settled the place definitively. The Texians only ended up seceding from Mexico and taking it for themselves because of dereliction on the part of the Mexicans to actually provide anything in return for their taxes. Even most of the relatively few native Tejanos who didn't flee, ended up siding with the Texians in the war because they too were neglected. I'm not one with a bone to pick with Mexicans. I am generally fond of the people and have been around them my entire life. My family have been in Texas since its founding, some of which were ranchers whose children spoke Spanish and worked the land along the border. I don't have any interest in larping anything. But the way this discourse got started was because of a reddit-tier meme that all the Mexicans here today have been here all along, and they weren't. They are by and large post-1960s border crossers, and most Mexicans walking around in ostrich boots and cowboy hats are themselves larpers, no different than anyone else. It's completely uninteresting to have a pissing match over who invented the high rise cowboy cut jean. To the degree that this is Spanish and descendant of criollos, that is just cool and I like it even more. But I really don't care that the engraved belt buckle is "Hispanic", it doesn't change the fact that it was the AMERICAN man who civilized the southwest, conquered the Indian, worked the land and built the infrastructure as we know it today.