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Genki Hikari

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9. If a state agency tried that with me when I had to renew

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Mon Sep 26, 2022, 08:20 PM

Sep 2022

I'd tear it up that pamphlet in front of them, and tell them to stop wasting money pumping lies to people who know better.

Maybe I'd even bring along my copy of "Forget the Alamo," and make sure to display it in a way they couldn't miss.

That's what I'd do if I were a Texan subjugated to such nonsense.

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1836 Project promotes sanitized version of Texas history, experts say [View all] TexasTowelie Sep 2022 OP

I doubt their history will tell how Jim Bowie sat in Fredonia (Nacadoches) vlyons Sep 2022 #1

I endured 6-7th grade at a small school in Central Texas. yonder Sep 2022 #6

The larger cities in Texas, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, etc are becoming more cosmopolitan vlyons Sep 2022 #7

I recommend you read Forget the Alamo instead. broiles Sep 2022 #2

I could smell Dan Patrick on this before I read it. (nt) Paladin Sep 2022 #3

I have never been in a state where its history was part of acquiring one's license. niyad Sep 2022 #4

While I don't condone spreading propaganda, TexasTowelie Sep 2022 #5

Given that, as it states in the OP, this is a conservative ba klash to thev1619 niyad Sep 2022 #8

If a state agency tried that with me when I had to renew Genki Hikari Sep 2022 #9

I told you so. This was Abbott's response to Trump's squashed 1776 Project. Shell_Seas Sep 2022 #10