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Eleven year old honor roll student put in solitary

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Re: Eleven year old honor roll student put in solitary

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Post by alephnerd »

jstanley wrote: post #15
alephnerd wrote: post #13

(Copy of my comment posted below) This article is about Brownsville-RGV. Local government there is some of the worst nationally. The FBI has been running a massive anti-corruption operation there for over a decade now that has found corruption from the Mayor to the County DA all the way to their Congressman [0][1][2]. It's sad because the people there are hardworking, but because a large portion of the RGV's populati…

What's an RGV?

Rio Grande Valley. It's the name for the region that is the southern tip of Texas. It's overwhelmingly Latino, and was never economically integrated into the rest of Texas as Tejanos (the Mexican settlers in Texas) were able to retain power there after 1834. RGV is basically split between Tejanos (who have US citizenship) and immigrants (documented and undocumented) from neighboring Mexico. Within the RGV, a handful of Tejano political families essentially run everything there. There have been some attempts to clean up politics and governance there, but it's hard when a significant portion of the population there cannot vote, and a significant portion of the rest will vote for existing patronage networks. It's the similar issue in the Missippi Delta, portions of Central California, and portions of Upstwre New York - multi-generational patronage networks have a stranglehold on power.

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Post by dsr_ »

Simon_ORourke wrote: post #3
Lacerda69 wrote: post #2

Land of the free

I thought the only countries that imprisoned children, were the kind of ones that forbid women's ankles in public - guess I was wrong.

There are parts of the US which would also forbid women from showing their ankles if they thought they could get away with it.

You've probably heard this before, but:

The USA is not a singular nation from the inside. There's a single foreign policy and a single military system and a single treaty negotiator, but on the inside it's 51+ jurisdictions, one of which isn't even based on the same underlying jurisprudence as the others ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Louisiana ).

Re: Eleven year old honor roll student put in solitary

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Post by anotherhue »

alephnerd wrote: post #21
jstanley wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's an RGV?

Rio Grande Valley. It's the name for the region that is the southern tip of Texas. It's overwhelmingly Latino, and was never economically integrated into the rest of Texas as Tejanos (the Mexican settlers in Texas) were able to retain power there after 1834. RGV is basically split between Tejanos (who have US citizenship) and immigrants (documented and undocumented) from neighboring Mexico. Within the RGV, a handful…

Could you recommend somewhere to learn more about the NY component?

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Post by alephnerd »

anotherhue wrote: post #25
alephnerd wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rio Grande Valley. It's the name for the region that is the southern tip of Texas. It's overwhelmingly Latino, and was never economically integrated into the rest of Texas as Tejanos (the Mexican settlers in Texas) were able to retain power there after 1834. RGV is basically split between Tejanos (who have US citizenship) and immigrants (documented and undocumented) from neighboring Mexico. Within the RGV, a handful…

Could you recommend somewhere to learn more about the NY component?

It's upstate New York, not the rest of NY.

A notable example was the Buffalo Billion scandal with bid rigging to open a tech campus in Albany for photovoltaic cell, nanotechnology, and semiconductor manufacturing. [0][1]

It was a legacy making project for Gov. Mario Cuomo (he started the precursor in the 90s) and his son Gov. Andrew Cuomo [1]

Albany was largely cleaned up after Cuomo "resigned" because there was a bottom-up revolt by millennial lawmakers and staffers working in Albany and on the Hill to coordinate a way to clean up Albany poltical culture [2]

You're Irish though, so I'd compare it to the corruption crackdown that happened in Ireland after the collapse of Anglo-Irish Bank and the very improper relations between builders, banking, and govt in Ireland in the 90s and 2000s.

[0] https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/201...

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/07/after-scandals-and-...

[2] https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2021/0...

Re: Eleven year old honor roll student put in solitary

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Post by stareatgoats »

DontBreakAlex wrote: post #22

Why is this "[flagged]" ? What does it mean ?

Users with karma above a certain level get's a 'flag'-link under each submission or comment. If a sufficient number of users flag an item then that item gets 'flagged' and eventually possibly also marked as 'dead' and it drops out of view.

Users don't have to explain why they flag an entry, but to my understanding it is usually because such users think that the entry attracts 'low quality comments', like bashing a whole nation state on scant grounds which inevitably causes the discussion to go down in flames.

I can understand this, but at the same time find it a pity that people can't have sensible discussions about sensitive topics. I find this story is one of those that deserve a better destiny than to be stomped away.

Re: Eleven year old honor roll student put in solitary

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Post by h2odragon »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #26
ajdude wrote: post #23

What is this flagged? The title isn't Clickbait, an 11 year old asking for a counseling was actually arrested and placed in solitary confinement in a juvenile detention center.

Ask yourself, will the comments be productive?

Are they bad yet; or is it a case of "no good is likely to come from this so we'll foreclose any possibility"?

Re: Eleven year old honor roll student put in solitary

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Post by anotherhue »

alephnerd wrote: post #27
anotherhue wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you recommend somewhere to learn more about the NY component?

It's upstate New York, not the rest of NY. A notable example was the Buffalo Billion scandal with bid rigging to open a tech campus in Albany for photovoltaic cell, nanotechnology, and semiconductor manufacturing. [0][1] It was a legacy making project for Gov. Mario Cuomo (he started the precursor in the 90s) and his son Gov. Andrew Cuomo [1] Albany was largely cleaned up after Cuomo "resigned" because there was a bo…

Appreciate it, and the localisation.
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