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bolverk

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  1. At least he wasn't shot or stabbed. Although I will admit that his smug, self-satisfied grin sure makes his face look awfully punchable.
  2. That's right. Who gives a shit if a pro-Palestinian protester gets stabbed for wearing a keffiyeh near the UT campus? Hell, they don't even have to be protesting. Simple wearing a keffiyeh is apparently enough to warrant getting shot. This intimidation will not stand, right @Bevo?
  3. They can also really fuck with our right to protest here in the 5th Circuit.
  4. And they will continue to try to gaslight us about the nature of the protest.
  5. But, but, but Brisket, MacKenzie says the protestors were there "to scare, threaten, and intimidate Jewish Austinites." And, look, I don't doubt one bit that antisemitic bullshit gets thrown around. Hell, we've seen it on this very site, and I'm even uncomfortable with TheJewsDidThis gif, but I refuse to be gaslit by dimwits who claim to represent my interests and me.
  6. There was zero verbal or physical aggression toward our Jewish students among the several videos I watched today. Unfortunately, some posters are too easily swayed by national media and too lazy to look shit up themselves. In the background of some of these photos, you can see both Israeli and Palestinian flags held aloft by students standing side-by-side. From here, you can watch several minutes of video taken by the Fox7 cameraman, who would be arrested later, standing among students holding or wrapped in Israeli flags. None of them are being harassed. You can also listen to the chanting of protestors, and nothing they say is derogatory toward Jews or Israel. And look at these two cute Israel supporters surrounded by protestors. They look absolutely terrified!
  7. This account from someone on r/UTAustin lines up with everything we've seen in the videos: https://www.reddit.com/r/UTAustin/comments/1ccgfhi/what_happened_at_ut_austin_today_in_detail/
  8. I've quit a good job in protest over bullshit for far fucking less than this. Cowardice is complicity.
  9. It certainly looks like all the cops left to have dinner or something, allowing all those dangerous and disruptive students back on the South Lawn until at least sunset. I mean, look at the chaotic and yet still polite applause!
  10. Don't have a Twitter but found this by googling the hashtag: https://www.amreese.com/about-bio/
  11. Thanks! Looks like it's available on Prime for free.
  12. I absolutely agree with you about deleting content. All of it should've been moved here (edit) or spun off into a new thread. 2nd Edit: I see a new thread with all the original content was created while I was back over here.
  13. In Blacklab's defense, he's been very consistent in his stance that the thread should be restricted specifically to on-the-ground Gaza war shit. And, to be honest, he's deleted a lot of shit I've reported in that thread where the Right-Wingers go off on protestors, who've been trying to put them in the worst light. I'd bet he'd have allowed a new thread devoted to the UT protests as an ongoing, newsworthy event.
  14. In one of the videos, a woman quizzed a DPS trooper, and he told her the request had come from UT. Then, there's this from the Dean of Students: https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/ut-austin-students-to-protest-in-support-of-gaza-with-class-walk-out-and-campus-sit-in/
  15. Oh, so the protesters' plan wasn't to disrupt class or whatever bullshit excuse they used to start arresting students? The DPS riot police were there to keep them away from the capitol so as not to embarrass our weak-kneed, spineless governor.
  16. Look, I can forgive them for not goose-stepping, as that would be a tad passé in this day and age, but that is terrible, lazy fucking form, and not the least bit intimidating. Come on, you fascists, at least march in step!
  17. Yeah, I know how the good ol' boy network bullshit works, but that's THE FUCKING PROBLEM and why the assholes keep power in this gotdam state.
  18. You might tell Fred to stop giving money to fucking Abbott while y'all are texting.
  19. The closest thing to rioting I saw in any of the videos was by the fucking cops.
  20. Interesting viewpoint here. On one hand, you desire to see people physically abused for their beliefs, and on the other, you express dismay that you might be virtually punished for yours.
  21. I was wondering why their feed went down.
  22. They're determined to turn UT into aggy. Cops are keeping the kids off the sacred grass of Six Pack. Edit: The students are periodically and appropriately chanting, "Off our campus."
  23. One final clip from the long video demonstrates how peaceful the students were when the yellow-vested organizers cleared a path for the cops. Just as the quote above shows, it's the fascist assholes who want the appearance of chaos on our campus so that the suckers will continue to support them.
  24. The scene with horsey cops getting in with protestors and the fat fuck fascist on the bike telling kids they'll be arrested if they don't disperse.
  25. I've timed the video to a little more than a minute before any shit goes down. Protestors are standing around. Local Fox crew is talking about just needing to get an interview. Suddenly, you hear yelling, and they focus in on cops trying to take someone down in the crowd. Bike cops start coming in, followed by the riot cops, who do more shoving. Later, the horse cops. Even after all that, the protestors are peaceful as fuck. Most of the rest of the video is people standing around chanting as the police presence gets heavier. Yellow-vested protestors, who look like they're the organizers, even managed to clear Speedway for the horsey cops much later in the video. There was no violence, nor threat of violence, except from the fucking cops.
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