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bolverk

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  1. Don't forget the dirt bikes with the custom drone protection Sissy bars,
  2. If you're not aware, the recent protests at USC began when the school's administration decided not to allow this year's valedictorian to give her speech at the commencement ceremony because she's a vocal supporter of Palestine. edit: yeah, what royiv said with much more detail.
  3. Holy shit. That may be the highest master-class level of trolling I've ever seen. Then the lyrics 🎢the bombs bursting in air🎢 while bombs ARE bursting in air. Good lord.
  4. There is also a very large share that you are completely ignoring or refusing to acknowledge: those who are neither anti-Israel nor antisemitic but only want Palestinians to be allowed to have their own homeland.
  5. This is the only on-topic portion of your post I'll address in this thread. Obviously, the overall goal of these protests is for Palestinians to have their own land; HOWEVER, I *think* the most direct action they believe they can take is to get The University of Texas Boycott, Divestments, and Sanctions movement (BDS). Yeah, I don't think that will work out for them over the short term either. Another goal, I'm sure, is to raise the profile of the Palestinian cause, especially among those who might influence U.S. policy over the long term (you know, future American leaders, i.e., college kids that go to really good schools). On this point, I think they're likely making headway and will continue to do so if they don't end up shooting themselves in the foot with over-the-top violence or antisemitic actions. From my standpoint, thus far, the UT student activists have been much more successful in curtailing that other stupid shit than their Ivy League counterparts.
  6. Surveys indicate that about 25% of Americans are authoritarians, which is 10-15 percentage points higher than most Western democracies. They also show that among Americans, people living in former Confederate states, Evangelicals, rural dwellers, and the less educated all show higher levels of acceptance for authoritarianism than the average American. Let's face the fact that a large percentage of Surly posters would be just fine living under an authoritarian government as long as they were in the in-group.
  7. Because they weren't planning to fucking camp out on the lawn, you goddamned moron.
  8. The UT-Abbott thread was merged into the Abbott being Abbott thread, which is here. But the Israel/Hamas debate ain't about Abbott and UT. There have been a few comments about y'all going on about this here:
  9. @Make em eat Taco Bell @956 Worldwide Take it elsewhere, guys. Y'all do realize you can quote each other by clicking the 3 dots on a post, click share, and paste that link into the Israel thread without missing a beat.
  10. I guess Florida doesn't belong. Nor does LSU. Or Georgia. Same goes for Tennessee and Vanderbilt. It's understood that we're joining up with the heart of the Old South for sports, but middle-aged message board meat-heads don't realize how out of touch they are with today's students and a changing world.
  11. News cameramen are a blight and should be barred from campus.
  12. It feels like a whole lot of posters who are commenting today didn't watch any of the videos that were posted yesterday. Or, if they did, they're intentionally gaslighting the board.
  13. I've seen rowdier knitting circles than yesterday's protest.
  14. Not to be the thread police or anything, but please take the Hamas/Israel argument shit to the Israel thread please. Let's get some on-topic focus, maybe regarding what happened yesterday, Abbott's involvement, the GQP's ownership of Hartzell, and/or the UT System's regents. We could also view it through the prism of enshittifying higher education in Texas, much like its K-12 schools. I don't want to slog through that whole debate about antisemitism versus islamophobia again. I honestly think that's incidental to what the fuck is acutally going on.
  15. Gotta love religious extremists, no matter the stripe.
  16. Do you mind using the thread reader app on that second tweet or go ahead and post the subsequent tweets in the thread? Please and thank you.
  17. We really shouldn't look at yesterday's incident in a vacuum, nor should we see the general assault on Texas public and higher education as one, either.
  18. I gotta say that it's certainly news to me.
  19. I strongly disagree with your imagined ratio and would bet that far more than 10% "give a fuck" about how the protest was mishandled yesterday. It's not CR to be concerned with what happened; it's just reality.
  20. I'll have to disagree with you there as both a UT-Austin alumnus (M.S. 1999) and the parent of a college kid. I'm fucking pissed about what happened on the 40 acres yesterday and won't give a dime to The University until Hartzell is gone. And, if I heard about riot police assaulting students on the campus of my daughter's college, I'd be livid and call for the head of her university's president.
  21. Crossposting from the Israel thread: We all know the head-cracking was in response to the content of the speech protesting what's going on in Gaza and the West Bank, and here's your proof. Greg Abbott orders colleges to revise free speech policies, singling out pro-Palestine groups UT-Austin has already fired two assistant professors for their speech and neglected the concerns of students whose on-campus meeting was interrupted by 3 men (not affiliated with the university) wherein they were intimidated and labeled "fucking terrorists."
  22. And, by Johnny, you mean Frank.
  23. We all know the head-cracking was in response to the content of the speech protesting what's going on in Gaza and the West Bank, and here's your proof. Greg Abbott orders colleges to revise free speech policies, singling out pro-Palestine groups UT-Austin has already fired two assistant professors for their speech and neglected the concerns of students whose on-campus meeting was interrupted by 3 men (not affiliated with the university) wherein they were intimidated and labeled "fucking terrorists."
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