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Brisketexan

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  1. You were at least traveling on a hunting trip. This dipshit was just going to a beach. To be clear, I have a backpack that has ammo and such in it. It’s the ONLY bag I use to carry ammo (other than range bags, which literally only go to the range and back). I have another backpack that does not. The first backpack goes ONLY on hunting trips. The second does not. There. For those of us who aren’t flying with ammo on purpose, I just gave you the easy, guaranteed way to avoid accidentally traveling with ammo.
  2. I agree. Threats and the like have no place, and campuses should take steps to protect against and limit them. The problem is, by most of what I have seen and read, that’s not what was happening today. There was even a Jewish counter protest waving Israeli flags, and their interaction with the main protest was peaceful. Jewish students shouldn’t be threatened or terrorized. Neither should Arab or Palestinian students. They each should be able to take public positions that make the other side uncomfortable or even angry, so long as they do so peacefully without violence, threats, or intimidation. And people who engage in violence, threats, and intimidation, should be held accountable. I don’t care what your cause is, I stand for that proposition. If we don’t, then we’re worthless as well.
  3. Wait…so this thread is only for….CELEBRATING the war in Gaza? That’s a hot take.
  4. Yep. All they can do is lie, because that is what fascists and their enablers do. It’s as essential as breathing.
  5. Funny thing is, my overall position hasn’t changed that much. I still think that pro Palestinian protesters who chant “from the river to the sea” are often calling for extermination of Israel and Jews (often, they aren’t shy about calling for exactly that). And I still think that Israel has a right to defend itself…but not to commit genocide or purposefully target civilians to further their goal of ethnically cleansing Gaza of Palestinians. And I certainly think that both “sides” have allowed their path to be dominated by their worst elements, and are doing so today. Israeli shit with settlements, Palestinian shit with terrorist attacks, and we only get more of both. And finally, I believe that anyone, supporting or opposing either side, or any cause whatsoever (Blueberry pop tarts must be available in the Union!) must be allowed to peaceably assemble to seek redress of their grievances. Period, full stop, content matters ZERO. No violence or terrorizing of others? Keep on keeping on. As a society and a species, we are getting none of this right.
  6. If I got an email from that fucker any time soon, my only response would be to demand a refund of every dollar I’ve ever given UT.
  7. KVUE had an interview with one of the leaders of the Jewish counter-demonstration that was happening at the same time and place. He had strong words and opinions, as you might expect. He related tales of being hit with anti-Semitic threats…in the past. But as for today? He said that it was respectful, and he could go among the people and talk, including with people with whom he disagreed. Everything bad that happened today was due to Abbott’s jackboot praetorian guard, who showed up to ENSURE that things got bad, and succeeded in their mission. Even the Jewish counter-protestors, who one would think are the very people who would have needed protection today from that “dangerous and violent mob,” tell us that they were fine. Today was a shameful day. But nothing good will come from it. The bad guys won. The people who should stand up for the people folded like the cowards that their entire generation is. The Boomers are the worst that humanity has to offer.
  8. You, of all people, know that it won’t. Not even a little bit. All that was proven today is that there are no good guys. Just bad guys, and those cowards who can’t help but enable them. I said it several years ago, and as I recall, you agreed with me: there is nobody coming to save us. There’s nothing between us and the shitstorm. Not a single thing.
  9. It’s cowards manipulating cowards, all the way down. The fascists and their pathetic, simp jackboots are cowards: they can show up in force and “crack skills” when it’s some protesters, including that unarmed skinny girl they bravely arrested…but ask them to go through ONE kid with an AR to save a room full of kids, and there’s no receptacle on earth large enough to hold all the piss they soil themselves with. And the people who could speak truth, and use their position to call them out? Cowards. More interested in saving their own skin than in standing up for the people they are supposed to serve. Indeed, if we had this bunch around in 1836, the only risk Santa Anna would run is having his dick chafe from all the people eager to kneel and blow him.
  10. Or…he could stand his ground, and fight for the people of Texas. Even though the odds are against him, he is outnumbered, and he is sure to fall. Because Texans know that by taking a public stand for what is right, knowing you will fall…is exactly how you win. No chance of that happening, though. We are a state of unprincipled cowards now. It’s our brand.
  11. He can’t win. But he can die in a blaze of glory doing the right thing. Sadly, there are zero men of such courage left. Hartzell is a coward. Like all the rest of the people we’ve placed our trust in. He just showed that he has the same courage and sense of self-sacrifice as a DPS trooper at a Uvalde school. He’s a nothing. A nobody. Another quivering bowl of pathetic, cowardly jello. Throw him in the pile with the rest of em.
  12. You should remember that the people who claim the loudest to stand for “freedom and liberty” don’t actually mean it. Women having agency is the worst thing to ever happen to humanity, and they very much want to undo it.
  13. Well, but see…those were very fine people. I’m sure you see the distinction.
  14. It's worse than that. Remember, "people who the law binds, but does not protect, vs. people who the law protects, but does not bind." These are the same people who have been SCREAMING about "campus free speech!" for years. Who cry about "free speech" on every social media site every minute of every day. But who ALSO openly support "cracking skulls" of people who are saying things....they don't like/don't agree with. It's content-based repression of speech. The exact bullseye thing that the First Amendment protects. They. Don't. Care. They actually fucking HATE the Constitution, so again with the irony of the fact that every one of these assholes has in their bio "Constitution-loving Republican." They are fucking liars. Absolute fucking liars. They are poison.
  15. Bookmarking this, because I'm certain that at least 75% of it will turn out to be an accurate prediction of our shittacular future.
  16. Yeah.....you really wouldn't. It would only depress you.
  17. Well, the press IS the enemy of the people. Have you not gotten the numerous messages from The Dear Leader, Donald J. Trump, our Lord Most High? Seriously, the fascists have followed the "attack the lugenpress" playbook to the fucking LETTER. Why should today be any different? The problem for them is...now EVERYONE has a fucking camera. Fucking fascists.
  18. GOLL and I were just talking about this. If young Brisket was a current student, I wouldn't have been involved in today's protest. Not my thing, not an issue I'm bought in on. However, if tomorrow, the student body is going to engage in a general strike and protest in protest of the actions of the State of Texas in violation of the Constitution, young Brisket would be pressed up against the barricades like a mofo.
  19. That should be an enduring image of our university. And maybe its tombstone, to boot. The state government has plainly stated that their basis for attacking this protest is not its conduct, but its content. Bullseye First Amendment violation, but then, that's what the GQP masturbates over. I confess that I'm still baffled that the EXACT same idiots who scream "WHAT ABOUT MY FREE SPEECH!!!????" when it comes to social media sites enforcing policies like "so, maybe don't post violent nazi shit," fucking CHEER ACTUAL FIRST AMENDMENT VIOLATIONS OF FREE SPEECH BY THE GQP REGIME. These fuckers never gave a shit about "free speech" -- they only give a shit about their side. That's it. Freedom for me, none for thee. And again, note that I'm not really on board with this particular cause/protest here (not overly opposed, either....I think it's messy and maybe not the most effective messaging)....and....that's not the fucking point. It doesn't matter what it's about, or whether we agree with it or not. That's the whole. fucking. point. of the fucking. First. Amendment.
  20. That tweet will be front-and-center of the Section 1983 lawsuit for violating First Amendment rights based on the content of the speech at issue. Well-done, Greg. Fucking fascist idiot. Oh, and that quite meritorious suit will fail, because the 5th Circuit will just issue a one word opinion saying "MAGA!" Because the GQP and this fucking timeline.
  21. What you have to understand is that law enforcement in Texas is geared towards beating kids, not saving them. Once you realize that, this all makes sense. I'm speculating, but it's based on real-world experience: Hartzell is keeping his head down because he's in a no-win situation. See, our governor and AG have made it VERY CLEAR to every governmental official in Texas: cross them, and they will fucking inflict brutal vengeance on you. "Vindictiveness" is the governing order of the day in Texas. If Hartzell stands up to the governor....the governor will inflict so much petty revenge and punishment on the university that the cost will be 10X greater than anything Hartzell could gain. Hartzell only has a choice as to how to lose, and how much to lose. With this state government, there is no winning move. They are petty tyrants, act as such, and fucking strut around BRAGGING about it. Cross them, or even upset them, and they will make you suffer. This is a known fact.
  22. WTF are we even looking at there, other than the official Pantone sample for "blinding white?"
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