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Brian Fantana

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  1. Just now, BrickHorn said:

    It leaves us with a bunch of DT crybabies shitting themselves with fear because someone they don’t know came to a person’s door, delivered an anodyne letter, and left without attempting anything even remotely violent or intimidating. 

    It’s pathetic.

    I am in agreement that showing up masked to someone's door in the middle of the night is an intimidation tactic (a laughable one, when you're a spindly college nerd, but still, it is what it is), or at least an attempt at making oneself appear threatening. I honestly would have laughed had I saw that on my camera notifications in the morning and realized all that happened was a non-threatening note was left on my door.

    I certainly wouldn't have run to the press and cried home invasion. That to me is intensely hilarious.

  2. 6 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    The organizers and spokespeople of the campus encampment literally sent a press release that they are going to keep doing this and it’s the natural outgrowth of their little encampment game. 

    I agree that they should stop doing this. I'm gonna stop short of branding them dangerous criminals quite yet and/or calling them pedophiles like the guy whose posts you keep liking.

  3. 3 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    If harassing regents at home isn’t enough to get you booted from school, what is?  These people are grownups. What happens if you show up at your CEO’s house if you arrive at 0400 with a mask and list of demands.

    These people are coddled beyond belief and it led to unacceptable behavior. 

    I mean I think some punishment is absolutely in order for what that kid did.

    Perhaps trying to brand him a criminal home invader isn't a great place to start. In case you're confused, that's the first thing this regent did.

    Just now, bolverk said:

    The only argument seems to be the degree to which the presumed student is condemned. If you're not sufficiently outraged, then you must be a pedophile.

    Meanwhile, nary a care that counterprotesters are calling for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. 

    That's just Rex projecting again.

  4. 11 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    The first step is to stop with the “uWu, he’s just a smol bean, he made a silly mistake.” This action and the 0545 harassment of another regent were deliberately planned and organized. This is not a silly mistake or a stupid college kid, it’s a decision to harass people at home as part of their movement. 
     

    The answer is give them a deadline, announce that the encampment organizers are inciting inappropriate and dangerous activity, and then at deadline tear the tents down, expel the students still there, and have anyone who comes back get arrested.  

    This whole thing and all these students give off these vibes. 
     

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    Who said it was a mistake and not a deliberate act? Wasn't me. I'm not sure who you're arguing with.

    e: I understand that all anti-Israel protests are unacceptable to you, but most people aren't there...

  5. 2 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Taking your shit to private people’s houses who are at best marginal to the issue at hand is corrosive and threatening behavior and it’s nuts to argue otherwise.  It’s a direct threat to democratic and civil norms, and it’s NOT misguided it is a deliberate tactic.

    This is the equivalent of dropping off an angry demand to “stop baby genoicide” to a hospital administrator or clinic that provides abortions while masked and under cover of darkness.  No one here would (justifiably) dismiss that as anything but beyond the pale, threatening behavior. 

    The Overton window shift is beyond ridiculous:

    - Students have the right to protest! (YES!)

    - Students have the right to set up tents as part of their protest!  Are you afraid of tents (Maybe…)

    - They can wear masks and live in the tents as long as their demands aren’t met even if that’s against the rules! Are you afraid of tents and masks! (Why do they need masks? Do they really need to live there!)

    - They can mask up and come to your house in the dead of night! What are you some wimp who doesn’t want masked prowlers hanging out around your house! (WTF?)

    Get fucking real people. You do not mask up and skulk around strangers houses at night. That is BY DEFINITION hostile and harmful behavior. 

    I don't really disagree with any of this. He shouldn't have done what he did, it is obviously threatening and hostile behavior. At best, it's an incredibly stupid thing to do for any number of reasons, at worst it's pointing out "I know where you live" to someone as a direct threat.

    The question is how do you respond to such a threat? I would personally feel more strongly about it if a written threat was actually made in the note, but it doesn't seem like that was the case. A list of demands and a plea for dialogue doesn't really move the needle any further for me. It actually moves it backward a little for me because it indicates, at least to me, that he's just a stupid college kid that decided to try and make himself heard in one of the dumbest possible ways rather than someone who would actually try to harm someone.

    I've quite literally had strangers come up to my house and yell at my goddamn doorbell camera in the middle of the night before (sorry Rex's mom, I just don't love you anymore), but I never felt the need to call the cops on them or pull a gun on them, so what does that leave us? Despite the attempts to characterize it as a home invasion, it clearly was not and I doubt any laws were even broken. So again, where does that leave us?

  6. 3 hours ago, Skipper said:

    He's masked at 4AM.  It's 100% a threat.  Anyone downplaying this is either too partisan to think objectively about it or does not have a wife and kids at home (or both).  It's bullshit.   And if some other moron does this shit and ends up getting shot in the process, zero sympathy from me.

    I'm not saying it's not a threat. I'm saying it's a threat you shouldn't take seriously. He's a twig of a college student pinning a note to someone's door.

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  7. 17 minutes ago, Skipper said:

    It's pretty fucking embarrassing that the Cloak Room regulars are trying to fucking justify or play down this type of idiocy.  It's beyond unacceptable.   I'm sure they would have the exact same "no big deal" opinion if it were MAGA idiots showing up harassing D appointed judges or similar.

    You shouldn't show up to someone's house like that, especially at 4AM, it's just goofy to try and characterize it as a home invasion. That skinny mfer ain't invading anybody's home.

  8. 2 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    It’s either this or he is purposely sowing disinformation among a large population (lurkers included) of politically inclined viewers, purposely to sow dissent and doubt. Hmm, what could go wrong?

    The latter requires too many assumptions to be realistic in my opinion. I generally adhere to Occam's Razor with stuff like this. It's far more likely he's just an absolute moron with little to no media literacy like that dumbass uncle that posts similar shit all day on Facebook.

  9. 41 minutes ago, immamac said:

    this whole thread and everyone that posts in it are kinda fucking sad tbh. 

    I'm not saying the situation in Israel/Palestine isn't something we should talk about or care about, I'm saying a bunch of fucking shithead internet warriors nerdraging about what videos on the internet of other morons are doing is just a stupid fucking thread  at this point.

    I love prong horn's posts, you couldn't create a more perfect case study in social media brain rot in a lab. His contribution to neuroscience has to be priceless.

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  10. 2 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    I can't decide where I stand on Burr.  I feel like I've heard him say some stuff back in the day that I would consider maga-adjacent at least, but now he's on the side of the kids in the protests?  Maybe I just haven't heard him enough.

    The man has overcome being a fully grown human being from Boston. The fact that he's as based as he is is a god damn miracle.

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  11. 2 hours ago, Hank_Hill said:

    Yea idk even if those numbers were completely fudged and the total number of women and children slaughtered was only like 5000 I don’t think I’d fell any better about that. But that’s just me. 

    The whole argument is gross, akin to how much quibbling their was about the "real numbers" during the Holocaust.

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  12. 41 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

    Huh. I never made a comment about settlers or Bibi. I certainly didn’t give them a pass. Never made a comment about all Israelis being great, innocent people. I said the X-factor is leadership savagery on the other side, from Hamas to Arafat and even long before him. Because it is. No amount of explaining what the other side did or does offsets this. It’s amazing anyone can dispute this. 

    Bibi is literally the most savage leader that entire area has ever seen, period. From a pure numbers standpoint alone, he and his leadership are responsible for far more death and destruction than anyone else. Likud is literally full of extremists (like Itamar Ben-Gvir) by design. If you are so deluded that you believe there is any shortage of savagery on the Israeli side, you either haven't been paying attention to anything they're saying, or you have simply ignored it for your own personal convenience.

     

    4 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

    “I certainly didn’t give them a pass”

     

    *proceeds to give them a pass*

    The fact that he simply resorts to calling them savages ought to clue you in on his real thoughts.

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  13. It would feel pretty good knowing that I rightly called the settlers out for straight up being terrorists months ago, and it would feel great rubbing in every single one of you dipshits' faces who claimed that was antisemitic sentiment....if real people's lives weren't being affected and/or ended by their actions.

    Again, fuck you, you all know who you are. Suck my whole cock.

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  14. 2 minutes ago, Bolero88 said:

    Where is your proof that these people are pro Hamas? You're just throwing around accusations with absolutely nothing to back it up. Just unbelievable!

    She just has a sub-Wikipedia level knowledge of the conflict and its players and just assumes anyone who is anti-Zionist is pro-Hamas or antisemitic. It's hardly an uncommon phenomenon.

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