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  1. 1 hour ago, Skipper said:

    MAGA gathers on campus intentionally violating policy I would be the first one cheering on the police beating their ass and calling bullshit if they were treated differently.

    Jesus, man. Just wow.

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    On 4/28/2024 at 12:10 PM, texasdago said:

    Hey today is Free Day at Zilker Botanical.  We swung by for 15 minutes before the second round of rain...

     

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    Both my kids ended up getting capped at UT for their preferred degrees, and went to St. Ed’s instead.  I gotta say the view from that campus is fantastic as well.  

  3. On 4/28/2024 at 12:10 PM, texasdago said:

    Hey today is Free Day at Zilker Botanical.  We swung by for 15 minutes before the second round of rain...

     

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    Both my kids ended up getting capped at UT for their preferred degrees, and went to St. Ed’s instead.  I gotta say the view from that campus is fantastic as well.  

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  4. 40 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Social media in that instance, because that’s where the bullshit is spreading, and that desire for likes and to be accepted drives that shit and makes it easy.  These younger people can get wrapped up in a false social media image of what is presented as being a manly man or whatever.

    I personally think it starts with kids being allowed to watch toy unwrapping videos on YouTube, along with the videos of adults trying to sound like kids and playing with said toys (all the while very adult hands are seen on camera manipulating the toys).  I think it puts those kids in an unrealistic and entitled mindset.  They get a dopamine hit from seeing new toys unboxed, and they end up going down that path of trying to see stuff that makes them feel good.

    Right, it’s like when I got my kids into the Meateater series, and man we all loved it until the neighbors livestock and pets started disappearing, and there were these weird pelts pegged out on my barn walls.  

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  5. 37 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Still…it ain’t paradise.

    Yeah but it ain’t a complete parking lot yet, barely.

    13 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said:

    Top Notch and Conan's are still haunts that I go to with my now ancient HS friends.  Go Trojans!

    Don’t forget Wally’s!

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  6. 10 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

    Yeah, it's a shitty look and mishandled all the way around.  The more photos I'm looking at now seem like they purposely paused in front of signage as some kinda "fuck you" to the world.  

    the 'coming in hot' thing is the most puzzling.  There's not much footage, if any, of them arriving on campus.  The Speedway pylons only dropped for a handful of vehicles, not enough for that many troopers to just "happen upon the scene."  I don't want to get all Qanon (too late, I know), but it appears at first glance that they were already in/around the pedestrian concourse before the protest got remotely 'heated' and then proceeded to escalate it, as you point out.  I am fairly confident in what some Regents' roles were in this.  And we know where Abbott's motivations lie.  I'm curious about what UTPD knew or didn't know, that's a head scratcher quite honestly.  I'm sure some worthless commission will be appointed over the summer to get to the bottom of this.  But I'm just looking at the timeline and the lack of footage of some massive troop transport arriving on campus all of the sudden and how nobody seemed to know anything about it until it was all underway.  

    You straddle the fence enough, your junk is going to get yanked to high heaven. You best pick a side now, and be done, son.  

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  7. 6 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

    Yeah, it's a shitty look and mishandled all the way around.  The more photos I'm looking at now seem like they purposely paused in front of signage as some kinda "fuck you" to the world.  

    the 'coming in hot' thing is the most puzzling.  There's not much footage, if any, of them arriving on campus.  The Speedway pylons only dropped for a handful of vehicles, not enough for that many troopers to just "happen upon the scene."  I don't want to get all Qanon (too late, I know), but it appears at first glance that they were already in/around the pedestrian concourse before the protest got remotely 'heated' and then proceeded to escalate it, as you point out.  I am fairly confident in what some Regents' roles were in this.  And we know where Abbott's motivations lie.  I'm curious about what UTPD knew or didn't know, that's a head scratcher quite honestly.  I'm sure some worthless commission will be appointed over the summer to get to the bottom of this.  But I'm just looking at the timeline and the lack of footage of some massive troop transport arriving on campus all of the sudden and how nobody seemed to know anything about it until it was all underway.  

    It’s staged fascist bullshit and there is no excuse.  None.   This is what Texas GOP and their enablers want.  Embrace it or not, man.  Stop stanning for these dipshits.  

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  8. 1 hour ago, Macklemore said:

    Persians are not Semitic.

    Sorry if I lumped your defeated angry ass into it. 

     
     
     
    Se·mit·ic
    adjective
    1. 1. 
      relating to or denoting a family of languages that includes Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic and certain ancient languages such as Phoenician and Akkadian, constituting the main subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic family.
       
    2. 2. 
      relating to the peoples who speak Semitic languages, especially Hebrew and Arabic.
  9. 2 hours ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

    a good chunk of people seriously believe these protests are nothing but about anti-semitism. 

    A larger chunk of people don’t even know the word Semite includes Arabs and Persians as well as Hebrew. The more you know.  

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  10. 10 minutes ago, bluto said:

    Abbott’s Lafayette Square 

    Exactly jack shit happened because of that, and exactly jack shit will happen because of this, unless we take it to the governors mansion and the capitol. 

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  11. 1 minute ago, YGIFS said:

    Yes, obviously Journalists in Gaza have come into harm's way but rarely at the direct order of the State.  It's usually incidental/corollary.  It was hyperbole for effect.  

    I mean, tackling and brutally arresting a cameraman who offices just blocks away from the DPS station is an awkward coincidence.  Even for pro-Abbott folks, that''s not gonna sit well because of the time-honored tradition of not fucking with media or medical care providers during heated situations.  Sooner or later, somebody is gonna FOIA their orders and rules of engagement and how UTPD was stepped over and this whole Abbott charade is going to come tumbling down, and right quick.  

    I just had a text exchange with a Regent and the chair of the Texas Higher Educatino Coordinating Board and they are both completely fucking baffled by this move by Abbott calling in riot DPS.  

    Exchange “completely baffled” by “completely buffaloed” and not doing jack shit, and your post might be accurate.

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  12. 23 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

    The meadows closed in 2000 and the backyard around 2008, although the strip center was already there by then. That’s later than most people on here would say. 

    Backyard used to be The Branding Iron before the Backyard.  Although I did like the Backyard.  Saw the Neville Brothers and a few other great bands there...

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    AUSTIN (Austin Business Journal) — Tesla Inc.’s huge electric vehicle factory in eastern Travis County will no longer be subject to city of Austin environmental regulations after the company used a new state law to have the property removed from the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction.

    The controversial law — which some municipalities are challenging in court — took effect Sept. 1 and allows landowners on the fringes of major cities to petition for such removal, freeing them up to develop with fewer restrictions.

    https://www.kxan.com/news/business/tesla-uses-new-state-law-to-sidestep-austin-regulations-at-gigafactory/

     

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