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  1. OK, so he is taking the disgrace route.

    12 minutes ago, 1978horn said:

    Dear UT community,
    This has been a challenging day for many. We have witnessed much activity we normally do not experience on our campus, and there is understandably a lot of emotion surrounding these events.

    Today, our University held firm, enforcing our rules while protecting the Constitutional right to free speech. Peaceful protests within our rules are acceptable. Breaking our rules and policies and disrupting others’ ability to learn are not allowed. The group that led this protest stated it was going to violate Institutional Rules. Our rules matter, and they will be enforced. Our University will not be occupied.

    The protesters tried to deliver on their stated intent to occupy campus. People not affiliated with UT joined them, and many ignored University officials’ continual pleas for restraint and to immediately disperse. The University did as we said we would do in the face of prohibited actions. We were prepared, with the necessary support to maintain campus operations and ensure the safety, well-being and learning environment for our more than 50,000 students.

    We are grateful for the countless staff members and state and University law enforcement officers, as well as support personnel who exercised extraordinary restraint in the face of a difficult situation that is playing out at universities across the country. There is a way to exercise freedom of speech and civil discourse, and our Office of the Dean of Students has continued to offer ways to ensure protests can happen within the rules. The University of Texas will continue to take necessary steps so that all our University functions proceed without interruption.

    Sincerely yours,

    Jay Hartzell
    President

     

    What a fucking bitch ass motherfucker. 

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  2. 2 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

    Journalists in Gaza get treated better than that guy did 10 blocks from his studio.

    Yeah. You might want to look into that one a bit. 

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  3. 1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Yeah that video doesn’t give me the warm fuzzies at all. It’s still heavy on the “only one true path” theme, just altered that trump isn’t that path.  But it is only a portion of one sermon, so perhaps I’d get a different impression if I were to listen to all of it and some others as well to get a feel for his message. 

    Yeah, I am not really promoting that guy nor his theology. I am fairly certain that we would disagree about most things, but in the context of the Christian nationalism tendencies among in particular the evangelical non-denoms, seems reasonable to amplify some of the voices in that vein that are pushing back. 

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  4. On 4/19/2024 at 3:46 PM, Dbeasy said:

    For Austin homeowners, pay close attention to your overall property value increase or decrease in 2023. I certainly haven’t run comps across the entire city, but most property values should have declined not appreciated in 2023, unless there were special circumstances.  

    Austin/Travis County put in extra effort in 2022 to get property values around town much better aligned to true values. They were a bit all over the place in years past. If they did that with your property, then values in 2023 should have declined. 

    Note that your taxable value could still be going up, but limited by the 10% cap. I’m talking about overall property value, not taxable value. 

    I see a ton of posts with double digit increases in property value, and there really shouldn’t be all that many.   

    Checks out. 2023 appraised went down marginally from 2022, 2024 is still below 2022. 2021 to 2022 is where the pain is.  

  5. 3 minutes ago, Nivek said:

    Pollution is also causing creating issues with fertility and impacting anogenital distance (which is correlated to fatherhood). 

    Taint this the truth. 

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  6. 1 hour ago, BeardIP said:

    You are offended and want to be away from Christians who are so frustrated and sorrowful about the tragedies and wars that are going on that they think (and hope) that maybe it's part of the prophesied return of their leader via their canonical text? 

    There are literally no evangelicals or fundamentalists framing it in this way. If you can provide some examples of such, it will be the first that I have ever seen. But on the other hand, I have seen a lot of them talking about raising red heifers and collecting funds to rebuild the Temple, and framing the current conflict as part of their end times eschatology. 

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  7. 56 minutes ago, Smax said:

    Have to break a few eggs before you can make an omelette , the world is an ugly place man and alot shit happens behind the scenes that no one really wants to talk about to ensure we can live how we want.

    As long we are the ones on top, Im ok with that

    There is very little that you cannot justify with this logic. Grab the box and the jumper cables. The towel and board. Again at least you are honest about your perspective on American values.  

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  8. 3 hours ago, Smax said:

     

    My children and yours have reaped untold benefits from all of those "wars", can you imagine how different the world would be right now if the US sunk back into a non intervention reclusive country post WW2. Did we screw up over that time, yeah we sure as hell did but we also got some things right and at the end of the day, we're still speaking English, the dollar is the most sought after currency, we still have the strongest military and most of the world still looks to us on just about everything. 

    None of that would be possible if we didn't stick our nose in other peoples business to try and shape the world in our favor

    Yeah, I am just going to reject your counterfactual. I know that many here will accept it uncritically. We're still speaking English! JFC. The petrodollar! Yeah, tell me all about the pariah state situation. But I do appreciate the fact that you at least quite clear in your view that the American way of life post-WWII is inseparable from endless war making and naked self-interest, long run consequences and thinking be damned, we'll just muddle through the blowback. I think that that kind of cut through it honesty is worthy of some praise.   

  9. 2 hours ago, Bojack said:

    I love how you cry about someone else putting words in your mouth then in the same post and another 4 minutes later, you do exactly that to other posters.

    WW love him the MIC. He has explicitly told you this many times here. Like, "I love General Dynamics". That's a direct quote. Not words put into mouth. In another thread he is reading out articles from The War Zone, sponsored by Boeing. This is not something that he is ashamed of at all, you don't need to be defensive for him.

     

  10. 7 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

    You look at everything through your western lens and not the lens of the people that have historically had control of their ancestral homeland.

    UW, I know that you are a sincere poster coming from a good place at heart. This above is wrong headed though. With sincerity, I would like to suggest a couple books that I think you might enjoy and would find some interesting perspective. I'd be happy to send you either one or both. 

    https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Brothers-Dramatic-Palestinian-Christian/dp/154090217X

    https://www.amazon.com/Holy-Mountain-Journey-Christians-Middle/dp/0307948897

     

     

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  11. 17 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

    I've lost my mind and replied to the weird racist OSINT nerd haven't I gdit

    Twitter rots brains. The OSINT genre in particular. 

  12. 3 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    LOL at citing a think tank mission statement. “Here at (think tank) we support good things and are against the bad things.” 

    I understand that unless they are funded by Raytheon, they are suspect to you. 

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  13. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

    Ana thinks that means one favors “endless war.” 

    If I had a dollar for every time one of you sought to frame your words as my own, tell me what I think, or just simply repeated questions that were asked and addressed like seven pages earlier while acting like they remain unfulfilled, I could retire early. 

    Back in reality world both your children and mine have been raised in world where the US has been engaged in war for the entirety of their lives. Maybe you don't favor the reality, but that doesn't change the reality. And it's hard to connect the dots between your rhetoric and aspirations and reality when you stand behind all of those wars in real time during the run up and the barking sounds a lot like warmongers like john bolton. 

  14. 26 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

    Israel makes a lot of their own shit. I agree about the heavy crap. But they make the small arms being used in the West Bank. They make a lot of their own drones, tanks, naval ships, missiles. Other than fighters, helicopters, and ammo, they are pretty self sufficient. Can you answer my points?

    Yes, I totally agree. They have a highly functional and sophisticated arms industry (admittedly built with our subsidizing). All the more reason to stop sending them more American taxpayer funded shit. 

    1- How to fix the animosity on both sides? Holy fuck if this is our responsibility to fix. I tell you that whatever we are doing right now certainly is not helping. Stop arming them to kill each other though may be a good start. 

    2- What to do about the hardlines? Stop sending them money and weapons. 

    3- How to integrate? Take a firm and unwavering stand against apartheid.

    4- Settlements? Maybe for one stop cock blocking every security council resolution on the matter and conditioning all further aid packages on winding them down and returning to a lawful posture.

     

    We have very limited ability to control the actions of either Israel or the Palestinians. We only control ourselves. And with that of course, we control the flow of American guns and money. So that imo is where we should start.  

     

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