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  1. 55 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

    You don’t have to guess. Just read his letter and texts. 

     

    36 minutes ago, Pancho said:

     

    not a good look 

    Yeah. If true there went any semblance of me being remotely willing to consider Hartzell as anything other than at fault. 

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  2. 34 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

    How many of us have been ordered to have riot police arrest protesting students?

    While a fair point, my guess would be Hartzell was told there would be DPS guys on campus and that was it. What the cops were told to do likely didn’t come from Hartzell in the chain of command. 

  3. 44 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

     

    And if he didn't have any other options, then he should have resigned. And held a press conference explaining why. Go out a hero, not become a fascist enabler. 

     

    Everyone says this, until it’s everything they’ve worked for in their lives at stake. It’s very easy to do the right thing from our recliners, much harder when it’s your life and career on the line. Again, this is how fascism works. For fucks sake, what did the milgram studies teach us?

     

    and I say this completely thinking I’d do the right thing too in that situation. And yet, here I sit in Houston, not leaving Texas, because my kid has a good thing going and because my career isn’t portable, or even replicable, anywhere else. Just hoping things hold together till the kiddo goes to college and we can get out. While risking his future and ours by staying. 
     

    For everyone who has talked of leaving and hasn’t yet, why haven’t you? Doing the right thing is always easy, right?

     

    42 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    I understand. Don't let perfect become the enemy of good. the problem is that I just don't see any good here. And I'm not going to let fear of what may be prevent me from standing up to what it is. And this was wrong. 

    Everyone says that until they see what the next thing is…but on the upside, something even more obviously monstrous that follows will make it easier to cut ties and wash hands entirely. 

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  4. 1 minute ago, NoName said:

    fortunately, i live nowhere near houston

    unfortunately, they don't distribute anywhere near me and i'm not paying $14 a jar, but those look fantastic. in laws are going to be going to Houston in a few weeks and may ask them to grab some for me. where are you seeing it in stores?

    I've seen it (often sold out) at Central Market. And there's a small place off Washington called Henderson & Kane that has it. Also he, at least used to be, at a Farmer's Market saturday mornings in front of Cavatore's Italian restauarnt off Ella near 610 North. Has some more details on their instagram.

    https://www.instagram.com/chilesquiles/?hl=en

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  5. 1 minute ago, Captainant said:

    Sorry I didn't quite make it clear, Hartzell had told the soon-to-be-fired DEI staff that they would find a place for them in UT so they would not lose their jobs and livelihood. The DEI program was going away no matter what, but he welched on his commitment to keep them in jobs somewhere at UT.

    Either way, that sounds fucking shitty. I'm not defending the guy's behavior by any stretch. I simply think if we was left to his own devices, things would have gone differently in almost all these situations. He didn't want the fucking Liberty Institute anywhere near UT. He didn't want to dismantle DEI. And I'm completely speculating, but I wouldn't be surprised if our BOR wasn't interested in retaining ANY DEI employees the way aTm didn't want some "liberal black woman" running their journalism department. The sad truth is the Dismal Tide is coming for all of us. 

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  6. 5 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    The DEI stuff was compounded because (according to my mom who's an AD for UT student services) hartzell made a big show of telling the staff and faculty that nobody would be losing their job and livelihood over the DEI programs getting shuttered - and then he fired all sixty of em. The staff and faculty have already been mad at hartzell because he went back on his word about protecting the Texas family from State interference

    That's what the Tower protest yesterday was originally supposed to be about, but they ceded the site to the second day of the peaceful pro-Palestine protests

    The reality is that Hartzell doesn't call the shots. The BOR calls the shots. I can't speak for how he handled firing a bunch of folks, becuase I have no personal knowledge of that, but your story sure sounds like it was fucking shitty. But he was told to shutter DEI, or lose his job. I know Hartzell loves UT and wanted it to be his last job. But I have to wonder if we'll be seeing that guy take a job as Presdient in...some other state. At the end of the day, this is a microcosm of everything else that is happening in Texas, right down to the people who are making active plans to GTFO of this place at some point in the future. It's what Fascism does. It squeezes downward and forces compliance or fleeing, right up until the point where they have enough power that they won't let you flee. Then they force compliance in totality. And every step of the way, people have to ask if this is the day they're willing to give up everything they've fought their life to achieve to escape, or stand up and do the right thing when it's all on the line for them personally. It's a hard question to answer sometimes. But all of us will, at some point soon, most likely. 

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  7. 2 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

     

    state of Texas contributes more than the student body to UT?

    I honestly don't know the answer to that question. Does the state contribute more than all the tuition, fees, etc the students pay? At one time, probably so, but with tuition increases, maybe?

     

     

    I mean, I pulled it out of my ass, but:

    https://budget.utexas.edu/about/budget

    And I'm sure there's a ton of shit not covered in there which also comes from the state as well. 

  8. 9 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I love the justification for Hartzell's behavior is that the check-cutters likely approve of what he did.  Yeah, a massive, highly regarded public university "of the first class" needs to craft policy to align with donors.

    In related news, I know one of the biggest check-cutters, and I strongly suspect he is not happy with what happened.  I'll ask him when I get a chance.

    Of course, the biggest donor to the University of Texas is arguably...the state of Texas. So yeah, he did what the Governor wanted. 

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  9. Just now, chainsaw said:

    Seriously? You're going to deny what you said?

    What did you mean by "Palestinians and many, many muslims" then?

    I meant that there is a GIANT FUCKING SEGMENT of those two groups that hate jews and want them dead, and it isn't because of land encroachment. It's holy. 

    You're attempting to pounce on some lack of a specific percentage as some kind of gotcha. Many Palestinians, and many other muslims (which was meant to represent that exist in other countries outside Palestine) want to kill jews on general principle. 

    I doubt you'd be saying the same thing if I made a statment like "Texas is full of Fascists." Which it is. But it doesn't mean everyone. Nor should my comments be read that way. Fuck the fuck off. 
     

    4 minutes ago, Welshy said:

    Looking for the UT-Abbot thread, wandered into the Trolling 101 thread. 

    My apologies. I knew better when I started. 

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  10. 1 minute ago, chainsaw said:

    You were linking an old charter to make a libelous argument directed at all Palestinians, so GTFO.

    Fuck you, I did no such thing. I linked to the old charter which was riddled with anti-semtic language and mention of exterminating JEWS, not Israel, but Jews, a charter that was inacted when Hamas was elected in Palestine. I never attempted to made a "libelous" argument directed at all palestinians. I simply used their own document, which was enacted when Palestinians elected them as their ruling party, as evidence that just MAYBE there's a large segment of people for which their issues with Israel/Jews is a bit more than territorial. 

    How is that in any way a libelous argument directed at ALL Palestinians. Go ahead, walk me through it. 

    Also, I note that you have no response to the fact that "Oh, they wrote a new charter 10 years later, I'm sure there's no lingering hatred of Jews" point. I guess you do also believe there's no more racism in America, either, right?

  11. 2 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

    you should know that charter was replaced

    Yes. I'm aware they replaced that charter in 2017. To soften their public stance. Just like the Southern Strategy replaced the N word with "forced busing" and school choice. I guess based on that, you're right, there is no more racism in America. Becuase decades or centuries of resentment and hatred just evaporte once the formal rhetoric becomes just a bit lighter. Get the fucking fuck out of here. 

  12. 4 minutes ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

    lolz, it's all about land and fighting the invading Zionists.  Simple really.  Yes, they hate Jews because of what they did to them , which btw is a lot worse than the relatively minor Pearl Harbor attack which cause massive hatred of the Japs.  

    Jew hatred arises out of political events.  Jews are the enemy but they are not the enemy simply because they are Jews (your incorrect mindset). 

    Jews are doing business in many Muslim lands and like I said even live in Iran.   You are a rookie but you have lots of company.  

    "jews hate arises out of political events." Well, I didn't have "political event" as a description of October 7th on my bingo card, but here we are...I'll ignore all the videos all over the internet of Palestinian children putting on plays heroicly depicting the muder of jews, and children saying they grow up with no other goal than to murder jews, becuase hey, I have an incorrect mindset and those must not be real.  

    Oh, you live in Iran you say? Outside of my shock that you have regular access to a functioning internet that isn't massively controlled by the state, well, I guess your viewpoints make a lot more sense. 

     

     

  13. 1 minute ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

    1. It's the biggest misundestanding BY FAR and you keep making the rookie mistake, but you are not alone, so find comfort in that. Oh my dear, it is ALL about geographic encroachment, not anti-semitism at all.

    2. see#1 the continued encroachment is still the cause and in fact the 2 state solution is dead because the Jews don't want to fall back to "their" lands. 

    Many of you have to discard this idea of "Jew hatred" , "antisemitism". It's absolutely ZERO. 

    Let me dumb it down for you:  America did not fight Japan because of racial hatred of Asian people.  Make sense?  

     

    You're bordering on disingenuous to the point of trolling. Hamas literally said it's their responsibility to kill jews everywhere in the world. It's in their fucking CHARTER. But yes, it's all geopolitical. Those videos of all the 8 year old palestinians claiming their only want in life is to grow up and slaughter jews...those vieos just cut off right after "Because of their geographical encroachment!" 

    The Two State solution is dead because despite agreeing in 2007 among all the parties, no final agreement was reached, and then Hamas took control of Palestine and oh, put it in their charter to kill jews everywhere, and shit has progressively gotten worse. 

    To say that Palestinians and many, many muslims, don't hate and flat out want to kill the Jewish people is fucking miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiind blowing. It's in their charter, repeatedly:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Hamas_charter


     

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  14. 11 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

     

    Emil Bove, the Trump lawyer cross-examining Pecker, is the newest addition to Trump’s trial team. He previously served as a federal prosecutor in New York.

     

    One notable point about the end of prosecutors’ questioning of Pecker was that they hammered home the idea that he isn’t out to get Trump. That is how the defense plans to frame Michael Cohen's actions — as vindictive.

     

    That was quite a way to end the direct questioning. Pecker had only just begun to describe the hush-money payment made to Stormy Daniels. That means that other witnesses, likely including Michael Cohen, will be left to give most of the testimony about it. The lack of testimony from Pecker about Daniels also makes me wonder if Daniels herself might testify: We still don’t know.

     

    The prosecution is done questioning David Pecker. He will be cross-examined by Trump's defense team next.

    The lawyer Emil Bove will handle the cross-examination for Trump’s defense.

     

    He says that he hasn't spoken to Trump since 2019. “Even though we haven't spoken, I still consider him a friend,” Pecker adds, as he testifies against Trump at his criminal trial.

     

    Trump is showing the most emotion he has during the trial so far as David Pecker discusses a non-prosecution agreement with the Manhattan district attorney's office. He has shaken his head multiple times, whispered to his lawyer and tightly folded his arms over his chest.

     

    Joshua Steinglass, the prosecutor, asks David Pecker if he has any bad feelings or ill will toward Trump. “On the contrary,” Pecker responds, adding: “I felt that Donald Trump was my mentor. He helped me throughout my career.” Pecker then tells a story in which an editor on his staff inhaled anthrax after the Sept. 11 attacks and died. Pecker says he was in a very difficult place from a business and personal standpoint, and that Trump was the first to call him when he needed help.

     

     

     

    5 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    It wasn't out of the kindness of his heart, I can assure you. 

    Exactly. Trump saw the opportunity to get a national tabloid mag under his thumb at the right time, and it clearly paid off by 2016

  15. 38 minutes ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

    not exactly true and true anti Zionism isn't Holocaust 2.  This mistake , which you also have made, is BY FAR the most common misunderstanding on this topic.  At the core of this entire thing is Arab sovereignty vs. Jewish encroachment onto the native Arab population. This has evolved into a few other directions but anything else is a misunderstanding which Israel is happy to exploit. 

    Listen dude, I peace'd out of the israel thread months ago for this reason. I'll address a couple points and I'll peace out of this one too, becuase I know where it ends. But before I start, I will say that Netanyahu is a war criminal and can fuck off and die, and Israel does plenty of shady shit. That being said:

    1.) not exactly true and true anti Zionism isn't Holocaust 2 - It's pretty condescending to tell people they're misunderstanding a topic when you have no clue of their knowledge, AND your saying they're misunderstanding something and you're offering your own subjective opinion. "Not exactly true" is sort of the flip side of "not exactly wrong." And Anti Zionism isn't the Holocaust 2 mostly becuase Israel/America/Others haven't allowed it to become Holocaust 2...yet. There are massive amounts of people living in the immediate vicinity who don't believe Jews have a right to be alive, and one of them is Hamas. And it seems like every 10-15 years they all try to invade or do something horrible to Israel. But yes, I'm sure the peopel of Israel and Jews worldwide don't feel threatened, but if they do, yes, lets just assure them this is really a geographical encroachment situaiton, nothing more!

    2) At the core of this entire thing is Arab sovereignty vs. Jewish encroachment onto the native Arab population - Such an amazing oversimplificaiton. Was the Jewish state created by displacing Arabs. Yes, absolutely. Was any CONTINUED "encroachment" on the Arab state becuase people wanted to fucking kill jews? Yes, Israel's advancement came at the cost of more Arab land...usually after those countries decaled war on Israel, invaded and then Israel whipped their ass and ended up with more land than they started. You could call that Arab bestowment of Arab lands as much as encroachment.

     

    Edit: As an addendum to part 1, I'll add that Iran is a country that absolutely wants to eradicate Jews, and they have since the October attack ADMITTED that they pushed Hamas, who is their proxy, to attack becuase they feared that the Saudi's and soon others signing up to normalize relations with Israel would lower the temperature and hatred of Jews in the region. Another country literally meddling to prevent the hatred of jews subsidizing, becuase they fear it'll be harder to kill them in the future, but yes, Israel and Jews shouldn't feel threatened becuase it's just basic geopolitical maneuvering. right? 

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  16. 3 minutes ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

    why do Jewish students feel hating Israel is a direct attack on them? /rhetorical question.

    Probably becuase the people, historically, who most often hate on israel don't think Jews have a right to exist. .

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