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Longhornfan1024

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  1. To the first part of your response: even if UT can choose to waive its rules in the interest of keeping the peace, all that does is create the playbook for every other group to come to campus and violate UT's rules. Are you the KKK and you want to protest against the abolition of slavery in violation of UT's rules? Tell them you are going to violate the rules ahead of time and occupy campus. Start at Greg, move to the South Mall, and set up a tent encampment. Make sure to wear your masks. To the second part of your response: I agree that using mounted troopers and anti-riot tactics created some awful images, but I'm curious about how you would prefer UT to have acted. Do they send a couple of low-paid dean of students admins to try and disperse the crowd? Send the entirety of the UTPD police force to that one area of campus and still be out numbered?
  2. Nothing in my statement leads to this conclusion. UT "cracking down" on impermissible actions regardless of whether it agrees with the content of the speech related to those actions is the opposite. Private institutions can choose whether to crack down on speech. UT doesn't get to pick and choose. If someone or a group is violating UT's rules, they need to act regardless of the content of that speech. Otherwise, UT has just creating the playbook for every other group to come onto campus and violate UT's rules.
  3. Brisket, you're an attorney and you know better than this. There is a difference between what a private university like Chicago or Northwestern can do and what a public university like UT can do. If UT chooses not to enforce its rules against this group because they are protesting for a 'good cause' then UT can't enforce its rules against any group. Otherwise, that would be viewpoint-based discrimination in violation of the first amendment. It's all or nothing when it comes to enforcing the rules as a public institution, and it sounds like this group intended to and did violate UT's rules.
  4. That's not an opinion, it's a supposition. And it runs counter to Hartzell's text saying he requested DPS presence. Unless your supposition is also that Abbott ordered Hartzell to request DPS presence, Hartzell requested their presence, and then Hartzell lied to a state senator about the source of the request.
  5. Is this a wild guess or a "guess"? I ask because the texts the media released show Hartzell saying he reached out to ask for DPS assistance, not the other way around. If that's the case it seems like there had to be something to trigger that request if he hadn't already done it for the other protests. I agree that the mere presence of troopers last Wednesday likely had an escalating effect on the protesters (I won't call them students because it appears a large portion were not students), but what caused the escalating effect on the University to even call in the troopers? We have a lot of posters here postulating that it's because he disagrees with the content of their speech, but if that's the case, why not call the troopers in one of the first dozen or so times UT had pro-palestinian protesters on campus?
  6. Given that since 10/6 there have been a number of pro-Palestinian protests on campus that went off smoothly, I wonder what made this one different. Why respond the way they did now?
  7. This is stupid. Don't be so stupid.
  8. Tahoe was the one who got scared of a black man standing outside of Wal-Mart, right?
  9. Please take Jeff Ward off the air. Forever. He is awful.
  10. Hugo Boss died over 75 years ago. I'm pretty sure he's not benefitting from people buying the clothes that bear his name.
  11. I'm not sure if you're a troll or just highly uninformed.
  12. It's been well known for awhile that Sajak is a facist trumpist d-bag.
  13. It's honorable of A&M to self impose sanctions for buying so many players in the 2022 class. A reduction of 10-15 scholarships seems a bit harsh, but I guess it goes to show the egregiousness of their cheating.
  14. Generally, you're correct. About once every month or two you'll have the option to buy Spirits Direct wine for 10x points. You can do it on any day as long as you activate the deal on your account. I don't drink a lot of wine, but I do give it away as gifts. So I spend $250 (or less depending on my current point total) during a 10x deal and I have Grand Reserve and most of my gifts for the year taken care of.
  15. TW's year-end grand reserve raffle is up. What are everyone's thoughts on the best order of the following? I've only had GTS, so I'm flying blind. 1. Pappy 23 2. Pappy 20 3. Pappy 15 4. VW Family Reserve Rye 5. VW Special Reserve 12 6. ORVW 10 7. ER17 8. GTS 9. Saz 18 10.THH 11. WLW
  16. I mean, you can tell Scalise is a white supremacist just by looking at him.
  17. Your daughter needs to lay off the pipe.
  18. So it's John Wick with an old black lady instead of a puppy?
  19. If I had a billion dollars, I'd definitely live in San Diego instead of Austin.
  20. I'm no Arsenal fan, but if derka were to come back and engage in one of his epic rants, I'd support him. That no call on the second Kova yellow was egregious. EPL doing what it can to help City again.
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