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  1. On 4/29/2024 at 7:53 AM, wildcat09 said:

     

    Well it didn't take long to figure out why they said this. They want to do the same thing:

     

     

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  2. 11 minutes ago, Longhornfan1024 said:

    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.    

    Arguing that UT had to crack down on speech harder than private institutions specifically because of its public status sure is a take. 

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  3. It's always weird when Snacks pops in like once a year to explain why he thinks Trump can't he held accountable. I remember him arguing that convicting Trump following his second impeachment was unconstitutional, just based on his own vibes or something. 

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  4. 1 minute ago, YGIFS said:

      

    Patriot Front (self-admitted White Nationalist organization) and Proud Boys have all marched (albeit in modest numbers) on our campus.  I seen't it.  

    Just because they didn't set up tents, doesn't make it any less fucked up.  People who know they're wrong and weak, tend to not stay in one place and pitch tents.  They keep moving before they get their asses beat. 

    Just like people looting a CVS or breaking a Starbuck's window in 2020...they have this weird tendency to move on (physically speaking).

    You'll have to go easy on sockposter, he's clearly pathologically terrified of tents. 

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  5. 1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

    They are getting rid of people involved with new projects and who are responsible for their charging network?  Guess they’ve thrown in the towel on future car designs or improvements to their charging network.  Cybertrucks and charging at home for everybody!

    "These two divisions are the best and only hope for the future of this company. EVERY ONE OF YOU IS FIRED!"

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  6. 15 minutes ago, Skipper said:

    Really?  Have you not seen how things have gone in NYC and on the West Coast without police or administration escalating?  Give them an inch they will take a yard.  Some of you need to open your eyes and realize these aren't a bunch of hippies smoking pot and singing Give Peace a Chance like in your good old days.     I feel like plenty on this board are letting their hate for Trump/Abbot/MAGA cloud their judgment.  Listen to some of the jewish students speak (including those on UT campus) about the rhetoric they are hearing walking around campus.  How about protestors at UCLA not letting Jews on campus.   The national news was disgusting this morning.  Not fox news or newsmax, fucking mainstream national news.  80% of this country is disgusted at what is taking place.  But sure - Hartzell is the problem.

    Do you seriously think Jews are unable to physically enter UCLA’s campus?

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  7. 11 minutes ago, lucious leftfoot said:

    I agree with you, but have a feeling we disagree on what qualifies. One man’s dumb authoritarian bullshit rules is another man’s “law and order” or even  “greater good”. 

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  8. 19 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    They should have all first gone to Academy or REI, gotten a bunch of these mini-tents used to show what the full size looks like, and set them all up for the police to see.  Checkmate fuckers

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    I don't think the cops have enough riot gear on to safely take down even those mini tents.

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  9. 17 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    It's the tents/encampment that's the issue right? I could see a slippery slope if tents are allowed to stay up where it got out of control quick.

    What is it with the sudden fear of tents? 

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  10. On 4/28/2024 at 9:33 AM, BrickHorn said:

    This. I think many wrongly assume that fascists are all goose-stepping, cos playing foot soldiers obsessed with genocide. The real engines of fascism are run-of-the-mill assholes. The substantial portion of the population who believe they are entitled to special status and who enjoy feeling superior to others. They may be otherwise intelligent or pleasant. But they are all too willing to overestimate their own accomplishments and wrongly attribute the rewards of good luck and a stacked deck to Hard Work or Ingenuity or some other mark of personal superiority over the unwashed masses. 

    Those are the dicks who truly drive fascism. The casual racists who go about their business every day in the private sector, along the way supporting any con artist who confirms their delusions of grandeur and protects the fantasy by oppressing the less fortunate. They talk politics on the golf course or around the water cooler, convincing each other that they are special, that they earned their presumed elevated status, and that they are the rightful masters of the universe. 

    We all know these types. Sounds like Beantown has the ill fortune of working for some of them. 

    BrickHorn gets it.

  11. On 4/26/2024 at 9:45 PM, Huckleberry said:

    "You guys shouldn't worry about this extreme violation of citizens' rights because cops have been violating citizens' rights for decades" isn't the big brain argument you think it is. 

    I'm thinking that the guy who says "I'm totally a liberal but I don't see what the hubbub is with people being illegally arrested for exercising their 1st amendment rights is!" may not actually be a liberal.  

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  12. 36 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

    Just generally clearing out a crowd that didn't have authorization to be there and was asked to leave...presumably for the previous 1.5 hours.  That's pretty standard practice.  They weren't swinging clubs or anything as far as I saw.

    I hear the argument about 1A, but I don't feel like that was violated in this case.  Perhaps that's where we diverge.

    Its really not a close call, the first amendment was absolutely violated.

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  13. 29 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

    In my view, it wasn't an unreasonable response.  

     

     

    You're an extremely weird dude. "I'm a lib and I don't like Israel, but I'm all for cops assaulting and arresting peaceful protests" is a pretty rare take. 

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  14. 37 minutes ago, immamac said:

    This is a lot simpler than you are all making it. It has everything to do with personal integrity and nothing to do with anything else. 

    Hartzell cannot be trusted anymore with situations like this, he's the wrong person. He handled the DEI thing extremely poorly and now this. He isn't suited for the role. People who argue that the role is placating the BoR and whatnot, no it's not that's not the role, it's to protect and promote what's good for UT and it's faculty, staff and students as a premier education and research institution. 

    Also he literally called fucking riot police to a peaceful protest on his own campus. I was on campus, it was fucking insane and I didn't even get out to see it until around 5PM. Some of you have no idea and are very much armchairing this shit, I was on campus, it was an embarrassment how ridiculous the response. Some of you legitimately have not looked at the actual footage of what happened. It was literal fascism on the UT campus silencing a message that they didn't want. 

     

    Esto. I'm sympathetic to "the next person will be worse" theory, but it's not really true. One of the first rules of dealing with fascists is you don't try to appease them; you don't surrender to them preemptively because you think it will buy you time or room to stand firm on other issues. Fascists succeed much more easily when power is given to them freely, because they actually suck at seizing and wielding it. If Hartzell is replaced by some dipshit obvious fascist, they'll actually be less effective long-run than they would be with a more "moderate" president who is constantly attempting to appease them.  

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  15. 3 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    Aren't you the guy that posted a link an actual, literal Nazi website once because you thought they were making a good political point about some shit?

    Yes he is.

    Just now, 'stache said:

    JFC, no surprise your critical thinking skills are non existent. The VAST MAJORITY of college protests are about support for Palestinian people and criticism of the State of Israel's military actions. The VAST MAJORITY of chants and signs at these events are "Free Palestine" or the like. A few who go off the rails does not = "the protests are antisemitic."

    The stuff Brisket is pointing out are protests, events, people in which the VAST MAJORITY are promoting nazism. The signs and chants and signs are "The Jews Will Not Replace Us."

    Yeah, both anti-Semitic. 

    Dumb fuck. 

    Some of whom Johnny said were good people.

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