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bolverk

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  1. You do realize the only violence related to the war that has occurred in the vicinity of UT was a Palestinian student being stabbed a couple of months ago, right?
  2. Several posts with timestamps on this page. https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/topic/883-israel/page/138/
  3. There were plenty of Jewish students watching the protest. Go to this post and see for yourself. They were not being threatened.
  4. Thanks for posting. I hadn't seen that yet. Have you seen any of the footage in front of Gregory Gym where the cops start shoving students around?
  5. That's AFTER the cops literally shoved the students off the grass. I've seen zero footage showing students attempting to erect tents. They planned to hang out on the lawn and march later in the day over to the capitol building.
  6. Images posted below so you don't have to click through Look at the very last bullet. Is that even legal, given the 2019 law that was passed?
  7. Johnny doesn't have a problem with any of that language. In fact, he agrees with it as he's affirmatively stated his desire more than once in the war thread that he'd like to see all the Palestinians removed from Gaza.
  8. 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?
  9. Don't forget the dirt bikes with the custom drone protection Sissy bars,
  10. If you're not aware, the recent protests at USC began when the school's administration decided not to allow this year's valedictorian to give her speech at the commencement ceremony because she's a vocal supporter of Palestine. edit: yeah, what royiv said with much more detail.
  11. Holy shit. That may be the highest master-class level of trolling I've ever seen. Then the lyrics 🎶the bombs bursting in air🎶 while bombs ARE bursting in air. Good lord.
  12. There is also a very large share that you are completely ignoring or refusing to acknowledge: those who are neither anti-Israel nor antisemitic but only want Palestinians to be allowed to have their own homeland.
  13. This is the only on-topic portion of your post I'll address in this thread. Obviously, the overall goal of these protests is for Palestinians to have their own land; HOWEVER, I *think* the most direct action they believe they can take is to get The University of Texas Boycott, Divestments, and Sanctions movement (BDS). Yeah, I don't think that will work out for them over the short term either. Another goal, I'm sure, is to raise the profile of the Palestinian cause, especially among those who might influence U.S. policy over the long term (you know, future American leaders, i.e., college kids that go to really good schools). On this point, I think they're likely making headway and will continue to do so if they don't end up shooting themselves in the foot with over-the-top violence or antisemitic actions. From my standpoint, thus far, the UT student activists have been much more successful in curtailing that other stupid shit than their Ivy League counterparts.
  14. Surveys indicate that about 25% of Americans are authoritarians, which is 10-15 percentage points higher than most Western democracies. They also show that among Americans, people living in former Confederate states, Evangelicals, rural dwellers, and the less educated all show higher levels of acceptance for authoritarianism than the average American. Let's face the fact that a large percentage of Surly posters would be just fine living under an authoritarian government as long as they were in the in-group.
  15. Because they weren't planning to fucking camp out on the lawn, you goddamned moron.
  16. The UT-Abbott thread was merged into the Abbott being Abbott thread, which is here. But the Israel/Hamas debate ain't about Abbott and UT. There have been a few comments about y'all going on about this here:
  17. @Make em eat Taco Bell @956 Worldwide Take it elsewhere, guys. Y'all do realize you can quote each other by clicking the 3 dots on a post, click share, and paste that link into the Israel thread without missing a beat.
  18. I guess Florida doesn't belong. Nor does LSU. Or Georgia. Same goes for Tennessee and Vanderbilt. It's understood that we're joining up with the heart of the Old South for sports, but middle-aged message board meat-heads don't realize how out of touch they are with today's students and a changing world.
  19. News cameramen are a blight and should be barred from campus.
  20. It feels like a whole lot of posters who are commenting today didn't watch any of the videos that were posted yesterday. Or, if they did, they're intentionally gaslighting the board.
  21. I've seen rowdier knitting circles than yesterday's protest.
  22. Not to be the thread police or anything, but please take the Hamas/Israel argument shit to the Israel thread please. Let's get some on-topic focus, maybe regarding what happened yesterday, Abbott's involvement, the GQP's ownership of Hartzell, and/or the UT System's regents. We could also view it through the prism of enshittifying higher education in Texas, much like its K-12 schools. I don't want to slog through that whole debate about antisemitism versus islamophobia again. I honestly think that's incidental to what the fuck is acutally going on.
  23. Gotta love religious extremists, no matter the stripe.
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