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Captainant

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  1. Comparing a blue COVID mask to a KKK hood is certainly a take.
  2. In court and on record it turns out that eyewitness are incredibly unreliable on their own. But don't let me get in the way of your police state to silence speech you don't like, which is what kick-started this whole shit show
  3. In fairness, abbott has trouble with the whole getting on his knees thing
  4. TIL a bank is a State-designated free speech public forum!
  5. To be honest, the law that abbott signed in 2019 was done so for this exact case. A no-shit white supremacist was going to speak at ATM and the student body revolted and it eventually escalated into clashes between the pro and anti fascists in attendance that the cops had to break up. In response, ATM created a policy that only university-sanctioned visitors could speak on campus from then on. SB18 was passed in direct response to this event. Edit: I've linked it already but I'm sourcing from this Georgetown FSP article
  6. IMO they'd be better served contracting an orbital imaging firm to get regular site pictures for the rivers. Once they've got that image data it's pretty easy to throw a computer vision model at em to identify active building sites
  7. ARREST THAT STUDENT HE IS TAKING UP MORE GROUND SQUARE FOOTAGE THAN HE NEEDS TO AND IS BLOCKING OTHERS FROM USING THE SPACE!!!! /s
  8. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy
  9. In my experience, people only pick up a ton of negs when they come in hot without any supporting evidence or citation for their claims. There is certainly a belief of what you claim, but it's ironically completely supported by a mindless repetition of something that isn't quite true. Just like how there's a weird overriding urge in this thread from some folks to call everything antisemitism and cheer on the riot cops, in spite of the objective reality before them
  10. For a bit of context with protests for divestiture in history... People have been fucking up Columbia's shit for generations and it didn't seem to irrevocably stain the university or it's honor https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/an-anti-apartheid-protest-by-students-at-the-entrance-to-news-photo/515710745
  11. It's a relatively small field in the "six pack" just south of the tower. On any given school day it's covered with a bunch of students laying down or sitting in the grass reading or eating or just existing. Not really comparable to the national mall They weren't actively preventing anyone else from being in the grass - they were sitting in a fucking circle holding hands when the cops cleared them out yesterday and last week. That's perfectly legal according to abbott's law, and if you think escalating directly to riot cops and flash bangs and teargas are an appropriate remedy to facemasks and tents, then you just may be a fascist
  12. Not if private equity cash buyers snap up all the housing inventory to turn into passive income rentals
  13. They also wear *GASP* FACEMASKS!!!(1!!!) https://www.texasobserver.org/homegrown-neo-fascist-movement-marches-in-austin/ And they were not targeted by the State because the State likes their speech - the 2019 law was passed to make it easier for these groups to come on campuses, I linked a contemporaneous Georgetown Free Speech Project page that discussed the legislations authoring and the debate around it at the time. Edit: lmfao of course the resident church elder Deacon Dickhead likes your post about the fascist groups getting preferential treatment from the Uvalde Defenders
  14. This is a perfectly acceptable response to their speech. Sending in riot cops to shut them up isn't. That's the problem here
  15. Finally, a good use for all that tannerite that academy keeps stocking. But on a serious note, this is only gonna get worse as water becomes more scarce and temperatures get hotter.
  16. Sigh. Its unfortunate that sack's posting of a tucker carlson network affiliated student news paper has given y'all the justification you were looking for to write off all of this as basic antisemitism. Nevermind that abbott signed the free speech law to allow neonazis a more free hand to speak on campus
  17. Musk is hemorrhaging cash and after successfully getting HIS charging connector accepted as the NACS he's now abandoning it? Doesn't make a damn bit of sense I do not know how this corporate performance justifies a $56B comp plan
  18. That's... Not what the protest was about? Despite you and yours continued gaslighting and repetition of abbott's propaganda. The protest has consistently been for UT to divest from the companies that are making the bombs that are blowing up civilians in Gaza. And seeing as you are completely non responsive to any of the facts, and instead just culture warring, leads me to believe that you are just trolling
  19. “ALICE is the nation’s child-care workers, home health aides and cashiers heralded during the pandemic — those working low-wage jobs, with little or no savings and one emergency from poverty,” said Stephanie Hoopes, national director at United for ALICE. This can't be though, there are so many charts with a line going up!
  20. I disagree - information alone doesn't cause this sort of angst. It's the finely tuned and micro targeted effectiveness of it all. It's all encompassing and inescapable. When my wife first searched for a baby item after learning we were expecting, her Instagram feed started pushing all sorts of early pregnancy horror stories. It really put her in a bad place or a day or two when she was really feeling all the nausea, and she had to stop using insta for a while because of it. She didn't post on Instagram about being pregnant, but within minutes of doing something on one part of the internet, EVERYTHING else knew. That is one hell of a recipie for horrible escalating feedback loops that are fertile ground for ill intent.
  21. 1) the law signed by Greg Abbott five years ago makes it crystal clear that all members of the public have a right to peaceful speech in public places, which explicitly include college campuses. The law was originally signed to hold the door open for proud boy types to come speak on campus, and abbott is bigmad that it's being used in a way he doesn't like 2) I could definitely see rocks being used to hold tents down in place on a windy day, and I'd bet the pigs would call anything near them as being "strategically placed within the encampment"
  22. It was already in the bloodstream prior to COVID, but it definitely ramped up during the period of home loneliness not unlike how qanon really escalated from its nascent state once everyone was locked inside
  23. Captainant

    LBGTQ

    Our criminal justice systems failure to put Kpax away is going to be like leaving a fucking tumor in the body https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/04/texas-sues-biden-administration-for-right-to-discriminate-against-lgbtq-students/
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