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  1. 2 minutes ago, mdmost said:

    Then maybe it does just need to be burned down so those people can see just how bad things truly can get. If we as a nation re-elect him after all he did prior and what he's DEFINITELY saying he will do when he's back in office then we deserve our fate and the destruction of this country. And all of this because a black man became President and really didn't do all that much but try to give people who needed it government sponsored health care. 

    We do not want to go down the road of giving the fascists the reigns of power back. It doesn't end up great for the people that are caught in the blast of killing all the fucking fascists

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  2. 11 minutes ago, Mikey4 said:

    Whether I agree with the speech or not, If someone wants to hide his identity when protesting, why should I care? Then I consider KKK members wearing masks to burn crosses. For them -- hell no.

    Comparing a blue COVID mask to a KKK hood is certainly a take. 

  3. 17 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    All quite credible.  But Paxton would prefer AG, and he sucks Trump's dick harder than Abbott, and we know that's all that matters in Trumpland.

    In fairness, abbott has trouble with the whole getting on his knees thing

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  4. 30 minutes ago, C-Man said:

    But the minute "infintada" or "pro-Hamas" shit comes up on the West Mall, this thing needs to be shut down with extreme prejudice (no head-cracking, just clearing them out peacefully) as it's no longer simply support for the innocent Palestines in Gaza.

    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

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  5. 6 minutes ago, Steel Shank said:

    TPWD and TCEQ need to look into drones or planes to check the water ways then fine the shit out of the offenders. Especially repeat offenders.

    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

  6. 4 minutes ago, Mikey4 said:

    I don't follow. I was agreeing with Nicole that people are disuaded from posting in CR and to some extent DT due to tribalism and a rush to neg rather than engage in a debate. There is certainly some good faith debate and discussion, but the extremists make it unpleasant.

    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

  7. 8 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    I’ll push back gently on that, as aggy with limited knowledge of the South Mall and the purpose it serves. It seems like a meeting point and place for public use and speech, maybe with a lot of similarities to the National Mall

    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

     

    9 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Whether you are there for a protest or rally or just enjoying the rare spring weather, other people have the right to be there as well and it’s not really an infringement to draw some bright lines.

    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

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  8. 10 minutes ago, lucious leftfoot said:

    Maybe those guys know to follow the rules around protesting?  I have no idea but they do wear nice, pressed khakis with a tucked in polo.

    They also wear *GASP* FACEMASKS!!!(1!!!)

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    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

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  9. 13 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Their point of farthest divergence and least sympathy from me, TBH.  It’s fine to call for it, I guess, but I don’t know how you watch Russia and China and conclude that we need to divest from our defense industrial base.

    Texas public schools get funded and we also get to develop Virginia-class boats, B-21s, and air breathing cruise missiles? 
     

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    5 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    This.  Are they shouting from the divestment of all the wafer/chip manufacturing that allows all these systems to actually work?  That's why Taiwan is so important.  We can make due with older iPhones and laptops.  We can't implement cutting edge weapons systems at the scale we need without them, and neither can anyone else.  The MIC is do ingrained into every facet of society I don't know how any school with market investment can 100% divest from every aspect is this industry.  

    This is a perfectly acceptable response to their speech. Sending in riot cops to shut them up isn't. 

    That's the problem here

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  10. 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

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  11. 11 minutes 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!

    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

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  12. 10 minutes ago, Alien Octopus said:

    Yeah ok, then what is all this outrage about spraying students when they are not students? They are paid protestors espousing the protection of the Death to America, Kill Jews, Mutilate Women and sell children regime? Ya’ll may be against all things Hot Wheels but your choice of outrage for these pieces of shit does not resonate.

    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

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  13. 6 minutes ago, bernorange said:

    “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!

  14. 15 minutes ago, Smax said:

    I'm starting to believe that the internet is the worst thing man has invented, we just aren't ready for this much information all at once, as a whole we our minds cant handle it

    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. 

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  15. 8 minutes ago, Alien Octopus said:

     

    Most of the UT-Austin protesters arrested are not believed to be affiliated with the university, school says

    From CNN’s Ashley Killough

    Several protesters have been arrested at UT-Austin Monday, most of whom are not believed to be affiliated with the university, school officials said in a statement. 

    “After protesters ignored repeated directives from both the administration and law enforcement officers to comply with Institutional Rules and remove tents assembled on the University’s South Lawn, then physically engaged with and verbally assaulted Dean of Students staff who attempted to confiscate them, UT and partner law enforcement agencies dismantled an encampment and arrested several protesters,” university officials said in a statement. “Baseball size rocks were found strategically placed within the encampment.”

    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"

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  16. 1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said:

    I think a lot of us are saying the same stuff….I think the pandemic stuff took it to 11 because many young males who were out of school (high school or college) were all of the sudden physically isolated for quite a while and they weren’t around other men who provided a more positive role model, and were consuming this shit, and then you had young teen males also stuck at home consuming this shit.  Both groups (teens and early 20s) were very isolated and therefore vulnerable for a year or two.

    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

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