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Captainant

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  1. This is a perfectly acceptable response to their speech. Sending in riot cops to shut them up isn't. That's the problem here
  2. 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.
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. “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!
  7. 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.
  8. 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"
  9. 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
  10. 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/
  11. It's not just "social media", it's micro targeting to identify the young men most vulnerable to their message and then inundating them. The social media companies love it because they make money on the ad sales PLUS the increase engagement from the victimhood/rage posting. It's the same playbook used by steve bannon to convert gamergate into a political power base, and it's the same ethos and messaging as peterson
  12. Don't let it be said that students are just making a mess on campus or causing trouble for the sake of causing trouble
  13. I hear you, but that's maybe half an hour of effort to clean up for a handful of people. Hell the cops could have picked it up if they cared about anything else aside from being abbott's enforcers. It's not like it's some earth shattering blow to the university for chrissakes. IMO bowing down to fascism to stifle peaceful speech is far more embarrassing than some knocked over trash cans and a pile of garbage on the south mall.
  14. We didn't get into this debt in an instant, and arguing that any solution must immediately resolve it is not a serious one. There has to be a balanced approach, not just starving the beast so your buttcoins will be worth more
  15. Cops are starting to pepper spray people And students are marching up 22nd chanting "off our campus" Jesus tittyfucking Christ this is a fucking embarrassment by Abbott and the Uvalde Defenders
  16. https://itep.org/federal-tax-cuts-in-the-bush-obama-and-trump-years/ Sorry I didn't include a link to back my claim of what happened in the past is what happened in the past. Taxes have been consistently cut while spending fueled by debt has grown over the same period (because taxes were cut). But if you'd care to give me a more cogent disagreement than quoting 7 words out of a post and saying "NYUH UH!!" that'd be neat
  17. My problem is that inflation is fundamentally too much money in the market - usually from debt based spending, and taxation is a direct way to remove money from the economy. That balance has been completely out of whack since the 2000s with the nonstop tax cuts and spending increases. No shit money is getting devalued! The problem is that it's a pretty exclusive position in America that "taxation is theft" and other such platitudes about how the gubmint is taking muh munee. The parties will have a hell of a time making those ends meet, because the hatred of taxation has now sublimated into dogma and id. And there's still a fuckin boatload of federal subsidy pouring out more and more money. There's gotta be a sink, or a negative input to a system. Otherwise it will invariably oscillate and escalate out of control
  18. Unfortunately, Abbott and his sockpuppet Hartzell disagree with your assessment and have deemed riot cops to be the best response for about 50 people on the six pack, rather than let people hear out their ideas and decide for themselves. Because frankly yeah they're probably going to overstep and lose public support for their protest, but that's a moot point when they're being victimized
  19. I mean if you want smoke blown up your ass about the economy, that's more 52-80's beat than brisket or Jimmy. The """economy""" writ large is doing good if you're a stock monkey because NGU, but if you're a wage earner you're at the tail end of a 4 decade long run of fucking workers over. The fucking workers over is tough to pin 100% on Biden unless you've got an agenda to push. But then again when haven't you had an agenda, GRU?
  20. Nope, they bring in riot geared cops holding batons because they cannot tolerate speech that they disagree with. This is what early stage fascism looks like
  21. Hey @YGIFS go tell your buddies to stop letting fascists come stomp on peaceful free speech
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