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Captainant

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  1. 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?
  2. 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
  3. Hey @YGIFS go tell your buddies to stop letting fascists come stomp on peaceful free speech
  4. It's just so fucking over the top. This is straight up State suppression of peaceful protest and speech
  5. Hartzell continues to invite fascism onto campus to quash free speech There's a circle of people standing on the south mall that are about to get arrested for having the wrong opinion
  6. Fascists lining up to clear out the OUT OF CONTROL RIOT(!!!!!) of a few dozen people on the south mall Fuckin hell.
  7. Lmfao they're deploying DPS and declaring THIS a riot How tf is that obstructing a passageway, and how is that not a public discourse space on a public university campus? Read the law, it's only 7 fuckin pages long. https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/86R/billtext/pdf/SB00018F.pdf#navpanes=0 This is absolutely fucking absurd. The state is out of control.
  8. I'm not sure how they're rioting or obstructing a highway or passageway, but the pigs are always gonna throw the kitchen sink just to try and bully people out of exercising their rights
  9. I don't think it's ONLY laziness - I think it's lack of free or leisure time to pursue a relationship. Once you're out of college and on your own, there's a load of expectations put on employees by their bosses - being available for schedule changes at the drop of a hat, or being put oncall constantly, or being put on a contract basis such that you're only earning when you're getting jobs so you're doing 105% every job. My point is, today's society in general gives people less time for themselves than ever. Relationships take a ton of time and effort, casual sex less so but still time and effort, and cranking it to some porn to scratch that itch has way fewer strings attached that may make you choose between getting paid and getting off. edit: there's definitely some laziness at play, but it's reductive to the point of missing the forest for the trees to say it's primarily laziness.
  10. So you're saying that instead of publicly protesting and bringing a ton of media attention and discussion to the issue, they should instead seek a bunch of closed door meetings where they will politely be told "no" over and over? You really think a bunch of regents and board members that are fabulously wealthy people give a single flying fuck about what any of the students think? I'd bet a dollar that they're also holding positions along with the PUF that they can't unwind from, so there won't be any changes to the investment strategy. They can't say that out loud, so they instead resort to a civility argument that is dishonestly arguing and moving the conversation AWAY from following the money. I think forcing the conversation in the open is a much more effective strategy for actually affecting change long-term. Otherwise you're just working within the status quo framework that is already co-opted by culture war politics that is sending jackboots onto campus.
  11. That's comparing apples and oranges if APD came to an off campus location to handle a protest, versus the university president preemptively calling in riot cops to silence and arrest peacefully protesting students and members of the public in a State designated """free speech area"""
  12. Dude you have such a weird tendency of cognitive dissonance You first claim that the McCombs people aren't being political And then say that they wouldn't want to stand to their principles because of all the nice stuff they got and might be scared to lose. That's fuckin politics, dude. The laundering of it through """it's just financial reality""" is how you end up justifying every horrible social enshittification policy like destroying public schools and crumbling infrastructure.
  13. Fascists? IN MY BUSINESS CULTURE?? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot UNPOSSIBLE!
  14. Hartzell is gonna have a real tough time squaring the circle on his suppression of free speech, considering how much he's written about the importance of free speech on campus https://news.utexas.edu/2020/11/02/there-is-no-higher-education-without-free-speech/
  15. It's projection, because he would feel vindictive in that position.
  16. This aged like milk lol https://news.utexas.edu/2020/11/02/there-is-no-higher-education-without-free-speech/
  17. Wtf is going on in this thread?
  18. Mother Superior jumped the gun
  19. I gotta say, GRUhorn, props for holding off on pulling the mask off for a bit longer. You resisted posting in the crypto thread for longer than normal
  20. I remember hearing overtures of "the growth will pay for the debt!" at the time of the last major round of tax cuts
  21. I'll be damned. Never read that before, thanks for sharing it
  22. That seems like a bit of projection to me, Herbert's interviews about the book make it seem like he was in more of a literary conversation than a contemporary political one
  23. Social media and video games are junk food. Feel good, easy, fun, but you are gonna have a rough time if you're living on it
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