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Captainant

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  1. Sack knows. He WANTS the university to stamp down and crack heads for people who have speech he doesn't like. Hell, on his original handle he once misquoted MLK in defense of Chris Rufo's CRT shit. He's an intellectually dishonest liar that doesn't care
  2. Sack, have you even read the thread? I linked Hartzells own statement about last year's free speech week and the UTexas page for it. It sure seems like you're coming in completely uninformed and thread shitting to defend your culture war stake
  3. Me saying that I'm a millionaire doesn't make it true either. You are overly eager to accept the framing that validates your biases. You should look for yourself what happened instead of listening to and repeating abbott's puppet
  4. No matter how much you repeat the abbott and cruz line, it does not make it true. That was not happening yesterday. Stop lying, please.
  5. You are gaslighting and presenting as fact things that did not happen. What DID happen is that DPS showed up in riot gear at 1130, let people come and peacefully protest, and then started teakettling and arresting people. I posted a timeline earlier in the thread.
  6. That political ideology put a fucking boot on the neck of our university yesterday.
  7. As we get more into discussion and unpacking whatever the fuck happened yesterday, I think it's useful to remember what past intellectuals have written about fascism. Umberto Eco grew up under Mussolini's fascist regime, and really nicely distilled the idea of "Ur-Fascism" and its common "features". It is deeply upsetting how many of these features can be seen in abbott's abuse and response since yesterday. And also upsetting to see features in other posters.
  8. TexasTribune has some new reporting on the fallout Notable things from the journalism: At least 57 people, including one journalist, were arrested yesterday UT Faculty Counsel Executive Committee this morning said they are "gravely alarmed" by yesterday's reaction and accused Hartzell of inviting DPS onto campus A number of professors have made classes optional today Protests are planned to resume at the Tower today at 12:15
  9. Seems like the fix there is to nullify the DOJ memo, rather than create a king every 4 years
  10. It's absolutely shameful and revealing to your character that you think being anti-fascism is an insult.
  11. You're just saying it repeatedly and insistently in a thread about the protests yesterday, while the governor and senator that are creaming their khakis over beating up protesters are claiming that they sent in the goons because of antisemitism. I'm not a fucking idiot, dude. It's pretty transparent the line you're towing.
  12. I'm not gonna let that lie stand in this thread and pollute the discourse. I can't report anything because then BL will just fuckin' do it again and nuke everything because it annoys him
  13. The protests yesterday were not "antisemitism". Stop fucking gaslighting the thread.
  14. That's called "doing an Enron" with the mark-to-market fuckery to cook the books
  15. You need to pull your head out of the fucking sand and watch the footage from yesterday. Protesters were being compliant with police officers, and STUDENTS THAT ARE PAYING A FUCKING FORTUNE TO BE ON CAMPUS AND ARE ENTITLED TO BE THERE were being teakettled and rounded up and arrested for having the temerity to have an opinion that the governor didn't like. Don't turn off your fucking brain and lick boots on this one, sack. Be better than that.
  16. They're cynically doing it to animate their supporters and listeners/viewers that aren't curious enough to validate things themselves. It's been happening in the DT thread already and has been a slog to address their lies as they post them. BlackLab almost gave them a leg up in resetting the conversation and deleting the established timelines of what the fuck was happening.
  17. Wasn't there just a big news story about the US officially fielding a flying EMP cruise missile? I wonder if that could create some strange atmospheric effects as it flies l, and I could see a ramp up in field tests with current events being what they are
  18. It's really fucking weird and concerning how coordinated the gaslighting attempt has been to set the narrative of "threats violence and intimidation" being the reason cops were called to campus. I have not seen a single instance of it occurring at Texas yesterday, and to the contrary have read multiple firsthand reports of Jewish students peacefully talking with the protesters, with some even joining the protest. There was not a """march of antisemitism""" on campus yesterday. The police were there in riot gear before noon. They had decided yesterday morning that they were going to crack some heads. Those students committed the cardinal sin of protesting the wrong thing. The state of Texas and University of Texas is now deploying force to stop speech it doesn't like. That's what fascism looks like.
  19. There was already a planned protest over the firing of the DEI staff - they had been told that Texas would find a place for them, and then welched. About sixty people left in the lurch. The tower was already shut down tomorrow for that, so all systems are go for a general strike tomorrow
  20. /r/UTAustin has more first hand accounts of what happened: The detailed timeline of events is important, and key to disarming the trespass allegations by the fascists that brutalized my university today
  21. These two statements are incongruous.
  22. Update: I take it back. His words are worse than his silence
  23. Hartzells email that got sent out seems to be him claiming credit for calling in the head crackers Dear UT community, This has been a challenging day for many. We have witnessed much activity we normally do not experience on our campus, and there is understandably a lot of emotion surrounding these events. Today, our University held firm, enforcing our rules while protecting the Constitutional right to free speech. Peaceful protests within our rules are acceptable. Breaking our rules and policies and disrupting others’ ability to learn are not allowed. The group that led this protest stated it was going to violate Institutional Rules. Our rules matter, and they will be enforced. Our University will not be occupied. The protesters tried to deliver on their stated intent to occupy campus. People not affiliated with UT joined them, and many ignored University officials’ continual pleas for restraint and to immediately disperse. The University did as we said we would do in the face of prohibited actions. We were prepared, with the necessary support to maintain campus operations and ensure the safety, well-being and learning environment for our more than 50,000 students. We are grateful for the countless staff members and state and University law enforcement officers, as well as support personnel who exercised extraordinary restraint in the face of a difficult situation that is playing out at universities across the country. There is a way to exercise freedom of speech and civil discourse, and our Office of the Dean of Students has continued to offer ways to ensure protests can happen within the rules. The University of Texas will continue to take necessary steps so that all our University functions proceed without interruption. Sincerely yours, Jay Hartzell President
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