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1 minute ago, gmr548 said:

I doubt he is some mouth breathing, election denying, texags dipshit and prior to this week has always seemed to handle himself professionally - not injecting politics into his job - at least from what I can tell as an unconnected observer. But simple demographic probability and his track record at UT suggest it's unlikely he is any kind of progressive.

Considering that track record includes pre-emptively calling in a company-scale deployment of state troopers to put down a protest because he didn't like their speech and was scared of something happening in CA and NY.... He's got some major fascist points on the board.

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Oh also Stateman just dropped. Charges dropped for all 57 people arrested.

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/local/2024/04/26/ut-austin-pro-palestinian-protest-charges-dropped-against-all-57-people-arrested/73468467007/

All charges have been declined against the 57 people arrested in connection to the Wednesday pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas.

The Travis County attorney's office said all 57 arrests, which were all criminal trespassing charges, lacked probable cause.

County Attorney Delia Garza, whose office handles misdemeanor cases, told the American-Statesman on Thursday that her office agreed with defense lawyers that there were "deficiencies" with the probable cause arrest affidavits, which are the documents filled out by law enforcement to justify an arrest. At that time on Thursday, 46 of the 57 had charges declined.

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Just now, Anastasis said:

Don't put this fucking evil on us. 

You are right, I crossed early and late in my mind. Should have said early Gen X'er (i.e. came of age under Reagan as opposed to Bush I or Clinton). Though as a whole Gen X is still the most conservative generation out there, for all the shit boomers get.

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Just now, gmr548 said:

You are right, I crossed early and late in my mind. Should have said early Gen X'er (i.e. came of age under Reagan as opposed to Bush I or Clinton). Though as a whole Gen X is still the most conservative generation out there, for all the shit boomers get.

Is that right? Cause it doesn't sound right. Us GenX think all this shit is fucked and wish that you would leave us alone and to our own devices as society did when we were growing up. 

From pew. 

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52 minutes ago, 'stache said:

Funny, no reports of that one from the UT protests, so I guess we're just asking questions again? Let me guess, you're one of these people who think "Free Palestine" means "Go Hamas" because how dare anyone consider nuance.

Edit: And although not relevant to this discussion, I agree, that phrase is not helpful because too many bad actors in the Levant have used it in support of very bad things. Israel uses it too as justification for cleansing Gaza btw.

If we're just talking about the Texas protest, 100%.  But you reference anti-Semitism going back to 2016,  Now we're talking across the country, and it very much is being weaponized across campuses besides Texas.  You're talking about Nazi rallies.  That wasn't Austin.  And no, it's not "helpful" - it's talking about wiping an entire race of people off the face of the map.  This is about what happened in Austin, and they did nothing wrong, but against a backdrop of other campuses, what they are shouting seems problematic.  This isn't death to "America", this is targeted on a very specific ethnic and religious group.  

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46 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

You are right, I crossed early and late in my mind. Should have said early Gen X'er (i.e. came of age under Reagan as opposed to Bush I or Clinton). Though as a whole Gen X is still the most conservative generation out there, for all the shit boomers get.

I don't recognize anyone born before 1971 as Generation X, they are Boomers. Also, I don't recognize anything east of Bastrop as part of Texas.

 

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56 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Considering that track record includes pre-emptively calling in a company-scale deployment of state troopers to put down a protest because he didn't like their speech and was scared of something happening in CA and NY.... He's got some major fascist points on the board.

You are a really productive and articulate poster and a great value add to every discussion.   Always bringing up new, unique and non-inflammatory talking points to drive intelligent discourse.  Keep on being great.

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53 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

I just emailed the holder of my family's endowed Chair in the McCombs School of Business and encouraged him to add his support.

I really hope that your family's endowed Chairholder is Sheridan Titman.

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4 minutes ago, F250 said:

I don't recognize anyone born before 1971 as Generation X, they are Boomers. Also, I don't recognize anything east of Bastrop as part of Texas.

 

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Gen X is a 1972+ cohort, imo. 1980 is probably a bit too early to cut point the millennial cohort. I'd go like 1973-1983 for Gen X. Sorry, if you were born when Jimi, Jim, or Janis were alive you are not Gen X. If your formative childhood experience included AIDS hysteria, fall of the iron curtain, satanic panic, dial up modems, and dirt weed by the lb, you are Gen X. 

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1 hour ago, YGIFS said:

I knew this chick in grad school who was Edging-worthy.   Oh wait, did you say edge-Lordy?   What the hell does that Even mean?  Is that a like a Cleveland steamer?

An edge lord is someone who is offensively cringe as fuck but thinks they're blowing minds. An edge lors is basically the default of a 4chan protestor. Edge-lord examples would be doing stuff like "ironically" wearing blackface or doing a nazi salute.

in a nutshell:

 

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The NY Post is reporting that these protests across the country are being funded by:

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Just take a wild guess...

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Come on, you already know this.

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The two words that strike fear in every red-blooded 'Mercun!

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GEORGE SOROS!!!

 

 

 

 

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51 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

You're talking about Nazi rallies.  That wasn't Austin. 

Tha fuck?

https://www.texasobserver.org/homegrown-neo-fascist-movement-marches-in-austin/

Shit, fucking nazis demonstrated right around the corner from my house a couple of years back:

 

I know, because I showed up nearby to tell my neighbors "fuck that shit and fuck those guys, we've got your back."

Our governor cares DEEPLY about anti-semitism....when it comes from a group not likely to support his regime.  But when it IS from a group likely to support his regime.....well, let's see how committed his regime is to not tolerating anti-semitism:

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Texas GOP executive committee rejects proposed ban on associating with Nazi sympathizers and Holocaust deniers

Some members of the committee said such a ban, proposed two months after a prominent conservative activist was caught meeting with a famous white supremacist, might be a “slippery slope” or too vague.

Those are your boys, man.  They had a chance to take a stand.  And boy, did they take one.  "Anti-semitism will not be tolerated!" indeed.  Not tolerated.  But affiliated with, working in close association with, and working hand-in-hand because they share the same goals?  You betcha!

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11 minutes ago, Skipper said:

You are a really productive and articulate poster and a great value add to every discussion.   Always bringing up new, unique and non-inflammatory talking points to drive intelligent discourse.  Keep on being great.

You care to revisit your stanning of hartzell's statement about how he was completely justified because they bagged a couple dozen folks that weren't officially affiliated with UT?

Did you see the AAS article upthread outlining how all 57 trespassing charges have been dropped? And that their probable cause affidavits were literally just copy/pasta?

It's crystal clear what happened on Wednesday. I don't understand your shared impulse to talk about everything except what happened on Wednesday at Texas.

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8 minutes ago, Dennis Taylor said:

So you were born in 1971...

No, several years later. Everyone I've known born in the late 60s and even in 70 had a different experience coming of age in the 80's vs the 90's. As previously mentioned, the Bush/Clinton post-cold war era was pretty different than the Reagan era.

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7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Tha fuck?

https://www.texasobserver.org/homegrown-neo-fascist-movement-marches-in-austin/

Shit, fucking nazis demonstrated right around the corner from my house a couple of years back:

 

I know, because I showed up nearby to tell my neighbors "fuck that shit and fuck those guys, we've got your back."

Our governor cares DEEPLY about anti-semitism....when it comes from a group not likely to support his regime.  But when it IS from a group likely to support his regime.....well, let's see how committed his regime is to not tolerating anti-semitism:

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Those are your boys, man.  They had a chance to take a stand.  And boy, did they take one.  "Anti-semitism will not be tolerated!" indeed.  Not tolerated.  But affiliated with, working in close association with, and working hand-in-hand because they share the same goals?  You betcha!

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It wasn't the Austin protest that is the basis of this thread

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23 minutes ago, Skipper said:

You are a really productive and articulate poster and a great value add to every discussion.   Always bringing up new, unique and non-inflammatory talking points to drive intelligent discourse.  Keep on being great.

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1 minute ago, 'stache said:

Oh hey, you found one, congrats! Extrapolation is clearly evident. 

"LibrulS WaNT tO exTErmINaTe ThE jEws"

Yep.  There is just one.  That's it.  it is not a common sentiment at all at Ivy League cess pools.

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1 minute ago, Frank Drebin said:

Yep.  There is just one.  That's it.  it is not a common sentiment at all at Ivy League cess pools.

Since we're concerned about institutions embracing, and not rejecting a sentiment....

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Texas GOP executive committee rejects proposed ban on associating with Nazi sympathizers and Holocaust deniers

....since we're SUPER-concerned with institutions that embrace and refuse to reject anti-semitism, after all.

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1 hour ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

I just emailed the holder of my family's endowed Chair in the McCombs School of Business and encouraged him to add his support.

Along these lines, I just emailed the homeless guy my dad gave a sandwich to mow our yard one time and asked him to sign a letter of protest.

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1 hour ago, BabaYaga said:

If we're just talking about the Texas protest, 100%.  But you reference anti-Semitism going back to 2016,  Now we're talking across the country, and it very much is being weaponized across campuses besides Texas.  You're talking about Nazi rallies.  That wasn't Austin.  And no, it's not "helpful" - it's talking about wiping an entire race of people off the face of the map.  This is about what happened in Austin, and they did nothing wrong, but against a backdrop of other campuses, what they are shouting seems problematic.  This isn't death to "America", this is targeted on a very specific ethnic and religious group.  

Aren't you the guy that posted a link an actual, literal Nazi website once because you thought they were making a good political point about some shit?

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4 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

Yep.  There is just one.  That's it.  it is not a common sentiment at all at Ivy League cess pools.

JFC, no surprise your critical thinking skills are non existent. The VAST MAJORITY of college protests are about support for Palestinian people and criticism of the State of Israel's military actions. The VAST MAJORITY of chants and signs at these events are "Free Palestine" or the like. A few who go off the rails does not = "the protests are antisemitic."

The stuff Brisket is pointing out are protests, events, people in which the VAST MAJORITY are promoting nazism. The signs and chants and signs are "The Jews Will Not Replace Us."

Yeah, both anti-Semitic. 

Dumb fuck. 

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3 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Aren't you the guy that posted a link an actual, literal Nazi website once because you thought they were making a good political point about some shit?

Yes he is.

Just now, 'stache said:

JFC, no surprise your critical thinking skills are non existent. The VAST MAJORITY of college protests are about support for Palestinian people and criticism of the State of Israel's military actions. The VAST MAJORITY of chants and signs at these events are "Free Palestine" or the like. A few who go off the rails does not = "the protests are antisemitic."

The stuff Brisket is pointing out are protests, events, people in which the VAST MAJORITY are promoting nazism. The signs and chants and signs are "The Jews Will Not Replace Us."

Yeah, both anti-Semitic. 

Dumb fuck. 

Some of whom Johnny said were good people.

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1 minute ago, 'stache said:

JFC, no surprise your critical thinking skills are non existent. The VAST MAJORITY of college protests are about support for Palestinian people and criticism of the State of Israel's military actions. The VAST MAJORITY of chants and signs at these events are "Free Palestine" or the like. A few who go off the rails does not = "the protests are antisemitic."

The stuff Brisket is pointing out are protests, events, people in which the VAST MAJORITY are promoting nazism. The signs and chants and signs are "The Jews Will Not Replace Us."

Yeah, both anti-Semitic. 

Dumb fuck. 

You are a willfully blind dishonest piece of shit.  I am done engaging with you.  To my blocked list you go.

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Just now, Frank Drebin said:

You are a willfully blind dishonest piece of shit.  I am done engaging with you.  To my blocked list you go.

From you, it's a badge of honor. Back to your echo chamber, snowflake. That Abbott ass must be delicious.

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1 minute ago, Frank Drebin said:

You are a willfully blind dishonest piece of shit.  I am done engaging with you.  To my blocked list you go.

Oh no!  Blocked!

Stop being a stupid worthless Sack of shit.

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So this is the UT thread for these protests, not the national thread of all protests. 

The UT protest specifically doesn't have any of this shit @Frank Drebin so go put it in the right thread, also this isn't a thread for you to just bitch over and over about stuff it's a thread for discussing the event and the happenings of it, which include many government entities and organizations and people. That's not CR. Talking about the future policy creation and what needs to happen from here etc etc is all CR and should go in that thread which exists for the purposes of that. 

11 hours ago, nineliveslost said:

Everything is going to shit, including this site

This just isn't true, the site is a reflection of what is happening in society I'm not fucking causing protests on the UT campus and forcing the topic of Zionism, anti-semitism, genocide and muslim xenophobia on here. 

7 hours ago, alincoln said:

Just avoid this board and CR and the site is fine.  It doesn't compare to Surly but it's still entertaining.  Shaggy's problem is that too few posters provide way too much of the content.  

If you guys were fucking funny about anything anymore then it would be fine, but instead everyone wants to get all fucking butthurt about shit instead of finding the funny commentary with a bit of a serious undertone. I do agree that there was some high brow intellectualism that used to go into some of the stuff like this. Now there's a bunch of outrage only which should stop. 

Read your posts before posting, if it's an outrage post and no one is gonna laugh at it, why are you posting it? Are you actually going to change someone's mind? Is it just therapeutic for you? What exactly are you gaining and what is the community gaining from your contribution? 

This thread can be fun as a thread, on a topic that is definitely not fun and it can make this subject approachable to people who it wouldn't normally be approachable to. Instead it's a dumpster fire piece of shit of a thread that's devolved into IF YOU DONT THINK LIKE ME YOU ARE A BAD HUMAN AND SUPPORT GENOCIDE AND RAPE AND GASSING THE JEWS.

Calm the fuck down, it's a god damned sports message board centered around UT. This happened at UT and it's fucking shitty and stupid, but it can also be something that is not just another outrage outlet like fox, cnn, politico, whatever bullshit. 

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Just now, 'stache said:

I get the threads confused sometimes, apologies for getting worked up by a CR drive by outside the CR.

From the outside you can't understand it. From the inside you can't explain it.

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4 hours ago, chainsaw said:

It would be disingenuous to cite that without a clear indication of who the receiving end of that "Final Solution" is. Is the sign simply pointing out the hypocrisy and parallels between what Israel is doing to a class of people it perceives as "undesirables" and what Nazis did? If so, that's very different from calling for a Holocaust.

You be the judge:

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That’s at UT?

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It’s not that fucking hard. Protest all you want but don’t set up camps, hold college campuses hostage, disrupt classes and crash graduation ceremonies. Go have your protest on west mall and leave it there.

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Yep.  There is just one.  That's it.  it is not a common sentiment at all at Ivy League cess pools.

Is it as prolific as at rallies with lots of red baseball caps?
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3 minutes ago, Billy Pilgrim said:

It’s not that fucking hard. Protest all you want but don’t set up camps, hold college campuses hostage, disrupt classes and crash graduation ceremonies. Go have your protest on west mall and leave it there.

That was literally met with 100 riot cops and horse cops and a fleet of cop vehicles. They were pushed off of the South Mall and then arrested for trespassing. Have you watched literally any of the footage?

 

Greg Abbott and the State of Texas violated those students freedom of speech and would not allow them to "have your protest and leave it there"

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9 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

 

 

That is bad juju.  That random protester seems like a real piece of shit.  Anyone who calls for genocide is a piece of shit.  Thus, I presume that you are similarly outraged and inflamed by these pieces of shit calling for genocide, and the organization/state they ACTUALLY REPRESENT:

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"Bring down buildings!! Bomb without distinction!! Stop with this impotence. You have ability. There is worldwide legitimacy! Flatten Gaza. Without mercy! This time, there is no room for mercy!," wished Revital Gottlieb, a member of the Israeli Knesset.

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Israeli military soldiers, too, have also been caught showing genocidal intent and collective punishment ambitions in Gaza.

An example of that was an image taken by an IDF soldier of an artillery shell that had a text written on it in Hebrew: "God Willing, it will hit innocent people."

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Some of those calls for genocide and ethnic cleansing against Palestinians came from Israeli decision-makers, including President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and other extremist ministers in the far-right government.

"There are no innocent civilians in Gaza," Herzog said on October 14.

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"Those are animals, they have no right to exist. I am not debating they way it will happen, but they need to be exterminated," argued Yoav Kisch, Israeli Minister of Education.

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Knesset member and former Public Diplomacy Minister Galit Distal Atbaryan posted on Facebook that Israeli officials must invest all their energy "in one thing: erasing all of Gaza from the face of the Earth."

"That the brave monsters will fly to the southern fence and enter Egyptian territory," Atbaryan continued, an apparent reference to Israel's reported plan to permanently expel Palestinians who survive the assault to Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, imposing a "second Nakba" on the population. "Or let them die... Gaza needs to be wiped out."

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“We are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba,” Dichter, a member of the right-wing Likud party, said Saturday, in comments widely reported by Israeli media. “From an operational point of view, there is no way to wage a war — as the Israeli army seeks to do in Gaza — with masses between the tanks and the soldiers,” he said. Pressed on his use of the word “Nakba” to describe the situation in Gaza, he said again: “Gaza Nakba 2023. That’s how it’ll end.”

If you are upset by some demonstrators using genocidal language - and you should be, calls for genocide and murder are morally indefensible - then you must be ENRAGED when actual leaders and representatives of a State, endowed with real power, do so.  I expect that you are, like many people are.  And many people choose to speak out against that State, its genocidal actions, and its stated genocidal goals.

But our governor thinks those people should be crushed under the boot before they even say a word, because to speak against those quotes I just gave you is impermissible.

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6 minutes ago, Billy Pilgrim said:

It’s not that fucking hard. Protest all you want but don’t set up camps, hold college campuses hostage, disrupt classes and crash graduation ceremonies. Go have your protest on west mall and leave it there.

Cool, cool.  Now, go read the previous 15 pages and catch up, Billy.

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3 minutes ago, Captainant said:

That was literally met with 100 riot cops and horse cops and a fleet of cop vehicles. They were pushed off of the South Mall and then arrested for trespassing. Have you watched literally any of the footage?

 

Greg Abbott and the State of Texas violated those students freedom of speech and would not allow them to "have your protest and leave it there"

Some were starting to set up tents

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Posted (edited)
1 minute ago, Billy Pilgrim said:

Some were starting to set up tents

Strangely, that hasn't been present in any of the footage or reporting that I've seen at Texas. Could you link me to it?

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