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Fascists.
I’m out of the loop on this one. What exactly is happening over there at University of Texas?
Pro Palestinian protests are getting quashed with a complete violation of freedom of assembly
Uncle sam says nothing? You still have amendments and so on, right?
The Amendment still exists but someone gave Clarence Thomas an RV so it isn’t in force at the moment.
RV?
Sorry for duplicates, server had a stroke.
He would be quick to clarify that it’s a motorcoach, not an RV.
Bribed with a vehicle meant for traveling.
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Those amendments are very selectively applied when it comes to any grassroots action that isn’t fully right-wing. There is essentially no protection to speak against the state if they want to target you.
May the first amendment lawsuits be plentiful and crush the fascists.
People protesting another war, and they feel more aggression is the right answer.
I appreciate the juxtaposition with the sign. Great image.
This looks like it’s right next to the student activity center so I’m guessing the sign is real. But good meme fodder.
“Protesting to end a genocide? That’s a paddlin’.”
Whenever I see things like this I think back to something Lewis Black once said back during the Occupy Wall Street protests. They had him on ABC or one of the major news stations and asked him what he thought about it. His answer was along the lines of, “When were the college kids ever wrong?”
Change the world kids! No, not like that!
Cops don’t belong on universities
What if they want to finally become literate?
Then they wouldn’t be a cop?
Eh. There are times when a person in a uniform with some degree of authority on campus would be legitimately helpful, but they’re never around for those moments.
UT campus rape was an epidemic when I was in school, back in the mid-'00s, and the police were notorious for just looking the other way.
That’s terrible. Yeah my comment sounds like an absolute. I concede your point
ACAB. Remember that when things get worse.
Land of the free.
That song slaps
Whoever told you that is your enemy
Now, something must be done
It is not France
Should we beat and arrest the students or maybe sever ties with a nation committing war crimes? Better get those students and arrest record, looks good on job interviews.
Vast majority of protesters arrested don’t end up with any charges or a record, the police know this, but they still get their mugshot taken which gets posted online by right-wingers, doxxing them to potential political violence.
which is why we should do the same thing to conservatives. don’t get bullied. bully back.
Last I was on Twitter a couple years ago there were antifascist pages that did that, the ones I followed were banned while the fascist ‘antifa watch’ pages I’ve seen are promoted. But I agree, Twitter won’t work for it anymore but we should have some kind of fascist watchlist.
I’ve thought about the deck of cards of terror suspects the US had, with higher members of Al Qaeda or whatever, we should have that for the top fascist politicians and war mongers. It should be well known the names and faces of the people pushing us off the cliff.
Ooo… a Tarot deck of conservative facists.
it’s a war. you get it.
“Revenge cannot be used to return to norm, it normalizes violence.” - Ekaterina Shulman
you can ride a high horse all the way into oblivion" - Masterblaster420
it’s about self defense and preserving humanity for future generations.
ACAB
Four dead in Ohio.
Can you link to an article please? This is horrific
Edit: oh it’s about the Kent state shootings. Here’s an article, https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/ksu-may-4/4-dead-in-ohio-50-years-since-kent-state-tragedy/95-bd89f0de-fac1-428e-baf3-09f3c1ce2b33
It’s from the Neal Young song about that.
Everything was so great…
University of Texas at Austin. There were protests of the Vietnam war there and the university put giant planters into the west mall where the protests were to reduce their size. They’re still there today. They always felt a bit out of place then I learned the history
Get that photographer a pulitzer
Can someone OOTL this for me? What’s going on in Texas?
More arrests of college students walking out of class and peacefully protesting the situation in Gaza. This time UT Austin.
What do they need the riot police for?
Spraying chemicals directly in the faces of nonviolent students and then beating the shit out of them with batons.
And then trying to wipe it off the internet.
Wait - that meme cop at UC Davis or wherever some years ago with the pepper spray? They tried to scrub that?
Or a different one? Because that meme was everywhere - good luck with that one.
They tried to scrub that. Silly humans
Violently suppressing peaceful protestors is my guess.
To make it look like the protestors are violent. They wouldn’t call in those troops if it weren’t for those savage antisemitic protestors, right?!?
Or if a bunch of school students are about to be killed and they need a group of nutsacks to stand around and do nothing.
These are the same dorks from Uvalde.
It’s hard to crack down on dissent without them.
Great question.
Depending on your biases, either to try and maintain order to prevent it from becoming a riot, or to intimidate and assault protestors.
Given the history of police and protesting college kids, it’s probably supposed to be mostly an intimidation thing.
Because the American Power Elites believe Might Makes Right and the riot police are their most willful and most violent goons.
They don’t, they just want to scare the kids into but expressing ideas they don’t like. Which is very illegal but they don’t care
So what happened with state law protecting speech activity on this campus?.…
Remember Kent State in 1970. The police are class traitors.
This is the same state which said it was perfectly legal for them to seize border checkpoints from the federal government. They seem to be making “states rights” arguments all over the place. So, apparently we’re sliding backwards.
Riot police is what you get when parents don’t show their children love.
Oh come now… there’s a very real chance their parents loved them, and they still became assholes.
it’s indoctrination, which is strong in rural texas. the problem cannot be solved without a complete overhaul of the social landscape of america. conservatives need reeducation camps.
Re-education camps? Hahahaha you’re actually insane.
insanity is doing nothing while sociopaths destroy the last vestiges of humanity.
Don’t you think the concept of re-education camps is a bit sociopathic? Genuine question.
yes i do but the ends justify the means
Eh, a lot of people are fucking terrible at showing love, even to the ones they actually do love.
Either that or they just have their priorities mixed up. I wonder how many of them had attentive parents, but they thought doing a good job as a parent meant raising sons to be aggressive tough guys.
