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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?
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.
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.
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?”
Um, now? I mean, these “protestors” aren’t even remotely interested in what’s REALLY going on with the Israel/Palestine situation…they just want to protest from the comforts of their home here in the United States.
Lol you want them to make an insurgency group and get labeled enemies of the state?
This exact same stuff happened during Vietnam, including stupid comments like yours.
Ahh those were the good ol’ days of Lemmy…back in 'nam.
The united states is the reason israel even can afford a military. Protesting putting their war on our credit card should be done at home.
Though they could also all pile into DC and shut the city down. Would you rather that happen? You know what, that’d likely work better!
University protests was how Greece got rid of the military Junta in the 70s
They may seem futile but can be very powerful!
Change the world kids! No, not like that!
Land of the free.
Whoever told you that is your enemy
Now, something must be done
Get that photographer a pulitzer
ACAB. Remember that when things get worse.
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.
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
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?
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?!?
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.
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
Cops don’t belong on universities
Neither does antisemitism…but, here we are…
Show us the anti-jew rhetoric and we’ll denounce it.
BTW, Palestinians are semitic.
First, he was wrong for saying that. Second, he apologized. Was it because he was caught. No idea, good chance of that but 🤷.
More importantly, Zionist =/= Jews. There are plenty of Jews that are anti-Zionist. Some well known Jews including Noam Chomsky who has used the phrase “Judeo-Nazi tendencies” of the Israeli state. There is nothing wrong with being anti-Zionist.
Are you saying jews for peace are also antisemitic?
Are you saying Black Voices for Trump are not racist?
Ah, yes, because that one ex-cultist that showed up in the background of every Trump Rally is totally the same thing as Jewish people who don’t like it when they’re told they are obligated by their genetics to support an apartheid state that thinks it’s OK to bomb 100 innocent bystanders to kill one militant.
Black voices for Trump are white people and paid black actors. The white people are racist, the black people probably doesn’t even want to be there but need the money
Edit: sources
About paid actors in the 2016 campaign;
https://youtu.be/s8AeQ6MpluY?feature=shared - MSNBC news clip
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-aide-says-paid-actors-for-2016-campaign-announcement-2021-7
And then there’s the ones who are literal cult members…
Israel doesn’t represent all Jewish people, bigot.
Oh brother…
Isn’t this a protest against genocide? Did you see somewhere that protest organizers were advocating for antisemitism? Could you link that for us? That would be very helpful context. Thanks
Genocide? Genocide is not happening in Palestine. The Hamas are doing exactly what they wanted, gain sympathy from gullible people to make them look like the victims. Hamas and Palestine are one, whether you want to hear it or not. they’re in power because of the overwhelming majority of Palestinians support them. Israel is trying to only target Hamas and their military, but it’s very difficult when Hamas uses the Palestine people as human shields and hides in their homes…
Genocide is not happening in Palestine.
Bootlicker
God, you zogbots are so uncreative.
What’s a zogbot?
What if they want to finally become literate?
Then they wouldn’t be a cop?
ACAB
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.
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.
