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BrickHorn

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  1. What a ridiculous red herring. Do you honestly believe that any billionaire, as measured by wealth, would even remotely approach the bottom 50% annual income bracket? Even assuming a modest 5% annual return on their wealth, the least wealthy billionaire would rake in $50 million, placing them somewhere within the top tiny fraction of a percent income wise. Other than weird one-offs where some mega billionaire has to sell hundreds of millions of dollars worth of stock at a paper “loss,” of course. And do you think anyone in the lower half income wise has anywhere approaching a billionaire’s accumulated wealth?
  2. That will teach Prof. Heyman to speak freely on the UT campus outside of Free Speech Week!
  3. The Cryptobro flavor of this is even more amazingly stupid. “The world will collapse and all critical infrastructure with it. No power, no telecommunications, no internet. Fiat currency will be worthless. Worthless! The only usable money will be entries on a digital ledger that can be exchanged only by running computationally intensive algorithms running on massive, power-guzzling data centers accessed over the Internet.”
  4. BriskittishTexan, imo
  5. The least shocking part of that video is that the argumentative douche was wearing sport specs.
  6. We made too many charity substitutions too early.
  7. I missed the first half but Harvey is crushing it in the second. Great effort on both his assist and goal.
  8. You’re right. I confused you with some of the fascist dipshits who post here. The implication was unwarranted. My apologies.
  9. This is what fascists do. They lie. And they do so preposterously. Orwell was a god damned prophet. The implication that “silencing Jewish students” was a goal of the protests is a lie. There were of course counterprotests which, although smaller, were not “silenced” or otherwise harassed by those protesting against Israel. And stating that the university upheld its values and mission statements is another absurd lie. This is the same university that, just last year, couldn’t shut the fuck up about how committed it was to free speech on campus. Self-congratulatory puffery about that supposed commitment is all over the UT website. But maybe I’m being too narrow minded. Maybe UT truly is committed to its core values, which only last week became obedience, capricious order, and selective rights. And maybe Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
  10. Good God. Kewpie dolls have come to life and they’re posting Nazi shit on Twitter!
  11. #1 - Where are you getting this understanding of women’s rights in Palestine? Are you assuming it’s the same situation there as in Saudi Arabia or Iran? Because although I’m hardly an expert, from what I can surmise based on some initial research, Palestine has been steadily progressing on women’s rights over the past few decades, enacting more liberal labor laws, harsher laws against rape, and allowing for abortions in certain circumstances #2 - Even if women were as oppressed in Palestine as you seem to assume, why should this give American women pause about protesting an invasion that is literally killing Palestinian women by the thousands? Do the oppressed not deserve life? Do the oppressors necessarily deserve death? (Be especially careful answering that last question.)
  12. If by “these assholes” you mean “DT regulars,” then I agree.
  13. War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Order is Free Speech
  14. Huh. Weird that no one can explain something that doesn’t exist.
  15. “Only people who don’t party care about injustice enough to speak out against it” is a weird fucking take.
  16. The First Amendment isn’t the only provision of the Constitution. When evaluating the circumstances under which speech is protected (and to what degree), you have to also consider other constitutional rights. That includes the Fourteenth Amendment and equal protection.
  17. *navigates to Amazon.com* *buys Spanish flag* *packs suitcase*
  18. Depends. Are you a recipient of federal financial assistance who has discriminated on the basis of your opposition?
  19. I just read the bill. It’s a bit confusing, because it’s short and mainly references other laws and sources. But as far as I can tell, it does not “criminalize” antisemitism. Instead, it clarifies the definition of antisemitism to be applied by the Department of Education in claims of discrimination under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. And, yes, that definition (which is defined by reference to an outside source) is quite broad and includes the list of items quoted above.
  20. You’re reinterpreting past protests through the lens of hindsight. Every successful protest movement of the past was initially met with scorn, ridicule, and violent opposition by the establishment and its dumb, reactionary defenders. Every time, the protesters were criticized at the time as performative, ineffective, counterproductive, ungrateful rabble-rousers. That was true of those who fought for labor laws, women’s suffrage, civil rights, and an end to the Vietnam War. Only after the dust settled and the public caught up to reality were they proven righteous.
  21. I know! It’s weird, right? What obscure event presumably happening in some hidden corner of the world could possibly have inspired these massive protests against Israel’s recent invasion of Gaza? I guess we’ll never know…
  22. We call that “baseball dumb.”
  23. Good lord. That’s John Kruk “walks just clog up the baseplates” level dumb.
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