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Fascists lining up to clear out the OUT OF CONTROL RIOT(!!!!!) of a few dozen people on the south mall
Fuckin hell.
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Lmfao they're deploying DPS and declaring THIS a riot
How tf is that obstructing a passageway, and how is that not a public discourse space on a public university campus? Read the law, it's only 7 fuckin pages long.
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/86R/billtext/pdf/SB00018F.pdf#navpanes=0
This is absolutely fucking absurd. The state is out of control.
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5 minutes ago, UnivTex34 said:
I am Assistant Chief Shane Streepy and I represent the University of Texas at Austin Police Department. Your conduct is in violation of Penal Code Sections 42.01 Disorderly Conduct, 42.02 Riot, 42.03 Obstructing a Highway or other passageway, 30.05 Criminal Trespass. I command you in the name of the University of Texas Police Department to disperse, and if you do not, you shall be arrested for Violation of Penal code Section 42.01 Disorderly Conduct, 42.02 Riot, 42.03 Obstructing a Highway or other passageway, 30.05 Criminal Trespass
I'm not sure how they're rioting or obstructing a highway or passageway, but the pigs are always gonna throw the kitchen sink just to try and bully people out of exercising their rights
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50 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:
It's one wrinkle to the story about whoring going down that I find interesting. They're saying in person spending is down because younger generations aren't into sex as much as the boomers but online porn is a huge business. So, is it just laziness and/or fear of dealing with a woman in person?
I don't think it's ONLY laziness - I think it's lack of free or leisure time to pursue a relationship. Once you're out of college and on your own, there's a load of expectations put on employees by their bosses - being available for schedule changes at the drop of a hat, or being put oncall constantly, or being put on a contract basis such that you're only earning when you're getting jobs so you're doing 105% every job.
My point is, today's society in general gives people less time for themselves than ever. Relationships take a ton of time and effort, casual sex less so but still time and effort, and cranking it to some porn to scratch that itch has way fewer strings attached that may make you choose between getting paid and getting off.
edit: there's definitely some laziness at play, but it's reductive to the point of missing the forest for the trees to say it's primarily laziness.
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4 minutes ago, YGIFS said:
But I do have to just, as someone who is fortunate enough to work some really bright students at our school, have to wonder. WTF with the divestiture protests on campus aimed at the Tower? You do not deserve arrest, assault, or even suspension. But you're supposed to be critical thinkers as Longhorns. Not saying your position is wrong, but stop for 5 minutes and understand neither the Tower, or Hartzell, or the Board of Regents, of even Abbott sets the portfolio allocation/investment mandates for your school. Its policy done by the Legislature and then carried out by UTIMCO. I appreciate your passion, misguided though it may be, but yelling at other students and administrators about defense contractor holdings is futile, bordering on stupid. You really want change in where PUF money goes, you take it to the Capitol and the UTIMCO HQ. Not saying it'll be any more effective and you're just as likely to encounter DPS harassment. But humanitarian concerns, valid though they may be, in the short-term are one thing. But you want to effectuate long-term change, you go where the money is. The big Pink Building south of campus and the $70BN endowment south of that. Yelling at the other kids with posters across the sidewalk is all well and good and I'm for it being protected. But you want to have a seat at the adult table, put your big boy pants on, and follow the money.
So you're saying that instead of publicly protesting and bringing a ton of media attention and discussion to the issue, they should instead seek a bunch of closed door meetings where they will politely be told "no" over and over?
You really think a bunch of regents and board members that are fabulously wealthy people give a single flying fuck about what any of the students think? I'd bet a dollar that they're also holding positions along with the PUF that they can't unwind from, so there won't be any changes to the investment strategy. They can't say that out loud, so they instead resort to a civility argument that is dishonestly arguing and moving the conversation AWAY from following the money.
I think forcing the conversation in the open is a much more effective strategy for actually affecting change long-term. Otherwise you're just working within the status quo framework that is already co-opted by culture war politics that is sending jackboots onto campus.
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5 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:
Remember when APD came up the Drag to break up the Fortune 500 protests? That was a big deal quickly forgotten.
That's comparing apples and oranges if APD came to an off campus location to handle a protest, versus the university president preemptively calling in riot cops to silence and arrest peacefully protesting students and members of the public in a State designated """free speech area"""
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Dude you have such a weird tendency of cognitive dissonance
37 minutes ago, YGIFS said:Not excusing or endorsing anybody on the faculty here, but a major rationale for no confidence/confidence on the part of Hartzell from McCombs faculty isn't just political.
You first claim that the McCombs people aren't being political
37 minutes ago, YGIFS said:It's that he raised so much money for them as their REFIC head, then Dean, and now President. New facilities, dozens of endowed chairs, and hundreds of scholarships. Not saying that's good, bad, or indifferent. It's just their financial reality
And then say that they wouldn't want to stand to their principles because of all the nice stuff they got and might be scared to lose.
That's fuckin politics, dude. The laundering of it through """it's just financial reality""" is how you end up justifying every horrible social enshittification policy like destroying public schools and crumbling infrastructure.
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2 minutes ago, UnivTex34 said:
Over 500 now. Only 3 from the McCombs.
Fascists? IN MY BUSINESS CULTURE??
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
UNPOSSIBLE!
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Hartzell is gonna have a real tough time squaring the circle on his suppression of free speech, considering how much he's written about the importance of free speech on campus
https://news.utexas.edu/2020/11/02/there-is-no-higher-education-without-free-speech/
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14 minutes ago, pacman said:
It's projection, because he would feel vindictive in that position.
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Wtf is going on in this thread?
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1 minute ago, billfromlaketravis said:
Excited to see Anya Taylor-Joy as Alia in Messiah. Also excited to get Duncan Idaho back.
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Just now, lucious leftfoot said:
Sure it does. That’s when we fully transitioned to a fiat standard. No restriction on the ability to print.
I gotta say, GRUhorn, props for holding off on pulling the mask off for a bit longer. You resisted posting in the crypto thread for longer than normal
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21 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:
I thought we were promised the debt would be wiped out by now?
I remember hearing overtures of "the growth will pay for the debt!" at the time of the last major round of tax cuts
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36 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:
He’s got a hard on for W. Not worth investing time in an actual rebuttal.
Lol says the trump voter
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I'll be damned. Never read that before, thanks for sharing it
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26 minutes ago, UT_OB1 said:
I think he was very unhappy with what he perceived as being done in JFKs name
That seems like a bit of projection to me, Herbert's interviews about the book make it seem like he was in more of a literary conversation than a contemporary political one
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16 minutes ago, troph said:
I think it’s pretty simple really, social media and video games are fun and easy. Next thing you know the girls not only aren’t interested they don’t even know you exist. Then the self reinforcing doom loop begins
Social media and video games are junk food. Feel good, easy, fun, but you are gonna have a rough time if you're living on it
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4 minutes ago, royiv said:
Christ on a cracker, don’t bring guns into this discussion. Talk about a derail if there ever was one.
Maybe he's making the point that if a single person had an AR-15, TXDPS would have been too terrified to do anything and camped out for a few hours instead of teakettling the students?
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1 minute ago, 956 Worldwide said:
Total cultural domination by the MBA set.
Hey hey, take the MBA cultural domination talk to the enshittification thread, geeze! /S
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5 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:
I like how the guy who bragged about only banging drunk chicks was chastising the other guy for banging 16 year olds. This thread delivers.
Hey hey hey let's try and be accurate here! The dude banging 16yo's when he was 20 also bangs drunk chicks
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13 minutes ago, tomahawk dunk said:
When Musk entered the EV Thunderdome, Tesla was the only game in town, interest rates were at 0%, and most of the country was convinced he was Iron Man. Since then, China has become an EV power player, legacy automakers have been trying to get a cut of the action, debt has become more expensive, and half the country has started to think Musk is Lex Luthor. Things have changed, and Tesla's leadership needs to change along with them or get left behind.
Musk isn't Stark or Lex Luthor.
He's Justin Hammer
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Jay Hartzell is not out standard
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Hartzell continues to invite fascism onto campus to quash free speech
There's a circle of people standing on the south mall that are about to get arrested for having the wrong opinion