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  1. 23 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    Much like trump on Jan 6, his growing silence through the day is making things worse and worse. 

    Update: I take it back. His words are worse than his silence

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  2. Just now, The Ace of Aces said:

    Fuck the state authorities who sent in the cops. Cowards. 

    Hartzells email that got sent out seems to be him claiming credit for calling in the head crackers

     

    Dear UT community,
    This has been a challenging day for many. We have witnessed much activity we normally do not experience on our campus, and there is understandably a lot of emotion surrounding these events.

    Today, our University held firm, enforcing our rules while protecting the Constitutional right to free speech. Peaceful protests within our rules are acceptable. Breaking our rules and policies and disrupting others’ ability to learn are not allowed. The group that led this protest stated it was going to violate Institutional Rules. Our rules matter, and they will be enforced. Our University will not be occupied.

    The protesters tried to deliver on their stated intent to occupy campus. People not affiliated with UT joined them, and many ignored University officials’ continual pleas for restraint and to immediately disperse. The University did as we said we would do in the face of prohibited actions. We were prepared, with the necessary support to maintain campus operations and ensure the safety, well-being and learning environment for our more than 50,000 students.

    We are grateful for the countless staff members and state and University law enforcement officers, as well as support personnel who exercised extraordinary restraint in the face of a difficult situation that is playing out at universities across the country. There is a way to exercise freedom of speech and civil discourse, and our Office of the Dean of Students has continued to offer ways to ensure protests can happen within the rules. The University of Texas will continue to take necessary steps so that all our University functions proceed without interruption.

    Sincerely yours,

    Jay Hartzell
    President

  3. 1 minute ago, chainsaw said:

    I'm not here yet, but only because I'm waiting for more facts to come out. I'm about 80% there, though.

    Much like trump on Jan 6, his growing silence through the day is making things worse and worse. 

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  4. Microsoft's licensing is gonna keep ARM from getting bigger - enterprises with VDI solutions are really badly handcuffed by windows licensing terms that make running them anywhere but Azure not that great. 

    But, I could definitely see ARM taking over more and more. Especially when you've got the success of Valve's Proton compatibility to translate directX APIs into Vulkan APIs, there's fewer and fewer anchors keeping consumer users on Windows for desktop computing

  5. 1 minute ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    I don’t believe in the right to break laws in the name of “protest.”

    That was not happening here? Please support your assertion that it was. 

    1 minute ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    I do believe the Jewish students on campus should be free from hate speech and Hamas apologists on their way to class. 

    Same thing as above. 

  6. 1 minute ago, bolverk said:

    I'd bet he'd have allowed a new thread devoted to the UT protests as an ongoing, newsworthy event

    It is the WRONG move to memory hole all those posts. It's his favorite move, and it's fucking wrong.

    He should have moved the posts to a new thread, rather than just lazily deleting everything. If that's his only solution then @immamac should fucking have a talk with him about destroying his user content and discussion

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  7. @blacklab can you restore all those posts and comments from when the event was happening? 

     

    Or did you just erase that context and discussion because you didn't like how much your buddies said they liked "cracking heads"?

     

    Edit: credit where it's due, thank you for restoring the posts. Sorry for the extreme emotion, but I thought you had memory holed the entire contemporaneous discussion and I was quite irate. 

  8. 2 minutes ago, blacklab said:

    you're both free to start a new thread about it, no one is stopping you and I would not delete or move the thread.

    I've posted at least 5 times in this thread to stay on topic. 

     

    You've already deleted and removed the posts and discussion.

    If you wanted it to be a topic, you would have moved the posts. 

    But you didn't. You didn't want ANY discussion of it, so you hit the reset button and removed the fresh context. 

     

    You are a fucking terrible mod if you just memory holed all those posts and user content. What the fuck, dude?

  9. 1 minute ago, Brian Fantana said:

    He's not carrying water, he's just being stupid about moderation. BL isn't a chud.

    He sure fuckin acts and moderates like a chud. He's letting the fascists and bootlickers set the terms of the conversation, rather then telling them to go eat a bag of dicks. 

  10. 1 minute ago, blacklab said:

    No, because the posts don't belong here.

    Why you ask? Because a bootlicker will come along, and rather than ignore him you'll then engage with him and the thread turns to shit. 

    Thanks for deleting the posts and protecting the bootlickers from accountability, as you ever do. 

    Where the fuck does it belong then?

     

    Is the deployment of the state troopers onto OUR FUCKING CAMPUS to arrest peacefully protesting students a forever verboten topic?

     

    You are just making it such that the fascists and bootlickers get to dictate the terms of """polite""" conversation, you fucking useful idiot 

  11. 3 minutes ago, blacklab said:

    Reminder this is the thread for isreal-hamas news.

    Posts about protests in the US or middle east politics or how you would fix the world go elsewhere.

    Motherfucker this happened on Speedway in front of Gregory Gym. This is the essence of Texas current events. 

     

    Sorry it makes you feel uncomfortable to see it happening. 

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  12. 15 minutes ago, UnivTex34 said:

     

    Just got this email University wide:

     

    UTPD Notice of Dispersal Order

    THIS IS A DISPERSAL ORDER FOR OCCUPANTS OF THE SOUTH MALL:

    I am Assistant Chief Ashley Griffin 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. 

    I command you in the name of the People of the State of Texas 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.

    Lmfao speedway, despite it's name, is not a highway or traffic passageway. It's mostly pedestrian traffic. I don't think that's gonna stand up to any level of scrutiny 

    They can't seriously be pulling that out and hoping to animate the "shoot the protesters that are on the roads" people, right?

  13. Just now, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

    a good chunk of people seriously believe these protests are nothing but about anti-semitism. 

    These are what we call "useful idiots"

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  14. Nevermind that being against the genocide of Palestinian civilians is not antisemitism. This is a major fascist turn for abbott to be making this play and using these levers

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  15. Just now, YGIFS said:

    It's performative theatrics that just happened to coincide with the opening of admissions of the UT School for Civic Life/Enagement (offshoot of Civitas) and UATX, both borne of the idea of freedom of speech and open exchange of ideas in higher ed.  I'd laugh at the irony but those batons and zip ties look pretty fucking real to me.  

    I wonder how Hartzell is gonna square this with UT's Free Speech Week

    https://www.utexas.edu/ut-celebrates-free-speech

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