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Captainant

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    Edited by Captainant

    10 minutes ago, lucious leftfoot said:

    Maybe those guys know to follow the rules around protesting?  I have no idea but they do wear nice, pressed khakis with a tucked in polo.

    They also wear *GASP* FACEMASKS!!!(1!!!)

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    https://www.texasobserver.org/homegrown-neo-fascist-movement-marches-in-austin/

     

    And they were not targeted by the State because the State likes their speech - the 2019 law was passed to make it easier for these groups to come on campuses, I linked a contemporaneous Georgetown Free Speech Project page that discussed the legislations authoring and the debate around it at the time. 

     

    Edit: lmfao of course the resident church elder Deacon Dickhead likes your post about the fascist groups getting preferential treatment from the Uvalde Defenders

  2. 13 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Their point of farthest divergence and least sympathy from me, TBH.  It’s fine to call for it, I guess, but I don’t know how you watch Russia and China and conclude that we need to divest from our defense industrial base.

    Texas public schools get funded and we also get to develop Virginia-class boats, B-21s, and air breathing cruise missiles? 
     

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    5 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    This.  Are they shouting from the divestment of all the wafer/chip manufacturing that allows all these systems to actually work?  That's why Taiwan is so important.  We can make due with older iPhones and laptops.  We can't implement cutting edge weapons systems at the scale we need without them, and neither can anyone else.  The MIC is do ingrained into every facet of society I don't know how any school with market investment can 100% divest from every aspect is this industry.  

    This is a perfectly acceptable response to their speech. Sending in riot cops to shut them up isn't. 

    That's the problem here

  3. Sigh. Its unfortunate that sack's posting of a tucker carlson network affiliated student news paper has given y'all the justification you were looking for to write off all of this as basic antisemitism. Nevermind that abbott signed the free speech law to allow neonazis a more free hand to speak on campus

  4. 11 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    They are getting rid of people involved with new projects and who are responsible for their charging network?  Guess they’ve thrown in the towel on future car designs or improvements to their charging network.  Cybertrucks and charging at home for everybody!

    Musk is hemorrhaging cash and after successfully getting HIS charging connector accepted as the NACS he's now abandoning it? Doesn't make a damn bit of sense

    I do not know how this corporate performance justifies a $56B comp plan

  5. 10 minutes ago, Alien Octopus said:

    Yeah ok, then what is all this outrage about spraying students when they are not students? They are paid protestors espousing the protection of the Death to America, Kill Jews, Mutilate Women and sell children regime? Ya’ll may be against all things Hot Wheels but your choice of outrage for these pieces of shit does not resonate.

    That's... Not what the protest was about? Despite you and yours continued gaslighting and repetition of abbott's propaganda. The protest has consistently been for UT to divest from the companies that are making the bombs that are blowing up civilians in Gaza. 

    And seeing as you are completely non responsive to any of the facts, and instead just culture warring, leads me to believe that you are just trolling

  6. 6 minutes ago, bernorange said:

    “ALICE is the nation’s child-care workers, home health aides and cashiers heralded during the pandemic — those working low-wage jobs, with little or no savings and one emergency from poverty,” said Stephanie Hoopes, national director at United for ALICE.

     

    This can't be though, there are so many charts with a line going up!

  7. 15 minutes ago, Smax said:

    I'm starting to believe that the internet is the worst thing man has invented, we just aren't ready for this much information all at once, as a whole we our minds cant handle it

    I disagree - information alone doesn't cause this sort of angst. It's the finely tuned and micro targeted effectiveness of it all. It's all encompassing and inescapable. When my wife first searched for a baby item after learning we were expecting, her Instagram feed started pushing all sorts of early pregnancy horror stories. It really put her in a bad place or a day or two when she was really feeling all the nausea, and she had to stop using insta for a while because of it. 

    She didn't post on Instagram about being pregnant, but within minutes of doing something on one part of the internet, EVERYTHING else knew. 

    That is one hell of a recipie for horrible escalating feedback loops that are fertile ground for ill intent. 

  8. ·

    Edited by Captainant

    8 minutes ago, Alien Octopus said:

     

    Most of the UT-Austin protesters arrested are not believed to be affiliated with the university, school says

    From CNN’s Ashley Killough

    Several protesters have been arrested at UT-Austin Monday, most of whom are not believed to be affiliated with the university, school officials said in a statement. 

    “After protesters ignored repeated directives from both the administration and law enforcement officers to comply with Institutional Rules and remove tents assembled on the University’s South Lawn, then physically engaged with and verbally assaulted Dean of Students staff who attempted to confiscate them, UT and partner law enforcement agencies dismantled an encampment and arrested several protesters,” university officials said in a statement. “Baseball size rocks were found strategically placed within the encampment.”

    1) the law signed by Greg Abbott five years ago makes it crystal clear that all members of the public have a right to peaceful speech in public places, which explicitly include college campuses. The law was originally signed to hold the door open for proud boy types to come speak on campus, and abbott is bigmad that it's being used in a way he doesn't like

    2) I could definitely see rocks being used to hold tents down in place on a windy day, and I'd bet the pigs would call anything near them as being "strategically placed within the encampment"

  9. 1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said:

    I think a lot of us are saying the same stuff….I think the pandemic stuff took it to 11 because many young males who were out of school (high school or college) were all of the sudden physically isolated for quite a while and they weren’t around other men who provided a more positive role model, and were consuming this shit, and then you had young teen males also stuck at home consuming this shit.  Both groups (teens and early 20s) were very isolated and therefore vulnerable for a year or two.

    It was already in the bloodstream prior to COVID, but it definitely ramped up during the period of home loneliness not unlike how qanon really escalated from its nascent state once everyone was locked inside

  10. Our criminal justice systems failure to put Kpax away is going to be like leaving a fucking tumor in the body 

    https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/04/texas-sues-biden-administration-for-right-to-discriminate-against-lgbtq-students/

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    Paxton’s lawsuit claims that Biden misinterpreted Title IX, saying that the Supreme Court’s Bostock ruling was based on the phrase “because of sex” in Title VII, whereas Title IX is completely different because it bans discrimination “on the basis of sex.”

    Bostock holds only that Title VII’s prohibition on ‘sex’ discrimination prohibits employers from firing or refusing to hire individuals ‘for being homosexual or transgender,'” Paxton argues in his filing. He argues that discrimination against bisexuals is allowed under Bostock as long as an entity discriminates against both bi men and bi women equally. Bisexual people are not mentioned in that ruling. This bizarre legal argument was used in a lawsuit filed by a Christian conservative businessman in Texas in 2021.

    Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) ordered the Texas Education Agency today to ignore the new Title IX rules, something that at least four other states — Louisiana, Florida, Oklahoma, and South Carolina — have done or announced that they would do.

    On X, he argued that protecting transgender students takes away from protections for women.

     

  11. 33 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Social media in that instance, because that’s where the bullshit is spreading, and that desire for likes and to be accepted drives that shit and makes it easy.  These younger people can get wrapped up in a false social media image of what is presented as being a manly man or whatever.

    It's not just "social media", it's micro targeting to identify the young men most vulnerable to their message and then inundating them. The social media companies love it because they make money on the ad sales PLUS the increase engagement from the victimhood/rage posting.

    It's the same playbook used by steve bannon to convert gamergate into a political power base, and it's the same ethos and messaging as peterson

  12. 36 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

    So obviously pepper spray, etc. is horrendous, but uh, 100% of administrators in the country would do anything in their power to prevent the most iconic spot on campus from looking like this.

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    I hear you, but that's maybe half an hour of effort to clean up for a handful of people. Hell the cops could have picked it up if they cared about anything else aside from being abbott's enforcers. It's not like it's some earth shattering blow to the university for chrissakes. 

    IMO bowing down to fascism to stifle peaceful speech is far more embarrassing than some knocked over trash cans and a pile of garbage on the south mall. 

  13. 2 minutes ago, lucious leftfoot said:

    Sure, let’s raise taxes. As I posted before, you can maybe milk another $500B out. That still leaves a $1.2T deficit last year if you did that. 
     

    So that leaves spending cuts. Which would you suggest? Remember the freak out and horror of the sequester? And that was not much in the grand scheme of things. 

    We didn't get into this debt in an instant, and arguing that any solution must immediately resolve it is not a serious one. There has to be a balanced approach, not just starving the beast so your buttcoins will be worth more

  14. 1 minute ago, Incredulity said:

    What the fuck are you talking about?  You constantly piss down your leg about disinformation then come here with flat out lies.  Fuck off

    https://itep.org/federal-tax-cuts-in-the-bush-obama-and-trump-years/

    Sorry I didn't include a link to back my claim of what happened in the past is what happened in the past. Taxes have been consistently cut while spending fueled by debt has grown over the same period (because taxes were cut). 

    But if you'd care to give me a more cogent disagreement than quoting 7 words out of a post and saying "NYUH UH!!" that'd be neat

  15. Just now, Dbeasy said:

    I really don’t understand why there is so much arguing in this thread. The deficits being run right now are considered a serious issue by just about every credible economist and fiscal policy maker out there. 

    Both parties share the blame for this, some politicians more than others,and the only way to get this situation out of the extreme red zone is a combination of more taxation revenue carefully applied, more controlled spending, and using moderately higher inflation over the next 15 years to bleed away some of the debt as a percentage of gdp. That is the only solution. Period. 

    The faster the parties come to terms with it and try to start solving it, the faster the danger can be reduced. Otherwise the climb to catastrophe continues. Maybe we do all end up on Bitcoin. 

    My problem is that inflation is fundamentally too much money in the market - usually from debt based spending, and taxation is a direct way to remove money from the economy. That balance has been completely out of whack since the 2000s with the nonstop tax cuts and spending increases. No shit money is getting devalued! 

    The problem is that it's a pretty exclusive position in America that "taxation is theft" and other such platitudes about how the gubmint is taking muh munee. The parties will have a hell of a time making those ends meet, because the hatred of taxation has now sublimated into dogma and id. And there's still a fuckin boatload of federal subsidy pouring out more and more money. 

    There's gotta be a sink, or a negative input to a system. Otherwise it will invariably oscillate and escalate out of control

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    Edited by Captainant

    4 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Letting pro-Palestine protesters do their thing in public is the best way to make the argument for the other side.

    Unfortunately, Abbott and his sockpuppet Hartzell disagree with your assessment and have deemed riot cops to be the best response for about 50 people on the six pack, rather than let people hear out their ideas and decide for themselves. Because frankly yeah they're probably going to overstep and lose public support for their protest, but that's a moot point when they're being victimized

  17. 35 minutes ago, lucious leftfoot said:

    It’s a CNN poll. 
     

    Is the “right wing media sphere” of Fox News so pervasive that it sways 70% people’s minds against the self-evident truth?

     

    Who you going to believe? Me, or your lying eyes?

    This is essentially economic gaslighting.

    What do you mean you’re having a hard time, baby? Look at these official GDP and inflation figures. You’re doing great. 

    I mean if you want smoke blown up your ass about the economy, that's more 52-80's beat than brisket or Jimmy. The """economy""" writ large is doing good if you're a stock monkey  because NGU, but if you're a wage earner you're at the tail end of a 4 decade long run of fucking workers over. 

    The fucking workers over is tough to pin 100% on Biden unless you've got an agenda to push. But then again when haven't you had an agenda, GRU?

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