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[Nivek 17,415]

25 minutes ago, Shut up Lou Holtz said:

I’m constantly blown away at republicans binary brain. Everything is black or white (definitely not black see racism) and grey doesn’t exist. Mind bottling 

Republican whim good.   Everyone else deserves death.

[bluto 4,999]

Abbott’s Lafayette Square 

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6 minutes ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

 

Coldest tweet I have seen in a very long time...damn

 

Post this again and again.  The contradiction of how boldly our DPS marched into action to beat up some peaceful college kids after having sat idly by as elementary school children were shot beyond all recognition.  And like Kurt Russell in "Miracle on Ice", again.  Again.  Again.  Again.  Again.  Again.  Show the two scenes side by side every single day as much as you can.  One clip showing them beat a cameraman and throw unarmed students to the deck.  Another shows them cowering in fear as the sound echoes of children's heads  being splattered up against chalkboards.  Show it again.  Again.  And again.  And then again.  And how it all falls to the feet of one cowardly power-hungry asshat who'll never be invited to the Big Dance.  And again.  Then again.  And again.  And again.  This has all happened on our soil.  On our watch.  And again.  And again.  This is how it starts.  

[bolverk 30,349]

4 minutes ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

 

Coldest tweet I have seen in a very long time...damn

 

Look, I can forgive them for not goose-stepping, as that would be a tad passé in this day and age, but that is terrible, lazy fucking form, and not the least bit intimidating. 

Come on, you fascists, at least march in step!

[Nivek 17,415]

23 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

It's worse than that.  Remember, "people who the law binds, but does not protect, vs. people who the law protects, but does not bind."

These are the same people who have been SCREAMING about "campus free speech!" for years.  Who cry about "free speech" on every social media site every minute of every day.  But who ALSO openly support "cracking skulls" of people who are saying things....they don't like/don't agree with.

It's content-based repression of speech.  The exact bullseye thing that the First Amendment protects.  They.  Don't.  Care.  They actually fucking HATE the Constitution, so again with the irony of the fact that every one of these assholes has in their bio "Constitution-loving Republican."  They are fucking liars.  Absolute fucking liars.  They are poison.

Sgt Hulk is such a piece of shit.  Cracking skulls is just a whimsical term to him.  It is normalized.   Not a single good cop to be had in the Capital of Texas today.  

[Judge Roybeanbag 11,860]

10 minutes ago, bluto said:

Abbott’s Lafayette Square 

Exactly jack shit happened because of that, and exactly jack shit will happen because of this, unless we take it to the governors mansion and the capitol. 

[Brian Fantana 6,869]

2 hours ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

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

Go back a few months in this thread and you'll find them.

[Sawbonz 28,232]

Daughter - no pics - said the plan was to gather on the South Mall and march to the capitol and hold prolonged protest there. 

[bolverk 30,349]

1 minute ago, Sawbonz said:

Daughter - no pics - said the plan was to gather on the South Mall and march to the capitol and hold prolonged protest there. 

Oh, so the protesters' plan wasn't to disrupt class or whatever bullshit excuse they used to start arresting students? The DPS riot police were there to keep them away from the capitol so as not to embarrass our weak-kneed, spineless governor.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11,860]

Who called the DPS?  That’s what I’m curious about.  I don’t imagine UTPD did but I could be wrong.  

[Sawbonz 28,232]

9 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Oh, so the protesters' plan wasn't to disrupt class or whatever bullshit excuse they used to start arresting students? The DPS riot police were there to keep them away from the capitol so as not to embarrass our weak-kneed, spineless governor.

[Captainant 28,566]

@blacklab you are a fucking coward and carrying the water of greg abbott's fascism. @immamac I can't believe you let him run shit the way he does. 

[atomheartbevo 90,660]

48 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Embarrassing day 

Not for Greg.  He’s desperate for attention.  Unfortunately he can’t help with Trump’s legal,predicament so Trump will completely miss this while he rage tweets about jurors and judges,.

[Sawbonz 28,232]

Just now, atomheartbevo said:

Not for Greg.  He’s desperate for attention.  Unfortunately he can’t help with Trump’s legal,predicament so Trump will completely miss this while he rage tweets about jurors and judges,.

Trump isn’t going to pick a running mate who ain’t got no legs

[FORTY NINE TO ZERO 2,651]

Thinking of stopping all donations to UT related things until Hartzell is gone unless he starts making a statement against the fucking pigs asap 

Edited April 25 by FORTY NINE TO ZERO

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13,629]

1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

Fuck the press !!!!

 

Man, there used to be this guy on Austin Access Cable whose whole thing was driving around Austin and videotaping police encounters and preaching about constitutional rights and shit. I forget his name but I guess he was busy or on vacation in Hawaii today or something.

[Brian Fantana 6,869]

5 minutes ago, Captainant said:

@blacklab you are a fucking coward and carrying the water of greg abbott's fascism. @immamac I can't believe you let him run shit the way he does. 

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

[Captainant 28,566]

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. 

[The Royal We 3,100]

Pretty horseshit moderation for sure.
 

Chucklefucks yammering about cracking skulls are likely in an echo chamber of bullshit as far as information goes. Having their nose rubbed in their own heinous hot takes can’t hurt. And it wasn’t political. 

[bolverk 30,349]

11 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

Who called the DPS?  That’s what I’m curious about.  I don’t imagine UTPD did but I could be wrong.  

In one of the videos, a woman quizzed a DPS trooper, and he told her the request had come from UT.

 

6 minutes ago, FORTY NINE TO ZERO said:

Thinking of stopping all donations to UT related things until Hartzell is gone unless he starts making a statement against the fucking pigs asap 

 

Then, there's this from the Dean of Students:

https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/ut-austin-students-to-protest-in-support-of-gaza-with-class-walk-out-and-campus-sit-in/

[chainsaw 10,298]

1 minute ago, bolverk said:

In one of the videos, a woman quizzed a DPS trooper, and he told her the request had come from UT.

 

 

Then, there's this from the Dean of Students:

https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/ut-austin-students-to-protest-in-support-of-gaza-with-class-walk-out-and-campus-sit-in/

Exhibit A

[Sawbonz 28,232]

2 minutes ago, Captainant said:

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. 

BL moderates like a 70s dad would parent.  If the kids aren’t making an ungodly racket he doesn’t gaf what’s going on. When you start making too much noise he’s going to whip everyone’s ass regardless of who is at fault. 

[HenryJames 67,408]

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13,629]

29 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

Daughter - no pics - said the plan was to gather on the South Mall and march to the capitol and hold prolonged protest there. 

It's weird how government can quell a protest at their doorsteps when they want to.

[bolverk 30,349]

5 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

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

 

3 minutes ago, Captainant said:

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. 

 

2 minutes ago, The Royal We said:

Pretty horseshit moderation for sure.
 

Chucklefucks yammering about cracking skulls are likely in an echo chamber of bullshit as far as information goes. Having their nose rubbed in their own heinous hot takes can’t hurt. And it wasn’t political. 

 

In Blacklab's defense, he's been very consistent in his stance that the thread should be restricted specifically to on-the-ground Gaza war shit. And, to be honest, he's deleted a lot of shit I've reported in that thread where the Right-Wingers go off on protestors, who've been trying to put them in the worst light. 

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

[Judge Roybeanbag 11,860]

2 hours ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

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

A larger chunk of people don’t even know the word Semite includes Arabs and Persians as well as Hebrew. The more you know.  

[Captainant 28,566]

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

[bolverk 30,349]

4 minutes ago, Captainant said:

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

I absolutely agree with you about deleting content. All of it should've been moved here (edit) or spun off into a new thread.

2nd Edit: I see a new thread with all the original content was created while I was back over here.

Edited April 25 by bolverk

[Captainant 28,566]

Credit where it's due, it looks like posts are getting restored and moved to the new thread

[FORTY NINE TO ZERO 2,651]

8 minutes ago, bolverk said:

In one of the videos, a woman quizzed a DPS trooper, and he told her the request had come from UT.

 

 

Then, there's this from the Dean of Students:

https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/ut-austin-students-to-protest-in-support-of-gaza-with-class-walk-out-and-campus-sit-in/

Such horseshit.

i actually think the protestors are dumb self absorbed kids, but you know what?  This exactly the time in their life to be dumb self absorbed kids. Let them fucking do it loudly and in the open while being peaceful. Which they were.

Calling fucking gestapo thugs to beat them up is the exactly the type of thing I would expect the president of Texas to know NOT TO DO.  its fucking lose/lose

 

[HenryJames 67,408]

Cal Poly Humboldt students going Thermopylae on the cops.

[chainsaw 10,298]

2 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Credit where it's due, it looks like posts are getting restored and moved to the new thread

Derka's Mom is the real MVP

[HenryJames 67,408]

9 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

Derka's Mom is the real MVP

Pics?

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31 minutes ago, FORTY NINE TO ZERO said:

Thinking of stopping all donations to UT related things until Hartzell is gone unless he starts making a statement against the fucking pigs asap 

To be clear, this is not Hartzell's doing.  This was deployed by Abbott via Eltife & Longoria.  Even chancellor Milliken was left out of the loop.  Eltife and Abbott seized on this to make a bullshit force posture.  Everybody else was left with their dick out.  But yes, Hartzell can go about things differently but it's probably too late.  

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13,629]

9 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

Cal Poly Humboldt students going Thermopylae on the cops.

I lost it at the empty water bottle bouncing off the cop's helmet. 

[Sawbonz 28,232]

2 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

To be clear, this is not Hartzell's doing.  This was deployed by Abbott via Eltife & Longoria.  Even chancellor Milliken was left out of the loop.  Eltife and Abbott seized on this to make a bullshit force posture.  Everybody else was left with their dick out.  But yes, Hartzell can go about things differently but it's probably too late.  

If”UT” really asked for troopers that means Hartzell asked for troopers. He needs to be gone

[1978horn 904]

Where was this found or released?

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Other proof may come out down the road, I'm not saying I know definitively.  But it appears that the protest was known ahead of time and the usual UTPD presence was deployed as we've seen dozens of times each year for decades.  Out of the blue, without consulting Hartzell or Milliken or the UTPD 'boots on the ground' (I'm sure some sort of tactical contact was made with the Assistant Chiefs), Abbott and a couple of Regents decided to drop the hammer and show some force for political capital and to prevent a march on the Dome and curry favor with "free speech" friends on the far right.  Now, Jay have been pressured to give some sort of tacit "okay" to the deployment, but I seriously doubt he was behind it organically.  

tl; dr, we are in for months of finger pointing and national shame.  

[BrickHorn 18,447]

1 minute ago, YGIFS said:

tl; dr, we are in for months of finger pointing and national shame.  

New Texas state motto?

[Macklemore 2,945]

31 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

A larger chunk of people don’t even know the word Semite includes Arabs and Persians as well as Hebrew. The more you know.  

Persians are not Semitic.

[chainsaw 10,298]

1 minute ago, Macklemore said:

Persians are not Semitic.

Let's not delve into Semite semantics

[HenryJames 67,408]

8 minutes ago, 1978horn said:

Where was this found or released?

Can’t find the original though which is making me skeptical.

[Longhorn94 2,501]

39 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

I hope this is real. Fuckin A! If so, I plan to be there tomorrow. 

[chainsaw 10,298]

1 minute ago, HenryJames said:

Can’t find the original though which is making me skeptical.

search the hashtag and you'll see a fair number of UT profs posting it but I can't tell where it originated. the hashtag dates back to the firing of DEI staff though.

[Sawbonz 28,232]

Apparently a lot of profs have posted on their social media accounts

[1978horn 904]

Can’t find the original though which is making me skeptical.

Yeah, looks like she is a professor at UT. Just wanted to make sure before I sent it to others.

I hope it is real

[bolverk 30,349]

Don't have a Twitter but found this by googling the hashtag:

https://www.amreese.com/about-bio/

[Shut up Lou Holtz 2,115]

Says a cop punched a girl. Fuck them all. Such bullshit for our handicapped governor. 

[mdmost 44,073]

21 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

To be clear, this is not Hartzell's doing.  This was deployed by Abbott via Eltife & Longoria.  Even chancellor Milliken was left out of the loop.  Eltife and Abbott seized on this to make a bullshit force posture.  Everybody else was left with their dick out.  But yes, Hartzell can go about things differently but it's probably too late.  

Then that needs to be put out. Of course, Hartzell won't because his job is then on the line but it needs to be blanketed in the press. What a stupid black eye these dipshit MAGA regents did to our University's image. 

[YGIFS 19,458]

Yeah, he's in a shit spot I do not envy.  I feel like that "Jesus Johnny" meme of like "I know we were trying culturally assimilate into the SEC, but Jesus, Jay!"  

My intimate UT bias aside, this one is gonna sting for awhile.  It does seem from some initial backchannels that telegraphed this from up on high and left Jay and J.B. holding their dicks until the last minute.  

This makes Gene Powell & Alex Cranberg look like progressive visionaries by comparison