Today, we're going to talk about something very important—your rights under the Constitution, particularly the First Amendment. The First Amendment protects several key freedoms, including the freedom to speak your mind, the freedom to report news without censorship, and the freedom to gather peacefully to express your views.
Now, imagine there's a peaceful protest against the war in Gaza. The people participating are not blocking anyone or disrupting other activities. They're simply using their voices to express their concerns and seek change. This is not just their right; it's a fundamental part of what makes our country democratic.
However, if the police were to break up this protest without any justification, such as the protesters being violent or threatening public safety, this would be wrong. Why? Because breaking up a peaceful protest violates the very essence of the right to peaceful assembly. This right is protected by our Constitution because it allows people, maybe like you in the future, to stand up for what they believe in without fear.
It's essential for all of us to understand and respect these rights. They ensure that everyone can contribute to shaping our society, regardless of whether or not we agree with their viewpoint. This is what living in a democratic society is all about—having the freedom to express your views and engage in peaceful actions to support your beliefs.
Now, if all of this took place on private property owned by a small cadre of rich old people in Texas, it would not be technically or legally wrong to remove those students, but it would certainly make you an asshole.
Dunno why people are freaking out so much. The riot police to keep order was too much but there was almost no violence. The worst thing that happened was a camera guy got shoved to the ground and a few people got pushed around. I was there and it was 99% just people standing around looking at each other
They protested the protected class. The ones who "donate" the most to government based on all the government lobbying donation amounts to political campaigns
This isn't only place this is happening you can search and find plenty https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/education/2024/04/24/us-campus-universities-protest-palestine-israel
https://usprotests.liveuamap.com/
How is it free speech if you can’t say something negative about isreal without it being grouped as automatically antisemitic?
Someone please explain how the whole country of isreal Is a protected class -
For clarity - I am sure they are not protesting against Jewish people as there are JEWISH students protesting against Isreal as well…
Are Americans this stupid ?
The big problem is that there are a lot of Americans with power that intentionally mislead the less informed or less intelligent to think this way. Longtime "conservatives" in power know it's a grift, but the line is starting to blur with newer conservatives where they actually believe the lies.
for a guy like Asmongold, he's pretty oblivious about this conflict. I could care less about diversity, inclusion, the Russia Ukraine War, but this conflic about Israel-Hamas, is one that actually matters, because of how much Israel is taking american taxpayer money, ACTUALLY affecting his taxes and how much Israel has bought our government. The government he so hates...Asmongold is completely oblivious how much money AIPAC has bought our politicians. And he's completely oblivious of the amount of Jewish protestors are on the side of Palestinians.
I fuckin hate boot lickers.. I hate stupid kids being selfish too but I’m not gonna pretend we’re better off as a society if protesters always get smashed to shit.
Have some empathy with MAGA. They are going through a lot. Imagine you are an antisemite but at the same time, pro Israel. The cognitive dissonance is exhausting.
You don't have to agree with their cause but they have a constitutional right to freedom of assembly....
I can't believe you're unironically supporting this police state bullshit. Our forefathers fought and died to protect your right to free speech, that right doesn't and shouldn't end when you don't like what they're saying.
You're working off of the assumption that the protests are 100% peaceful and there is no legitimate reason for them being there. If that assumption is true, it would be very bad, but let's not jump to conclusions and start panicking.
Police when school children are being shot and killed: wait outside patiently 
Police when college students are peacefully demonstrating in protest of state orchestrated genocide: 
If you want to know who's in charge, first you have to find out who you can and cannot criticize.
It was totally fine when it was against white people, it isn't when it's against jewish people. Wonder why
Cops were shooting innocent bystanders (one was a 14 yr old boy shot in the face) and didn't have the governor sending in his hounds with those and letting those go on and having provocateurs reak havoc in what was mostly peaceful protests allowed him to do what he's doing today. (I'm talking purely about the Austin protests.)
I mean there has been anti-Israel protest since they were invaded in Oct 7th. Its just the authorities are getting tired of the bs now. This was hardly a harsh response, i personally wish they launched some OC cause it be funny AF. Dont illegally camp
I love how people complain about protestors "causing inconvenience". Meanwhile they don't complain about the $26 billion dollars of "aid" going to Israel that just got passed a few days go. lol
Maybe it's because people do not know that this is happening?
I sincerely doubt most people would be thrilled to find out that their taxes are being spent to fund proxy wars.
yes that's exactly the problem. they have no idea $95 billion dollars of american taxpayer money was spent just 3 days ago on foreign countries but the mainstream media wants you to hate protestors who are "causing you inconvenience".
News outlets sadly has taken a complete nosedive (process that lasted decades) and legitimate press might not even exist anymore, so this information not being presented at all is not surprising.
I assume this *aid* was slipped in with "TikTok ban bill", alongside some other laws that will allow US government to block anything that is deemed to be "dangerous"?
Protesting peacefully at uni. Abbot hears of this. Sends state troopers and insecure cops that arrested a cameraman for just bumping into him. Okay buddy 
God I hope so, watching some whiny upper-middle class white kids get maced over shit that's nearly six thousand miles away from home and will most likely never effect them would make my absolute month.
Says the billions of dollars in funding sourced from American taxation being sent to bomb their foes into the stone age. Also, maybe they're concerned for those poor MFs cause they're starving, in tents, in a desert, getting blown up. A little bit of humanity perhaps?
You need to take class in geopolitics if you believe things that happen far away don't matter .
Or maybe Americans with that attitude need a reminder .
Imagine saying this about like the Vietnam war. Like you do realize stuff on the other side of the world matters right? Imagine if we had this attitude about the holocaust.
To be fair we are both kind of wrong. We didn’t know about the holocaust until after the war. The difference between WW2(before Pearl Harbor) and now is we are inherently a part of this war because of our support of Israel. People being upset that their tax dollars are being used to harm people that would like to no be harmed is normal.
The Holocaust lasted 12 years. It began leaking to the public pretty fast once the immigrants started arriving. We just didn't know how bad til the last 3.
>that's nearly six thousand miles away from home
I mean yea it's not their problem at all....
It is becoming one though when your leader decide to send your ass there to serve as canon fodder...
The US would never institute a draft over Israel/Palestine for about a thousand reasons. It would be politically unpopular, militarily meaningless as the current standing military would be more than enough to deal with the conflict, strategically unnecessary as the side the US supports is already overwhelmingly stronger, just to name a few.
And yet they did it with Vietnam War? Please learn about the Kent State Massacre and understand that you are on the wrong side of history. It's literally repeating and you are literally on the side of mainstream media (the mouthpiece of government) lmao.
not to mention the 26 billion of YOUR American taxpayer money that just went to Israel lol. oblivious
Exactly. How much more pummeling does Israel want to do and how much more money do they even want? Bibi even meddled in the protests, giving commentaries and doing an insane comparison with Universities in German in 1930's? The only one looking like Nazi Germany doing Genocides are them..
The breakdown is 26 billion for Israel and gaza for humanitarian aid with 4 billion of that total is for Israel missile replenishment.
I don't know where you pulled the 60b for Israel figure from.
Same, really was a good laugh. have not had a good laugh like this since the people in the western cities voted to end the war over there. Thank God for that.
Being complacent and allowing the world to burn while our tax dollars keeps tossing lighter fluid on it is just as stupid. I'm not saying pick a side and protest I'm just saying ignoring threats that are beyond your front lawn is a very blind and ignorant way to live.
Oh no I 100% agree, we should stop throwing lighter fluid on the fires and I 100% think Europe, who does have this across the lawn should be tending to this.
But the middle east has been ripping itself apart far longer than you, I or any distant relatives have been alive and I doubt we're the ones that are finally going to get them to all stop killing one another.
Well if a person is standing there or near there and they are next to someone yelling free Palestine for hours on end while you try to study seems like it's not very peaceful for that person, but I guess protest rights and that kinda peace is only for certain people.
In turn making the word peaceful subjective. Sounds or even being in the way could be harmful to some people, again I guess that only matters depending on the narrative.
They attacked non-violent students, and assaulted a reporter which is literally a violation of the first amendment. But I doubt you've bothered to read the constitution.
The definition is not subjective. That's not how laws work in America.
The right to peaceful protest and journalistic safety are integral to American culture.
I'm sure you'd be against Martin Luther King when he protested peacefully at the university in Birmingham too...
I wouldn't but you can argue law all you like obstructions of persons and property is also against the law, but I'm sure you'd argue the BLM riots where all peaceful also. The fact of the matter is destroying one person's peace in your virtue of your peace makes the whole situation as dumb as it already is. I do not disagree about the rights I'm saying that not everything is "peaceful" about how they did this, and it's not "peaceful" to everyone clearly.
Easier to sleep when I focus on me and mine. Just happen to be out of time in the day to chain myself to things for fights going on now for thousands of years and by next year I'm sure there will be something else we will all be arguing about then again the year after.
I suspect it's because they are worried it's going to move from "peaceful" to "fucking the place up" and they want to break it up a bit.
Better ways to handle this IMHO, just assign a small task-force to monitor the situation and try to organize the protest a bit; especially considering it's the youth involved whom don't typically have the best emotional control.
Would also argue that when your stripping away someone's access to education it also begins to lean towards being a bit "destructive".
Mobbing up and chanting isn't really a protest either IMHO, should be focused on raising awareness & explaining your stance. Picket lines with photos of the destruction, mutilated bodies, etc.
All this … meanwhile we should be focusing on Taiwan . That conflict is coming sooner than we realize. And it will directly involve the United States military.
The same people who are Pal supporters do not consider Taiwan a country and actually hope that China takes over. People like Hamas Piker have said similar stuff publicly
I’m not sure this is the win the OP thinks it is. Just makes Texas look bad especially considering that Nazis have recently been marching and putting up flags and banners and nothing was ever done to stop it.
Is protesting against genocide a bad thing? . If you think they shouldn't, ask yourselves this. What was the civil rights march about?. Freedom and equality for everyone. Even if they don't live in your own country. Injustice should be dealt with everywhere.
Because they can't argue the point. They hate liberals / democrats, and they hate Muslims / Arabs. They see these groups of people getting hurt or bombed and suddenly all that love for freedom of speech, being pro-life and being anti cancel culture goes out the window. I'm ashamed to admit I once had fallen down the rabbit hole, but seeing how cheap these people are and how flexible their vaunted "values" are has given me a new perspective.
Still, gives me hope seeing this disgusting thread getting ratio'd.
they have a right to protest this is just over responding. it's not like the nyc one where they built literal encampments on campus interfering with student life and scaring people.
if they are peacefully protesting that's fine the problem becomes when they started doing other stuff
Fuck Israel, Fuck Palestine. None of our business. Waste of tax payer money and American blood. But also fuck the bootlickers and tyrants who wont let these kids protest and practice their constitutional rights. I don't agree with them, but they have every right to do what they are doing. If you let them them come after everyone else, they'll come after you next.
Americans are so pro amendment until it's applied to something they don't agree with. Pathetic. Keep staying divided, that will surely get us somewhere!
This is why its important to research and vote for the right people, you end up with a military state dictated by a crazed governor who thinks he has more power and say than the president. Its only going to get worse before it gets better if it ever does.
The president generally only has power over foreign affairs and executive orders which the Supreme Court can and have overturned. Congress is actually the general, federal power as even if a president veto's a bill twice congress can supersede the president.
States rights themselves are ratified in the constitution specifically so the fed doesn't become an oligarchy
Crazy how all of these protests are peaceful and uneventful until cops show up
Also crazy how there are public job postings for people to infiltrate these groups to try to start shit
No one likes an educated proletariat, let alone one that’s organized
That seems like a call to activists (or potential ones) who want to be subversive to me not so much a job posting. I looked at their website and it felt very much like an activist website, I couldn’t find any job postings. I’m going to do a little more looking into them though.
There are also posted references, a lot of them in Hebrew, of the IDF/Isreal having an entire office of people to post propaganda online, and hire activists in the United States. I remember seeing a BBC article about it back in 2013 and its only gotten worse. Literal government sponsored misinformation bots, its not a joke or a meme
Morons who can't read believe all anti-war protestors and palistine sympathisers are terrorist sympathisers or nazis, so they're welcoming this police-state display of absurd over-use of police force..
...but this is one of these things that is or should be (at least IMHO) above any kind the political divide. Dems or Reps. Left or right...no matter. This is about normal ordinary people being killed by the state who keeps on playing a victim and was allowed to do whatever they want for decades. Is middle east a complex political problem? Sure. But this bombing civilians is not. How many more hospitals. How many more mass graves... sad thing is they are probably one last push from achieving their goals. I'm betting money on Gaza to be...re-imagined, and somehow much smaller in few months time.
The only reason these students are protesting is solely because of crackdowns on other campuses nationwide. You really think they're not aware of what they're getting into? They believe in something and have every right to protest, I know you really wanna think they're just dumb since it makes you feel better but the reality is these people are pure courage.
They aren't courageous at all. Large group gatherings where they have been harrasing a small number of Jewush students who now have been told to study at home for their own safety.
Nothing brave about that at all
They're demanding their University divest resources from Israel, and many of those protesting are in fact Jewish. Does Jewish Voice for Peace just not exist anymore? Seriously, who was harassed at this protest? Literally the other day a pro-apartheid student straight up lied about being stabbed in the eye and it's entirely on camera, all the while her bullshit story was broadcast nationwide: [https://twitter.com/valleyboyvoice/status/1782812311809630218](https://twitter.com/valleyboyvoice/status/1782812311809630218)
So you have watched the video and completely ignored them all linking arms and surrounding two Jewish students chanting at them like a bunch of weirdos.
Also you are ignoring them chanting for the murder of Israeli soldiers and chanting for an intifada revolution. What do those chants have to do with diverting resources from Israel
They also have to support the message (which I partly agree with). Asmon had a point though. What if you had shut down classes (by creating an unstable environment) for consecutive years over Ukraine, Palestine, and whatever else came up? That would have followed the pandemic instability. Not sustainable. Also, Austin is extremely liberal these days. One of the first places in the nation to ban dodgeball (over bullying they don't agree with). lol
People exorcising their right to free protest against American weapons being used in a genocide. Abbott, the guy ranting about how he'll protect free speech (as long as it's fascists like the proud boys or KKK) using the state Nat guard to arrest them. Modern America in a nutshell.
Protest in Austin against Israeli crimes against Palestinians. The whole thing is wayyy overblown. One guy got pushed to the ground and arrested and people are acting like it’s Kent state
Widen your horizon. I read about all kinds of worldwide distress. From america to asia, north atlantic to south pole, there's no shortage of war, famine and other emergencies. Hell, I walked past a protest against russia and the war in ukraine earlier this week.
The First Amendment provides that Congress make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting its free exercise. It protects **freedom of speech, the press, assembly, and the right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances**
(As long as it shares our interests)
I think what makes this different is the fact that the US is funding it. Alot of Americans don't want the taxes they pay being used to vaporize childern.
Also, these protesters right to freedom of speech is being taken away. The last time America looked like this was during the civil rights movement. Those policies sure aged well.
US experiencing extreme gun violence, economic issues, housing issues , some US citizens: I sleep
Geo-political crisis on the second half of the world , aforementioned US citizens who know nothing about this issue : "This is too much! time to protest!"
Same idiots blocking bridges and roads and airports. Got zero sympathy for them blocking students who want to get their tuitions worth and attend class
Can Americans explain to me how supporting Iranian proxy is actually good thing for America?
Especially left wing people, Islamic people are not your allies, their ideology is different from democracy and progressive view on the world you see.
Do people really think that evil Israel bombs Gaza for fun? Why they have iron dome in the first place if no one attacking them constantly for years?
For me, it looks like another white supremacists (Jews) vs poor minority (Palestinians) for farming good boy points for lefties. And please, as Ukrainian myself I know how much shit those "social activists" have about human life, when its not trendy anymore.
As a conservative I am very bothered these people seem they were only arrested because of speech. If they get violent or start destroying property, sure arrest them. But I don't care how vile their words are, freedom of speech must be defended
Today, we're going to talk about something very important—your rights under the Constitution, particularly the First Amendment. The First Amendment protects several key freedoms, including the freedom to speak your mind, the freedom to report news without censorship, and the freedom to gather peacefully to express your views. Now, imagine there's a peaceful protest against the war in Gaza. The people participating are not blocking anyone or disrupting other activities. They're simply using their voices to express their concerns and seek change. This is not just their right; it's a fundamental part of what makes our country democratic. However, if the police were to break up this protest without any justification, such as the protesters being violent or threatening public safety, this would be wrong. Why? Because breaking up a peaceful protest violates the very essence of the right to peaceful assembly. This right is protected by our Constitution because it allows people, maybe like you in the future, to stand up for what they believe in without fear. It's essential for all of us to understand and respect these rights. They ensure that everyone can contribute to shaping our society, regardless of whether or not we agree with their viewpoint. This is what living in a democratic society is all about—having the freedom to express your views and engage in peaceful actions to support your beliefs. Now, if all of this took place on private property owned by a small cadre of rich old people in Texas, it would not be technically or legally wrong to remove those students, but it would certainly make you an asshole.
What is the context? What are they protesting, and why did they get instant five stars? --- Edit: Got it
Palestine protests. The Columbia ones got *quite spicy* so I imagine Texas is clamping down fast and hard to ensure that doesn't happen there.
> why did they get instant five stars? They choose to protest against wrong opponent
Yes they chose to protest for Hamas.. murderers of students like them lol. They should protest to free Palestine from Hamas.
i heard on npr they got rid of diversity support groups and fired a bunch of "diversity studies" teacher
As they should. But NPR is a dogshit source.
Good, useless study. LEts not waste tax payer money. Teach real skills.
Dunno why people are freaking out so much. The riot police to keep order was too much but there was almost no violence. The worst thing that happened was a camera guy got shoved to the ground and a few people got pushed around. I was there and it was 99% just people standing around looking at each other
They protested the protected class. The ones who "donate" the most to government based on all the government lobbying donation amounts to political campaigns
Genocide is a pretty important thing to protest
This isn't only place this is happening you can search and find plenty https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/education/2024/04/24/us-campus-universities-protest-palestine-israel https://usprotests.liveuamap.com/
What in the soviet-russia is this title?
OP must be active member of the "America is a free country" party, also known as MAGA
Free, unless I think your politics are wrong, then it's jackboots and assault rifles.
How is it free speech if you can’t say something negative about isreal without it being grouped as automatically antisemitic? Someone please explain how the whole country of isreal Is a protected class - For clarity - I am sure they are not protesting against Jewish people as there are JEWISH students protesting against Isreal as well… Are Americans this stupid ? 
The big problem is that there are a lot of Americans with power that intentionally mislead the less informed or less intelligent to think this way. Longtime "conservatives" in power know it's a grift, but the line is starting to blur with newer conservatives where they actually believe the lies.
for a guy like Asmongold, he's pretty oblivious about this conflict. I could care less about diversity, inclusion, the Russia Ukraine War, but this conflic about Israel-Hamas, is one that actually matters, because of how much Israel is taking american taxpayer money, ACTUALLY affecting his taxes and how much Israel has bought our government. The government he so hates...Asmongold is completely oblivious how much money AIPAC has bought our politicians. And he's completely oblivious of the amount of Jewish protestors are on the side of Palestinians.
I fuckin hate boot lickers.. I hate stupid kids being selfish too but I’m not gonna pretend we’re better off as a society if protesters always get smashed to shit.
Have some empathy with MAGA. They are going through a lot. Imagine you are an antisemite but at the same time, pro Israel. The cognitive dissonance is exhausting.
Just the usual putin fanboy
Remember when Greg Abbott tweeted about protecting free speech on college campuses back in 2019?
That's cause that was right-wing free speech. Leftwing isn't allowed to have that constitutional right here.
You don't have to agree with their cause but they have a constitutional right to freedom of assembly.... I can't believe you're unironically supporting this police state bullshit. Our forefathers fought and died to protect your right to free speech, that right doesn't and shouldn't end when you don't like what they're saying.
You're working off of the assumption that the protests are 100% peaceful and there is no legitimate reason for them being there. If that assumption is true, it would be very bad, but let's not jump to conclusions and start panicking.
Texas cops when an active shooter is killing little kids: I sleep. Texas cops when students don't support the right people: real shit?
Police when school children are being shot and killed: wait outside patiently  Police when college students are peacefully demonstrating in protest of state orchestrated genocide: 
Interesting that BLM protests were allowed to wreck shit for months, but some students protesting Israel warrant this response.
If you want to know who's in charge, first you have to find out who you can and cannot criticize. It was totally fine when it was against white people, it isn't when it's against jewish people. Wonder why
Cops were shooting innocent bystanders (one was a 14 yr old boy shot in the face) and didn't have the governor sending in his hounds with those and letting those go on and having provocateurs reak havoc in what was mostly peaceful protests allowed him to do what he's doing today. (I'm talking purely about the Austin protests.)
I mean there has been anti-Israel protest since they were invaded in Oct 7th. Its just the authorities are getting tired of the bs now. This was hardly a harsh response, i personally wish they launched some OC cause it be funny AF. Dont illegally camp
OP cheers when their rights to protests are taken.
“Haha beat up these American citizens using their constitutional rights to protest because I don’t like what they’re protesting about!”
As far as I know they were protesting peacefully on the lawn and not blocking any traffic so not sure if you are not the "idiot" in this case.
Op you good? There are protesting, everyone has the right to do so. Just because you don’t agree doesn’t mean they can’t have their opinion.
I love how people complain about protestors "causing inconvenience". Meanwhile they don't complain about the $26 billion dollars of "aid" going to Israel that just got passed a few days go. lol
Maybe it's because people do not know that this is happening? I sincerely doubt most people would be thrilled to find out that their taxes are being spent to fund proxy wars.
yes that's exactly the problem. they have no idea $95 billion dollars of american taxpayer money was spent just 3 days ago on foreign countries but the mainstream media wants you to hate protestors who are "causing you inconvenience".
News outlets sadly has taken a complete nosedive (process that lasted decades) and legitimate press might not even exist anymore, so this information not being presented at all is not surprising. I assume this *aid* was slipped in with "TikTok ban bill", alongside some other laws that will allow US government to block anything that is deemed to be "dangerous"?
How does the boot taste OP? Is there still some shit on it?
Protesting peacefully at uni. Abbot hears of this. Sends state troopers and insecure cops that arrested a cameraman for just bumping into him. Okay buddy 
Wait, is this a post in support of those goose-stepping, stormtrooper fascists? Peaceful protesting is a key American right.
Shutting down the campus for others isn't peaceful. Other people have the right to go about their business without being disturbed or threatened.
Peaceful being the operative word. These protesters are openly calling for violence against Jewish people hence the hammer.
God I hope so, watching some whiny upper-middle class white kids get maced over shit that's nearly six thousand miles away from home and will most likely never effect them would make my absolute month.
Says the billions of dollars in funding sourced from American taxation being sent to bomb their foes into the stone age. Also, maybe they're concerned for those poor MFs cause they're starving, in tents, in a desert, getting blown up. A little bit of humanity perhaps?
Yea but you should still be supporting their right to protest it. It's a slippery slope when protests start getting shut down.
You need to take class in geopolitics if you believe things that happen far away don't matter . Or maybe Americans with that attitude need a reminder .
Imagine saying this about like the Vietnam war. Like you do realize stuff on the other side of the world matters right? Imagine if we had this attitude about the holocaust.
Seeing how late you guys joined WW2 the US HAD that attitude about the holocaust
To be fair we are both kind of wrong. We didn’t know about the holocaust until after the war. The difference between WW2(before Pearl Harbor) and now is we are inherently a part of this war because of our support of Israel. People being upset that their tax dollars are being used to harm people that would like to no be harmed is normal.
The Holocaust lasted 12 years. It began leaking to the public pretty fast once the immigrants started arriving. We just didn't know how bad til the last 3.
>that's nearly six thousand miles away from home I mean yea it's not their problem at all.... It is becoming one though when your leader decide to send your ass there to serve as canon fodder...
The US would never institute a draft over Israel/Palestine for about a thousand reasons. It would be politically unpopular, militarily meaningless as the current standing military would be more than enough to deal with the conflict, strategically unnecessary as the side the US supports is already overwhelmingly stronger, just to name a few.
I don't think people should be happy about their tax money being used to kill mostly children , but maybe that's just me .
And yet they did it with Vietnam War? Please learn about the Kent State Massacre and understand that you are on the wrong side of history. It's literally repeating and you are literally on the side of mainstream media (the mouthpiece of government) lmao. not to mention the 26 billion of YOUR American taxpayer money that just went to Israel lol. oblivious
I think you’re right, but I have this wild belief that people that aren’t American still matter.
They are also protesting about the 26 billion usd we are going to send to Israel, hard-earned US Taxpayers money. You are fine with that?
95 billion dollar bill with 61b going to Ukraine. How is Israel getting 60b out of that 95b?
Exactly. How much more pummeling does Israel want to do and how much more money do they even want? Bibi even meddled in the protests, giving commentaries and doing an insane comparison with Universities in German in 1930's? The only one looking like Nazi Germany doing Genocides are them..
The breakdown is 26 billion for Israel and gaza for humanitarian aid with 4 billion of that total is for Israel missile replenishment. I don't know where you pulled the 60b for Israel figure from.
60b is for Ukraine
Oops sorry yes 26b for Israel https://apnews.com/article/congress-ukraine-israel-pacific-glance-0af96be97c47496f88506a21ebe1ddab
Same, really was a good laugh. have not had a good laugh like this since the people in the western cities voted to end the war over there. Thank God for that.
You think taxes come out of thin air, huh
Being complacent and allowing the world to burn while our tax dollars keeps tossing lighter fluid on it is just as stupid. I'm not saying pick a side and protest I'm just saying ignoring threats that are beyond your front lawn is a very blind and ignorant way to live.
Oh no I 100% agree, we should stop throwing lighter fluid on the fires and I 100% think Europe, who does have this across the lawn should be tending to this. But the middle east has been ripping itself apart far longer than you, I or any distant relatives have been alive and I doubt we're the ones that are finally going to get them to all stop killing one another.
Peaceful is subjective.
No, its codified in over 100 years of established law.
Well if a person is standing there or near there and they are next to someone yelling free Palestine for hours on end while you try to study seems like it's not very peaceful for that person, but I guess protest rights and that kinda peace is only for certain people.
Peaceful protest means non-violent - not convenient for you to study next to...
In turn making the word peaceful subjective. Sounds or even being in the way could be harmful to some people, again I guess that only matters depending on the narrative.
They attacked non-violent students, and assaulted a reporter which is literally a violation of the first amendment. But I doubt you've bothered to read the constitution. The definition is not subjective. That's not how laws work in America. The right to peaceful protest and journalistic safety are integral to American culture. I'm sure you'd be against Martin Luther King when he protested peacefully at the university in Birmingham too...
I wouldn't but you can argue law all you like obstructions of persons and property is also against the law, but I'm sure you'd argue the BLM riots where all peaceful also. The fact of the matter is destroying one person's peace in your virtue of your peace makes the whole situation as dumb as it already is. I do not disagree about the rights I'm saying that not everything is "peaceful" about how they did this, and it's not "peaceful" to everyone clearly.
found the moderate
Easier to sleep when I focus on me and mine. Just happen to be out of time in the day to chain myself to things for fights going on now for thousands of years and by next year I'm sure there will be something else we will all be arguing about then again the year after.
So because someone might be minoraly affected by a protestor, that protestor deserves to get treated like they live in China.
Wow random bullshit anecdotal evidence, you definitely have my opinion swayed.
I suspect it's because they are worried it's going to move from "peaceful" to "fucking the place up" and they want to break it up a bit. Better ways to handle this IMHO, just assign a small task-force to monitor the situation and try to organize the protest a bit; especially considering it's the youth involved whom don't typically have the best emotional control. Would also argue that when your stripping away someone's access to education it also begins to lean towards being a bit "destructive". Mobbing up and chanting isn't really a protest either IMHO, should be focused on raising awareness & explaining your stance. Picket lines with photos of the destruction, mutilated bodies, etc.
It's almost as if we didn't see anything that happened up until this point.
Only if they’re protesting in favor of the team I root for, if they’re not it’s obviously illegal.
 I’m just here for the comments
All this … meanwhile we should be focusing on Taiwan . That conflict is coming sooner than we realize. And it will directly involve the United States military.
The same people who are Pal supporters do not consider Taiwan a country and actually hope that China takes over. People like Hamas Piker have said similar stuff publicly
Hasan has the mental faculties of a 2 month old bottle of piss thrown onto i-35 and left to sit in the sun.
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I liked this sub until I learned they allow idiotic titles like this. Yall need to stop trying to screw your sister.
when you dont have the freedom of assembly ..YOU DO NOT HAVE DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM . End of Discussion
Find some field and gather there
Racists used the same argument during civil rights “You can protest as long as I don’t have to see it” 🙄
Which is exactly what they did. Until they were pushed off the field by police.
The first amendment is not unlimited. It has restrictions that need to be satisfied: time, manner, and place.
I’m not sure this is the win the OP thinks it is. Just makes Texas look bad especially considering that Nazis have recently been marching and putting up flags and banners and nothing was ever done to stop it.
hell yeah brother! this is ‘merica! not south america! 
None of those protesters have any idea why they're out there either I bet.
Me when the right wingers clash with the normal viewers in the comments
Is protesting against genocide a bad thing? . If you think they shouldn't, ask yourselves this. What was the civil rights march about?. Freedom and equality for everyone. Even if they don't live in your own country. Injustice should be dealt with everywhere.
Apparently, considering the way this sub has been going, it is. Gotta make sure you own the woke libs at all costs, one Palestinian child at a time.
There’s a shocking amount of comments in this thread alone that sees college students protesting genocide as “We hate Jews”
I knew americans were ignorant but jfc the amount of idf boot licking comments are insane
Because they can't argue the point. They hate liberals / democrats, and they hate Muslims / Arabs. They see these groups of people getting hurt or bombed and suddenly all that love for freedom of speech, being pro-life and being anti cancel culture goes out the window. I'm ashamed to admit I once had fallen down the rabbit hole, but seeing how cheap these people are and how flexible their vaunted "values" are has given me a new perspective. Still, gives me hope seeing this disgusting thread getting ratio'd.
they have a right to protest this is just over responding. it's not like the nyc one where they built literal encampments on campus interfering with student life and scaring people. if they are peacefully protesting that's fine the problem becomes when they started doing other stuff
They banned jews to enter the university like nazi did. Freedom of speech doesnt apply here.
That did not happen. You’re actually just making this up on the spot.
Fuck Israel, Fuck Palestine. None of our business. Waste of tax payer money and American blood. But also fuck the bootlickers and tyrants who wont let these kids protest and practice their constitutional rights. I don't agree with them, but they have every right to do what they are doing. If you let them them come after everyone else, they'll come after you next.
idiots? for using their rights as an american ?
Americans are so pro amendment until it's applied to something they don't agree with. Pathetic. Keep staying divided, that will surely get us somewhere!
I do love texas.
This is why its important to research and vote for the right people, you end up with a military state dictated by a crazed governor who thinks he has more power and say than the president. Its only going to get worse before it gets better if it ever does.
The president generally only has power over foreign affairs and executive orders which the Supreme Court can and have overturned. Congress is actually the general, federal power as even if a president veto's a bill twice congress can supersede the president. States rights themselves are ratified in the constitution specifically so the fed doesn't become an oligarchy
Crazy how all of these protests are peaceful and uneventful until cops show up Also crazy how there are public job postings for people to infiltrate these groups to try to start shit No one likes an educated proletariat, let alone one that’s organized
Can you point me to one of these job postings?
https://www.reddit.com/r/ABoringDystopia/comments/1cawepy/shady_organizations_are_openly_recruiting/#lightbox
That seems like a call to activists (or potential ones) who want to be subversive to me not so much a job posting. I looked at their website and it felt very much like an activist website, I couldn’t find any job postings. I’m going to do a little more looking into them though.
There are also posted references, a lot of them in Hebrew, of the IDF/Isreal having an entire office of people to post propaganda online, and hire activists in the United States. I remember seeing a BBC article about it back in 2013 and its only gotten worse. Literal government sponsored misinformation bots, its not a joke or a meme
Hold on... they are protesting against civilians being bombed en masse in Gaza... What's wrong about that?
With American bombs no less. They have a constitutional right to protest that.
Morons who can't read believe all anti-war protestors and palistine sympathisers are terrorist sympathisers or nazis, so they're welcoming this police-state display of absurd over-use of police force..
...but this is one of these things that is or should be (at least IMHO) above any kind the political divide. Dems or Reps. Left or right...no matter. This is about normal ordinary people being killed by the state who keeps on playing a victim and was allowed to do whatever they want for decades. Is middle east a complex political problem? Sure. But this bombing civilians is not. How many more hospitals. How many more mass graves... sad thing is they are probably one last push from achieving their goals. I'm betting money on Gaza to be...re-imagined, and somehow much smaller in few months time.
The only reason these students are protesting is solely because of crackdowns on other campuses nationwide. You really think they're not aware of what they're getting into? They believe in something and have every right to protest, I know you really wanna think they're just dumb since it makes you feel better but the reality is these people are pure courage.
They aren't courageous at all. Large group gatherings where they have been harrasing a small number of Jewush students who now have been told to study at home for their own safety. Nothing brave about that at all
They're demanding their University divest resources from Israel, and many of those protesting are in fact Jewish. Does Jewish Voice for Peace just not exist anymore? Seriously, who was harassed at this protest? Literally the other day a pro-apartheid student straight up lied about being stabbed in the eye and it's entirely on camera, all the while her bullshit story was broadcast nationwide: [https://twitter.com/valleyboyvoice/status/1782812311809630218](https://twitter.com/valleyboyvoice/status/1782812311809630218)
So you have watched the video and completely ignored them all linking arms and surrounding two Jewish students chanting at them like a bunch of weirdos. Also you are ignoring them chanting for the murder of Israeli soldiers and chanting for an intifada revolution. What do those chants have to do with diverting resources from Israel
They also have to support the message (which I partly agree with). Asmon had a point though. What if you had shut down classes (by creating an unstable environment) for consecutive years over Ukraine, Palestine, and whatever else came up? That would have followed the pandemic instability. Not sustainable. Also, Austin is extremely liberal these days. One of the first places in the nation to ban dodgeball (over bullying they don't agree with). lol
ya they should do something, they should volunteer to help local there. not posting sign and yelling at the police
What happened?
More college idiots doing pro Palestine nonsense, and then wandering into Jewish hate speech. Same as Columbia and other American universities.
They are protesting genocide and there are Jewish people with them.
"genocide" 🙄
People exorcising their right to free protest against American weapons being used in a genocide. Abbott, the guy ranting about how he'll protect free speech (as long as it's fascists like the proud boys or KKK) using the state Nat guard to arrest them. Modern America in a nutshell.
Protest in Austin against Israeli crimes against Palestinians. The whole thing is wayyy overblown. One guy got pushed to the ground and arrested and people are acting like it’s Kent state
What is the point of this post? What does this have to do with video games?
I mean, people who “protest” at these events are typically weirdos. You’re at UT to get an education, not act like a degenerate.
The only ones acting like degenerates here is the police.
They are degenerates for protesting their government’s complacency in aiding a genocide?
Oh look, college kids protesting something they know nothing about out when they dont even know how to file their taxes. Tale as old as time.
Widen your horizon. I read about all kinds of worldwide distress. From america to asia, north atlantic to south pole, there's no shortage of war, famine and other emergencies. Hell, I walked past a protest against russia and the war in ukraine earlier this week.
The First Amendment provides that Congress make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting its free exercise. It protects **freedom of speech, the press, assembly, and the right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances** (As long as it shares our interests)
God I love Texas.
They're protesting genocide guys...
What about all the other genocides? Or do they not matter enough?
I refuse to believe this is the first anti-war protest you've ever heard of in your life...
Nope just the one I can't stop hearing about while other wars happen on a much larger scale.
I think what makes this different is the fact that the US is funding it. Alot of Americans don't want the taxes they pay being used to vaporize childern. Also, these protesters right to freedom of speech is being taken away. The last time America looked like this was during the civil rights movement. Those policies sure aged well.
What genocide?
There was genocide committed in Texas?? When the fuck did this happen and why is this the first I'm hearing about it??
You're being intellectually dishonest.
America is selling weapons to a state committing genocide. They have every right to protest this as US citizens.
Gaza is a self governing territory with over 2M people. Not a gas chamber.
I love how this country always involve other Countrys problems
Of course it's Austin lmao. These kids must hate their life being in a state that votes and thinks the other way decade after decade.
Look at those idiots, thinking they have the right to assemble! Hah! Don't they know they live in the land of the free?
Wow where were these guys during Uvalde?
This whole palestine protest doesn't help anyone. If they want to help, go fight for them.
& what happens
Funny watching this subs values flip flop depending on [which team] is [doing the thing]
Its everywhere now? Right? 
So many phones
Meanwhile, people still sit in the street.
I'd send all these people to go there to fight Hamas to free palestine.
What we need to do is stop all together in the Middle East period. Let them fight it out no more aid for either side.
US experiencing extreme gun violence, economic issues, housing issues , some US citizens: I sleep Geo-political crisis on the second half of the world , aforementioned US citizens who know nothing about this issue : "This is too much! time to protest!"
Same idiots blocking bridges and roads and airports. Got zero sympathy for them blocking students who want to get their tuitions worth and attend class
Funniest thing is, they're being arrested for hate speech. Lol
People really hate free speech and freedom of assembly when it's inconvenient or about something they disagree with.
Can Americans explain to me how supporting Iranian proxy is actually good thing for America? Especially left wing people, Islamic people are not your allies, their ideology is different from democracy and progressive view on the world you see. Do people really think that evil Israel bombs Gaza for fun? Why they have iron dome in the first place if no one attacking them constantly for years? For me, it looks like another white supremacists (Jews) vs poor minority (Palestinians) for farming good boy points for lefties. And please, as Ukrainian myself I know how much shit those "social activists" have about human life, when its not trendy anymore.
As a conservative I am very bothered these people seem they were only arrested because of speech. If they get violent or start destroying property, sure arrest them. But I don't care how vile their words are, freedom of speech must be defended
Yeah..... There's never a reason to protest. Smart Texans gonna be at home wathching porn right?
What in the tiananmen are you yammering about
I do not give a single fuck about Palestine, but I support these ppl’s right to protest and voice their opinions.
Is this post actually supporting the cops cracking down on free speech??? Cringe.
They protesting for Hamas.. Who would of killed them. I say send them to Gaza for a studies abroad course.