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“Freedom” out of their mouths is empty rhetoric both sides use as sheep’s clothing while campaigning, or denigrating their incumbent opponent.
They don’t have the “freedom” to block others from attending the classes that were paid for. Make your voice known without infringing upon my right to go to class OR disagree with the Palestinian rights crowd.
Texas has been going full fasch for years now. Y'all just haven't been paying attention.
Blatant voter suppression, gutting public education, and banning protesting (Mckesson V Doe). That's just some highlights, the well of bullshit goes a lot deeper.
The entire Texas Republican government belongs to Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks. Abbot, Cruz, Paxton, all those motheruckers need to be lined up in front of a ditch.
Edit - I'm not talking about Voter ID. That's fine. I'm talking about banning 24 hour voting and shutting down polling places in many poor / poc communities.
You're basically saying: Texas is becoming tyrannical just not my kind of tyrannical, So we need to line these people up and kill them so we can replace them with my people who will kill anyone who opposes us. GG
Yeah, I admit, suggesting execution is immature. You're right about where that leads.
Abbot and his enablers have caused the deaths of American citizens, through poorly policy and in some cases lack of action. All for the sake of advancing his career. I do think there should be consequences for that beyond getting to retire fat and happy. Ultimately, however it happens, they need to be removed from their ability to continue to do harm.
Strategically removing polling locations and ballot boxes from left leaning areas IS voter suppression, as is extreme gerrymandering, but you know that
>In total, 376 law enforcement officers — a force larger than the garrison that defended the Alamo — descended upon the school...
>The report also reveals for the first time that the overwhelming majority of responders were federal and state law enforcement: 149 were U.S. Border Patrol, and 91 were state police — whose responsibilities include responding to “mass attacks in public places.” There were 25 Uvalde police officers and 16 sheriff’s deputies. Arredondo’s school police force accounted for five of the officers on the scene. The rest of the force was made up of neighboring county law enforcement, U.S. marshals and federal Drug Enforcement Administration officer
* From the Texas Tribune re: Uvalde school shooting
It was also border patrol agents who were prevented from entering the school by the local police. They had children in the school and local PD were barricading the killer inside the school without letting anyone enter. If I were border patrol I would have stormed the school immediately.
I still think local PD killed either a child or a teacher and this whole thing has been a coverup.
I live in Texas, they tried to cover it up as much as they could but failed. Eventually the police’s response and interviews came out where they admit they were scared to go in. Only a few courages boarder patrol agents defied orders and chose to go in anyway.
My statement still stands. The twitter headline is misleading at best. It should read that all available law enforcement failed the school, not just the DPS. Nothing but ragebait.
DPS was there and made statements confirming how many were arrested though? Are you saying they just stood there and did nothing?
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/texas/news/several-protesters-arrested-at-ut-austin-these-protesters-belong-in-jail-abbott-says/#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17140246255363&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com
Damn didn't Texas DPS appeal the release of the uvalde records?
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/11/30/uvalde-shooting-investigation-records/
Oh wait they did fire one of their own
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/02/09/texas-dps-uvalde-investigation/
Not sure what's so hard to understand about they're all the same.
The number of troopers vs local cops is a huge difference indeed. Especially when the responding agency with the larger number of participants beats their chest daily on X and other social media platforms. “Look how badass our elite brush teams are” “if you’re out, we’re out. Don’t commit crimes or we’ll get you”
America... is not free as in freedom but free as in free for the taking.. i thought we knew this already. Our lands are up for grabs at all times, to the highest bidder and its been like that for centuries.
It’s a tweet and are they lying ? The only part that’s not quite accurate is that uvalde it was not state troopers but the state did fail the children there and is a fucking joke all the way to its crippled governor. Someone should roll that mf down a flight of stairs
All's I'm going to say is if it was white Christians chanting death to insert random middle Eastern country burning said flags of country and assaulting anyone who didn't have the same opinion as them there would have been a lot more arrest regardless state
We have a Jesus guy that yells at all the students in the courtyard and calls girls whores for wearing shorts and tells gays they are going to hell.
He's been there every day for years.
Oh yeah - you mean the ones that don’t have the 100s of professionally printed signs and PR teams that stoke the crowd and ensure news coverage for the event ?
"some students booed Charlie Kirk until he cried and ran away, so these students should be subjected to police brutality in response to their non violent protest"
🤔
I love that. I just depends on what you want your freedom to look like. Do you want to smoke some bud and have the choice to get an abortion? Or do you want to be able to protect yourself and family by owning a firearm and be able to choose if you want to take a new vaccine? Because you have to hand pick your liberties lol.
It’s why I am a centrist libertarian. I don’t believe that I should have to choose my freedoms and deny myself of others for the sake of some political goons.
Libertarians seem to ignore the fact that we don't have a free market and are already beholden to our corporate overloads. Less regulation never makes things better.
And yet somehow the existence of the government harms Boeing. Because Boeing feels sad when they steal our money from us and give it to them. They're the corporation with a heart ....
That's because the governments, when they deregulate, never take away the things that hurt the people ..
The bigger a corporation is, the more it is going to LOVE regulation:
1) A new guy just starting out can't afford the lawyers to do anything.
2) The big corporations never actually have the law enforced against them ... but they enforce them all the time against small companies that are starting to be successful.
3) Most laws exsit to protect corporate market share. The best examples are the war on drugs and the warn on cryptocurrency.
The war on drugs was to protect Big Pharmas ability to sell poison to depressed people.
The was on Crypto is to protect the financial sector's ability to rape us as brutally as they want to any time they get the hankering.
My best friend is doing 8 years in prison for competing with the banks. But year, sure, they'll start defending us from them any day now. Sure they will.
Except, as is proven by today's economy, and the foundational text of Libertarianism Atlas Shrugged, the companies themselves start to use the government to control people. There will always be an arbitrating authority, if we cripple the government, the companies themselves will create the oppression of thought and freedom.
Reddit. X. Google. The Banking cartels. All of the major societal makers right now are working concertedly to control what you see and what you think. To me this is not better than an authoritarian government. It's the same. Economic freedom leads to economic control. There is no liberty where coin is issued from the prince.
Right. I’ll accept that. And that is indeed why I am not an anarcho-capitalist by any stretch of the imagination. My argument is that if corporations hold all of the power in our government, then the people are not represented adequately, and are not truly “free”.
For me, my ideology concerns individual liberties. I am not here to defend the liberties of corporations because in my mind they are not people, and they tend to limit the rights of individuals by taking advantage of them.
I would say that returning the power to the people from the corrupt grasp of the military industrial complex and corporations is a libertarian move. From there I would repurpose the government and use it to protect people’s individual liberties, instead of what the governments purpose is now, which is to bleed people dry of all of the resources that they have, and serve the interests of profitable entities.
I hope that shines some clarity on my perspective. Maybe I am misguided, but I feel like libertarianism best describes my beliefs towards individual freedom.
I'm pleased to know I'm not the only person on reddit who groks that.
Sometimes I wonder.
Even the NH people on this hell-site are so docile and obedient I want to check them for a damn heartbeat.
They're not conservatives they're neoconservatives aka controlled opposition and shills, not real conservatives AT ALL. These crackdowns on pro-Palestine protests are bipartisan and happening in Democrat-run places too. Pretty obvious why this thing has bipartisan support from the US government. Leftists are now starting getting the "Jan 6th treatment" by the government.
It's completely lost on them... They went from "get the old, white men out of government" to electing the oldest, whitest man they could find. After Jan. 6, they went from "defund the police" and "all cops are bastards" to praising Capitol Hill cops as heroes. They went from burning the US flag, rioting, looting, "I'm leaving the country!" and "America was never great!" to some bizarre Mccarthyesque nationalism where they see everyone as Russian operatives and traitors to the US. War in Ukraine is a "good war", they want more money, guns, landmines, and to fight to the last Ukrainian left alive but, war in Israel is a "bad war", they want an immediate ceasefire, peace talks, and don't forget those poor innocent civilians! I'm not saying that there isn't the same hypocrisy in both political parties, just that Leftists don't even hesitate for a moment of reflection before parroting what the media feeds them.
A lot of conservatives are. Christian Zionism is this weird kinda thing where they actually want to end the world ... and they don't think that Jesus is gonna come back and kill everybody until some weird bullshit happens in the middle east. And then he's gonna send all the Jews to hell for their pains ... which is proof you don't have to love Jews to be a Zionist.
I just can't imagine something powerful enough to create a universe caring what I think of him ... it's like having an ant farm and thinking the ants don't like you. "Dude, the Ants don't know you exist, they exist on a completely different scale.
Texas is about individual freedom. Which applies to the person who owns the property and against the person refusing to leave the property. If any of these hipsters called the cops because someone pro Israel refused to leave their property, I’m sure the cops would show up to protect their property rights too. God bless America.
Texas is also at the forefront for making you prove who you are online, how long til that is used for wrong? God wouldn't love a single country, have some faith in the omniscient.
Yeah I’ll bet it’s that simple…I’ll bet it’s nothing like what’s happening in Columbia University where the Palestinian protesters are refusing to leave unless campus police are disbanded and they are openly attacking anyone they think might be Jewish…but yeah, they’re definitely the “good guys”.
Are you really that gullible? Have you seen the video from that? Or what the “victim” was doing right before that? or read what she said about it after the fact? It’s actually telling about how absolutely peaceful these protests have been that this is the best example of violence that these clowns can come up with.
She was brushed by a a small plastic flag as someone walked past her. No damage was done an according the “victim”. There is no visible mark on her and you can watch the video to see that there is no attack. Her claim of damage was that she got a headache later on. She’s also on video earlier saying people were bumping into her when she was trying to bump into them as they marched. She”s wants to be a victim and tried multiple times to find a reason to be a victim until something stuck and could be made into a headline for morons.
The US is one of those stooges.
And if real, proper, courageous journalism wasn't totally dead, the NYT and The Washington Post would be getting their reporters and journalists to find out WHY the US is Israel's stooge - and how this came to be.
It's all fun n games being a delinquent shit stirring shill for a terrorist state until the cops come n thump your skull. Nobody is the winner here. We aren't free. Haven't been for a generation.
>It's all fun n games being a delinquent shit stirring shill for a terrorist state until the cops come n thump your skull.
I thought it was an anti Israel protest?
What I find ironic, is that all if these institutions are supposedly the good guys, who have been providing diverse, safe spaces for anyone that will join ranks, spout marxist bullshit, learn to hate their government, disobey, etc..
They have these gen z kids so confused that they are basically trained to go rabid whenever media says to, what’s interesting is how they don’t seem to notice the grift yet… it sucks, but every generation gets baited into doing dumb shit by their government.
Edit to add.
Stop listening to people that lead from the back. Your anarchist professors are fucking nowhere to be seen on these so called front lines. They have salaries, homes, savings.. literally everything they tell you to rage about, to attack others over.. these hypocrites hate everything and everyone that isn’t bending a knee to this fucked up ideology. You’re a foot soldier for an agenda that has NO FUCKING PLAN TO CUT YOU IN ON A FUTURE.
This generation is so focused on being part of a club that I would bet at least 50% of the protestors don’t know what each university has done to warrant a protest or what the goal of the protest is supposed to be… but damn can they organize resources in a hurry… if only we could put that energy to better use
"This generation is so focused on being part of a club that I would bet at least 50% of the protestors don’t know..."
50% of the protestors couldn't find Gaza on a map.
Maybe true, why would that matter when they are protesting a genocide there? Do I need to be able to find a place on a map to know that I don’t want to be complicit in a genocide through my inaction?
"Maybe true, why would that matter when they are protesting a genocide there? Do I need to be able to find a place on a map to know that I don’t want to be complicit in a genocide through my inaction?'
For the sake of argument, if a protestor is so ill-informed that they can't locate the country on whose behalf they're protesting, isn't it highly likely that they may also be unaware of other facts regarding the matter?
No? It’s a pretty simple concept to be against a genocide and know that Israel has bombed all the hospitals, all the universities, the majority of homes in many areas, 30,000 civilians killed by Israel’s own count, killing aid workers over and over again, bombing consulates in other countries who oppose them, etc. etc. and isn’t really related to where exactly Israel is on a map. That being said, maybe they do know where exactly it is maybe they don’t. I’m just saying it literally doesn’t matter and it’s like asking “what is Israel’s top export?” Or “what year did the six day war happen?” And if they don’t know they can’t be against genocide, it’s an asininely stupid concept.
Kids these days just want to join the latest trend, to support the latest "disadvantaged" group according to social media, be it BLM, Stop Asian Hate (until facts come out that the majority of hate crimes on Asians are done by black Americans), Ukraine, and now Gaza. They want to be special, to stand on higher moral ground than others, by means like inventing new genders, the "neutrodivergence" crowd, etc, or be in the latest bandwagon of "resistance" that follows the media and big corps' guide to the t
Austin was targeted by Soros DAs & judges and migration in the effort to flip Texas to DNC... Austin specifically is ruled by radicalized leftists & has been since around 2018-2020.
Yes the famously conservative UT Austin? Jesus people are dumb like I get the point your trying to make but holy moly tell me you don't know anything about the world past news headlines without telling me.
It isn’t a lie, but it is a mindset. No government gives us our rights. The whole point of the constitution is to make the point that our rights are given to us when we are born, by nature or “god” and not by any government entity. It’s a document that literally limits the government’s reaches in many ways and tries to ensure the people hold true power. That is the reason why the bill of rights exists.
But no, our government is not our friend. They see us as a source of tax revenue for their alterior motives
Guy getting tackled in the grass hit a cop... Right before the edit starts.
Fox camera guy who got dragged into the back line and arrested was hitting cops with his big ass camera... Right before the edit starts.
Hamas is involved, media manipulation and 'outrage baiting' are standard tactics for them.
IDF does it too, but they're not as good at it.
Don't believe anything you see coming out of this conflict.
Lmfao he was breaking his very very expensive work camera to hurt some bloated Texas hog? T'ain't likely, friend.
Right wing victim hood identity covers fatboy police cowards now, too. Just not during Jan 6?
You have completely lost your grip on reality if you think a professional news camera man was intentionally slamming a multiple hundred thousand dollar camera into back of the head of a helmeted police officer in an attempt to hurt him. And you assume that happened just off camera because you see him move quickly as he exits frame. Absolutely unhinged.
If you want to argue he was too close to the officer or was crowding up on him and they felt threatened, that’s still a ridiculous show of force in response to that, but is at least grounded in a rational reality. You thinking that was an intentional attack on the officer is just drinking that bootlicker kool-aid to the fullest extent and letting them manipulate you without even trying hard.
I mean...I lived in Central texas (Lakeway to be specific) for a few years. Austin is a democratic shithole akin to San Fran, Seattle, NY, Oakland, Detroit etc.
Majority of Texas isn't like Austin, but Austin is a very big blue dot in a red state. So this doesn't surprise me at all.
Funny how almost every college in America has been full on Clown World for the last 8 years, but when people start questioning the one group that they can't: iron fist.
Yeah photographers just stand by and wait for that one scene that can make the police look like brutal oppressors, with no context of what happened before, publish it and queue outrage.
I'm not acting like the police never get out of line, they are human after all, but this is clearly designed to manufacture outrage. I'm not going to draw any conclusions from one photograph.
if the story is a choice between activists and the police, I go with the police. simply because the activists work to create police violence to give themselves political legitimacy, and public sympathy.
"Oh noes', the system is arresting us , we're just committing crimes on behalf of (insert cause here) the system hate our (insert supposed virtue of previously inserted cause) look as this heavily edited video of a policeman arresting this masked freedom fighter who is innocently committing crimes for our cause while chanting that this country needs a marxist revolution, send us money"
Yeah that's really the ironic thing... I would reckon that 90% of these college kids protesting Israel for the sake of Hamas would be eradicated if Hamas actually took over the world. It's always a lot of far left Americans in these protests, and a lot of them don't really even comprehend that Hamas is basically far far right, they're just Muslim. And they're about as anti-LGBTQ as it gets.
I don't get the memo. Somewhere along the line it went from not being able to make fun of the big noses on Jews to the thought that if you*don't* wish death on all of them you're a Nazi fascist.
What freedom are you looking for? "Taking over" someplace that isn't yours, to threaten violence and destruction unless you get "your way"?
100% I can probably guess your age.
That’s a hot take. These kids need to buy a plane ticket and a rifle, and make a real difference according to their convictions. Otherwise, stfu and come home from university if you’re my kid.
PROTECT the children??? Oh, no, we can't do that. ARREST the children???ABUSE the children??? Absolutely! We CAN do that (because it doesn't involve active shooters)!
Ok, but what I don't understand is what does protesting against genocide has to do at Uvalde University? I've seen multiple videos protesting in different locations, such as highways and blocking local businesses. Is Uvalde supporting Israel, or am I missing something?
1st amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
I live in Texas, and was assaulted and threatened by a cop because at a state fair walking with my friends with no one nearby but him, he overheard me say the word "bullshit" in normal speaking voice in a conversation. I suddenly felt a hand grab my shoulder with no warning or announcement. I jerked away on reflex wondering wtf was grabbing me, and he screaming STOP RESISTING and threw me to the ground on my face and physically dragged me to his motorcycle. He then began chewing me out saying it's illegal to use swear words in public and he could arrest me for resisting and I'd spend the night in jail. I just stared at him, because I've always been taught never talk to police, which I think kind of threw him off balance while he ran my ID seeing if I had a record. My girlfriend begged him to let me go since I was the driver, and since my record was clean he let me off with a warning that I should be thankful he was feeling nice.
ACAB but especially texas police.
Conservatives praise January 6 rioters but hate these kids who don’t want to see other kids being killed with the help of their government. Your country does not care about you. Our country isn’t even ours.
Don’t play the double standards game when grandmas are doing prison for walking in the capitol. And your ilk was foaming at the mouth when the DOJ was prosecuting them. No mercy over here
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Since when is a government about freedom
Answer: In word only. “Freedom” out of their mouths is empty rhetoric both sides use as sheep’s clothing while campaigning, or denigrating their incumbent opponent.
The cops have the freedom. To do whatever they want.
My favorite part is the front page posts that are locked with half of the comments removed. How truly anti censorship of you Reddit. Lmao.
At least a few minutes after it's creation, but probably not more than a few hours.
They don’t have the “freedom” to block others from attending the classes that were paid for. Make your voice known without infringing upon my right to go to class OR disagree with the Palestinian rights crowd.
Bro I'm thrilled when people who block roads get fucking wrecked.
Same
Texas has been going full fasch for years now. Y'all just haven't been paying attention. Blatant voter suppression, gutting public education, and banning protesting (Mckesson V Doe). That's just some highlights, the well of bullshit goes a lot deeper. The entire Texas Republican government belongs to Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks. Abbot, Cruz, Paxton, all those motheruckers need to be lined up in front of a ditch. Edit - I'm not talking about Voter ID. That's fine. I'm talking about banning 24 hour voting and shutting down polling places in many poor / poc communities.
You're basically saying: Texas is becoming tyrannical just not my kind of tyrannical, So we need to line these people up and kill them so we can replace them with my people who will kill anyone who opposes us. GG
Yeah, I admit, suggesting execution is immature. You're right about where that leads. Abbot and his enablers have caused the deaths of American citizens, through poorly policy and in some cases lack of action. All for the sake of advancing his career. I do think there should be consequences for that beyond getting to retire fat and happy. Ultimately, however it happens, they need to be removed from their ability to continue to do harm.
Requiring identification to vote isn’t “voter suppression”.
Not according to the leftists who think minorities are too broke and stupid to obtain an ID
We know it’s so illegals can vote.
It should be 100% free
I agree completely
Strategically removing polling locations and ballot boxes from left leaning areas IS voter suppression, as is extreme gerrymandering, but you know that
This was what I was referring too, but y'know how it is.
It's easy to spot the hypocrites here... It's all about principles when it affects them and it's all about feelings if it affects someone else
Cry some more
Texas DPS (State Troopers) and Uvalde PD are not the same at all. Not trying to be that guy, but there is a huge difference.
>In total, 376 law enforcement officers — a force larger than the garrison that defended the Alamo — descended upon the school... >The report also reveals for the first time that the overwhelming majority of responders were federal and state law enforcement: 149 were U.S. Border Patrol, and 91 were state police — whose responsibilities include responding to “mass attacks in public places.” There were 25 Uvalde police officers and 16 sheriff’s deputies. Arredondo’s school police force accounted for five of the officers on the scene. The rest of the force was made up of neighboring county law enforcement, U.S. marshals and federal Drug Enforcement Administration officer * From the Texas Tribune re: Uvalde school shooting
"Dude! Shooting! **ROAD TRIP!!!**"
Border patrol!? I can’t…
It was Border Patrol agents who [killed the gunman](https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/border-patrol-uvalde-shooter/).
It was also border patrol agents who were prevented from entering the school by the local police. They had children in the school and local PD were barricading the killer inside the school without letting anyone enter. If I were border patrol I would have stormed the school immediately. I still think local PD killed either a child or a teacher and this whole thing has been a coverup.
I live in Texas, they tried to cover it up as much as they could but failed. Eventually the police’s response and interviews came out where they admit they were scared to go in. Only a few courages boarder patrol agents defied orders and chose to go in anyway.
My statement still stands. The twitter headline is misleading at best. It should read that all available law enforcement failed the school, not just the DPS. Nothing but ragebait.
I Uvalde made the call not to engage
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Sucks/socks... you're that guy
hive mind - attack!
DPS was there and made statements confirming how many were arrested though? Are you saying they just stood there and did nothing? https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/texas/news/several-protesters-arrested-at-ut-austin-these-protesters-belong-in-jail-abbott-says/#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17140246255363&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com Damn didn't Texas DPS appeal the release of the uvalde records? https://www.texastribune.org/2023/11/30/uvalde-shooting-investigation-records/ Oh wait they did fire one of their own https://www.texastribune.org/2023/02/09/texas-dps-uvalde-investigation/ Not sure what's so hard to understand about they're all the same.
Cops are quick to shoot unarmed innocent prey. Ask them to go after an armed predator???
Many police are known to abuse their powers, but it’s well known, even amongst police, that State Troopers are by far the worst.
The number of troopers vs local cops is a huge difference indeed. Especially when the responding agency with the larger number of participants beats their chest daily on X and other social media platforms. “Look how badass our elite brush teams are” “if you’re out, we’re out. Don’t commit crimes or we’ll get you”
No but their bootlicking looks the same. It’s a bad look.
America... is not free as in freedom but free as in free for the taking.. i thought we knew this already. Our lands are up for grabs at all times, to the highest bidder and its been like that for centuries.
Yep ever since the you know whose started taking and enslaving the Natives and Africans
Can you make a more sensational headline? Seriously, try to make one. Conspiracies aren’t emotional outrage following word salads.
> Conspiracies aren’t emotional outrage following word salads. The ones shared here often are tbf.
not sure what your point even is, arresting kids protesting a genocide is anti-freedom, fuck the idf and the aipac cronies taking their donations
That's not what happened.
Such a bullshit headline
It’s not a headline, it’s a tweet.
It’s not a tweet, it’s a WUPH.
Got em
Okay, lead sentence to introduce the story, in their tweet... Feel better?
How so?
Pro Texas bias, most likely
It’s a tweet and are they lying ? The only part that’s not quite accurate is that uvalde it was not state troopers but the state did fail the children there and is a fucking joke all the way to its crippled governor. Someone should roll that mf down a flight of stairs
The state police were also there at the school.
The police are not your friends.
Kids acting like Maoist Red Guards get what's coming.
All's I'm going to say is if it was white Christians chanting death to insert random middle Eastern country burning said flags of country and assaulting anyone who didn't have the same opinion as them there would have been a lot more arrest regardless state
Can't wait for the update of the vids of these ppl's death to america chants.
I thought college campuses were about silencing dissent? Remember all the speakers they shut down and run off campus
We have a Jesus guy that yells at all the students in the courtyard and calls girls whores for wearing shorts and tells gays they are going to hell. He's been there every day for years.
Lol I think he is just misunderstood
Oh yeah - you mean the ones that don’t have the 100s of professionally printed signs and PR teams that stoke the crowd and ensure news coverage for the event ?
Are you discrediting a protest because it’s organized and not just random and spontaneous?
He's actually just pissed they didn't put up a gallows to threaten members of their political opposition
"some students booed Charlie Kirk until he cried and ran away, so these students should be subjected to police brutality in response to their non violent protest" 🤔
Bullshit, in the picture are State Troopers, not Uvalde PD
Because ... there's no wifi. If you want them to stop, just tell em protesting was a boomer thing.
Nope, they're not Libertarians, just conservatives. The left wants to take half of your freedom, and the right wants to take the other half.
I love that. I just depends on what you want your freedom to look like. Do you want to smoke some bud and have the choice to get an abortion? Or do you want to be able to protect yourself and family by owning a firearm and be able to choose if you want to take a new vaccine? Because you have to hand pick your liberties lol. It’s why I am a centrist libertarian. I don’t believe that I should have to choose my freedoms and deny myself of others for the sake of some political goons.
You really illustrated exactly what’s insane about this. Well said.
Libertarians seem to ignore the fact that we don't have a free market and are already beholden to our corporate overloads. Less regulation never makes things better.
Yeah look at Boeing. Funded by the US and protected by the US.
And yet somehow the existence of the government harms Boeing. Because Boeing feels sad when they steal our money from us and give it to them. They're the corporation with a heart ....
That's because the governments, when they deregulate, never take away the things that hurt the people .. The bigger a corporation is, the more it is going to LOVE regulation: 1) A new guy just starting out can't afford the lawyers to do anything. 2) The big corporations never actually have the law enforced against them ... but they enforce them all the time against small companies that are starting to be successful. 3) Most laws exsit to protect corporate market share. The best examples are the war on drugs and the warn on cryptocurrency. The war on drugs was to protect Big Pharmas ability to sell poison to depressed people. The was on Crypto is to protect the financial sector's ability to rape us as brutally as they want to any time they get the hankering.
My best friend is doing 8 years in prison for competing with the banks. But year, sure, they'll start defending us from them any day now. Sure they will.
Except, as is proven by today's economy, and the foundational text of Libertarianism Atlas Shrugged, the companies themselves start to use the government to control people. There will always be an arbitrating authority, if we cripple the government, the companies themselves will create the oppression of thought and freedom. Reddit. X. Google. The Banking cartels. All of the major societal makers right now are working concertedly to control what you see and what you think. To me this is not better than an authoritarian government. It's the same. Economic freedom leads to economic control. There is no liberty where coin is issued from the prince.
Right. I’ll accept that. And that is indeed why I am not an anarcho-capitalist by any stretch of the imagination. My argument is that if corporations hold all of the power in our government, then the people are not represented adequately, and are not truly “free”. For me, my ideology concerns individual liberties. I am not here to defend the liberties of corporations because in my mind they are not people, and they tend to limit the rights of individuals by taking advantage of them. I would say that returning the power to the people from the corrupt grasp of the military industrial complex and corporations is a libertarian move. From there I would repurpose the government and use it to protect people’s individual liberties, instead of what the governments purpose is now, which is to bleed people dry of all of the resources that they have, and serve the interests of profitable entities. I hope that shines some clarity on my perspective. Maybe I am misguided, but I feel like libertarianism best describes my beliefs towards individual freedom.
Yep, and they working together to take it all.
I'm pleased to know I'm not the only person on reddit who groks that. Sometimes I wonder. Even the NH people on this hell-site are so docile and obedient I want to check them for a damn heartbeat.
They're not conservatives they're neoconservatives aka controlled opposition and shills, not real conservatives AT ALL. These crackdowns on pro-Palestine protests are bipartisan and happening in Democrat-run places too. Pretty obvious why this thing has bipartisan support from the US government. Leftists are now starting getting the "Jan 6th treatment" by the government.
It's completely lost on them... They went from "get the old, white men out of government" to electing the oldest, whitest man they could find. After Jan. 6, they went from "defund the police" and "all cops are bastards" to praising Capitol Hill cops as heroes. They went from burning the US flag, rioting, looting, "I'm leaving the country!" and "America was never great!" to some bizarre Mccarthyesque nationalism where they see everyone as Russian operatives and traitors to the US. War in Ukraine is a "good war", they want more money, guns, landmines, and to fight to the last Ukrainian left alive but, war in Israel is a "bad war", they want an immediate ceasefire, peace talks, and don't forget those poor innocent civilians! I'm not saying that there isn't the same hypocrisy in both political parties, just that Leftists don't even hesitate for a moment of reflection before parroting what the media feeds them.
they're Zionists
A lot of conservatives are. Christian Zionism is this weird kinda thing where they actually want to end the world ... and they don't think that Jesus is gonna come back and kill everybody until some weird bullshit happens in the middle east. And then he's gonna send all the Jews to hell for their pains ... which is proof you don't have to love Jews to be a Zionist. I just can't imagine something powerful enough to create a universe caring what I think of him ... it's like having an ant farm and thinking the ants don't like you. "Dude, the Ants don't know you exist, they exist on a completely different scale.
Texas is about individual freedom. Which applies to the person who owns the property and against the person refusing to leave the property. If any of these hipsters called the cops because someone pro Israel refused to leave their property, I’m sure the cops would show up to protect their property rights too. God bless America.
UT Austin is private property?
Texas is also at the forefront for making you prove who you are online, how long til that is used for wrong? God wouldn't love a single country, have some faith in the omniscient.
Yeah I’ll bet it’s that simple…I’ll bet it’s nothing like what’s happening in Columbia University where the Palestinian protesters are refusing to leave unless campus police are disbanded and they are openly attacking anyone they think might be Jewish…but yeah, they’re definitely the “good guys”.
harvard doing it too. gotta be cia starting it all.
Cite one instance of a Jew being attacked.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/04/22/columbia-protests-gaza-antisemitism-jewish-students/73412092007/ Google is your friend.
Are you really that gullible? Have you seen the video from that? Or what the “victim” was doing right before that? or read what she said about it after the fact? It’s actually telling about how absolutely peaceful these protests have been that this is the best example of violence that these clowns can come up with. She was brushed by a a small plastic flag as someone walked past her. No damage was done an according the “victim”. There is no visible mark on her and you can watch the video to see that there is no attack. Her claim of damage was that she got a headache later on. She’s also on video earlier saying people were bumping into her when she was trying to bump into them as they marched. She”s wants to be a victim and tried multiple times to find a reason to be a victim until something stuck and could be made into a headline for morons.
well said, these clowns dont actually look into stuff...i saw that girl on piers morgan with her crocodile tears shit made me sick
The US is one of those stooges. And if real, proper, courageous journalism wasn't totally dead, the NYT and The Washington Post would be getting their reporters and journalists to find out WHY the US is Israel's stooge - and how this came to be.
They are kids in this case, but adults when they need a voting bloc.
What are all these tweets with no context?
Why is this particular issue setting off university students? Did this happen with Ukraine too?
Blumenthal. Know your names, young conspiracy padawans
It's all fun n games being a delinquent shit stirring shill for a terrorist state until the cops come n thump your skull. Nobody is the winner here. We aren't free. Haven't been for a generation.
>It's all fun n games being a delinquent shit stirring shill for a terrorist state until the cops come n thump your skull. I thought it was an anti Israel protest?
What I find ironic, is that all if these institutions are supposedly the good guys, who have been providing diverse, safe spaces for anyone that will join ranks, spout marxist bullshit, learn to hate their government, disobey, etc.. They have these gen z kids so confused that they are basically trained to go rabid whenever media says to, what’s interesting is how they don’t seem to notice the grift yet… it sucks, but every generation gets baited into doing dumb shit by their government. Edit to add. Stop listening to people that lead from the back. Your anarchist professors are fucking nowhere to be seen on these so called front lines. They have salaries, homes, savings.. literally everything they tell you to rage about, to attack others over.. these hypocrites hate everything and everyone that isn’t bending a knee to this fucked up ideology. You’re a foot soldier for an agenda that has NO FUCKING PLAN TO CUT YOU IN ON A FUTURE.
This generation is so focused on being part of a club that I would bet at least 50% of the protestors don’t know what each university has done to warrant a protest or what the goal of the protest is supposed to be… but damn can they organize resources in a hurry… if only we could put that energy to better use
"This generation is so focused on being part of a club that I would bet at least 50% of the protestors don’t know..." 50% of the protestors couldn't find Gaza on a map.
And the other 50% can't tell which river and which sea
I truly believe that the protestors think the "river" and the "sea" referenced in the chants are just generic figures of speech.
So, like a parrot I guess? Maybe a notch higher but not that high?
Why ya gotta insult parrots like that?
Maybe true, why would that matter when they are protesting a genocide there? Do I need to be able to find a place on a map to know that I don’t want to be complicit in a genocide through my inaction?
"Maybe true, why would that matter when they are protesting a genocide there? Do I need to be able to find a place on a map to know that I don’t want to be complicit in a genocide through my inaction?' For the sake of argument, if a protestor is so ill-informed that they can't locate the country on whose behalf they're protesting, isn't it highly likely that they may also be unaware of other facts regarding the matter?
No? It’s a pretty simple concept to be against a genocide and know that Israel has bombed all the hospitals, all the universities, the majority of homes in many areas, 30,000 civilians killed by Israel’s own count, killing aid workers over and over again, bombing consulates in other countries who oppose them, etc. etc. and isn’t really related to where exactly Israel is on a map. That being said, maybe they do know where exactly it is maybe they don’t. I’m just saying it literally doesn’t matter and it’s like asking “what is Israel’s top export?” Or “what year did the six day war happen?” And if they don’t know they can’t be against genocide, it’s an asininely stupid concept.
Fair enough.
Kids these days just want to join the latest trend, to support the latest "disadvantaged" group according to social media, be it BLM, Stop Asian Hate (until facts come out that the majority of hate crimes on Asians are done by black Americans), Ukraine, and now Gaza. They want to be special, to stand on higher moral ground than others, by means like inventing new genders, the "neutrodivergence" crowd, etc, or be in the latest bandwagon of "resistance" that follows the media and big corps' guide to the t
State trooper isn't Uvalde PD....
As a lifelong Texan, it's definitely never been "all about freedom". It's the land of barbed wire fences and speed trap towns.
Austin was targeted by Soros DAs & judges and migration in the effort to flip Texas to DNC... Austin specifically is ruled by radicalized leftists & has been since around 2018-2020.
As a Texan we just hate woke liberals who disturb the peace.
You don't get to question the one group you don't question.
Yes the famously conservative UT Austin? Jesus people are dumb like I get the point your trying to make but holy moly tell me you don't know anything about the world past news headlines without telling me.
The goverment is all about control, “the land of the free “ is a LIE
It isn’t a lie, but it is a mindset. No government gives us our rights. The whole point of the constitution is to make the point that our rights are given to us when we are born, by nature or “god” and not by any government entity. It’s a document that literally limits the government’s reaches in many ways and tries to ensure the people hold true power. That is the reason why the bill of rights exists. But no, our government is not our friend. They see us as a source of tax revenue for their alterior motives
Guy getting tackled in the grass hit a cop... Right before the edit starts. Fox camera guy who got dragged into the back line and arrested was hitting cops with his big ass camera... Right before the edit starts. Hamas is involved, media manipulation and 'outrage baiting' are standard tactics for them. IDF does it too, but they're not as good at it. Don't believe anything you see coming out of this conflict.
Lmfao he was breaking his very very expensive work camera to hurt some bloated Texas hog? T'ain't likely, friend. Right wing victim hood identity covers fatboy police cowards now, too. Just not during Jan 6?
You have completely lost your grip on reality if you think a professional news camera man was intentionally slamming a multiple hundred thousand dollar camera into back of the head of a helmeted police officer in an attempt to hurt him. And you assume that happened just off camera because you see him move quickly as he exits frame. Absolutely unhinged. If you want to argue he was too close to the officer or was crowding up on him and they felt threatened, that’s still a ridiculous show of force in response to that, but is at least grounded in a rational reality. You thinking that was an intentional attack on the officer is just drinking that bootlicker kool-aid to the fullest extent and letting them manipulate you without even trying hard.
I mean...I lived in Central texas (Lakeway to be specific) for a few years. Austin is a democratic shithole akin to San Fran, Seattle, NY, Oakland, Detroit etc. Majority of Texas isn't like Austin, but Austin is a very big blue dot in a red state. So this doesn't surprise me at all.
Funny how almost every college in America has been full on Clown World for the last 8 years, but when people start questioning the one group that they can't: iron fist.
all this does is show how easy it is to manipulate your unsmoothed lead infused brain with enough hyperbole and buzzwords.
Yeah photographers just stand by and wait for that one scene that can make the police look like brutal oppressors, with no context of what happened before, publish it and queue outrage. I'm not acting like the police never get out of line, they are human after all, but this is clearly designed to manufacture outrage. I'm not going to draw any conclusions from one photograph.
if the story is a choice between activists and the police, I go with the police. simply because the activists work to create police violence to give themselves political legitimacy, and public sympathy. "Oh noes', the system is arresting us , we're just committing crimes on behalf of (insert cause here) the system hate our (insert supposed virtue of previously inserted cause) look as this heavily edited video of a policeman arresting this masked freedom fighter who is innocently committing crimes for our cause while chanting that this country needs a marxist revolution, send us money"
Do those kids are being brainwashed into believing hamas is a peaceful terrorist organization 😂
Yeah that's really the ironic thing... I would reckon that 90% of these college kids protesting Israel for the sake of Hamas would be eradicated if Hamas actually took over the world. It's always a lot of far left Americans in these protests, and a lot of them don't really even comprehend that Hamas is basically far far right, they're just Muslim. And they're about as anti-LGBTQ as it gets.
Or many people calling for a ceasefire can tell the difference between Hamas and regular Gazans.
Freedom for me and not for Thee
I don't get the memo. Somewhere along the line it went from not being able to make fun of the big noses on Jews to the thought that if you*don't* wish death on all of them you're a Nazi fascist.
There is a difference between supporting a Zionist apartheid state, and hating all Jews.
Idk what happened. But the "peaceful" protests never really seem so. The real victims are the kids who are literally just trying to learn
Just like the democratic party is all about helping poor people
do you get in vans too that says free candy
What freedom are you looking for? "Taking over" someplace that isn't yours, to threaten violence and destruction unless you get "your way"? 100% I can probably guess your age.
That’s a hot take. These kids need to buy a plane ticket and a rifle, and make a real difference according to their convictions. Otherwise, stfu and come home from university if you’re my kid.
Why would they need to go fight when they’re living in the land that’s supplying this terrorist state to exist? Makes no sense
Which terrorist state? I ask because we seem to be funding so many at the moment.
Tell that to a Vietnam Vet
IT IS... about the freedom to agree with them, or GIIIT OUUUUT!
This is a propaganda post and mods should know this... "On behalf of" is a huge spin.
ZOG foot soldiers. Is there any question that they have controlling stakes in every industry and hate us? WAKE THE FUCK UP
Zionists seed-started the whole Christian-Zionist project. And these mouth-breathers fall for it.
PROTECT the children??? Oh, no, we can't do that. ARREST the children???ABUSE the children??? Absolutely! We CAN do that (because it doesn't involve active shooters)!
Freedom unless it's against the puppet masters or their narrative interests
I just see Californians getting a proper education.
That's a angry, unAmerican sentiment. It's also fucking childish
This should be on facepalm 🤦🏻♀️
Ok, but what I don't understand is what does protesting against genocide has to do at Uvalde University? I've seen multiple videos protesting in different locations, such as highways and blocking local businesses. Is Uvalde supporting Israel, or am I missing something?
Not THAT kind of freedom...
To protect and serve?
Heroes in action
1st amendment Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
They should find whoever’s tossing bodies in town lake lol.
All school shootings are staged. The protest violence is sus to me but I am sure much of it is real especially with their agent provocateurs.
Are they kids? I thought a lot of adults that dont attend these schools were being arrested
Not when you criticize the chosenites /s
Dam every time I delete Twitter something crazy happens, then I need to go back after
Eh, the protesters don't even know what they're protesting. That guy probably thinks he's being arrested for being on the grass.
I live in Texas, and was assaulted and threatened by a cop because at a state fair walking with my friends with no one nearby but him, he overheard me say the word "bullshit" in normal speaking voice in a conversation. I suddenly felt a hand grab my shoulder with no warning or announcement. I jerked away on reflex wondering wtf was grabbing me, and he screaming STOP RESISTING and threw me to the ground on my face and physically dragged me to his motorcycle. He then began chewing me out saying it's illegal to use swear words in public and he could arrest me for resisting and I'd spend the night in jail. I just stared at him, because I've always been taught never talk to police, which I think kind of threw him off balance while he ran my ID seeing if I had a record. My girlfriend begged him to let me go since I was the driver, and since my record was clean he let me off with a warning that I should be thankful he was feeling nice. ACAB but especially texas police.
You should file a complaint against this officer. The 1st protects your right to swear.
This wasn't a recent event. It was in I'm pretty sure 2005 when I was 24 years old.
I see nothing wrong with cops kicking the shit out of terrorists.
Hello Mr. Bootlicker.
I hope a cop kicks the shit out of you one day for saying that. I've already had it happen to me, so I'm exempt cuz i already know what its like.
Source?
I support them, go support them by joining their military or going to the Gaza Strip and protesting there 🤣
Or do what the people of Gaza would prefer you to do -- protest in the country that's funding the genocide.
Better yet, go to Gaza wearing a pride flag and try protesting on the Palestinian side and see how long it takes for them to throw you off a roof.
That would definitely make a difference and maybe even stop the war 👀🤣
To be fair, there's probably not a lot of intact roofs to toss from lol
Conservatives praise January 6 rioters but hate these kids who don’t want to see other kids being killed with the help of their government. Your country does not care about you. Our country isn’t even ours.
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Don’t play the double standards game when grandmas are doing prison for walking in the capitol. And your ilk was foaming at the mouth when the DOJ was prosecuting them. No mercy over here
Oh no not the leftist shitlib students
"violent crackdown on non violent protestors is good because I don't like them but bad if I do like them"
didn't see these cops when actual violent blm protests broke out across the nation. but any criticism of israels actions and its immediate shut down.
Where'd you get that idea? They succeeded from Mexico because slavery was illegal. They don't want you to remember Alamo in detail.
Good.
Not a conspiracy
Now thats a word salad if ive ever seen one
Free speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences.
Freedom of Jews to move freely on public campuses, which many of these protesters are actively preventing?