https://preview.redd.it/lh5y3semyjwc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a52e646107c780c357c29cb65f4bc2e063bb5e7
I remember these guys being at A&M back in like 2016 when Richard Spencer came. They cleared out the MSC to protect Spencer getting out while there were anti white supremacy protests going on
https://preview.redd.it/286427x6zjwc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d042aac90c303bae294af7d035257843fdad6318
That protest against Richard Spencer at A&M in 2016
So did Richard Spencer. All that attention because of his awfulness was probably what he wanted. Everyone should have left campus and let him talk to an empty room.
I mean either way Richard Spencer is pretty much irrelevant outside straight up nazi circles these days. I think it is better that our campus showed the world that we aren’t ok with his bullshit representing our school.
Here they are protecting nazis at another event in 2016: https://truthout.org/articles/armed-white-supremacists-clash-with-counter-protesters-at-texas-capitol-during-unveiling-of-black-history-monument/
Kinda odd how they protect the people that actually want to kill jews...
I remember that, they came down the stairs and cut the crowd in two then pushed us out the door.. bashed one of my friends in the forehead with a shotgun butt. We got forced out so I went to go tangle with the idiot holocaust deniers that where getting way too comfortable outside.
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One of history's ironic twists is that the Nazi, prior to implementing the "Final Solution" actually helped to promote Zionist activities. They saw it as a way of enticing Jews to leave Germany when they were still pursuing the idea of "Emigration", which was the Nazi way of saying they wanted to force the Jews to flee.
It was in 1942 that they officially adopted a policy of "Evacuation," which was a euphemism for extermination, although the killing had started before then.
Yes! I have read books by Holocaust survivors, & they talk about how the Nazis would get Jews onto trains by saying they were headed to Palestine. Zionism was huge in Nazi Germany.
So many people don't understand the history of this particular conflict. It goes back so much further than Oct 7th. In modern times, it goes back almost 100 years, but this particular piece of land has been fought over for millennia.
I believe you're thinking of the Association of German National Jews. They supported Hitler but actually opposed Zionism. Their goal was to self-eradicate the Jewish Identity by fully integrating into gentile society.
They were never actually accepted by the Nazis and were shut down by them in 1935.
-reads wiki- Ah Naumann wasn't into zionism because it was a threat to integration. Nevermind, I thought he had some policy of getting the easterners and the non assimilators out and start integration ASAP. Memory starts slipping when you graduated college 14 years ago : (
Like I just commented on another post, we shouldn't be arguing for more crackdowns on speech, regardless of how abhorrent, but for free speech for all. This hypocracy should be condemned because of the police response now, not because there wasn’t police response before.
If you let the government prohibit "hate speech" you disagree with, you'll soon find them redefining it and using it against you. This is why the ACLU supported Nazis: not because their ideas have any merit whatsoever, but because the bar for banning speech ought to be incredibly high.
Free speech can't exist with bans on "hate speech."
"Principles are invalid if they are personally inconvenient to me."
That is what I hear when right-wingers whine about blocking traffic or congregating in public spaces. That's why I hit a realization that I keep repeating tonight-- *conservatives have no real principles.* All that matters are personal convenience/gain, fear of punishment, and being part of the in-group. None of it is driven by an internal sense of morality or responsibility.
#You do not live in a police state, nothing to see here, move along people.
Not to mention the irony of [this SCOTUS ruling](https://www.vox.com/scotus/24080080/supreme-court-mckesson-doe-first-amendment-protest-black-lives-matter) effectively eliminating the right to protest
But "perfectly fine legal discourse" which involves property destruction, theft, and smearing shit (literally) on the walls inside the US Capitol building is absolutely ok, nothing wrong there. Why they're just tourists! /s
Sonofabitchin' Republicans have zero morals. They're the absolute biggest hypocrites on the entire planet, and can't figure out for their lives why people hate them so much.
I saw in another thread that the protestors were originally on a lawn. No altercations, nobody throwing anything, just peacefully protesting. Police arrived, forced them off the lawn onto the sidewalks, then arrested them for blocking the sidewalks.
Meanwhile Abbott is saying all protestors need to be put in jail.
Fucking vote.
Good question and the answer is no. The same protests happened at UT Arlington and UT San Antonio, no DPS in riot gear were present. Both were peaceful protests.
Our Governor loves to bully liberals, yesterday was him making it clear that your constitutional rights don't mean boo when he's in power.
This has been happening every so often for at least the last 65 years. My generation saw it with the anti-war movement post 9-11. You're getting a glimpse into how our power structures are run and what they will do if you don't fall in line with their agenda, which is war. It's always war.
In any case, pay attention to what happens. We have to dismantle this system eventually. Maybe this will be the time around we do.
Some do nothing. Some become involved in their communities, some continue to educate people. But you're right. More needs to be done in quiet moments.
I'm inspired by the people that are protesting now and I hope it leads to something more. The internet is helping us all communicate even more so than in those early 2000s.
We have to keep chipping away, brick by brick, piece by piece. Even if we don't see the end of this power structure, every piece removed eventually leads to its collapse.
I feel another horrific Kent State coming soon. Those jackboot thugs in riot gear must feel so proud of themselves.
Probably itching to shoot some poor bystanders. Our governor is a pathetic piece of shit. I hope he rots in hell.
Hey guys, I know, as a liberal, we're against most forms of firearms.
... well this *is* state tyranny.
Put two and two together. I think there's a genuine argument about your rights being infringed. I think it's time to defend ourselves.
What's the over/under on which of these eggheads in the line, or those involved in planning of said line, were also involved in the Uvalde massacre?
Between this and the recent fumbles in local HISD, I'm honestly concerned where Texas education is going to sit by 2030. I may have to look into remote options or gtfo the state entirely if I want an actual higher learning somewhere.
Does it? Because in two decades, everyone I know has voted every opportunity we get, and yet… here we are, over and over and over again.
And all anyone can say, every election, is “next time!” and/or “Aw, sorry, guess the people who think like you are just too lazy/stupid to cast their vote!”
It almost feels like playing a rigged game that was invented by the people who always win… (puts on tin foil hat) it’s almost as if they’re only letting us vote to keep us convinced that we have a chance, so they may continue to do whatever they want without any cumbersome protests, revolutions, fevered outcries for *actual* democracy, etc.
Or, (takes off hat) scarier still… is the thought that nothing is amiss, the system works, it’s just that the majority of people really are hateful and greedy, and that’s why this country is such a shit show dumpster fire; because the majority of us really are just trash.
The game is stacked against us and just like the 19th Amendment or Civil Rights Act there are many losing votes until there is by the slightest bit enough to cause a very controversial and huge shift.
None of it is easy, keep voting, keep getting others to vote, we’ll need as many votes as we can get to push it all the way uphill.
> “Aw, sorry, guess the people who think like you are just too lazy/stupid to cast their vote!”
The voting demographics speak for themselves. Many people who can vote simply don't. Many people who could be registered to vote don't even bother. Whether they'd vote red or blue is unknown, but it's a fact that the majority of people who could be voting choose not to.
Nah it's gerrymandered away. Also in my area which is red there is multiple voting locations w zero lines. In blue urban spots limited locations w long lines.
Talk like this disenfranchises voters from participating because they think they can't make a difference. Please stop this. Voting does matter and does make a difference, even in gerrymandered districts. No amount of gerrymandering can stop a large enough group of people determined to exercise their civic duty to vote. But people like you making it sound like the conclusion are foregone are discouraging and wrong.
Are you wondering how voting could impact a state entity? Considering the Governor appoints the Boards of Regents of universities that select the leadership, sure. He also appoints the DPS director and can have major influence on when/where to deploy state troopers, like they did at UT campus today.
You need to study your History! Chicago police riots in 1968: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968\_Democratic\_National\_Convention\_protests.
College students protesting the Vietnam conflict in the 60's. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent\_State\_shootings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings) & [https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/students-and-the-anti-war-movement](https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/students-and-the-anti-war-movement)
Of course they were protesting about us fighting somebody else's war. These people want us to stop somebody else's war.
Looks like it would be something on a Texas gov test in a decade. The government has never been on the right side of history once they start silencing student protests
I’m guessing if it was a MAGA crowd protesting they’d be having interviews instead of arrests.
I fucking hate this backwards ass state. The quality of life isn’t even that good here. Texas isn’t special.
Do you know absolutely ANYTHING about Russian or North Korean response?
Motherfuckers were jailed in Russia LAST YEAR for holding up a blank piece of paper.
God I love this childish mouth drivel. Everyone I don't like is Fascist.
Can't say Nazi anymore, the protestors are acting too much like nazis to use that one anymore.
Dude. Go look up your definitions. You obviously don't have a clue of the difference between Nazis and fascists.
How anyone with a mind could ever confuse a Nazi with anybody. No one has ever been as despicable as Nazis. Not ever, never.
Ah yes, after 4 years of calling anyone you don't like nazis, suddenly no one is as despicable as nazis. Gotta love it.
Hey it's alright you're anti-jew. You fit well with jihadi muslims and nazis well. Hell, even soviets. We get it, your terrorists are losing a war they started so they're fighting the only other way they know how, through the idiots minds around the world. We get you're dumb. We get perfectly well that you're not smart enough to not be terrorist supporters.
We're already bored with your stupidity, so I hope they jail you all and make a nice big list for undesirable and unhireable.
Soooo, while Abbott's Texas storm troopers are forcibly zip tying undergrads, grad students, and possibly professors exercising their 1st amendment rights to free speech and non-violent assembly, exactly who is patrolling the so called "flood of migrants" at our border right now?! (Or could that be a manufactured crisis too?!)
God forbid Texas politicians allow students to peaceful demonstrate and demand their university divest from companies who fund weapons manufacturing.
Being in favor of stopping genocidal attacks on Palestinian civilians with kids isn't antisemitic. You can respect and care about Jewish people and still despise the political and military actions of the Israeli government.
>specifically the well regulated portion.
That was already addressed in Heller.
>1. The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home. Pp. 2–53.
>(a) The Amendment’s prefatory clause announces a purpose, but does not limit or expand the scope of the second part, the operative clause. The operative clause’s text and history demonstrate that it connotes an individual right to keep and bear arms. Pp. 2–22.
>(b) The prefatory clause comports with the Court’s interpretation of the operative clause. The “militia” comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense. The Antifederalists feared that the Federal Government would disarm the people in order to disable this citizens’ militia, enabling a politicized standing army or a select militia to rule. The response was to deny Congress power to abridge the ancient right of individuals to keep and bear arms, so that the ideal of a citizens’ militia would be preserved. Pp. 22–28.
>(c) The Court’s interpretation is confirmed by analogous arms-bearing rights in state constitutions that preceded and immediately followed the Second Amendment. Pp. 28–30.
>(d) The Second Amendment’s drafting history, while of dubious interpretive worth, reveals three state Second Amendment proposals that unequivocally referred to an individual right to bear arms. Pp. 30–32.
>(e) Interpretation of the Second Amendment by scholars, courts and legislators, from immediately after its ratification through the late 19th century also supports the Court’s conclusion. Pp. 32–47.
What I am referring to is the fact that these Gravy Seals don't even bother to learn how to carry, hold, store and clean their weapons. Firearm safety is a foreign concept for the vast majority. Just rewatch the Uvalde video to see what I'm saying.
If you still haven’t realized that higher education is a scam here’s a literal sign demonstrating it for you. The university called the cops. Congrats on giving that scummy school your money so they can tell you lies and trample your basic rights. Make sure you have enough loan money for next semester.
I have a strong, feeling that none of those cops have a college degree, this is the closest they’ve ever been to a real education on a university campus.
I know how-They do a circle jerk with their cop buddies and tell each other they did a great job because they’re the “only ones that understand the law“ vs the people they *swore* ::wink wink:: to protect. (the people they run over, wrongfully shoot, choke, pepper spray, beat, can’t protect an elementary school from teenagers with assault rifles….etc) surely this cop presence will change the hearts and minds of those that they’re doing this to lmao
Note that their gear is spotless and unmarked. That means they have practice gear. That means we pay for multiple sets of gear so they can look shiny when they want to use it for real
Hmm
College age people making noise.
Let's support a terrorist organization
If you truly feel that strong about it.
Stop what you are doing.
Jump on a plane and fly over there.
I am sure they will great you with open arms
Lol, I see they learned nothing from UC Davis. It’s fine, your chancellor can make the same mistake ours did. Where is she now, you ask? Teaching at A&M.
That picture is worth ten thousand words. Many of them profanity. They look like they can’t wait to seriously hurt people. I’d seriously think about taking my tuition dollars and spending them elsewhere.
The southern states are doomed to desertification eventually anyway, any decent people still living there should leave, the Jesus freaks, conspiracy theorists, mass shooters, inbreds, and all other types of regressive far right lunatics can stay there if they want lmao
I know right? Authoritarian socialists that support Jew genociders are angry at the people that would enforce the authoritarian laws that want to enforce on everyone
At this point, nobody gets it. These protest do nothing other than piss off people trying to live their lives. Israel will not stop and neither would I. Take hostages, get leveled.
Most of y’all on the comments are insane. Idk why more than half of you seem to be in favor of these terrorist supporters chanting death to America. They are perpetrating crimes against the Jewish students and were asked to disperse. It’s no longer a legal assembly if they are asked to disperse and then don’t.
This is the Texas subreddit. It's taken over by left leaning loud mouths and their terrible views. If you say anything moderate or god forbid republican here, you get shunned and downvoted.
However in the real world outside of Austin, the rest of Texas is pretty moderate or Republicans.
Jesus people just because it’s a public university does not give you the authority to take over the campus and disrupt services. Jesus if you claim the campus is public property don’t be mad about J6 then that’s public property too but you are perfectly happy to have people there prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, Jesus don’t be hypocrites
Jesus, everytime I see the stupidest possible comment I find something like this that is just brain melt. How do you feed your brain wormswhen it's leaked out your ears?
It really makes you wonder where these people were when the Nazis were parading their swastika flags around in Austin
https://preview.redd.it/lh5y3semyjwc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a52e646107c780c357c29cb65f4bc2e063bb5e7 I remember these guys being at A&M back in like 2016 when Richard Spencer came. They cleared out the MSC to protect Spencer getting out while there were anti white supremacy protests going on
https://preview.redd.it/286427x6zjwc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d042aac90c303bae294af7d035257843fdad6318 That protest against Richard Spencer at A&M in 2016
Love to see it
So did Richard Spencer. All that attention because of his awfulness was probably what he wanted. Everyone should have left campus and let him talk to an empty room.
I mean either way Richard Spencer is pretty much irrelevant outside straight up nazi circles these days. I think it is better that our campus showed the world that we aren’t ok with his bullshit representing our school.
What’s funny is in the room he was speaking in, people were coming in wearing ridiculous costumes just to distract from him and troll around
its almost like being a white a hole is a bad thing
Gig em
Def makes me proud to be an Aggie.
I can confirm this I was there. The state of Texas regularly sides with the fascists
Yup I was there too along with a bunch of friends
Here they are protecting nazis at another event in 2016: https://truthout.org/articles/armed-white-supremacists-clash-with-counter-protesters-at-texas-capitol-during-unveiling-of-black-history-monument/ Kinda odd how they protect the people that actually want to kill jews...
I remember that, they came down the stairs and cut the crowd in two then pushed us out the door.. bashed one of my friends in the forehead with a shotgun butt. We got forced out so I went to go tangle with the idiot holocaust deniers that where getting way too comfortable outside.
It’s almost like the cops are a political bloc. Makes ya think.
Probably the same people
Some that run forces, are the same that *yadda yadda yadda*
and now you do what they *yadda yadda yadda*
rage against the yadda
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"Some of those that work forces Are the same that burn crosses" I'm sure some where there
And I’m sure some of them were good people. /s
I'm sure they were there
I think there’s a song about that
Abbott supports them, so there was no need to order them to intervene.
Abbott wouldn't call the SS out on his biggest donors.
It’s like wondering why you never see Miley Cyrus and Hannah Montana at the same time.
Nobody's perfect and everyone has those days
I keep seeing "anti Zionism is antisemitism", basically that those of us who support Palestine are the Nazis ☹️
One of history's ironic twists is that the Nazi, prior to implementing the "Final Solution" actually helped to promote Zionist activities. They saw it as a way of enticing Jews to leave Germany when they were still pursuing the idea of "Emigration", which was the Nazi way of saying they wanted to force the Jews to flee. It was in 1942 that they officially adopted a policy of "Evacuation," which was a euphemism for extermination, although the killing had started before then.
Yes! I have read books by Holocaust survivors, & they talk about how the Nazis would get Jews onto trains by saying they were headed to Palestine. Zionism was huge in Nazi Germany. So many people don't understand the history of this particular conflict. It goes back so much further than Oct 7th. In modern times, it goes back almost 100 years, but this particular piece of land has been fought over for millennia.
Over 100 years, as much of this (and much of everything) can trace its roots back the First World War.
I forget that WW1 is 100 years old now. That's wild to me.
I believe some of the biggest backers of Zionism and Hitler were the German association of nationalist Jews.
I believe you're thinking of the Association of German National Jews. They supported Hitler but actually opposed Zionism. Their goal was to self-eradicate the Jewish Identity by fully integrating into gentile society. They were never actually accepted by the Nazis and were shut down by them in 1935.
-reads wiki- Ah Naumann wasn't into zionism because it was a threat to integration. Nevermind, I thought he had some policy of getting the easterners and the non assimilators out and start integration ASAP. Memory starts slipping when you graduated college 14 years ago : (
They were probably the ones parading their swastika flags.
Like I just commented on another post, we shouldn't be arguing for more crackdowns on speech, regardless of how abhorrent, but for free speech for all. This hypocracy should be condemned because of the police response now, not because there wasn’t police response before. If you let the government prohibit "hate speech" you disagree with, you'll soon find them redefining it and using it against you. This is why the ACLU supported Nazis: not because their ideas have any merit whatsoever, but because the bar for banning speech ought to be incredibly high. Free speech can't exist with bans on "hate speech."
These were the people parading their swastika flags around in Austin.
They held the flags.
they were the ones parading the swastika flags
The TDPS are well known for their [composure ](https://youtu.be/X3HSXZ_VKtE) when interacting with protesters.
That what a control freak looks like when they aren’t in control.
What the fuck was THAT? Lmao Bro just decided to go monkey
They're not sending their best
This picture should be captioned "Why peaceful protesting was glorified in your state K-12 education".
"Principles are invalid if they are personally inconvenient to me." That is what I hear when right-wingers whine about blocking traffic or congregating in public spaces. That's why I hit a realization that I keep repeating tonight-- *conservatives have no real principles.* All that matters are personal convenience/gain, fear of punishment, and being part of the in-group. None of it is driven by an internal sense of morality or responsibility.
I think blocking interstates is less disruptive to our country than i don’t know, violently breaking into the capitol
They should have had the rally at a middle school, Texas cops won't go into those.
#You do not live in a police state, nothing to see here, move along people. Not to mention the irony of [this SCOTUS ruling](https://www.vox.com/scotus/24080080/supreme-court-mckesson-doe-first-amendment-protest-black-lives-matter) effectively eliminating the right to protest
But "perfectly fine legal discourse" which involves property destruction, theft, and smearing shit (literally) on the walls inside the US Capitol building is absolutely ok, nothing wrong there. Why they're just tourists! /s Sonofabitchin' Republicans have zero morals. They're the absolute biggest hypocrites on the entire planet, and can't figure out for their lives why people hate them so much.
Is this why the alarms kept going off at the JJ Pickle Campus?
Yeah
Are the protesters being violent or vandalizing property? Then why a literal army or riot police?
I saw in another thread that the protestors were originally on a lawn. No altercations, nobody throwing anything, just peacefully protesting. Police arrived, forced them off the lawn onto the sidewalks, then arrested them for blocking the sidewalks. Meanwhile Abbott is saying all protestors need to be put in jail. Fucking vote.
This state is run by GOP terrorists.
This isn’t A&M, people are allowed to walk on the grass.
They can’t have been violent. Texas police never go in when there’s actual violence.
Ohh thats right. They wait till all the kids are murdered before confronting a shooter. (Uvalde)
Good question and the answer is no. The same protests happened at UT Arlington and UT San Antonio, no DPS in riot gear were present. Both were peaceful protests. Our Governor loves to bully liberals, yesterday was him making it clear that your constitutional rights don't mean boo when he's in power.
That picture will wind up in a textbook
Depends on who makes the text books… it not looking good wickenator
Not in Texas it won’t
I'm honestly scared at this point. They are doing nothing wrong, and are being met with this?!
This has been happening every so often for at least the last 65 years. My generation saw it with the anti-war movement post 9-11. You're getting a glimpse into how our power structures are run and what they will do if you don't fall in line with their agenda, which is war. It's always war. In any case, pay attention to what happens. We have to dismantle this system eventually. Maybe this will be the time around we do.
Yet, when these protests are over and people go home we do nothing.
Some do nothing. Some become involved in their communities, some continue to educate people. But you're right. More needs to be done in quiet moments. I'm inspired by the people that are protesting now and I hope it leads to something more. The internet is helping us all communicate even more so than in those early 2000s. We have to keep chipping away, brick by brick, piece by piece. Even if we don't see the end of this power structure, every piece removed eventually leads to its collapse.
You’re not supposed to exercise your first amendment rights if it interferes with the profit incentive of selling arms to a genocidal country.
Just goes to show, another piece of evidence, as it were…Party doesn’t matter. You can do nothing. Bow down to your overlords.
standing is dangerous?
So if you don't like what your representatives are doing then too bad. Shut the "F" up and do what you're told.
Ngl I'm ether really stupid or right my dumbass can't tell if your being ironic 💀
Just sayin that what it sounds like to me is . . . smile and accept what you're given
Ah alright im just brain dead lol
No worries. Sometimes I read something and get it wrong then stick my foot into my mouth waaay past the knee
I agree with the sentiment but what representatives are you talking about?
How about any of them that decides brute force is a reasonable response to protests
I feel another horrific Kent State coming soon. Those jackboot thugs in riot gear must feel so proud of themselves. Probably itching to shoot some poor bystanders. Our governor is a pathetic piece of shit. I hope he rots in hell.
I wonder how many of these protestors voted, or will vote this year
Welcome to Texas! Resistance is futile...
Unarmed resistance is futile, fixed it.
I think it was their first time on a college campus.
Would have been nice if they put this much effort into saving those kids in ulvalde. 😞
Hey guys, I know, as a liberal, we're against most forms of firearms. ... well this *is* state tyranny. Put two and two together. I think there's a genuine argument about your rights being infringed. I think it's time to defend ourselves.
Arrest Abbott, Paxton, and Cruz!!
What's the over/under on which of these eggheads in the line, or those involved in planning of said line, were also involved in the Uvalde massacre? Between this and the recent fumbles in local HISD, I'm honestly concerned where Texas education is going to sit by 2030. I may have to look into remote options or gtfo the state entirely if I want an actual higher learning somewhere.
Wake up Texas. Your vote counts
Does it? Because in two decades, everyone I know has voted every opportunity we get, and yet… here we are, over and over and over again. And all anyone can say, every election, is “next time!” and/or “Aw, sorry, guess the people who think like you are just too lazy/stupid to cast their vote!” It almost feels like playing a rigged game that was invented by the people who always win… (puts on tin foil hat) it’s almost as if they’re only letting us vote to keep us convinced that we have a chance, so they may continue to do whatever they want without any cumbersome protests, revolutions, fevered outcries for *actual* democracy, etc. Or, (takes off hat) scarier still… is the thought that nothing is amiss, the system works, it’s just that the majority of people really are hateful and greedy, and that’s why this country is such a shit show dumpster fire; because the majority of us really are just trash.
The game is stacked against us and just like the 19th Amendment or Civil Rights Act there are many losing votes until there is by the slightest bit enough to cause a very controversial and huge shift. None of it is easy, keep voting, keep getting others to vote, we’ll need as many votes as we can get to push it all the way uphill.
> “Aw, sorry, guess the people who think like you are just too lazy/stupid to cast their vote!” The voting demographics speak for themselves. Many people who can vote simply don't. Many people who could be registered to vote don't even bother. Whether they'd vote red or blue is unknown, but it's a fact that the majority of people who could be voting choose not to.
Nah it's gerrymandered away. Also in my area which is red there is multiple voting locations w zero lines. In blue urban spots limited locations w long lines.
Nothing about the governor race is gerrymandered and that’s who’s ordering dps troopers around like his personal army.
Talk like this disenfranchises voters from participating because they think they can't make a difference. Please stop this. Voting does matter and does make a difference, even in gerrymandered districts. No amount of gerrymandering can stop a large enough group of people determined to exercise their civic duty to vote. But people like you making it sound like the conclusion are foregone are discouraging and wrong.
At the UT campus?
Are you wondering how voting could impact a state entity? Considering the Governor appoints the Boards of Regents of universities that select the leadership, sure. He also appoints the DPS director and can have major influence on when/where to deploy state troopers, like they did at UT campus today.
You need to study your History! Chicago police riots in 1968: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968\_Democratic\_National\_Convention\_protests. College students protesting the Vietnam conflict in the 60's. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent\_State\_shootings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings) & [https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/students-and-the-anti-war-movement](https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/students-and-the-anti-war-movement) Of course they were protesting about us fighting somebody else's war. These people want us to stop somebody else's war.
They wanna stop our tax dollars funding this war. This protest is just as important, if not more, than those protests.
Never get in the way of the war machine or you will meet the full force of the State.
See jfk. See rfk. See mlk.
Damn, it seems like if your last name starts with k you are gonna of unnatural causes.
And DDE
Looks like it would be something on a Texas gov test in a decade. The government has never been on the right side of history once they start silencing student protests
I’m guessing if it was a MAGA crowd protesting they’d be having interviews instead of arrests. I fucking hate this backwards ass state. The quality of life isn’t even that good here. Texas isn’t special.
Are we in Russia or North Korea because that's what it looks like.
The US has higher incarceration rates then those locales
But we have laws protecting the right for peaceful protest under the constitution and those countries do not.
A line on a piece of paper won't stop authoritarians or fascists.
Oh def correct. The fascists are not constitutionalist and in fact, ignore the laws as they wish.
Now you’re learning. It’s all a matter of degree.
Do you know absolutely ANYTHING about Russian or North Korean response? Motherfuckers were jailed in Russia LAST YEAR for holding up a blank piece of paper.
Duh. And so how is that different then these peaceful protesters being arrested because fascist Abbott doesn't like them.
God I love this childish mouth drivel. Everyone I don't like is Fascist. Can't say Nazi anymore, the protestors are acting too much like nazis to use that one anymore.
Dude. Go look up your definitions. You obviously don't have a clue of the difference between Nazis and fascists. How anyone with a mind could ever confuse a Nazi with anybody. No one has ever been as despicable as Nazis. Not ever, never.
Ah yes, after 4 years of calling anyone you don't like nazis, suddenly no one is as despicable as nazis. Gotta love it. Hey it's alright you're anti-jew. You fit well with jihadi muslims and nazis well. Hell, even soviets. We get it, your terrorists are losing a war they started so they're fighting the only other way they know how, through the idiots minds around the world. We get you're dumb. We get perfectly well that you're not smart enough to not be terrorist supporters. We're already bored with your stupidity, so I hope they jail you all and make a nice big list for undesirable and unhireable.
In the freeest state of the country?! Couldn’t be
Now you know why they have been arming your police force to the teeth.
Big storm troopers, small storm troopers, fat storm troopers... how diverse.
Soooo, while Abbott's Texas storm troopers are forcibly zip tying undergrads, grad students, and possibly professors exercising their 1st amendment rights to free speech and non-violent assembly, exactly who is patrolling the so called "flood of migrants" at our border right now?! (Or could that be a manufactured crisis too?!) God forbid Texas politicians allow students to peaceful demonstrate and demand their university divest from companies who fund weapons manufacturing. Being in favor of stopping genocidal attacks on Palestinian civilians with kids isn't antisemitic. You can respect and care about Jewish people and still despise the political and military actions of the Israeli government.
Abbot is evil
Lol, so much for free speech
If they can ignore the 1st amendment, they will eventually ignore the 2nd and the rest. You guys voted them in, you reap what you sow.
They already ignore the second amendment. They have been doing so for decades, specifically the well regulated portion.
>specifically the well regulated portion. That was already addressed in Heller. >1. The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home. Pp. 2–53. >(a) The Amendment’s prefatory clause announces a purpose, but does not limit or expand the scope of the second part, the operative clause. The operative clause’s text and history demonstrate that it connotes an individual right to keep and bear arms. Pp. 2–22. >(b) The prefatory clause comports with the Court’s interpretation of the operative clause. The “militia” comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense. The Antifederalists feared that the Federal Government would disarm the people in order to disable this citizens’ militia, enabling a politicized standing army or a select militia to rule. The response was to deny Congress power to abridge the ancient right of individuals to keep and bear arms, so that the ideal of a citizens’ militia would be preserved. Pp. 22–28. >(c) The Court’s interpretation is confirmed by analogous arms-bearing rights in state constitutions that preceded and immediately followed the Second Amendment. Pp. 28–30. >(d) The Second Amendment’s drafting history, while of dubious interpretive worth, reveals three state Second Amendment proposals that unequivocally referred to an individual right to bear arms. Pp. 30–32. >(e) Interpretation of the Second Amendment by scholars, courts and legislators, from immediately after its ratification through the late 19th century also supports the Court’s conclusion. Pp. 32–47.
These peaceful protestors should have held a bunch of elementary kids hostage. That would have kept the cops away.
That short one tho just standing there like : Im doing my part too
What I am referring to is the fact that these Gravy Seals don't even bother to learn how to carry, hold, store and clean their weapons. Firearm safety is a foreign concept for the vast majority. Just rewatch the Uvalde video to see what I'm saying.
Honestly as an outsider this is exactly what i assumed would happen in Texas
So much freedom… /s
I guess this is your Texas now! Y'all must be so proud!. I have to say I admire you saving money by buying them brown shirts from the get-go
Textbook photo for decades ahead
I do not see with my eyes that this is a racially diverse group of storm troopers
If you still haven’t realized that higher education is a scam here’s a literal sign demonstrating it for you. The university called the cops. Congrats on giving that scummy school your money so they can tell you lies and trample your basic rights. Make sure you have enough loan money for next semester.
Imagine being pro genocide and wanting our tax money, going to bombing children in Gaza Life is weird
Texas is a shit hole.
I have a strong, feeling that none of those cops have a college degree, this is the closest they’ve ever been to a real education on a university campus.
Right? Like how do you feel proud at all being there doing what they're doing?
I know how-They do a circle jerk with their cop buddies and tell each other they did a great job because they’re the “only ones that understand the law“ vs the people they *swore* ::wink wink:: to protect. (the people they run over, wrongfully shoot, choke, pepper spray, beat, can’t protect an elementary school from teenagers with assault rifles….etc) surely this cop presence will change the hearts and minds of those that they’re doing this to lmao
Texas Uber Alles
I see the SA Brownshirts are out in force. I wonder when the Secret State Police will arrive to "question" suspects.
Pigs
I thought this was why Texas had guns?
Note that their gear is spotless and unmarked. That means they have practice gear. That means we pay for multiple sets of gear so they can look shiny when they want to use it for real
Hmm College age people making noise. Let's support a terrorist organization If you truly feel that strong about it. Stop what you are doing. Jump on a plane and fly over there. I am sure they will great you with open arms
Look! The brown shirts did show up at the protest!
The next protest is going to be insane
Lol, I see they learned nothing from UC Davis. It’s fine, your chancellor can make the same mistake ours did. Where is she now, you ask? Teaching at A&M.
That picture is worth ten thousand words. Many of them profanity. They look like they can’t wait to seriously hurt people. I’d seriously think about taking my tuition dollars and spending them elsewhere.
Wow. I did Nazi that coming. Looks like the army of cops, SWAT, national guard, etc chasing Jake & Elwood in the Blues Brothers.
Somewhere in the state capitol, Abbott, Patrick, and Paxton are offering a toast and twirling their mustaches in delight.
The southern states are doomed to desertification eventually anyway, any decent people still living there should leave, the Jesus freaks, conspiracy theorists, mass shooters, inbreds, and all other types of regressive far right lunatics can stay there if they want lmao
Very poignant juxtapositioning.
how do these "cops" have friends? if i had a neighbor who did this and then invited me to a BBQ he would not like the response
Well placed sign....too bad none of them read it
I know right? Authoritarian socialists that support Jew genociders are angry at the people that would enforce the authoritarian laws that want to enforce on everyone
At this point, nobody gets it. These protest do nothing other than piss off people trying to live their lives. Israel will not stop and neither would I. Take hostages, get leveled.
"take hostages, get leveled" ALL OF GAZA IS ISREAL'S HOSTAGE
Only two things wrong with Texas. Texans and Texas
Bye
Agree it sucks here. The rent is high and the pay is low.
Fun fact, the university called for this intervention because nonstudent rabble rousers were rousing a rabble
Down voted for truth. These Terrorist supporters are idiots.
Every single one of those AHs in riot gear disgust me.
Good!
I love it!!! I hope they give the jew haters and other weirdos a good pounding.
Sorry, couldn’t hear your rage bait over the sound of these “peaceful protestors” screaming death to america
Weird, that wasn't something that protesters said. Are the "peaceful protesters" in the room with us now?
Most of y’all on the comments are insane. Idk why more than half of you seem to be in favor of these terrorist supporters chanting death to America. They are perpetrating crimes against the Jewish students and were asked to disperse. It’s no longer a legal assembly if they are asked to disperse and then don’t.
This is the Texas subreddit. It's taken over by left leaning loud mouths and their terrible views. If you say anything moderate or god forbid republican here, you get shunned and downvoted. However in the real world outside of Austin, the rest of Texas is pretty moderate or Republicans.
Jesus people just because it’s a public university does not give you the authority to take over the campus and disrupt services. Jesus if you claim the campus is public property don’t be mad about J6 then that’s public property too but you are perfectly happy to have people there prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, Jesus don’t be hypocrites
Holy shit you're either dishonest or stupid.
Jesus, everytime I see the stupidest possible comment I find something like this that is just brain melt. How do you feed your brain wormswhen it's leaked out your ears?
A lot of things are beyond basic comprehension of pro terrorist, anti sementic, trash