mags posted:

puke skywalker

mags posted:

puke skywalker

theCalamity posted:

https://twitter.com/BidensWins/status/1786465021452517621

Brainwreck posted:

https://twitter.com/HotSpotHotSpot/status/1786461045554303013

raisin kane posted:

use excessive force, luke

raisin kane posted:

use excessive force, luke

F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

SixteenShells posted:

they want us to believe they care about Dobbs and abortion rights and they won't even get rid of Cuellar, lmfao they think we're morons

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1785861127337025819

Halloween Jack posted:

We have to give the Democratic Party the presidency, a supermajority in both houses of Congress and every state legislature, every governorship, and 20 or 30 years of SCOTUS appointments before we can begin to do anything even remotely Left.

Except that for some reason, when they're in a safe district, they run even further to the right.

SixteenShells posted:

I wonder who broke all that poo poo, the protestors or the cops who drove them out?

paranoid randroid posted:

Glup Shithead

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1785861127337025819

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1785861127337025819

comedyblissoption posted:

another day another chud poll
https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1786439060682158548

raisin kane posted:

use excessive force, luke

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1785861127337025819

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/kilday_morgan/status/1786323584748503551

quote:

What I Saw at Columbia’s Demonstration

The protesters wear masks, avoid eye contact, and seem uninterested in engagement or progress.

Here is where a lot of minds rightly go when we think of the words “student demonstration”: Young people like to be part of something big and passionate. They want to be part of history. “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, / But to be young was very heaven!” They want to care. It’s romantic to be a revolutionary and pleasurable to claim fierce commitments. It’s good to show you’re a force in the world, that you’ll march for the right and moral thing. Critical thinking isn’t your strong suit, emotion is. All this is part of it, certainly for the nice kids, and there are always nice kids.

However. A characteristic of these demonstrators was also a primary tactic: the covering of their faces, the hiding of their identities. This struck me as sinister. They see themselves as replicating the 1968 antiwar protests, but those protesters didn’t hide who they were, they didn’t wear masks. Students the past two weeks did, to make observers feel menaced—some big, faceless force is enraged, occupying, and marching toward you.

I was told when I went to the Columbia campus on Tuesday that the demonstrators wish not to be identified by school authorities and subject to discipline; that, as technological sophisticates, they wish to avoid facial-recognition software; that they wish not to limit their future prospects, including employment opportunities. All or some of that could be true, but I also think they do it to confer an air of menace, and because they are cowardly. They won’t stand where they stand and pay the price. But half of life is standing where you stand and paying the price. They see themselves as indignant, sincere and uniquely vulnerable. They looked to me more cosseted and indulged.

I was at Columbia hours before the police came in and liberated Hamilton Hall from its occupiers. Unlike protesters of the past, who were usually eager to share with others what they thought and why, these demonstrators would generally not speak or make eye contact with members of the press, or, as they say, “corporate media.”

I was on a bench taking notes as a group of young women, all in sunglasses, masks, and kaffiyehs, walked by. “Friends, please come say hello and tell me what you think,” I called. They marched past, not making eye contact, save one, a beautiful girl of about 20. “I’m not trained,” she said. Which is what they’re instructed to say to corporate-media representatives who will twist your words. “I’m barely trained, you’re safe,” I called, and she laughed and half-halted. But her friends gave her a look and she conformed.

Fleetwood posted:

they checked joe biden's midichlorian count and the results will astound you

Nichael posted:

weird because my politics are stewie griffin politics

Willa Rogers posted:

Everyone is tired of disorder. Our culture, our politics, our flailing media world—everything seems chaotic, on the edge of something.

The Vietnam demonstrations came to a country at relative peace with itself and said: Wake up! The Hamas demonstrations come to a country that hasn’t been at peace with itself in a long time. It watched, and thought: More jarring hell from kids with blood in their eyes making demands.

The people of my liberal-left town were relieved to see the NYPD come in, drag the protesters away, restore order, and let people clean things up.

People want peacefulness. They want to go about their lives. It’s not too much to ask.

HallelujahLee posted:

https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1786448837722190280

HallelujahLee posted:

https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1786448837722190280

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1785861127337025819

Rip Testes posted:

There was that clip of the protest coverage from Japan that showed the police tossing the school furniture down the steps.



https://twitter.com/mrjeffu/status/1785868199537586261

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1785861127337025819

Scarabrae posted:

So the nuance of gaza vs the imperialist land stealers did not dawn on Mark Hamill at all? I do wonder if all the college kids are more receptive to the situation in gaza thanks to the popularity of Dune right now.

anyways how are you guys doing? everyone glad its friday am i rite?

theCalamity posted:

https://twitter.com/BidensWins/status/1786465021452517621

F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

Biden has the exact same vacant, slumped over stare of many of the residents in the locked unit at my grandfather's retirement community.