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Subjective Effect on 18/6/2024 at 14:52

Quote Posted by Starker

Also, while people are worried about antisemitism, motives of the students, etc, I've not seen nearly any concern about anti-arab anti-muslim sentiment.

Is that because it's fairly rare? And it comes largely from the Far Right, not from Zionists, Jews, Israelis or their other supporters.

Quote Posted by SD

As it happens, my brother-in-law is an Iranian nuclear engineer, which is not the setup for a joke, but an amusing fact.

I think it's both! :p

Starker on 18/6/2024 at 19:41

Sure, it's rare, but as you could see in the video and from what's known currently, it's the protestors who are the targets of violence while the protests are overwhelmingly peaceful.

And in one case the far right even joined forces with the pro-Israel counterprotestors to assault the protestors: (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/10/college-campus-protests-far-right)

Subjective Effect on 18/6/2024 at 19:51

Idiots will be idiots. Hopefully that type of thing doesn't spread.

In the meantime it looks like there's no end to the war in sight and a new front with Lebanese rebels may even open up.

What an insane moment in history we are living though.

Starker on 19/6/2024 at 05:17

How conservatives learned to stop worrying and love crime:

[video=youtube;WGLZQ7Xrd6o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGLZQ7Xrd6o[/video]

Nicker on 19/6/2024 at 12:38

What ever keeps the under-educated in a state of fear makes selling them the Strong Man candidate all the easier.

Azaran on 24/6/2024 at 17:30

Suspected pro-Palestine activist dropped a smoke bomb at one of our local public libraries, forcing security to evacuate the building

Inline Image:

https://i.postimg.cc/d0wkwz3w/ezgif-5-500f4acef8.gif

That'll will show Israel eh?

Starker on 24/6/2024 at 19:22

Must have been one of the "Hamas children".

Subjective Effect on 24/6/2024 at 19:32

Quote Posted by Azaran

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That'll will show Israel eh?

Seriously?

First off, you said "suspected" pro Pally protestor, so it's not actually known.

Secondly, the point of these protests is to highlight the issues and also to express discontent at the universities' investments in companies that ultimately benefit the Israeli war machine. So yeah.

Starker on 16/7/2024 at 02:01

This time, on some more (not) news: how Ronald Reagan, the actor, ruined the US:

[video=youtube;3WfgGDkWzYU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WfgGDkWzYU[/video]

As I'm already fairly familial with Reagan and his aims to turn the US into a Robocop parody, there wasn't much new information for me, but it's a fairly concise, if a bit barebones "greatest hits" compilation of how Reagan managed to start redistributing money from the poor and the middle class to the wealthy and ultrawealthy, how he plunged the country into massive debt, how he ignored and mishandled a massive health epidemic... y'know, standard Republican stuff.

Nicker on 16/7/2024 at 09:43

Survivor and its spawn, reality TV, share the blame.