Edit: Name of University fixed.
I appreciate the juxtaposition with the sign. Great image.
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Fascists.
I'm out of the loop on this one. What exactly is happening over there at University of Texas?
Pro Palestinian protests are getting quashed with a complete violation of freedom of assembly
Uncle sam says nothing? You still have amendments and so on, right?
Those amendments are very selectively applied when it comes to any grassroots action that isn't fully right-wing. There is essentially no protection to speak against the state if they want to target you.
University protests was how Greece got rid of the military Junta in the 70s
They may seem futile but can be very powerful!
Get that photographer a pulitzer
Change the world kids! No, not like that!
ACAB
Whenever I see things like this I think back to something Lewis Black once said back during the Occupy Wall Street protests. They had him on ABC or one of the major news stations and asked him what he thought about it. His answer was along the lines of, "When were the college kids ever wrong?"
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So what happened with state law protecting speech activity on this campus?.…
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Should we beat and arrest the students or maybe sever ties with a nation committing war crimes? Better get those students and arrest record, looks good on job interviews.
Vast majority of protesters arrested don't end up with any charges or a record, the police know this, but they still get their mugshot taken which gets posted online by right-wingers, doxxing them to potential political violence.
which is why we should do the same thing to conservatives. don't get bullied. bully back.
Last I was on Twitter a couple years ago there were antifascist pages that did that, the ones I followed were banned while the fascist 'antifa watch' pages I've seen are promoted. But I agree, Twitter won't work for it anymore but we should have some kind of fascist watchlist.
I've thought about the deck of cards of terror suspects the US had, with higher members of Al Qaeda or whatever, we should have that for the top fascist politicians and war mongers. It should be well known the names and faces of the people pushing us off the cliff.
Ooo... a Tarot deck of conservative facists.
Fun fact: 91 of these DPS riot cops stood outside the Uvalde Texas elementary school shooting.
DPS was one of various local and state law enforcement agencies that responded to the Robb Elementary shooting on May 24, 2022. Ninety-one DPS personnel were at the school when law enforcement waited over an hour before breaching the classroom where the gunman was.
Video: University of Texas protestors chant Who Failed Uvalde? DPS!
Ah so if anyone with a gun showed up, they'd all run away.
Bingo
But they look so strong and brave standing there waiting to beat up unarmed people protesting genocide!!
Guy in the center there forgot his gloves.
Lurch in the back is wondering if they have waited long enough before they get to start killing people.
Hey... don't drag Lurch in to this. Lurch is nice.
Cops don't belong on universities
What if they want to finally become literate?
Then they wouldn't be a cop?
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I'm not saying it's photoshoped, but the sign looks out of place and like an invitation to change its text.
That is exactly the kind of bs a university would put on a sign
Here is another camera angle. Source
Here is a LinkedIn post from at least 1 month prior with a photo of a similar sign. Source
Here is a LinkedIn post from at least 3 weeks prior that has been edited but contains the same phrase. Source. Because the post has been edited, it does not act as standalone evidence but it is supporting evidence.
The phrase seems to be an existing slogan for the campus, and there seems to be signage with that phrase and color of background of text. The photo in the original post seems to be plausible.
I went to school there. They had signs that read similar things back then. The university’s slogan is ‘what starts here changes the world’
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