"Nothing On Earth Could Come Between Them." AND "The most incrediblething that ever happened is about to happen to you." AND "Collide with destiny" -Titanic. Leggooooo
philosophy chair getting arrested, an econ prof getting her head smashed against concrete, a street medic being held down and tased, snipers setting up vantage points to shoot at ohio state students -all because of nationwide protests against a genocide- you SHOULD be radicalized
We are seeing greater state violence enacted at college protests than Nazi marches. Don’t you dare fucking tell me any of this is about Jewish safety or antisemitism. And every pro Palestine college protest includes a significant number of Jewish students
I hope folks who were wary or skeptical of the summer 2020 demand to defund police now understand that police are simply the connective tissue for the state’s ability to actualize repression—not the magical municipal department that would save us all from “crime.”
When I was being attacked by my campus admins and police it was really really intriguing to find out that I could sue the university president personally for suppressing my speech. Do with that information what you will.
Biden is having his own Summer 2024 uprisings and he’s responding in the exact same way Trump did, when in all of 2020 he was blaming Trump, saying things would be different if he were president. Now there are student protesters getting beat up by police along with a genocide.
it shouldn’t surprise me anymore, but it’s so wild to me that you don’t ever see a cop have a moral crisis on the riot line. there’s not a moment where they realize, i do not have to be here beating these people. they can set their baton down and walk away. but they never do.
Think about how fast this country sent hordes of riot police with tear gas, batons, and tasers to arrest anti-war students & their teachers.
Now think about every medical bill you've paid, every homeless person you've seen, every school that relies on bake sales to buy supplies.
Might sound weird, but I think thousands of kids at elite universities from immense privilege risking their (earned or unearned) status for the lives of people they will never meet is breathtakingly beautiful
Crazy. I wonder if it has something to do with rent being unaffordable, food being unaffordable, insurance being unaffordable, daycare being unaffordable, college being unaffordable, home owning being unaffordable, medical care being unaffordable, and a pandemic.
i’m seeing photos of the corpses of doctors handcuffed and face down in a mass grave and i’m expected to believe the college kids who don’t to help finance that violence with their life ruining debt are the villains here?
sooooooooo Facebook/meta was found to have directly interfered with the 2016 election and it’s still allowed to run but tik tok has to be sold or banned
Like during the George Floyd uprisings, you suddenly have like 50 active examples that cops pretty much exist for one ultimate purpose. Violence, repression,maintenance of the status quo. The consistency is evident, all at once, in brutality against students. Internalize that.