[...] carrying out what is likely the highest number of protest-related arrests there since the Vietnam War.
That's pretty telling of the state of things.
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Hey, gen Z, Gen alpha, Gen beta... Millennial here.
We almost, almost fucked shit up with occupy wall st. We just... Had no direction.
Please, be more hardcore, dont just stink up parks and play frisbee. Here's some great advice.
Learn from our mistakes. Do it better. Do it right. You know you have our support.
Yes, absolutely yes. Make them justify their existence to you, be kind, and think of the greater good as well.
E: I don't quite see how this got misinterpreted as disagreement, I'm fully agreeing here. Just saying to be kind once we gain control again as well.
lol wut
They were trying to show encouragement. Are you high
Read edit.
33 at Indiana University.
Dunn Meadow, the place where they protested has been a place for campus protests for decades. Anti-Vietnam protests were held there. There was a shantytown protesting South African apartheid there in the 1980s. During the 1990s, a protest village was set up there to protest the Gulf War. I was there as a teenager helping to cook food and otherwise maintain things. I didn't stay the night, but lots of students did. Every night for weeks.
And suddenly, just before this protest, they made a rules change and all these students got arrested.
You will have your tax dollars taken from you, for a maniacal government that is putting North Korea to shame.
You will not get medicare for all
You will not get help with education
You will not get help with the cost of living.
Please, do not protest. That makes us uncomfortable and we are really scared.
Ohio State University police and the Ohio State Highway Patrol arrested about three dozen people Thursday night for staging a pro-Palestine encampment on campus – carrying out what is likely the highest number of protest-related arrests there since the Vietnam War.
Hopefully we don’t repeat anything else of Ohio universities during the Vietnam war, but I have basically zero faith in that.
Would be nice if we didn't have people and politicians calling for exactly what happened at Kent state
Sorry but protecting the military industrial complex's support for apartheid and genocide is more important than your constitutional rights.
The military industrial complex can be repurposed for space exploration and settlement, and would yield far greater profits than what’s achieved from death and destruction. People who have stakes in these decisions already know this.
But you can only create exploitable working classes by perpetuating said death and destruction. Those who wish to remain in power keep perpetuating the same lies by keeping people divided based on arbitrary criteria like race, religion or whatever.
Edit to say there are sociopaths amongst us who want to harm others based on their own delusions, so the military industrial complex makes sense for creating defensive capabilities. However, enabling genocide or perpetuating unjust warfare will always create a cycle of bloodlust and violence. Again, the stakeholders of these decisions know this. Creating a cycle of violence and bloodlust serves their needs.
Land of the free lol
the military industrial complex is getting antsy and needs a new excuse to ramp up war production.
So, sending weapons for two full blown wars isn't satisfying enough for them?
Makes sense though. This is the same country that responds to school shootings by equipping teachers with more guns.
So they didn’t just murder them this time? Well that’s nice.
Oh wait I’m thinking of Kent State.
The land of the free!
Not sure that this is because the protest is against Israel or just this is a protest. After all, look what went down during the cessation of Occupy Wall street. Those guys were rough.
