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A TALE OF TWO COLUMBIAS

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by studegator, May 1, 2024.

  1. studegator

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    Looks to me like some “professional protesters” should be in jail for a long time.
    The NYPD Comes for Columbia’s Occupation. Plus. . .

    “Save some pesky details—like, say, the chants for globalizing the intifada (a call for globalizing a campaign of terror aimed at killing Jews); telling Jewish students to “go back to Poland; and, in at least one case, assaulting a student—the encampment was just kids being kids. Indeed, if you asked the likes of Ilhan Omar and AOC, both of whom made pilgrimages, these students explicitly cheering for Hamas weren’t pro-war at all—they were standing against genocide and for liberation.
    That position became less tenable after protesters smashed windows with a hammer, occupied Hamilton Hall, and started fighting with Columbia employees.”
    “Their video captured professional protester Lisa Fithian, 63—a later-in-life learner?—directing the barricade. Fithian, it turns out, is a “protest consultant” paid by union and activist groups to teach their members tactics for taking over the streets. Known as “Professor Occupy,” she’s been arrested between 80–100 times and was seen on Monday instructing protesters how to block doors and also calling two Jewish students, who tried to intervene, “assholes.”
    While the mob that broke in were masked, a number of them were visibly older than the students. Perhaps some of these more experienced activists smuggled in some wraps before the paddy wagon arrived. “
     
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  2. Gatorrick22

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    This is not protesting, these are rallies for terrorist organizations, paid for by you know who... Soros and his organizations.
     
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  3. G8tas

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    Kind of reminds you of the truck convoy from a couple years ago that was funded by the radical right wing doesn't it?
     
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  4. Gatorrick22

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    Except that they never got any funds... Nice try though.

    One other "small" detail. The truck rallies were not funded by outside sources, it was organic. These terrorists rallies were instigated by people like Soros.

    Huge detail... difference.
     
  5. duggers_dad

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    Can’t we have a good demonstration without paid Soros agitators ? Why is he so evil ?
     
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  6. G8trGr8t

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    Link?
     
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  7. tampagtr

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  8. wgbgator

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    Welp, we've reached the point where people are like "these anti-Semites are backed by international Jewry" ... Good job everyone
     
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  9. tampagtr

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    Those professional outside agitators are like Santa - they are everywhere at once.

    More than 1,000 protesters have been arrested on campuses in states including Texas, Utah, Virginia, North Carolina, New Mexico, Connecticut, Louisiana, California and New Jersey in recent days, some after violent clashes with police in riot gear.

    Columbia University vows to expel student protesters
    Columbia University vows to expel student protesters - Tampa Bay Times
     
  10. wgbgator

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    There are outside agitators swarming campuses, we usually just call them cops though
     
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  11. tampagtr

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    Purely coincidentally, that seems to be where “violence” breaks out.
     
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  12. Orange_and_Bluke

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    Not many folks deserve property crime, but you seem to be asking for it…some bad karma vibes man.
     
  13. archigator_96

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    Say it ain't so!
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  14. wgbgator

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    Well, that's one more on the high conflict poll for you ... wishing bad things on people who disagree with you
     
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  15. Orange_and_Bluke

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    Read it again though. I said you seem to be asking for it.
    Dude, you mock cops like all the time as if they're the criminals.
     
  16. wgbgator

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    I dont really understand, are the cops going to destroy my property because I called them agitators? That would prove me correct about them being criminals. If I call the cops because someone else did something, the crime has already occurred, and in my experience they cant do shit about property crime anyway. They certainly aren't going to call CSI or whatever to find my bike or stolen car, whether I kiss their ass online or not.
     
  17. Orange_and_Bluke

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    You and bling should get together and have a few drinks, tie each other into word knots.
    Sounds like fun for you guys.
     
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  18. 92gator

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    I'm seeing that you bolded: "...these are rallies for terrorist organizations..."

    Kinda surprising coming from you but then maybe I have you confused with someone else....in any event, assuming that's what you're questioning:

    The protests flared up in the wake of HAMAS<---a terrorist organization invading Israel (on October 7, 2023).

    They echo Hamas talking points ("Israel targeting innocent civilians");

    ...they pretend Hamas never even invaded Israel...

    ...didn't rape and kill Israelis while in Israel...

    ....didn't take hostages....

    ...don't still have hostages...

    They chant shit like "from the river to the sea", etc. etc.

    They can talk shit about Palestine all they want, but they are taking up for Hamas, doing Hamas' bidding, and worst of all, being most culpable of mushing any distinction between Hamas and Palestine.

    There's simply no longer a tenable distinction there, because the Palestinians not only refused to create distance, they've affirmatively owned that Hamas IS them.

    ...and it's manifested in our domestic Palestinian champions....
     
  19. G8trGr8t

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    that was rick, not me. I was just asking for a link to support his claim that Soros was paying for the protests
     
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