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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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I suppose "Penile Colony" is too tempting a pun
to pass up...
Not to mention that some of the hits suggest that people make genuine Rouge Angles of Satin misspellings on this.![]()
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He's an Electable Democrat. He's Delectable.
edited 12th Mar '16 11:06:49 AM by TheHandle
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Here is a bit that shows yet another incident
Between the years of 1964 and 1970 the tactics of both the University administration and the protest movement evolved into bouts of conflict marred by violence. At Berkeley, the administration’s goal was to silence the students, however, the administration did not want to resort to police violence. The students at Berkeley also did not want a violent confrontation for fear that it would dull the impact of the main issue, free speech. However, as the decade moved forward, student protestors often resorted to vandalism and a craving to confront police. Likewise, campus administrators opted to answer the new style of student protest with their own brand of violence. By the late 1960s, University administrations resorted to, not fair, calm negotiations, but police brutality. For example, in 1968, Columbia University saw its first image of this change.[32] Administrators attempted to build a gymnasium in Harlem, a predominantly African American neighborhood, while only seventy African American undergraduates attended the University.[33] Demonstrators later captured a hostage and occupied Hamilton Hall, as well as the office of the President of the University.[34] Over two days, 1,000 students joined the movement, occupying three more buildings before negotiations between the activists and the administration failed.[35] Eventually, the President of Columbia ordered 1,000 police officers to campus, where some students taunted the police before the police pounced.[36] In total, 100 students were injured and over 700 students were arrested.[37] The evolution in student protest activity, from taking hostage a police car in 1964 to taking a person hostage in 1968, as well as the evolution from negotiating to moving in the police in order to regain law and order on-campus is evident. In just four years, protest tactics changed, as did control tactics by Universities. By the end of 1970, and many more confrontations similar to Columbia University’s, this more brutal method of problem solving proved lethal.
Here is my source, as well as the full story of the incident.
Like it or not, and some may indeed think it was necessary for the cause of social justice, this kind of shit happened a lot in the 60's and it isn't happening now.
Their were of course other forms of left wing violence during the 60's and 70's, but they are so beyond the pale as to not be worth comparing to the comparatively mild and civl protests going on today.
Oh and also unlike the 60's in the interest of fairness, the authorities have not been nearly as brutal as they were back then in attempting to crush dissent on campuses.
Anyway to get back to the present The best explication for Hillary's aids comments.
Essentially it is all to easy in this age where people of all different backgrounds can meet on the internet and share experiences how Americans practically lived in different worlds in that time. Nancy was probably the first "important person" Hillary remembers talking about Aids. Still, she should have probably had an intern look into the statement or I don't know google "The Reagan administration and Aids", before making that statement.
edited 12th Mar '16 11:15:44 AM by JackOLantern1337
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
You mean groups and people like the Weather Underground, the Symbionese Liberation Army and Students for a Democratic Society
?
Then again, there was something around then that isn't now: The Soviet Union.
And anyone heard of the Boricua Popular Army
?
edited 12th Mar '16 11:21:13 AM by Greenmantle
Keep Rolling OnThose were far left movements that weren't 100% supported by many people. Hell, the Weather Underground were mostly a bunch of idiots that took their name from a lyric in Subterranean Homesick Blues by Bob Dylan (specifically "Don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows").
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?Sanders: Don't blame my supporters for violence at Trump rally
"I don't think our supporters are inciting. What our supporters are doing is responding to a candidate who has, in fact, in many ways, encouraged violence," Sanders said Saturday at a press conference in Chicago. "When he talks about ... 'I wish we were in the old days when you could punch somebody in the head.' What do you think that says to his supporters?"
Sanders also referred to an incident earlier this week in which a black protester was sucker-punched by a Trump supporter as he was being led out of a rally.
"So the issue now is Donald Trump has got to be loud and clear and tell his supporters that violence at rallies is not what America is about and to end it," Sanders said.
http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/03/12/trump-startled-ohio-protester.cnn
Apparently a protester tried to rush the stage Trump was speaking on.
This is getting ridiculous.
Sanders camp fires back at Clinton for healthcare comments
"I don't know where he was when I was trying to get healthcare in '93 and '94," Clinton said, according to New York Times reporter Amy Chozick.
"Literally standing right behind her," Mike Casca tweeted with a photo of Clinton and Sanders during a speech on healthcare.
Others shared an image of a note from Clinton to Sanders thanking him for his "commitment to real health care."
edited 12th Mar '16 12:15:12 PM by SolipsistOwl
Hillary has a bad Digging Yourself Deeper problem. I think she's much better off playing defensively. Offensively, she's just... offensive.
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I was trying to find a clip of the "creation of Barbara Bush" from the Lil' Bush show. We'd probably have Lenin or Trotsky step out of the mixer machine.
edited 12th Mar '16 12:25:15 PM by Artificius
"I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once."You mean if it's signed? It'll probably make things a mess if it gets approved by Congress, but the upheaval going on, I'm not sure it'll get through.
The best explanation for Hillary Clinton's bizarre comments about the Reagans and HIV/AIDS
(Basically she's an elite wearing the blinders of the elites)
I'm getting this mild feeling that the Hillary Campaign suffered some sort of breakdown internally when Sanders took Michigan. The Nancy thing and now the semi Maoist unpersoning of Sanders from the Hillarycare era seems. Connected.
Speaking of college protesters being annoying little shits: I read something in my local paper about how college students are complaining about the workload that college places on them. You know, studying, taking exams, writing papers and theses, and so forth. They say it's taking up too much of their valuable time that might be spent rallying, protesting, and other activist activities.
Seems to me like somebody's missing the whole point of going to college in the first place, and not in a funny way...
This Space Intentionally Left Blank.They have a point, in that students too busy studying don't get to be a driving force in changing the world.
But they're called student strikes for a reason: you're supposed to be making a sacrifice for the cause, not activisting just because you're free that afternoon and had nothing better to do. Although you probably don't. I mean, activism is among the best and noblest and worthiest things to do, ever. The only thing that tops that is actually enacting and implementing solutions.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.Cruz is currently winning the Wyoming convention.
Warren?
Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.![]()
Maybe, but if you want to be an activist, you could probably do it on your own without pissing away your parents' money to the tune of forty grand a year, and getting some degree that isn't worth the paper it's printed on.
edited 12th Mar '16 1:11:09 PM by pwiegle
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It occurs that the Sanders supporters' spontaneous organization against Trump perfectly underscores why he's the most electable of the two Democrats in a general.
"I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once."