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technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 days ago

‘We will never use them’: the California universities stockpiling AR-15s, grenades and submachine guns

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‘We will never use them’: the California universities stockpiling AR-15s, grenades and submachine guns

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A 2021 state law allows campus police to own military equipment for civilian safety – students fear it may be used to quash dissent
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  • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Military grade equipment being defended by campus cops?

    Be a real shame if someone were to reappropriate them

  • chgxvjh [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    wtf is campus police?

    • Robert_Kennedy_Jr [xe/xem, xey/xem]@hexbear.net
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      • chgxvjh [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        If they need pepper spray for sitting student, makes sense they need grenades when things escalate beyond sitting.

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      They basically drive around on sidewalks and almost run people over, occasionally harass female students, but mostly sit around and just eat up student tuition doing nothing.

      But the main reason is that they are immediately on campus when protests start so they can immediately intimidate students or protect random 60+ year old Zionists that want to yell slurs at random students.

      • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        or protect random 60+ year old Zionists that want to yell slurs at random students.

        From the videos I saw of those campus protests, those Zionists did a lot more than hurl slurs, they were full on trying to rip those kids apart with their bare hands.

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          Yea the encampments in California got full on assaulted by brown shirts with like pipes and bats and shit like that. Police were suspiciously not present for those events until the day after when they broke the encampment up. Think it was UCLA if I remember right… It’s been a long couple years

          • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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            Police were suspiciously not present for those events

            Oh, they were there. Any time a protestor tried to defend themselves or others a cop would show up within seconds to arrest them.

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      It’s one of the steps to funnel kids into the school to prison pipeline

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Ok you know how cops are guys too lazy and stupid to join the army

      Ok imagine the guys too lazy and stupid to become cops

      • chgxvjh [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        you mean like ice agents?

        • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          Yeah that’s a good comparison actually

    • red_giant [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Stop resisting

  • yellowfattybean [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    we will never use them

    nicholson-yes

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    Really burying the lede that this is for campus cops. I thought commiefornia was starting to arm and train the grad students

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      arm and train the grad students

      sicko-wistful

  • ClathrateG [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    ‘Those antisemitic anti-genocide protestors are imminently about to raid the universities’ unsecured armoury, we have to pre-emptively drone-strike their encampment’

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Mandating the ability to pre-emptively drone strike your own armory, thereby necessitating an armory to contain the drones to strike itself.

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    but someone probably will

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    Ah, yes, I often spend tons of money on things that I will also never use

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    i wake up hungover in my dorm room and light a cigarette
    10 seconds later my door is blasted apart with a breaching charge
    before i can react, a flashbang flies at my face and breaks my front teeth before searing my retinas and popping both my eardrums
    i attempt to stand and take thirty 9mm rounds to the torso before my feet touch the floor
    as my vision fades, the college swat team tell me that smoking is not permitted on campus property


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    The fuck?

  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    ✍️

  • culpritus [any]@hexbear.net
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    Do you want a student uprising?

    • Kilgore Trout@feddit.it
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      Students will write a 16-pages post on Instagram in protest, perhaps even a reel carousel.

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      Russian revolution was possible because 1st world war spread guns to plebes. Just saying.

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    In your mind you’d think this was security to stop would be school shooters, but, you’re wrong, it’s actually to fuck up student protestors.

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      Oh yeah, the average person probably thinks this is still about “protecting the people” don’t they? They don’t even consider why these sorts of things keep happening (and why despite these things happening, school shootings only get more and more frequent)

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    Where do they put them all? fedposting

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    Oh okay then

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