the university has a right

No, the university has an obligation to comply with laws that forbid groups that would try to disrupt some students’ experiences for bigoted reasons. They do not have the right to pick and choose when they honor that obligation.

Once we get grammar squared away, a social studies lesson on how laws like Title IX protections against sex discrimination have been enforced on colleges and universities for the last several decades is also in order

Nah, taxpayer funded institutions shouldn’t just be able to say any group they don’t like is inappropriate and ban them with zero process and University students do have a first amendment right to assemble themselves

This Republican group should be banned because they’re a discriminatory group of bigots who make the environment unsafe for other students and violate civil rights laws, but what this dipshit university (which let this nazi club carry on for years until they made headlines and is actually now just trying to make a new college Republicans chapter, which is a whole other 1st amendment violation) thinks is “appropriate” should have absolutely nothing to do with it

A pattern which would repeat in 1980, 2016, and 2024

Yep, and so many of the same people were involved in each of them, and every single one should have been in prison or executed.

tbf, knowing my countrymen… they probably would.

I agree with everything else, but I’m not so sure about this. I think if we had said “This is treason” and treated it like what the average American thinks a treason/coup scenario would look like (dramatic and violent, like a tv show where the president is played by Harrison Ford or Kiefer Sutherland) and used whatever force was necessary to put people in jail immediately most Americans would have rallied 'round the flag.

Either way, yeah we definitely should have rolled the dice on it.

At the risk of spoiling a future HistoryMeme, I think a very important part of this story is that as a candidate in the 1968 election he conspired with then mid-level diplomat Henry Kissinger to undermine peace talks (arc). Literal damn treason that cost literally goddamn hundreds of thousands of lives, all because he didn’t want to lose a campaign talking point.

e; Oh, and Kissinger was rewarded by being made Nixon’s Secretary of State, where he went on to be the Henry Kissinger we all know and are hopefully completely horrified by.

Any candidate for the 2028 Democratic presidential primary better be getting asked about pardoning all these people

Yep, and having seen all the ways for profit market based entities have screwed people over my entire life I think the only real answer to this problem of construction is a massive public works project. Housing healthcare education and public safety are all too important to be left up to markets.

Even if this exact version gets passed into law, courts are going to kill the ban on venture capital buying homes or the rich assholes will just find a loophole, and the slashing of regulations and subsidies just mean for profit developers are going to get paid taxpayer money to build barely affordable shit boxes that will fall apart in a few years

We need actual public housing and to tax the big investors out of existence

Unfortunately (almost) anything you do for a living becomes a chore even on the best days

At the end of the day it’s because we chose to declare war on them. The fact we may or may not have had faulty intelligence or whatever other excuse gets pedaled doesn’t change the basic facts that we started a war needlessly and then 170 or more kids were killed in the course of that war.

“Plan to close doors in front of smouldering crater where barn once stood under consideration”

Be a Parent, help your kids succeed and stop blaming everyone else for not doing your job for you.

When people stop understanding child care and education is everyone’s job societies collapse

Majorites have supported stricter gun laws for a while now but our government doesn’t care what we want

Furthermore, Miguez’s campaign responded to the Guardian’s list of questions about the police report by providing a 24 February email sent by the accuser’s father to the state senator’s office, which had the sentence: “Everything my daughter has reported about you were lies and she is a liar and has a drug problem.”

The email doesn’t elaborate on precisely how the author knows his daughter told lies, and he didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. But Miguez’s campaign said in a statement: “The woman’s father gave permission to share this email with you.”

This is like the most abuser coded series of actions and statements short of actually assaulting someone I can imagine

Average American: “That won’t stop me because I can’t read! [Trump approval rating continues going lower].”

I found folding chairs for $30 each just now without even trying, there is absolutely no justifying $1000 on a damn chair

1. Closer to 30% these days and it’s still falling

2. Even 40% doesn’t win a two way race (which almost all American elections are) without voter suppression

Masturbating I get, becoming addicted to something you enjoy I get, using a third party app to try to break your addiction seems dumb but I get how desperation can make you dumb

What I absolutely can’t get is what anyone could productively do with this data. Like, I don’t even think blackmailing someone with this could work. The worst you could say about someone with it is that they had a porn habit they didn’t like and were trying to change it, and anyone rational is just gonna say “I don’t see what’s the big deal with watching porn, but good on you for attempting some kind of self improvement I guess.”

Voter suppression, media environment where the leaders of video game companies and movie studios push stories about grizzled American soldiers disregarding human rights and basic decency for the greater good, voter suppression, news media that mindlessly regurgitates Pentagon propaganda, voter suppression, attacks on public education, and voter suppression

Oh, did I mention voter suppression? Because I really feel like it doesn’t get talked about enough

Quit thinking like a Republican, you can’t just blindly punish your way out of every problem. You want journalists who can get information on what the guy with the gun pointed at your head to be able to report that information.