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2nd February 2017, 08:24 AM | #81 |
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Either Berkeley allows free speech or they lose their Federal funding. Chris B. |
2nd February 2017, 08:27 AM | #82 |
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I've been following him for a while now. And he has written some pretty funny and insightful stuff. And some stuff that was wildly of the mark (his explanation of the Alt-Right).
But he has been on infinite repeat for a while now. I lost interest and was thinking his star would soon start to fade. But now that he has a $ 250.000 book deal and his trolling has actually provoked a spectacular riot that is even in the News here in the Netherlands. His trolling has worked. It is highlighting how nuts and dangerous his detractors are and how ideologically one-sided the universities are, and how hostile to 'wrongthink'. In one swoop, Antifa introduces Milo to a huge audience that will take a while to tire of him and will buy his book. He also does his thing as a Breitbart icon, putting that platform on the map too. Antifa made Milo rich and famous today. Counter-productive doesn't even begin to describe it. |
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The Three Word Story Pledge of Allegiance- "I Hereby swear upon Engelbert's grave that I will gallop, not stride run, not walk posting three words on Shemp's honor, honoring: bananas, dwarfs, clarinets, [the 7th naughty forum word], haggis, Batman, nuns, wombats until such time as I'm sober. Or dead." "Some people have a way with words, other people...Um...Oh...Uh, not have way." -Steve Martin |
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2nd February 2017, 08:35 AM | #85 |
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2nd February 2017, 08:35 AM | #86 |
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What the hell are you talking about? He speaks all over the place. He "powns" and "schools" fools and libtards on the youtubes all the doo-dah-day. His irresistible gayboy tour (or whatever he calls it) got cancelled on the last stop. He got paid, got his "message" (whatever that is) out, and will reap the PR rewards of this silly debacle for quite awhile.
We've spoken before on this issue and free speech doesn't mean you get to spew consequence free everywhere, all the time. |
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This too shall pass. Rage and protest will keep happening as Trump continues "foreigners bad" rhetoric. But nobody who matters...Republicans will vote Republican no matter what....will remember this 2 years from now. Trump himself will be in the limelight in 2018 and the major new factor in congressional elections. It's all about Trump no matter what.
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A lot of these hard-core Leftist organizations will be struggling to keep their doors open once Trump pulls their federal funding. |
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The Three Word Story Pledge of Allegiance- "I Hereby swear upon Engelbert's grave that I will gallop, not stride run, not walk posting three words on Shemp's honor, honoring: bananas, dwarfs, clarinets, [the 7th naughty forum word], haggis, Batman, nuns, wombats until such time as I'm sober. Or dead." "Some people have a way with words, other people...Um...Oh...Uh, not have way." -Steve Martin |
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2nd February 2017, 09:11 AM | #104 |
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Depends what you mean by "in advance." Reading the article, they cancelled the talk as soon as they knew it was moving in the direction of a riot. Proving malice aforethought would require showing intent by UC Berkeley.
It would also require them to have the resources to pre-manage things in a safe manner - not an easy thing to pull off. How have things gone at other Yiannopoulos events? |
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Evidence? My good man, you have not produced any evidence at all regarding this matter other than Jabba the Hutt style blathering from so called "IWW."
Here is the video where you can see the attacker assaulting the victim, who produced a personally owned firearm in self protection only: http://patch.com/washington/seattle/...poulos-protest Clean shot |
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Think this needs to be put in perspective. I've not read much on specific numbers with BBC saying hundreds protesting and LA Times saying 1,500 protesting. Number of rioters numbered in the dozens to a couple hundred. UC Berkeley has 38,200 students enrolled for the year 2015, which is not to mention non-student population in the area. Or people from out of the local area showing up.
So would it be fair to say that at most 4% of Berkeley students were even interested enough to simply protest this event, with an even tinier percentage of those students causing trouble/rioting/burning **** etc. Assuming of course that all people participating are actually students there. Is that really a need for the pulling of federal funds? Should we be setting behavior standards for the federal funds that are given? And who's going to set those standards for us.. |
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One would think this viewpoint isn't altogether difficult to understand.
Guess I was wrong. So here goes: You (general you) show intolerance to people based solely on race, religion, sexual orientation, or where they're from, and you're a bad person. Period. That's all there is to it. Being intolerant of people who show through their actions that they are bad people doesn't make you a bad person. It's simple common decency. If I need to drop that to 140 characters, let me know. |
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The Three Word Story Pledge of Allegiance- "I Hereby swear upon Engelbert's grave that I will gallop, not stride run, not walk posting three words on Shemp's honor, honoring: bananas, dwarfs, clarinets, [the 7th naughty forum word], haggis, Batman, nuns, wombats until such time as I'm sober. Or dead." "Some people have a way with words, other people...Um...Oh...Uh, not have way." -Steve Martin |
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2nd February 2017, 09:37 AM | #116 |
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What your video shows is an armed Milo supporter walking into a protesting crowd, getting blocked and pushed back[*] by a couple of people in the crowd, and then opening fire on someone.
* which seems a rational response given the history of armed extreme right-wingers and crowds of people who disagree with them (for example Breivik). |
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So predictable. Don't ever change! |
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When "V for Vendetta" came out, I liked it a lot, too.
Still a great movie, don't get me wrong. But it's that age-old problem: the worst thing that can possibly happen to something you're an enthusiast about is for it to get popular. Now these Guy Fawkes masks draped head to toe in black have to **** up every damn social movement they touch (and they make sure they show up every time). |
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