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Superhero stories are loved by the military.  The simple binary message of good vs bad is a great place to show off military hardware without any examination of the morality of using it at all.

Somehow however despite my addiction to reading them beginning at age 10 and collecting them right up until college, I never got sold on the violence and the military as being cool.

Yes, that is great for you.  Personally I was horrified by some bible stories I heard when I was 12 years old.  But most people are woven of different cloth.  The human creature is social and imitating others gives them social approval and many have something built into them which prevents them from being critical.  They accept whatever social program they are given without question.  They have a feature others lack. 

A man can be in his late sixties, he can lose his drivers license, and then be told he can't buy weed or liquor because he can't prove his age.  The clerk says with a straight face. 'I don't make the rules'.  If the rules say shit on someones life for no good reason the clerks of the world are there to do it.  There is a race between most people to do the shitting.

I'm just following orders.

 

He's five feet two and he's six feet four
He fights with missiles and with spears
He's all of 31 and he's only 17
He's been a soldier for a thousand years

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He's the universal soldier and he
really is to blame
His orders come from far away no more
They come from him, and you, and me
and brothers can't you see
this is not the way we put an end to war

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Not to be out-protested by the Yalies, the Columbia contingent of anti-Israel protesters have returned to the campus in force.  Tents are back up, with protester vowing to stay "forever", which is a very long time and highly unlikely. However, according to the article, rumour is the university will tolerate their presence for a week.

This likely because it is Finals Week, and the NYPD dropping in with Tear Gas to disperse the protesters would disrupt the all important test taking.  Once finals are over, many students will leave anyhow, so I suspect they are just waiting to see how many hang out going into the summer session.

One thing I find annoying is that being anti-Israeli is equated with being anti-semitic, though they are not one in the same.  Antisemitism is a hatred of Jewish people and the religion, anti-Israel is a hatred of the Zionist political state.  There are plenty of Jews who can't stand the Israeli goobermint.  Those Jews do tend to stay quiet though, because they get called out as being traitors by those in favor of the Israel goobermint policy of getting ridof the Palestinians by any means necessary.

Still waiting for the Harvard preppies to drop in the competition for most radical Ivy League student body, so far the Cambridge crowd has been pretty quiet.  Also so far nothing from 2nd tier schools like Duke or 3rd tier like Notre Dame to check in, as well as the state schools and CUNY, the City University of NY, which I would think was pretty full of lower class aspirants to become part of the great capitalist game.

It's a good start to what promises to be an entertaining summer of collapse newz. 

https://nypost.com/2024/04/21/us-news/new-anti-israel-tent-city-takes-over-columbia-university-we-are-here-forever/

New anti-Israel tent city takes over Columbia University lawn days after NYPD raid as activists vow to stay 'forever'

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[K-Dog]

This is a week old.

It describes the Iranian attack on Israel and has some info that is good to know.  Background on the current genocide.

This one is new.

A14 billion aid package is passed.  The US responds to the Iranian attack.

There was a movie about this back in the days of the floppy disk.






An even earlier move suggested what ridin Biden would be like. 

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Well, so far it's still growing.  Yalies have now been arrested, there's acttion downtown at NYU, Harvard, MIT and Boston University have joinedthe East Coast party and UCLA and Berkely are representing the Left Cost radicals.  Faculty has joined the students at Columbia and the rhetoric is whipping up.

So far, not much heard from Uncle Joe and Da Fed Goobermint yet, they're still leaving it to tthe school adminstratos and local Gestapo to control the protests.  The critical change will be if/when these protests migrate from the "liberal elite" schools on the coasts to the state universities across the country.  That's when the National Guard took over and you got Kent State and 4 dead in Oh-Hi-Oh back in '68.

So far, the threats of expulsion, arrests and some ass kicking by the Gestapo hasn't been enough to put a lid on it, and my sense is that it will grow, sort of like Occupy.  I think there's been enough anger and frustration boiling up from before and after Covid that the Gen Z crowd is ready to take their turn at battling TPTB.  We'll see.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/23/yale-nyu-uni-college-arrests-pro-palestine-protest-israel-gaza-war

Dozens arrested at Yale and NYU as pro-Palestinian student protests spread

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Here's the view from the editorial staff of the Columbia Spectator, where I once was the photography editor.

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/04/18/is-columbia-in-crisis/

Is Columbia in crisis?

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[K-Dog]

This money buys no love.

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Goin' Global now!  This will make Gestapo Crackdown in any individual country more difficult and make the whole movement more difficult to quell.  It's starting to take on the level of the Occupy movement which went International.  Of course, in the end Occupy didn't really accomplish all that much, but it didn't really have easily defineable goals like this.  Divestiture of investment from any arms manufacturers or companies doing business with Israel is a very straightforward goal that would have a huge effect of the Israeli ability to prosecute the war.  Of coursee, I'm sure the Smartest Guys in the Room could find a way to do back door financing, but it would still have an effect.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/26/are-us-campus-protests-against-israels-war-on-gaza-going-global

Are US campus protests against Israel's war on Gaza going global?

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Are US campus protests against Israel's war on Gaza going global?

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I mentioned I took perverse pleasure watching the decline :

I doubt that three-quarters of them actually give a flying fugazy about the Palestinians, and even fewer could find Gaza on a map if you water-boarded them. They affect to be intersectional victims of the universal oppressor, but in so far as many of the rioters are girls of the Ivy League, or comparable redoubts of privilege— little blue-eyed, blonde-haired muffins raised on pony club, Hermes, and artisan granola — there must be something else going on. That something else is probably sex, which is so problematical now in any traditional frame of a man getting it on with a woman that the American birth-rate is going to zero.

White phosphorus on civilians.
Only the mentally impaired can be fine with this.

This having nothing to do with what could go on in a 'young muffins' brain.  This Zionist mofo's brain is so full of hate he ruins himself.

I can't believe this xenophobic ageist misogynist.  Over the top.  I hope anger against the genocide in Gaza goes global.  Yesterday would not be soon enough.

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This having nothing to do with what could go on in a 'young muffins' brain.  This Zionist mofo's brain is so full of hate he ruins himself.

I can't believe this xenophobic ageist misogynist.  Over the top.  I hope anger against the genocide in Gaza goes global.  Yesterday would not be soon enough.

What's wrong with going to a demonstration to get laid?   You meet more interesting people usually than your typical pickup bar.  There's a built in conversation starter, you don't have to plod through the usual "What's your major?" "Are you on a sports team?" "What kind of music do you like" series of questions trying to find something in common to talk about before you get naked.  Plus, with tents right there, you don't even have to go back to your dorm room to make the beast with 2 backs! 

This guy also clearly did not attend Columbia, otherwise he would know that Barnard is really short on blond muffins.  They mostly go to Mt. Holyoke and Vassar.  Barnard is packed with Asian and Indian muffins with black hair.  Sadly also, they tend to be trying to hook up with each other rather than a protester of the opposite sex.  Barnard requires applicants to have had at least one lesbian experience in order to be accepted. lol.  OK, OK, my homophobia is showing again.  I admit there are a few bisexual women at Barnard. lol.

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The good old days of the local cop walking the beat and helping little old ladies to cross the street when he's not rescuing cats that have climbed a tree and can't get back down are ovah!  Now it's straight to the SWAT teams in full Riot Gear if 50 undergrads set up tents and serve coffee and doughnuts while they socialize and hand out leaflets calling for divestiture of investment in arms manufacturers.  "Assymetric Response" is the new doctrine for dealing with any dissent in Amerika.  Hit 'em hard and fast with overwhelming power and scare the living shit out of anyone who dares to question the party line.

If they had ignored the Columbia campers, by the end of the week they would have been getting ready for graduation and done with finals attending parties and smoking dope.  Instead, they set off copycat protests all over the world, and they're cycling it up in a feedback loop that if somebody doesn't show some CFS will end up with 4 more dead in Oh-Hi-Oh.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/04/27/israel-hamas-war-campus-protests-arrests/73462872007/

Mass arrests, officers in riot gear: Pro-Palestinian protesters face police crackdowns

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[TDoS]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/04/27/israel-hamas-war-campus-protests-arrests/73462872007/
Mass arrests, officers in riot gear: Pro-Palestinian protesters face police crackdowns
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I wonder why I haven't seen this type of title elsewhere, perhaps reflecting a similar sentiment but with only a minor word change to reflect how others might feel?

Mass arrests, officers in riot gear: Pro-Hamas protesters face police crackdowns

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I wonder why I haven't seen this type of title elsewhere, perhaps reflecting a similar sentiment but with only a minor word change to reflect how others might feel?

Perhaps because none of the protesters hold up any signs reading that they are pro-Hamas or have any slogans or chants saying they are pro-Hamas?  AFAIK no protest leaders have endorsed Hamas, although there may be some members of Hamas who have attended the demonstrations.



Do you see any signs supporting Hamas in this crowd?

Unless the news agency could get verifiable proof that the demonstrators were supporting Hamas, they would be wide open to a lawsuit.  As it is, even saying the protests are anti-semitic is not accurate, though there are anti-semites attending some of them no doubt.

The goals of the protests are to end the occupation of Gaza by the Israeli military, to force divestment of companies doing business with Israel, and to have self-ruling Goobermint for the Palestinians.  The goal of Hamas is destruction of the state of Israel, which again some protesters may support but isn't an express goal of the protests as it is of Hamas.

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The protests going into another week are still increasing in number and size, and they have ratcheted up from setting up tents outdoors to Occupying university buildings.  Since few of the universities are likely to capitulate and do any significant divestiture of their portfolios, it's closing in on time for TPTB to send in the National Guard.  It's hard to imagine they will allow this movement to go on as long as Occupy did.  Since the Summer is just beginning, there's a solid 6 months left in the outdoor protest season, and since many students don't take summer classes they likely are looking forward to a fun summer making some headlines, smoking dope and hooking up while doing battle with the Gestapo.



I think you can also count on at this point action happening at the Summer Olympics, being held this year in Paris.  Nobody loves street protesting more than the Frogs, who are experts at it and won't pass up a great opportunity like this one to burn some cop cars.

As predicted, 2024 is shaping up to be a banner year in Collapse.

https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/university-protests-palestine-04-30-24/index.html

Pro-Palestinian protests disrupt colleges across the US

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They're clearing the campus.  So far no teargas.

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I wonder why I haven't seen this type of title elsewhere, perhaps reflecting a similar sentiment but with only a minor word change to reflect how others might feel?

Perhaps because none of the protesters hold up any signs reading that they are pro-Hamas or have any slogans or chants saying they are pro-Hamas?

Hamas folks are Palestinians. Leaders of Palestinians no less. So obviously support of Palestinians includes Hamas, no matter how unseemly that might be to those of delicate sensibilities. No different than support of Americans includes support of Americans who are MAGA, KKK members, white nationalists, black nationalists, neo-Nazi's American by birth, Doomers, etc etc.

Did you really not know that Hamas leaders are Palestinians?