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u/VerySpiceyBoi Mar 04 '25
No masks at protests or rallies… unless you’re a nazi
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u/HammerlyDelusion Mar 04 '25
Key word is illegal protest. Which definitely won’t apply to any nazis gathering according to this administration
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u/outofmindwgo Mar 04 '25
Please keep protesting. They can't enforce this shit yet and it's very important
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u/MrMetastasis Mar 04 '25
Deadass. If you let this stop you then the Left has the memory of a goddamn goldfish
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u/Anonymous-Josh ☭ Mar 04 '25
They can’t stop us all (plus the protests currently as it stands are illegal)
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u/fyrefox45 Mar 04 '25
All is a big word until things really crash. As long as people can keep on going to work and ignoring it, there's just not enough motion yet
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u/djerk Mar 04 '25
A ton of people are out of work, and the job market is quite awful. If we suddenly have a bunch of students expelled from school we have the literal recipe for a nationwide riot.
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u/EarthSurf Mar 04 '25
Yup. Was laid off back in November and just working freelance for the first time in my adult life.
Never have had more free time on my hands.
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u/djerk Mar 04 '25
If protest is illegal then the ideas that America supposedly stood for are truly compromised and all is lost.
Obviously we’ve known that we have been cooked for a long time but this actually means it’s over. Stop worrying about saving America now, it’s dead.
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u/SpacedAndFried Mar 04 '25
Yeah it’s pretty cooked. America has literally never existed in the way that people idealize it though, at least in my opinion
Our government and insurance companies have been committing mass social murder on us for basically the entire country’s history. The dude Luigi capped was a legalized mass murderer who got a gigantic public mourning from mainstream media lol
To quote bill burr because obviously I would never say this, this country is run by rabid dogs who need to be treated as such
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u/wildverde Mar 04 '25
This reminds me of the Kent State shootings so much already:
A common sentiment was expressed by students at New York University with a banner hung out of a window that read, "They Can't Kill Us All."
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u/madhatter_45 Mar 04 '25
We learnt that the right to peaceful protest was one of the basic human rights in 3rd grade and he wants to deny that. Truly the country of freedom
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Why did he end it like a work email reprimanding people for not cleaning the communal microwave lol
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u/Rendole66 Mar 04 '25
I really don’t think he writes these himself, he just screams and some employee types it up there was one the other day with his crypto announcement listing off specific crypto coins, trump doesn’t know that shit
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u/jonah-rah Mar 04 '25
I remember seeing video of him live tweeting on Election Day. He dictates stuff to an aide and then looks it over and tells them what to capitalize before they send it. So yeah he doesn’t type it but It’s a little more intentional than just jotting down screeds.
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u/FEdart Mar 04 '25
I think he writes some of them himself but you can clearly tell the difference based on the coherency of the message lol
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u/Mujichael Mar 04 '25
Don’t fuck with student protestors. Batista’s Regime tried that in Cuba while Castro was exiled and it lead to shoot outs and armed skirmishes between the state and students. Public option sided with the students once the population saw the depravity of the Batista Regime
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u/The-Neat-Meat Mar 04 '25
Yeah, I’m honestly becoming very scared that this administration is going to directly lead to an attempt at violent revolution, and how bad that goes will be very dependent on where the loyalties of military top brass lie and how many service members follow the lines they set. We already saw in 2020 that ratcheting up the suppression just impassions the people more (as it should), and I’m terrified at how much it could escalate this time. Do not misunderstand me, these protests are just, escalation of them would be just, but I worry for the potential for innocent and good people expressing their first amendment rights to be seriously harmed or killed (again, as we have already seen countless times).
I really, really, really hope some of those supposed Constitution Enjoyers™️ in the GOP and Dems grow enough of a spine to stop this before it gets there.
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u/Mujichael Mar 04 '25
Unfortunately most average Americans can’t empathize with things they can’t see and feel. I feel it would take a violent overstep by those administration for regular salt of the earth Americans to take a stand
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u/bad_at_smashbros Mar 04 '25
on a completely unrelated note, did you know that AR-15s are as cheap as $500?
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u/DopeAnon Mar 05 '25
Students are less likely to have dependents, which can give them some freedom from worrying that their actions may affect those that depend on them. Students are less likely to be manipulated by fear, and I’m hopeful the younger generation will do more for themselves than the immediate generations before them, that allowed this nonsense to keep festering.
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u/NaeemTHM Mar 04 '25
Typical far left freaking out over nothing. Guys he clearly said illegal protests*. Get over yourselves, jeez.
*illegal to be defined after imprisonment.
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u/rachellewashere This mf never shuts up oh my god Mar 04 '25
I hope the colleges don’t go along with this and takes it to court but I have lost hope 😓
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u/Pistonenvy2 Mar 04 '25
why would we even pretend like we have to listen to this?
this is the equivalent of "I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY"
trump has no authority to subvert the first amendment. do not act as if he does. we can easily overpower any force he brings against us, other countries do this shit on a weekly fucking basis, get with the program.
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u/Illustrious_Rice_933 Mar 04 '25
Masks not only hide your identity but also protect your immunocompromised comrades (who are just as capable of organizing and protesting) and need community care to safely participate.
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u/luoland Mar 04 '25
Wait, in the US universities receive money from the state but you still have to pay to attend??
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u/TriskOfWhaleIsland post-postmodern neo-neomarxist Mar 04 '25
Yeah! Isn't it fantastic? 🤪
Even private universities receive a lot of federal funding.
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u/Griffdog17 Mar 04 '25
So wear masks at all rallys, got it. They just want to know your identity, don't give them that shit
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u/Mr_McZongo Mar 04 '25
I'm just still flabbergasted about how that one guy could have missed such an easy and necessary shot. Like how do you fucking miss that?!?! Fuck you.
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u/wait_and Mar 04 '25
It’s interesting that Trump is using the same mechanism that was used to force schools to implement title IV in the first place.
Students, you need to pressure your admin to publicly state that they will not cooperate with the Trump administration and not surrender any disciplinary records to the feds. You should pressure them to purge those records. Those schools that require less federal funding and receive more international students are more likely to do this since deporting their students would hurt their bottom line.
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u/The-Neat-Meat Mar 04 '25
I really don’t know how to comment on this without fedposting, but this certainly is not the exact kind of action that historically directly leads to even more “illegal” forms of “protest” and civil unrest.
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u/superabletie4 Politics Frog 🐸 Mar 04 '25
He’s tweeting from the prospective of a king at this point. Chat how do we do s citizens arrest?
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u/Breadromancer Mar 04 '25
Wonder if so called free speech warriors will say anything about this direct attack on free speech.
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u/oldtrenzalore Mar 04 '25
We went from Shining City on a Hill to a Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy, and it only took 40 years.
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u/No_Device2552 Mar 04 '25
haha we were cooked nearly 10 years ago. it’s been a very loud and clear descent into fascism. but i guess wanting to own the left was enough to ruin everyone’s futures. i know nihilism isn’t going to help but i truly don’t see a way out at this point unless the obvious does happen now.
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u/AutisticWhirlpoop Netanyahu is a officially a war criminal! Mar 04 '25
America heading towards a dictatorship at neck breaking speed
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u/sillyillybilly Mar 04 '25
New method of defunding some universities that have reputations of tolerating sexual assault and discrimination on campus just dropped /s (we should have the right to protest for Palestine)
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u/Shikary Mar 04 '25
I advise you to preemptively deport yourself to Europe or China :(
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u/Fullthrottlesolo Mar 04 '25
If only I had citizenship in either
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u/Shikary Mar 04 '25
For an American it shouldn't be hard to move to Europe. I see plenty here in Amsterdam, but I understand it depends also on your job.
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u/BeneficialAction3851 ☭ Mar 04 '25
No comments so far on the influx of nazi hate rallies but of course none of us are surprised by that
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u/DrSillyBitchez Mar 04 '25
They’ve passed these dumb ass laws in other states and haven’t been able to enforce them or the cops don’t care to. NY passed a no mask law last year and it did nothing. It’s just grand standing bull shit. Outside of protesting on federal property in DC like the White House lawn idk where they could enforce this at all
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u/Bob4Not Politics Frog 🐸 Mar 04 '25
Good news, Mr president, there haven’t been any illegal protests as of recent years.
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u/ifallforeveryone Mar 04 '25
Man, that “free speech” thing isn’t a concern, huh? J6 protesters excused, but protesting isn’t okay? Cool. sewerslides myself in Minecraft
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u/buff730 Mar 04 '25
Yea remember the part where protests are illegal in the constitution? Trump doesn’t know because he never read it
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u/sinovesting Mar 05 '25
"Agitators will be imprisoned or deported. American students will be expelled or arrested".
Jesus man he is just straight up taking tactics out of Putin's playbook. He's not even trying to hide it.
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u/Torator Be charitable 🙏 Mar 04 '25
I mean, do you think Biden tried to do otherwise ?
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u/Hitbox69 Mar 04 '25
You're right but still crazy to see it so plainly and so accelerated
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u/Torator Be charitable 🙏 Mar 04 '25 edited Mar 04 '25
He got elected because he's viewed as saying things as they actually are. On that topic he is telling like it is, and I doubt he'll have more impact than the Biden administration.
American Universities are long time institution with actual network to make sure their funding doesn't get cut for nothing.
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u/PurpleRackSheets BRIAN KILMEADE Mar 04 '25
Did foreign students even get sent back for protesting the illegal occupation in gaza?
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u/muntaser13 Mar 04 '25
Funny how they won't target Nazis that wear masks while they're doing one of their hate marches.
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u/ShirrakoKatano Mar 04 '25
My school recently had a protest because we had several crimes like sexual assault and robberies committed in a matter of weeks inside campus. I guess they'll be arrested now
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u/woody630 Mar 04 '25
They did this to every serious anti establishment movement. Just look at what they did to civil rights protesters, Vietnam protesters, and Iraq war protesters. It's just a sign that these protests are working in terms of changing public opinions and people in power are scared Israel won't be a sacred thing anymore.
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u/weedmac Antifa Andy 💪 Mar 05 '25
none of the protests are illegal under the first amendment technically right? (im not American so i dont know)
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u/Green-Jellyfish-210 Mar 05 '25
I just wonder how they plan on enforcing this. Universities have already been expelling student protestors.
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u/wasted_caffeine Weasely little liar dude!! Mar 05 '25
every time they'll say trump bad bla bla bla, but calling him a fascist is a step too far. explain to me how this type of behaviour is anything less than fascist
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u/WanderingLost33 Mar 05 '25
Professor here: what's most concerning is the utter silence from the administration.
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u/APRengar Mar 04 '25
I know hypocrisy burns do nothing, but I remember when China bad because cracking down on student protest, y'all remember those days?
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u/hadoken12357 Mar 04 '25
More illegal and unconstitutional crap