jonny,
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You wont believe the number of stormtroopers theyre deploying against unarmed students unless you see it. This is just one side: at least 7 police departments with at least two layers at every point of egress, with several layers in back for rear control and rotation. They've got the army out against your kids for having the audacity to do whatever they can to stop a genocide

a wide (~50m?) staircase with maybe 20 rows of cops in full riot gear stare down a handful of unarmed students

jonny,
@jonny@neuromatch.social avatar

This police state is your police state. This police state stands between you and any brighter future you might imagine. This fight is your fight

ryanrandall,
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@jonny Furthermore, this particular campus was designed as a series of chokepoints in the wake of 1960s student uprisings.

Its campus design highlights how much of the last 60+ years of American built space is a physical apparatus for the police state & social control.

Theblueone,
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@ryanrandall @jonny Yeah, I did undergrad at SUNY Purchase which was built in the 70s. The entire campus architecture was built around not allowing the students to seize buildings and creating choke points for students and access points for large groups of riot cops

PedestrianError,
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@Theblueone @ryanrandall @jonny Not just campus design, the whole US built environment. Every modern suburban neighborhood is designed for limited ways in & out and to virtually require car ownership to access anything. “Urban renewal” projects bulldozed neighborhoods where protesting residents could block off a street and have multiple escape routes for highways and buildings like these campuses.

cobaltrose,

@ryanrandall @jonny if it’s so untenable as a defensive position, why not spill the protest out into the streets?

jonny,
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@cobaltrose
@ryanrandall
Im not organizing at Irvine, but id guess its hard to sustain a roving encampment and also have impact

DeliaChristina,
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@jonny

This is an orgy of power.
Irvine's admin should be absolutely effing ashamed of doing this to their students.

hayesstw,
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@jonny How much disk space will you need to store all that stuff?

jonny,
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stux,
@stux@mstdn.social avatar

@jonny WTF..

Are they preparing for war?

(I suggest send them Storm Troopers to Ukraine and fight a real enemy)

WhyNotZoidberg,
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@stux @jonny Police is in a perma-state of war against anyone who is not pro war.

stux,
@stux@mstdn.social avatar

@WhyNotZoidberg @jonny It sure looks like that!

Those troopers should be so ashamed of being there with such a force, disgusting

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@jonny

Christ. I am just old enough to remember Vietnam protests at Berkeley, as toddler. My parents marched, one of them a student. This is insane.

The state is overreacting. Like it was run by a plutocracy not a republic. Oh whoops I said it.

localzuk,
@localzuk@ohai.social avatar

@jonny yet Americans keep voting for this sort of policing.

rticks, (edited )
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@jonny this is what happens when you let aipac train murdercop departments

Ponygirl,
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@rticks @jonny AIPAC= The United States of Isreal

rticks,
@rticks@mastodon.social avatar

@Ponygirl @jonny

The tiktok ban was an illegal bill of attainder for the most enolument clause violating org in the history of the republic AND an abridgement of free speech

Ponygirl,
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@rticks @jonny And orchestrated by the Zionists who own us.

rticks,
@rticks@mastodon.social avatar

@Ponygirl @jonny

Their ties into capitalism are deeply disturbing but it is to me more a combination of disturbed conservative zionist nihilionares and disturbed conservative monotheist nihilionares but there seems a third technofascist contingent that likes to use Israel to test the weapons they will use on us when capitalism is at its end and they live in their hardened arcologies

Zionists dont own us, but Zionism does cast a long scary shadow on the free world

Ponygirl,
@Ponygirl@mastodon.social avatar

@rticks @jonny The weapons testing theory makes my skin crawl.

rticks,
@rticks@mastodon.social avatar

@Ponygirl @jonny As it should but do you think the Aipac and nihilionare obsession with electing vichydem murdercop windowfucker mayors in blue cities is a coinkydink?

Ponygirl,
@Ponygirl@mastodon.social avatar

@rticks @jonny "There are no coinkydinks in politics"

rticks,
@rticks@mastodon.social avatar

@Ponygirl @jonny I mean, fictional politics re the movie Dave or the Prince and the Pauper but in the real world I gotta admit I am drawing a blank

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