Gregory's ServerYou 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
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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.  @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 @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.  @PedestrianError @Theblueone @ryanrandall @jonny And they built elevated freeways through many of those neighborhoods so the military could deploy through and above them, and control the high ground in riot situations. Every aspect of American society is about control. @sidereal @PedestrianError @Theblueone @ryanrandall @jonny This is an interesting take on the elevated highways. I've always heard it described as White suburban commuters having no respect for the now Black neighborhoods they fled decades earlier.  @ryanrandall @zagone @sidereal @PedestrianError @Theblueone @jonny It's struck me how most workplaces I've been in are designed as fortresses, with walls and controlled points of entry with guards. And somewhere I read an article about how the "corporate campus" was designed to isolate workers, so they don't leave the work site even for meals. @foolishowl @ryanrandall @zagone @PedestrianError @Theblueone @jonny This is one reason why workplace mapping is an important part of union organizing @sidereal @ryanrandall @zagone @PedestrianError @Theblueone @jonny I've usually kept an eye out for where people could reach workers with leaflets and such outside the gaze of corporate security. The trick to organizing workers inside is to have a means of communication outside.  @foolishowl @ryanrandall @zagone @sidereal @PedestrianError @Theblueone @jonny @Theblueone @ryanrandall @jonny a friend of mine attends purchase rn and she told me it was literally like designed by a prison architect??? which actually doesn't surprise me lmfao @tonicfunk @ryanrandall @jonny I think that's incorrect. The architect behind the master campus plan was Edward Larrabee Barnes who certainly did some judiciary buildings, but no prisons as far as I can tell... @Theblueone @tonicfunk @ryanrandall @jonny There is a lot more to a campus than architecture @Theblueone @ryanrandall @jonny Fellow alum here. It was also constructed in such a way that it could easily be converted into a prison if the school should, you know, fail. They've done a lot to beautify it in the years since I graduated, which is crazy. I wanted that ugly modernist nonsense forever. @ryanrandall @jonny if it’s so untenable as a defensive position, why not spill the protest out into the streets? @cobaltrose  @ryanrandall @jonny That's ... interesting. Because the Japanese campus from which I retired a couple of years ago (Nagoya University) had a central quad with planters arranged with exactly that aim, and in response to Vietnam war protests. (They're no ripping it up for a new building.) OTOH the earlier protests lead to an agreement with the police that they would not enter campus grounds. Unlikely to hold if there were serious protests, but still important symbolism.  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 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  @jonny look how confused the officers look there just like "what are we supposed to do?"  @jonny I wish I could even fake to be surprised, but that's facist Amerikkka for ya... @localzuk @jonny It’s scary how many Americans support this kind of policing. My dad thinks this is a proportionate response to property damage. He was particularly fixated on the horror of desks being broken as a red line for some reason. Decades of being fed network news and his takeaway is "but what about the poor property?" I don’t think he’s alone in his opinion. @jonny And typical American goes, "If they didn't want to face the Nazi stormtroopers, they should have not been so anti-semetic, right?"   @jonny I believe it because the goal is to break up the protests without killing the students who are peaceful. The key to not killing the peaceful students is that the cops have to not be scared. The key to making sure the cops aren't scared is to have 10 cops for every student. @tob @jonny wrong. They key is to stop anyone from speaking out against the perpetual looting of the USian treasury by the military industrial complex. They don't actually give a shit if students are killed, except that it's an election year, so they have to be *nominally* careful. This is about ENFORCING OBEDIENCE. That's it. That's all it is. That's all it EVER is with fascists...and they're ALL fascists. Republicans. Democrats. Cops. Fascists. Every fucking one. @cakeisnotalie @jonny I don't think that is what is happening at all. Sometimes, a pipe is just a pipe. The protesters are disrupting the campus (as they should), and the administration is responding in an entirely predictable way.  @jonny The end of The United States is when it turns on itself to enact the exact same conditions that caused it to form in the first place. Police are the tools of dictators, brainwashing is the recruitment process for tools. This is the whole "Lesser Evil" problem -- which I'm not of a mind to rehash here at length. If we don't vote for Biden, is there enough force and power ready to Rock on the side of the Left to deal with the imminent fascist right-wing revolution? We are not, unfortunately, about to have a left-wing revolution (although the students are doing a good job). They are Biden's (or the local university or town's) fascists. You have to ask yourself if the progressive left-wing is really in position with the groundswell of support needed to command the sweeping changes needed before the election next fall? If not, not voting for Biden facilitates the far worse Christi-fascist revolution that IS ready to sweep the USA. That would be Trump & Project 2025. And yes, Democratic voters need to start caring about youth & minorities.    @jonny They could have left the kids alone, but they had all this riot gear just sitting there collecting dust.  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.  @jonny all I see when I look at this is Biden standing at the podium screaming “fund the police!” After a whole bunch of people voted for him because he ran on the opposite. @jonny I'll say this: If any students sustain serious injury , or even death, with our cracked team of reporters we'll never know what happened. Just like a real Banana Republic.   They're fighting a concept (left-wing political thought), not students. Their response makes more sense when viewed from the correct perspective. The students just happen to be there. This is an orgy of power.  @jonny it would be a shame if someone were to allow a bag of ball bearings to burst on the top step @jonny A society that quibbles about whether it can afford to feed its schoolchildren lunch or build a sidewalk when it builds a street for motorists should not be able to afford this many police even if police were nice public servants who cleaned up trash and proactively fixed quality of life issues instead of just punitively arresting, beating, shooting, and intimidating people.  @WhyNotZoidberg @jonny It sure looks like that! Those troopers should be so ashamed of being there with such a force, disgusting  @jonny State equivalent of truck nuts dangling from the rearview mirror of an oversize F350. @jonny having gone through Occupy Oakland, I can very much believe the numbers of stormtroopers. There they arrested over 700 people in one night. The response is always the same when social movements gain power and threaten the status-quo. Your tax dollars hard at work protecting university admins and regents from experiencing accountability to the people who make their jobs relevant. I used to be a university fundraiser. I would look at this scene, knowing I was never going to get a dime out of any of these people or their parents for school programs and scholarships. Why would they? @jonny Upping the ante as they are now down in 83% of the swing states in polls. They'll push it to the brink of deploying national guard, right up to that point, but stop from doing so to avoid the negative attention.  @jonny Someone explain to me why we need that many fat, armed, pigs to assault students for protesting *checks notes* GENOCIDE (again) @jonny@neuromatch.social damn!! If only the cops at Uvalde had that same level of energy.    |
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