@sh76 said
The kids who are marching are probably just doing it because it's the cool and in thing to do.

"These goons are just happy to skip out in class and ignore the tuition bill for a few days" sounds about right for most of them.

On the other hand, the organizers and leaders of many of these protests are rabid anti-Semites.

How can you tell the difference between protesting ...[text shortened]... earing anything "Israeli" but merely looked Jewish

I could go on, but I'm sure you get the point.

Yeah. Who are the organizers?

Protest should be allowed. As much as I disagree, people who like Hamas should not be arrested for protesting or saying that.

@shavixmir said
Because you connect a political party’s policies from 100 years ago to the policies today.

On one hand you are claiming democrats = KKK, on the other hand you are claiming democrats = woke.

So, you see, you are an idiot.

KKK = woke


..
And we lost the meaning of words again.

@sh76 said
Thank you. I appreciate the conciliatory tone.

This has nothing to do with Trump or Biden, but I have to tell you that what's going on in college campuses is f-in scary. From what I've seen on these videos, these protests are about 60% against Israel and 40% against Jews.

Do you really think these folks are anti semites? They're kids, born in 2007, looking at the 30:1 kill ratio in this war and wondering why Israel needs to use US-purchased weapons on unarmed civilians.

They obviously don't understand the nuance of the situation, the long history of the conflict, the extreme terrorism along a Palestinian minority.

But they are not antisemites unless they were raised in an antisemitic house. They're too young. Most of these goons are just happy to skip out in class and ignore the tuition bill for a few days.

https://twitter.com/loffredojeremy/status/1783651274975523285

https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1783594696733762016

@mott-the-hoople said
biden said he understood the palestinian protestors

you want to talk hypocrite…just look at yourself

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-condemns-antisemitic-protests-palestine-columbia-university/

You hypocrisied hypocrisy.

@rajk999 said
There is no evidence to support your gross exaggeration of $40B in the last 2 years. US aid to Israel has been about steady at $3B over the last few years. It is only this year Biden signed off an increase of around $14B, making it $17B for this coming year only. This he said is to help Israel defend against Iran. I suspect Israel wants to take out Irans nuclear facilities ...[text shortened]... mountains. I think the world should be grateful that these sickos have no nukes because of Israel.

Last year there was a similarly sized aid package.

@rajk999 said
This bill is not yet in force, maybe it is for 2025. It was overwhelmingly approved by the US Senate, 79/18. Apparently there are just a handful of Palestinian supporters among the US Senate. They all see the justification in assisting Israel. Maybe they know something you dont. Maybe these are some of the reasons why Americans like Israel:

Is it that they’re the only ...[text shortened]... , and infrastructure to their enemies once a cease-fire has been declared?

[copied off Quora]

Yeah I was correcting your claim that US support for Israel is only $3 billion. It's more like $40 billion in just the last 2 years.

@sh76 said
Free speech? Are you serious?

Jackbooted thugs are literally stopping Jews from moving through the campus because they are Jews (https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1782278428466565433) and terrorizing people to the extent that they are terrified to go to class (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/columbia-hold-classes-virtually-jewish-leaders-warn-safety-palestinian-rcn ...[text shortened]... about open discrimination that you would NEVER tolerate if it were against a favored minority group.

sh76 - That was my awkward attempt at sarcasm. The thread topic is hypocrisy. Sorry for the offense. These are the same politicians that called it peaceful after protests where someone was shot to death. "Good people on both sides" after someone was purposefully run over by a car. What's worse: afraid to go to class, or being dead?

The right wing politicians call for free speech and call it peaceful even if there is lethal violence employed, just because they support the cause of the protestors.

Now they want the National Guard to disperse peaceful protestors?

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/22/columbia-new-york-troops-00153651

HYPOCRITES!

Come on, have some conviction guys. Support the speech you hate, or stop pretending to be a defender of free speech.

@averagejoe1 said
Major provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 are scheduled to expire at the end of 2025.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/biden-vows-let-trump-era-tax-cuts-expire-next-year-meaning-higher-rates-millions

This means that Biden breaks his promise that he will not raise taxes on those making less than $400k. It is all here.
No opinion from AvJoe. Higher rates for, well, you.

It needs to end.

The Tax Cuts Act added $4 trillion to US debt. It was passed by irresponsible and juvenile Republicans who still think "trickle down economics' and "starve the beast" are real things.

Our grandchildren should sue us, but we'll be long gone.

@averagejoe1 said
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/04/25/joe-biden-pause-speech-video-anchorman-ron-burgundy/

He wants to be president of the United States of America.

Source: No-opinion AvJoe.

Ron Burgundy would have made an excellent President.

@wajoma said
Then why did you mis-gender a fellow poster?

I do not consider it an insult BTW, and the only way one could consider it an insult is that you, as a woman and as an individual, suffer an inferiority complex. If there is any misogyny it manifests here in your self hatred.

The only possible way calling a person a woman could be considered an insult is that you view women as ...[text shortened]... problem, i.e. your self hatred, Or that's a little coarse, let's call it your 'self-disappointment'

lol you're a Trump apologist too???

The worst libertarian on the planet.

@rajk999 said
I would be interested in seeing the source of your data for 2022. Here is what I got:

The United States committed over $3.3 billion in foreign assistance to Israel in 2022, the most recent year for which data exists.[1] About $8.8 million of that went toward the country's economy, while 99.7% of the aid went to the Israeli military..

https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-military-aid-does-the-us-give-to-israel/

Same source for 2022. But this is 2024:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/biden-signs-95-billion-war-aid-measure-with-relief-for-ukraine-israel-and-taiwan/

And this was 2023....

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/04/us-israel-aid-military-funding-chart

That's a lot of tacos.

@moonbus said
Behind a paywall, no can do.

I can't speak for America, but where I live, the native population cannot supply the needs of the local economy. I'm not talking about back-breaking dumb labor (fruit pickers) either. In the medical industry here, fully half the doctors and nurses are non-natives. Universities simply cannot educate enough people. I suppose it is similar in many other countries.

FYI - You can read a couple articles per month for free. Just sign in with your email.

@rajk999 said
You take too much credit. The US funds $3B out of a $25B defense budget. Its small potatoes. US protestors mean nothing to the rest of the world.

Those are prewar 2022 numbers. It's more than $17 billion that we just forklifted over to you, to 'fight' civilians. Do you not need the money? Why all the groveling then?

I don't take any credit and it seems you don't want to give it either. The protestors - the topic of the thread - want the funding to end. You can keep buying your bombs with your own money.

@rajk999 said
A man of God, a promoter of justice, a righteous man ... pick one
Then the other Hamases will meet the same fate... they are all going to die
Remove the Arabs from Gaza who have been terrorising the Jews for the last 20 years.
For you. Jews feel safe when the Arabs who want to kill them are on the run.

Ask some more.

You'd have fewer US protestors if we were not funding your feelings.