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That Nazi rear end in a top hat (whose name I refuse to learn) is giving his talk at A&M tonight. Some group not associated with the school planned it, so A&M is sanctioning a counter-protest at Kyle Field, to which there's been talks of a Nazi counter-counter-protest. Lot of cops (and I heard even feds) on campus today, and I'm upset that I have a final review or else I would go to the counter-protest. Despite being a more conservative campus, I'm really glad about how the whole situation is being handled by the administration.
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A lovely Reporter posted:On a related note, A&M has campus carry. So some of those Nazis will probably have guns. It's only concealed, IIRC it's still a no-no to have it displayed. I'm probably gonna go check it out after class and see what's up.
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Dec 7, 2016 00:39
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Wikkheiser posted:Most definitely feds from the Bryan field office. There's a field office in Bryan? Huh, you learn something new every day.
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Dec 7, 2016 01:03
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I didn't stick around for too long because I'm a baby who has exams to study for, but the turnout outside the stadium and MSC seemed really good, easily a couple thousand if you include however many were in the "Unity Event" proper, most all of whom were very much Not Nazis™. Glad to see that people are still somewhat sane around here. 
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Dec 7, 2016 02:33
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https://twitter.com/RosalindaAimee/status/806316253572898816 Protesters started filling the MSC (where the nazi gently caress is giving the talk) and chanting at cops pushing them back. Ags please god do not gently caress this up.
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Dec 7, 2016 02:58
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DangerZoneDelux posted:Can outside groups book the MSC facilities ? I thought everything there was school affiliated. It's been like 15 years for me but I didn't know that was possible Yeah, rear end in a top hat was invited by a former student, and (from what I understand) since it's a public university/public forum, A&M can't decline them so long as they pay. That's why the President set up a counter event. The worst thing about this is Silver Taps is tonight, so this might overshadow a fallen Ag, which really sucks.
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Dec 7, 2016 04:30
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Jhordhynne posted:I figured that the security issue could have shut it down. Maybe it was better to have an official protest of the event than to shut it down? There was at least one fight between two people, and when they were clearing out MSC some people refuse to go, I dunno which led to the arrests, though. Cop Porn Popper posted:Its not a bonfire, they'll be fine. cool joke
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Dec 7, 2016 05:44
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LanceHunter posted:That's an...overly optimistic view of A&M's popularity. Like, it's well-known in Texas of course, but outside of Texas I doubt more than one-in-fifty people could even name it. (Fewer than that if you go outside the SEC.) Yeah, I'm from Jersey and at most get vague recollections of Manziel and cultish tradition when I tell folks where I go when I'm back home. That recognition might increase this year, but only because of our lovely terrible second half of our football season 
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Dec 7, 2016 07:34
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DangerZoneDelux posted:If you never attended the school it's hard to understand the amount of brainwashing they do, it's pretty intense and on top of that you have the former students in your family/extended family telling you from birth how awesome the school is you tend to develop and over inflated sense of importance. Yeah, I started drinking the Koolaid only about halfway through my first year here, and it's pretty indoctrinating. Traditions on traditions on traditions (and don't get me started on Corps, I feel bad for all my friends who are involved with that). I will admit though, despite all the jokes about Ags and how self important we are, the brainwashing does make it seem way easier to make friends on campus. I think that's also how a cult works, though. Whoop
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Dec 8, 2016 03:30
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Jiro posted:The answer is always wild hog. Which will mutate into gangs of roving Bebops that tribes will go and hunt in order to pass into adulthood and wear the sunglasses as proof of a successful graduation into being a member of society. And their leader will be Hoggish Greedly from Captain Planet. A fitting leader for when the world turns into Venus, if you ask me
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Jan 12, 2017 04:18
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GreyjoyBastard posted:
I knew a guy who worked for ICE for about a decade and boooooy howdy ICE is a load of shitheels if any of his stories are true. And it's not like he says them in a "yeah we did this it was lovely." Homeboy was proud of it
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Feb 16, 2017 23:18
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It's probably for the best I didn't, the last month has really revealed how deep the rot is in the agency.
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Jiro posted:Only if we can cut East Texas and College Station out from Texas. And I mean like literally physically cut it out from the ground and airlift the whole drat thing over to Arkansas. Can Fuego stay? (also me  )
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Feb 17, 2017 03:20
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duz posted:You don't already have a license you can surrender for a Texas one? That's what I did with my NY driver's license. If your out of state license expired you have to retake the test, I'm pretty sure.
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Mar 7, 2017 06:26
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Sardonik posted:Does this mean that the districts will be redrawn before the next election? North Carolina was told to redrawn their district like half a year ago for the same reason but they keep appealing and getting delays because their courts are right-leaning. Odds are the same will happen, or it'll go to SCOTUS and (depending on when it gets there) they'll come back and say "actually gerrymandering is okay"
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Mar 12, 2017 17:50
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I didn't care about the SGA but now that it makes Rick Perry angry I am very much into and all about the SGA.
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Mar 23, 2017 00:17
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Badger of Basra posted:Well they are Aggies. You should see the CFB GDTs whenever A&M does well (see: the first half of the season  )But yeah. A&M is mostly full of trash people politically but I still love my dumb school. At least Michael Young seems to have a better-than-the-average-Texan head on his shoulders when it comes to some of the recent garbage events that have happened on campus. Spaced God fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Apr 28, 2017 |
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Apr 28, 2017 04:20
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I heard about this because a few people on A&M's campus were making some jokes about it. gently caress those people 
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May 1, 2017 23:18
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Someone I was doing a group project with yesterday made a similar claim, saying he wanted to call one of his friends who organized that dildo rally at UT last August and ask her how well the dildos helped out. In other news, I'm very glad I'm not in a group with that person.
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May 3, 2017 23:47
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https://twitter.com/AP/status/861366910486708225 Southern hospitality* *White pure-bred Americans only
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May 8, 2017 00:51
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:I'm pretty sure the sunset bill was killed, which includes txdot and the state bar. That would be bad for people who like roads or lawyers. Or, if you're like me - a literal highway lawyer, really bad. How hard is it to pass the BAR as a highway?
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May 16, 2017 02:23
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May 25, 2017 22:34
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zoux posted:Curious for normal people who don't have a weird fascination with state politics: what are you hearing about the special session? I've only lived here for two years so I haven't dove head first into state politics yet, but I hear a bit about folks complaining they need to actually get poo poo done because taxes and the children and immigrants etc. And then I read up on what they wanted to do and was very upset. Such is life as a lefty in College Station. Whoop
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Jul 24, 2017 18:23
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https://twitter.com/lmcgaughy/status/890078239758196737 Ugh
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Jul 26, 2017 06:27
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Cyberpunkey Monkey posted:Those attacks could have been planned from census data... Or somehow even more targeted https://twitter.com/APCentralRegion/status/973681336962699269
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Mar 14, 2018 21:33
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https://twitter.com/KrisB_KVUE/status/976373939013390338 E: https://twitter.com/JasonWhitely/status/976375544072695808 Spaced God fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Mar 21, 2018 |
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Mar 21, 2018 09:34
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Remember when Chris Kyle lied about his medals and some of his experiences in the military and the DoD was just like "ehhh he makes us look good" and retconned history by backing him up
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May 4, 2018 08:13
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As someone trapped in BCS until I get my degree......... Please.... Save me
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May 17, 2018 17:56
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Zil posted:
When my mom was visiting for the first time and I took her to Austin we passed this sign (or something similar to it. It was right by the little Aggie rest stop with the mini bonfire on 21 near Bastrop) and up until that point she thought all the super republican super rural hype was overblown. Gotta love that Yankee naiveté
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May 27, 2018 11:01
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I might have to stick in town (Bryan, please save me) for the protest here because of personal reasons. 30 people rsvp'd but who fuckin knows. I will say that during the semester, my fellow lefty Aggies are planning some protests and such because the poo poo coming out of A&M recently has pissed us off. Tbh I'm just surprised there are as many lefty Aggies as there are. It's somewhat comforting.
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Jun 30, 2018 05:07
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JUST MAKING CHILI posted:Aggies and thefncrow posted:But I'm guessing it also has to do with the stuff about A&M protecting men who commit sexual assault. Also their general disrespect for the student body and prioritizing the donators over the students (ie, moving student services, LGBTQ+ services, and Veteran's services from the main campus to a prefab that's a 45 minute bus ride from the main campus to help build that fuckin' hotel) Also A&M has been very soft on punishment (if punishing at all) on hate crimes on campus. The only time someone's actually been punished for that poo poo was the big racist story that gained national attention two or three years ago. A ton of my PoC friends have been subjected to discrimination or racial abuse and have had no action taken by the university. Wheeeeeeeeee
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Jun 30, 2018 19:08
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JUST MAKING CHILI posted:Yeah but they have their own separate and equal university, PVAMU! Fun fact, on Aggie Twitter not too long ago an undergrad said "Why is everyone focusing on how A&M is "too white" when real issue is we should focus on why PVAMU is too black?" And then she was immediately, overwhelmingly dunked on.
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Jun 30, 2018 21:17
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Shear Modulus posted:sorry but all texas political events will have to be related to whataburger or an even more beloved texas food or restaurant for the next week or so to be noticed I'm not even a native Texan and the thought of that made me actually physically recoil
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Aug 10, 2018 08:04
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I'm gonna boo Ted if they put him on the screen tomorrow. I'll be in the student section so this may be my last post
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Aug 29, 2018 17:11
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PostNouveau posted:Is there anyone who still uses the word "rad"? I use rad and still listen to ska. There are many of us out there and it's loving dope
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Aug 29, 2018 20:32
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i know that beto is going to go full neoliberal shill once he gets elected but it's still gonna make me sad when it happens
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Sep 22, 2018 00:53
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https://twitter.com/_SJPeace_/status/1043323745971187712 Jesus loving christ Beto 
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Sep 22, 2018 20:14
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Dinesh D'souza is coming to A&M on the 17th so I'm fixing on protesting, and my tweeting about protesting led to perhaps the most obvious fed honeypot sliding into my dms. https://twitter.com/AutonomousTAMU/status/1046797093569007618 What is up, fellow anarchists? Let's do something insurrectionary!
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Oct 4, 2018 03:22
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:there is a field office in bryan yeah so i have a few friends of friends who are apparently in it and (apparently) it's run by one dude and has like 4 people in it so either it's feds or it's people very brazen and stupid and about to get taken the gently caress down
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Oct 4, 2018 03:56
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Nonsense posted:Beto hates law enforcement hard vote if true
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Voted in downtown Bryan today. Very quickly in and out despite the parking lot being full to the brim. First time voting as a Texan!
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