What’s happening at Columbia?
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Yeah, it's whataboutism, but...
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At Ohio State yesterday 36 were arrested. 20 were not students at all. Folks, these are paid agitators.
@Mik said in What’s happening at Columbia?:
At Ohio State yesterday 36 were arrested. 20 were not students at all. Folks, these are paid agitators.
Paid by the far Left. Agitation, destabilization, trying to influence votes.
We've seen this before.
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@Mik said in What’s happening at Columbia?:
At Ohio State yesterday 36 were arrested. 20 were not students at all. Folks, these are paid agitators.
Paid by the far Left. Agitation, destabilization, trying to influence votes.
We've seen this before.
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In 1968 American kids were dying in Vietnam. Gazans are dying primarily because they supported, directly or indirectly, genocidal maniacs who see the deaths as fodder for their hatred. They love their grudges more than their children. There’s no legitimate comparison.
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In 1968 American kids were dying in Vietnam. Gazans are dying primarily because they supported, directly or indirectly, genocidal maniacs who see the deaths as fodder for their hatred. They love their grudges more than their children. There’s no legitimate comparison.
@Mik said in What’s happening at Columbia?:
In 1968 American kids were dying in Vietnam. Gazans are dying primarily because they supported, directly or indirectly, genocidal maniacs who see the deaths as fodder for their hatred. They love their grudges more than their children. There’s no legitimate comparison.
I'm not drawing a comparison between the motivations of the two groups. Clearly they are different, as you point out.
Simply saying that if you think the mayhem at the universities is something, just you wait.
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The college left yearns to be part of a 1968 college protest level movement. One day they’ll grow up.
@89th said in What’s happening at Columbia?:
The college left yearns to be part of a 1968 college protest level movement. One day they’ll grow up.
That used to be true. It's what the boomers did.
But you tend to grow up when you've a stake in something. Very much unlike boomers, today's kids grow up with dwindling job prospects, lower marriage rates, later marriages for those who marry at all, far fewer who have children, and no reasonable possibility of owning a home.
Bootstrap platitudes don't really cut it.
Please love yourself.
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Enact Sharia law on campus. Just on the protest area…
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@89th said in What’s happening at Columbia?:
The college left yearns to be part of a 1968 college protest level movement. One day they’ll grow up.
That used to be true. It's what the boomers did.
But you tend to grow up when you've a stake in something. Very much unlike boomers, today's kids grow up with dwindling job prospects, lower marriage rates, later marriages for those who marry at all, far fewer who have children, and no reasonable possibility of owning a home.
Bootstrap platitudes don't really cut it.
@Aqua-Letifer said in What’s happening at Columbia?:
… and no reasonable possibility of owning a home.
So when the boomers and gen Xers die the homes will remain empty?
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@Aqua-Letifer said in What’s happening at Columbia?:
… and no reasonable possibility of owning a home.
So when the boomers and gen Xers die the homes will remain empty?
@jon-nyc said in What’s happening at Columbia?:
@Aqua-Letifer said in What’s happening at Columbia?:
… and no reasonable possibility of owning a home.
So when the boomers and gen Xers die the homes will remain empty?
Around here, they're taken over by companies, converted to AirBnBs or some other nonsense that equates to not a new family owning them.
Show me numbers that it's not much harder now to own a home in terms of availability, mortgages, cost of living and income.
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It’s harder but the idea of ‘no reasonable expectation’ for an entire generation seems rather impossible.
@jon-nyc said in What’s happening at Columbia?:
It’s harder but the idea of ‘no reasonable expectation’ for an entire generation seems rather impossible.
I think it's silly for anyone younger to expect it so I'm sticking with my assessment.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Anybody else find it amusing that these students are protesting Israel by building illegal settlements?
