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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

This was the second act of Shion Sono’s movie “Tag,” yeah?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

9 what????

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What do you think you fire the 40mm munitions out of?

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 months ago (3 children)

How is a private entity allowed to buy military grade weaponry to use against their students?

Oh right... 'Merica. You guys have a problem with weapons, a problem no civilized country has. But then again, we're not talking about a civilized country but a capitalism ruled country.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There are plenty of capitalist countries where this sort of shit doesn't happen.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Because none of them are ruled by capitalism. Capitalism is their economic system, not their government system.

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[+] [email protected] -41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What people in this thread are missing or ignoring:

The University of California is known for being a place for political protests
These protests do not always stay peaceful
These protests are not always primarily student-run or consisting of students

All combinations have happened. Peaceful student-run protests with overreactive police. Violent non-student protests with police doing their job to control things. And everything in between.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do you really think the UC is the only university in the world having protests? Because you know... I've seen protests in so many other countries but none of them had a university buying a fucking grenade launcher to "pacify" them.

[+] [email protected] -20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Tbf though this is non-lethal stuff. And I don't know that much about American police, but maybe it's not such a bad idea universities don't let them handle crowd control? I hear they don't have the best track record.

(I get that in an ideal world universities shouldn't arm themselves against their students, but come on, Jeff from the economics department is a real douchebag, and ever since he has been hanging around with those extremists he is becoming more and more unhinged)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

No such thing as "non lethal" and never was. There is "less lethal" which still kills.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Creating a parallel force because the local police sucks is like the definition of curing the symptoms instead of the disease; well, attempting to, anyway.

Crowd control itself is the same thing, if you've got enough unhappy people to generate a mob that needs to be suppressed, I think you may have a social problem on your hands.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-less-lethal-weapons-actually-do/

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

PR rules the world. Can’t allow free speech and protest if it might draw attention.

Better to show overwhelming military force on domestic college students at the first sign of protest. Keep it from spreading.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do we think part of why this is happening is because Raytheon and Lockheed Martin are in bed with academia

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

When the university buys an f35 we can talk about it, this is small arms.

[–] [email protected] 191 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And to think that you guys pay to be there. Imagine loading yourself with massive student debt for a place that stocks up on weapons as if its at war with you.

They are right. I can't wrap my head around it.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I am glad my biggest worries as a student were if I wasn't failing any classes and not how many weapons the university was buying to control the student body.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

Hey Jones! If you fail one more test, I'll have you taken out the back and shot!

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"American universities turn into concentration camps" was not on my bingo card for 2024.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

RIP to all of the Freshmen.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

May the odds be ever in their favor

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago

Insanity

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