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      That was my first reaction. The Republicans want to blame President Biden for killing college students and suppressing free speech. They also want a generation of young adults to be driven away from the Democratic party.

      Whatever the Republicans suggest or want, it’s all too often to hurt the nation. Eye everything they propose with great suspicion.

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        Whatever the Republicans suggest or want, it’s all too often to hurt the nation. Eye everything they propose with great suspicion.

        Republicans are moving to protect First Past The Post voting in the states they control. Do you want to use the same voting system republicans prefer blue states?

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      I was thinking the same thing but then I wondered if there were times the guard came into a campus situation and nothing notable happened. Then it occurred to me that the piece of crap suggesting this idea probably wants another Kent state incident

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      Columbia is a private institution, so a lot of first amendment stuff may not apply specifically there.

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        Technically correct and will provide legal cover.

        However, it should be noted that historically protests have been encouraged on college campuses such as Columbia, and it’s only just recently that new rules safeguarding said private property have been enforced and selectively applied to those who don’t want to murder Palestinian children.

        Also, if we’re being so concerned about rules: after Kent State, Columbia instituted a rule that said police may only be called on protesters if both the administration and the faculty agree to do so. The faculty did not agree to this, which is why so many of them joined the protests yesterday.

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        Yeah funny how it works. Pretty much freedom of speech only applies in your own home and yet my ability to record people is infinite.

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    On an unrelated note, Joe Biden is so damn old and been in politics for so long, he was less than a year from taking a county position when Kent State happened in 1970, and only 3 years later would be in the Senate.

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    First off, we’re free speech absolutists and censoring Hunter Biden’s dickpics was the crime of the century.

    Secondly, anyone who disagrees with our unfathomably narrow worldview should be met with the full might of the state!

    Free speech! (but not like that)