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[–] [email protected] 115 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

What's an illegal protest? I thought first amendment speech covered that

Also, how can he expel a student from a school he doesn't control? or does he mean expel students from the country?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

An illegal protest, according to conservatives, is any protest they disagree with. Waving picket signs or blocking traffic is disruptive, destructive, and illegal. Storming the capitol is, on the other hand, a perfectly acceptable peaceful protest.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago

Yep. Nationwide nonviolent sit in protests? Pass laws to make it legal to run them down on a car if you feel threatened.

Violent storming of the seat of our nations power and symbolic political heart? Oh that's just some guys being dudes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Straight out of the dictators handbook.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

This is my go-to explanation, but christofascists don’t care.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Next week. New legislation, all protests are now illegal

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Wait, are you joking or is that real?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Let the record reflect that, while this has not yet occurred, the fact that you have to ask is concerning enough to warrant treatment as if it has occurred. Furthermore, college campuses are one of the primary places that protest movements begin in recent years. Declaring protest illegal in nebulous terms like this is a HUGE swing toward breaking open the full fascism piñata.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Christ, you had to ask. We really do live in interesting time.

My apologies, its not real that i know of. But god damn it seems like the next step doesnt it?

Cheers mate

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

He doesn’t give a shit about the speech. It’s the schools and universities he wants to harm. Even if it’s just a matter of disrupting them through legal overwhelm.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

a school he doesn't control

If the school receives any federal funds, he is somewhat in control

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I'm funding the government with my taxes, where's my control?

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

Unironically is your vote in a representative democracy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Remember, he’s only got the intelligence of a kumquat. He doesn’t even understand that he’s too stupid to understand anything. He vomits whatever he thinks give his followers happy endings.