When schools send a bunch of cops in to fight college students, it immediately makes them look brave and justifies their cause. Everyone roots for the underdog especially when they're actually risking something.

Meanwhile at UCLA they're just letting the protestors do whatever. So they're inevitably making themselves look bad.

Beloved parts of campus are spray-painted with cringe anarchy symbols. Walkways are blocked so students can't get to class. Protestors keep climbing onto building scaffolding which impedes construction for no reason. There's a PSA that no bananas or peanuts are allowed at the encampment because someone has an allergy.

I can feel the vibe slowly beginning to shift against them just because they keep doing stupid college-student type stuff.

They really only win when images of cops arresting them are promulgated through the mainstream, because they invoke the cultural memory of Kent State and student protests of the 60s. Columbia is the most embarassing example because the administration is allowing Elise Stefanik to dictate their response because they're more afraid of protecting their jobs, which is ironic because they'll probably be losing them soon and having a Scarlett letter going forward in left spaces because of how they treated them. The Republicans couldn't be happier that this implosion is happening in an election year, it's just impressive that the Biden administration has been able to side step for this long.

Please COPS! PLEASE BEAT US TO DEATH!

The video of the Columbia students who took over a building requesting humanitarian aid at a press conference was so embarrassing. The video of the horse cops breaking up the UT protest was embarrassing. Ignoring seems to be the only good method.

A picture of themself being arrested is what they need to propel their post Uni activism career.

This sub gets too caught up in optics. The reality is repression is effective. It may strengthen passive activism and sympathy, but those people don't do a thing. They're not a problem. Meanwhile repression actively hinders a sizeable part of the demographics that aren't useless, the ones actively doing something. It's a net positive to dissuade them with violence. This is based on my experience in France, maybe not fully applicable to the US where protests are a lot more performative in nature.

neighbor wat

I thought this sub would be sympathetic to the protestors

everyone here probably aligns with the protestors morally and ethically but it's always frustrating to see the left lose the war of optics because we can't help but be cringe.

I'm so checked out, how are they being cringe? All I see is them having occupied the national spotlight and a heightening of political tension

They took over Hamilton Hall (I'm fine with this) and then during a press conference today talked about the need for students occupying the Hall to receive "basic humanitarian aid" unless Columbia wants them to "starve and die of thirst". When told by a reporter that they are simultaneously calling themselves revolutionaries while also asking to be fed by Columbia, she says they aren't asking to be fed but asking "that they don't violently stop us from bringing in basic humanitarian aid". When asked if Columbia is stopping delivery of food, she says they are "looking for a commitment that they won't". Just unbelievably cringe. To top it off stood behind her during this conference is a bearded man wearing a crop top and keffiyeh

Seen another one of students who were asked what the goal was. She said showing support for Palestine and demanding NYU stops. When asked "stops what?" she says "Honestly I'm not so sure" then she asks the girl next to her what they are protesting for NYU to stop and she says "I wish I were more educated on that".

There was a student with a "severe banana allergy" so the encampment was made a banana free zone, but Zionist anti-protestors brought bananas and laughed while eating them from a distance which made the students furious.

For anyone averse to cringe its really hard to cheer these people on

!chuds laugh at the absolute state of !redscarepod

Why do they never show you clips like these? pic.twitter.com/H5V5xduKRS

— Lucas Gage (@Lucas_Gage_) April 30, 2024

Lmao why are clips of a women's exercise class supposed to be some big gotcha?

In other news, The Democratic People's Republic of Korea recently released this song and music video promoting Kim Jong Un's fabulous leadership. I hope kkkapitalists and fascists such as this whiteoid stop slandering him, look at how happy everyone looks!!

One of my best friends growing up was a first gen Sri Lankan girl. Parents immigrated in their 20s to work as doctors on the west coast. Were very well off, lived in a towering McMansion, richer than 98% of families in our blue area. My friend was pretty, smart, and… /1

— HandlessMaiden (@SamsaraGeist) May 1, 2024

!chuds

https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-cheap-electronic-warfare-keeps-beating-us-precision-weapons-2024-4?amp

Apparently Russia just invented electronic warfare

Did you knew square enix just released 2 games in one week “saga and front mission 2” ? Square ENIX started tons of games and cancelled tons of those and many they released were in shit shape.

After ff7 remake success in 2020 they released Balan world a ultra shit game whose director is now in jail

Limited physical release of ff pixel remaster while its a boomer game and boomer buy disks

Dungeon encounter, any one heard of that game ? Of voice of cards ? Square Enix released 3 voice of cards games in span of 1 year.

Babylon fall

Ff origin a very unpolished games that looks like ps2 game with ps2 frame rate and resolution on ps5

Various Daylife Exclusively on iPhone arcade

The Diofield Chronicle another unpolished game

Valkyrie alyssum unpolished

Star ocean 5 guess who is unpolished ?

Harvestela another meh

Dragon quest games exclusively on switch

Ff 7 live service mobile game that closed (first soldier it was called or something)

Another ff7 live service mobile game than soon will get closed (crisis something)

Forspoken they could had made this game better if they made more side activities

Tons of AI generated detective games

Devil may cry 16

Dragon quest muson game worse than any music game

Front mission 1st that was shit graphically then 2nd that looked way better but also shit

A strange saga game

WHYYYYY we losing money

I didn't buy it but apparently it wasn't very good even for an early access launch. RIP in peace.

Also Dean Hall, the creator of DayZ, is making a spiritual successor to KSP1?

https://old.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/1chgbzl/2024_take_2_layoffs_megathread/l22y2of/?context=8&sort=controversial

Oh no, you're done. It's over. pic.twitter.com/xLiSlhvjg3

— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) May 1, 2024

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/lifestyle/style/what-your-face-says-about-how-you-ll-vote-in-the-election/ar-AA1nW6PF

https://awspntest.apa.org/fulltext/2024-65164-001.html

Absolutely insane footage of the NYPD entering Columbia University. It’s endless. pic.twitter.com/6zc3Pji0Lz

— Read Let This Radicalize You (@JoshuaPHilll) May 1, 2024

More videos:

BREAKING: NYPD officer at Columbia University texting “thought we fricking shot someone” while on campus outside of Hind Hall. #cu4palestine

https://twitter.com/columbiasjp/status/1785505088313671764

SWAT AND SRG HAVE INVADED COLUMBIA'S CAMPUS AND ARE ENTERING HIND'S HALL. THEY HAVE FORCED OUT ALL PRESS TO PREVENT RECORDINGS OF THEIR BRUTALITY.

https://twitter.com/nationalsjp/status/1785482293542301804

BACK IT UP

Columbia student protesters throw tantrums as they're arrested. Embarrassing.

https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1785496581556556265

Protesters should have crunked it, that kills the police

Video of arrested students at Columbia. University from the vantage point of John Jay, where students and press have been BARRICADED INTO THE BUILDING. DISCLOSE, DIVEST, WE WILL NOT STOP WE WILL NOT REST.

https://twitter.com/columbiasjp/status/1785487022431367345

I heard explode at first

police bringing the big guns

https://twitter.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1785510179972293048

another video of the police using said big guns: https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/1785490165336797454

Atención. La policía de Nueva York acaba de arrestar a los militantes del grupo terrorista Hamas que tenían tomada a la Universidad de Columbia. Entre los detenidos se encuentra la esposa de Sami Al-Arian, un terrorista de alto nivel, miembro de la YIP.

https://twitter.com/agusantonetti/status/1785493296183222370

I just realized so many people are larping as hamas

Tonight the NYPD repeatedly entered Columbia spaces with their guns drawn to confront unarmed students.

https://twitter.com/joshuaphilll/status/1785514225508745383

They've been waiting for this day

Anti-Israel protesters barricaded inside Columbia University set to be imminently arrested as police corner them and refuse to let them leave. One student moans “It's finals! Can I go home?”

https://twitter.com/olilondontv/status/1785494728751902880

The duality of the protesters

Finals end May 10th and commencement is May 15th.

I got to thinking about this bc U of C is on a quarter system so they've got another month of protests potentially but most schools are wrapping up the academic year around now.

Please vote below:

@MoonMetropolis

Lore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Ryne_Goldberg

Joshua Ryne Goldberg (born May 14, 1995) is an American internet troll,[1] convicted of attempting a bombing on the 14th anniversary of the September 11 attacks[2] while posing as an Islamic terrorist affiliated with ISIS.[3][4][5]

Goldberg had many online identities and spent virtually all of his time on the internet.[7] In addition to promoting terrorism, he made thousands of troll posts advocating for liberal feminism, neo-Nazism, and other ideologies.

Proofs: https://twitter.com/MoonMetropolis/status/1785377421241291054

Credit to @Patsy for xeeting him

Update:

In case you all were wondering, /r/drama's description of me as looking like "Post Malone if the amount of weed consumed was estrogen" no longer stands. I now bear zero resemblance to any of the pictures that exist of me. In prison, I shaved my head bald and started working out.

!oldstrags !dramatards

“You stand no chance, old lady!”

Pro-Israel rioters at UCLA acting like total cartoon villains pic.twitter.com/9x6RP08Q6u

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) May 1, 2024

https://twitter.com/pplscitycouncil/status/1785620846700351510

>official press release

Not much on Reddit about it, perhaps because it was a forgone conclusion.

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1ch7bsu/united_methodists_begin_to_reverse_longstanding/?sort=controversial

They also made a lot of other LGBT affirming changes.

Replace the one in the background with a bear, thanks.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40209382

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40214619

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40211027

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40222501

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1cgq5j6/elon_musk_goes_absolutely_hard_core_in_another/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/1cgmcmt/tesla_conducting_more_layoffs_including_entire/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/1cgta3a/musk_lays_off_tesla_senior_executives_and_entire/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/1cgt3v8/musk_lays_off_tesla_senior_executives/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/1cdsie7/tesla_lays_off_more_than_3300_california_workers/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/1cgvu6r/tesla_to_lay_off_everyone_working_on/?sort=controversial

Elon Musk fires Tesla's entire supercharger team

Electric-car maker's public policy unit also being disbanded as chief announces in memo hundreds more jobs to be cut

Elon Musk has shut down the division that runs Tesla's Supercharger business, dismissed two senior executives and fired hundreds more staff as the electric-car maker continues its restructuring amid a sharp downturn in the EV market.

Musk announced internally on Monday that the head of the superchargers group, Rebecca Tinucci, and Daniel Ho, head of new products, would be leaving along with their entire teams. About 500 people were in the supercharger group, the memo said.

Tesla's supercharger system is among the largest charging networks in the world, and was one the reasons the company enjoyed such a commanding lead over rival carmakers for so long. While the supercharger operations will continue, the move raises questions over the future of the charging business.

The entire public policy unit will also be disbanded following the departure of its leader, Rohan Patel, in the middle of April.

“Hopefully these actions are making it clear that we need to be absolutely hard core about headcount and cost reduction,” Musk wrote in the memo, which was first reported by The Information. “While some execstaff are taking this seriously, most are not yet doing so.”

Any manager “who retains more than three people who don't obviously pass the excellent, necessary and trustworthy test” should resign, he added.

Tesla shares, which fell 5.5 per cent on Tuesday, were down another 2.6 per cent in pre-market trading at $178.53 on Wednesday.

Tesla did not respond to a request for comment.

Imagine being a full grown man and being excited by cooking.

Not war.

Not conquest.

No. You get adrenaline from making an omelette.

Fucking nerd.

Chefs are worms.

OMG WHAT IF THE MEATS OVER DONE OMG 😮

Who cares.

Hardly getting knocked out is it.

— Andrew Tate (@Cobratate) April 30, 2024

Despite being one of the most successful games released by Remedy Entertainment, Alan Wake II still hasn't recouped its expenses, according to a new financial report.

Financial statement https://investors.remedygames.com/app/uploads/2024/04/remedy-q1-2024-business-review.pdf

Remedy Entertainment confirmed how the second entry in the series, which sold 1.3 million copies as of this February, still hasn't recouped development and marketing costs.

They've recently said on their investor call:

“That's a speculation we cannot do. At the moment AW2 is on EGS, we hope PC g*mers find it there"

>sell your soul to Epicoal Games and the Chinkocracy of Tenshit

>greenlight sequel to literally who niche eurojank horror game from over a decade ago

>gain no profits

!g*mers

UCLA 🚨: FIGHTS continue through the night. Dozens injured , multiple bleeding, still ZERO law enforcement present. Both sides drag their wounded and fresh protestors replace them on the front. Total Anarchy. pic.twitter.com/Fl6T35zJRc

— Anthony Cabassa (@AnthonyCabassa_) May 1, 2024

People injured on both sides

Apparently a woman (Jew) was beaten unconscious yesterday by the pro-Palis. So an army of Jews assembled to attack the camp. This is unverified.