https://x.com/auroragberry/status/1847338731876778131
The board of trustees are thought to be meeting in a nearby building. Nearly 200 protesters are gathered on the lawn. Demonstrators are calling for the university to divest from weapons manufacturers.
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I disagree, not because I think Americans are secretly radical leftists en-masse or anything.
But I believe there are more "leftists" willing to withhold their vote over blatant anti-immigrant and pro-genocide rhetoric than there are Republicans willing to switch from their support of Trump to support a black woman saying the same stuff in a more polite (liberal) way.
We are too weak and divided to force any actual positive changes ourselves, but in a race as close as this one it can (and I believe will) be the difference, they don't have to unite for something, just to stick to principles on basic stuff they're against. Staying home hurts her just as much as voting PSL or whatever.