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OrlandoDem2

(3,157 posts) Tue Apr 1, 2025, 03:03 PM Apr 2025

Where are our university students? We need them to start protesting again!

We need pro-Palestinian protests back. (Not pro Hamas).

We need pro free speech protests.

We need pro due process protests.

I know our university students are about to break for summer. But we need to ramp up the civil disobedience. We are still America!

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Where are our university students? We need them to start protesting again! (Original Post) OrlandoDem2 Apr 2025 OP

They will be deported. Irish_Dem Apr 2025 #1

The protests only mattered to suppress Dem votes last year. that said, if there were... themaguffin Apr 2025 #2

Getting ready for finals? Dulcinea Apr 2025 #3

Irish_Dem

(79,889 posts)

1. They will be deported.

Reply to OrlandoDem2 (Original post)

Tue Apr 1, 2025, 03:21 PM

Apr 2025

It is foolish to cross Trump now.
He will destroy anyone who does.

themaguffin

(4,913 posts)

2. The protests only mattered to suppress Dem votes last year. that said, if there were...

Reply to OrlandoDem2 (Original post)

Tue Apr 1, 2025, 03:59 PM

Apr 2025

...protests anything about Palestine needs to take a backseat.

We are in an emergency. To paraphrase from a plane emergency protocol - You put on your oxygen mask before helping others right?

Dulcinea

(9,680 posts)

3. Getting ready for finals?

Reply to OrlandoDem2 (Original post)

Tue Apr 1, 2025, 04:06 PM

Apr 2025

That's what my college students are doing.

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