Guess she got an inflated sense of her own influence when the Dem leadership used her as an excuse to not raise the minimum wage a few years ago.

The Parliamentarian of the United States Senate is a purely advisory role.

To expect fascists to follow procedure to the detriment of their agenda when nobody is forcing them to is peak Neoliberal delusion.

This is probably just them trying to wag the dog to drum up support for their war crimes.

Good luck living through the ever-increasing frackquakes…

That’s EXACTLY what the Dem leadership will do, as usual.

Doing military sabotage in european countries will not help the palestinian cause.

Yeah, because who ever heard of direct action against apartheid enablers achieving results where Liberals performatively frowning while upholding the status quo didn’t? 🙄

That will cause a totally justified crackdown

Evidently, you have a fucked up definition of “totally justified”

no government in the world can and will tolerate radical militants who are sabotaging it’s own military in times of global crisis

But the citizens of the world is supposed to meekly tolerate their governments participating in a fascist apartheid regime committing the worst campaign of genocide the world has seen for decades?

Sounds like you have some very authoritarian priorities of what’s right and tolerable.

I’m also not sure if such acts really are helpful at disproving the popular resentment that all palestinians are radical islamists, terrorists or in bed with hamas.

Big “the protesters should be confined to a corner where they can’t inconvenience anyone” concern trolling energy.

Nobody who’s arguing in good faith and reachable by logic would think that “all palestinians are radical islamists, terrorists or in bed with hamas.”

Only bigots, brainwashed victims of disinformation campaigns, and combinations of both think ANYTHING like that, and modeling your resistance on their potential opinions is a way to guarantee that nothing changes for the better.

Ok, good point. Will there be a Dave, then?

The students’ demands include Columbia’s financial divestment from Zionist organizations, an academic boycott of complicit institutions, cops and ICE off campus and amnesty for all university members unfairly targeted and disciplined for pro-Palestinian actions.

Not a single one of which wouldn’t be a given in a sane and civilized modern society.

Columbia’s Public Safety officers immediately responded and violently barred protesters from leaving unless they showed identification, which created a prolonged standoff…

Because of COURSE they did!

When it comes to Apartheid regimes (and indeed most big picture stuff), student protesters are always on the right side of history and the people who derive income directly dependent on the atrocities continuing always react with the subtlety and intelligence of trying to remove a splinter with a machete.