Could student protesters turn the 2024 election?
Could student protesters turn the 2024 election?
Away from the back-and-forth of the campaign trail, thousands of students are taking part in pro-Palestinian encampment-style protests at more than 50 university campuses across the US
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Could student protesters turn the 2024 election?
Tensions on university campuses, already high as a wave of pro-Palestinian encampment-style protests sweeps the US, got even higher overnight.
The protests, which have seen students pitch tents or occupy buildings at Columbia, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and others, began as an effort to get universities to ditch investments in companies which provide weapons and equipment to the Israeli military.
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If the news could get their collective heads out of their asses and stop validating the right wing freakshow by giving them tons of airtime, then yes, students could also potentially sway the election.
I'm trying to find sources, but I'm pretty sure they cracked own on these protests faster than they did Occupy Wall Street, which took 59 days.
They want this one put down now.
If they sway it, it’ll be to Trump. There is no chance of a third-party candidate getting elected, and Trump’s base will still vote for him even if he’s convicted of all 88 charges. It’s going to be worse for Palestinians, not to mention Ukrainians, Taiwanese, migrants/immigrants, and Americans.
You know Bidens immigration policy is Trumps immigration policy right? And Biden tried to pass an even more cruel immigration policy than Trump.
Get educated and stop sucking Bidens dick
More cruel than separating parent from child, deporting the parents while keeping the children in detention centers, only to sexually and physically abuse them?
Biden repealed Title 42, Trump’s immigration policy. They are not the same.