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I suspect it's a reference to this:
https://www.berkeleyside.com/2...

Whether Clanton votes Democrat or not we'll just have to guess.

Meet Eric Clanton, an Antifa -- Alt Left -- icon.

He's a professor at Berkeley. He teaches ETHICS.

He is not, and was never, a professor at Berkeley. He used to be a professor at a nearby community college.

http://www.berkeleyside.com/20...

Aren't you a bit exaggersting implying that he got away with his violence scot free?

Fortunately, thanks to 4chan tracking him down, he's looking at a long, LONG time in jail: berkeleyside.com

The thing I find most amusing in that article is that some of the evidence police presented against this guy is the fact that his cell phone was in the area of the riots at the time. A self-proclaimed anarchist attends a riot where he commits premeditated assault and battery and... carries his cell phone with him the entire time.

They don't make anarchists like they used to.

It happened a couple of days ago, if you've been watching the idiotic alt-right (nazi sympathizers) on YouTube. It started when trump threw them their next meme to bounce off their echo chamber walls: "alt-left".

Yes, and now opposing right wing extremists, nazis, and white supremacists is considered to be an "alternate" viewpoint.

Meet Eric Clanton, an Antifa -- Alt Left -- icon.

He's a professor at Berkeley. He teaches ETHICS.

He tried to murder 7 people with a Bike lock during the Berkley riots. Here's a video of one of his attacks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Note that there are two female Alt-Left domestic terrorists that provide a distraction and point his victim out to Eric. Note that the other ISIS cosplaying losers protect Eric by opening a hole in the wall so he can attack and then preventing anyone from restraining Eric for the police.

Eric's reasoning? The students wanted to see a Gay Jewish Immigrant speak about the dangers of Islam and a Conservative woman talk about how great America is, and he felt that they shouldn't be allowed to do that.

Fortunately, thanks to 4chan tracking him down, he's looking at a long, LONG time in jail: http://www.berkeleyside.com/20...

There's an Alt Left, they're way worse than the Alt Right, and the more the "enlightened left" pretends they don't exist the more people like Clanton out there feel emboldened to try to murder people in the streets.

I'm kind of live and let live.

You are two decades behind the times. http://www.berkeleyside.com/20...

They have rules

They do. But they are also the legislature (creating rules), judiciary (determining, whether a rule is broken), and executive (acting on such determination) at once. Whether their action is sincere, or simply seeking to avoid boycotts and/or DOSing, they are wrong.

I do hate Daily Stormer with passion — since 2014, when they dismissed all of Ukraine's figures as "Jews" — if GoDaddy was Ok with them before, there is no reason to kick them out now.

Certainly not with such haste... 24 hours to move a site? Ridiculous...

The massive outrage about this is curiously selective. The "alt-right" are blamed for the violence even though they held their gathering and were attacked by the counter-protesters, who've been viciously violent before. All of the reports about the car charging into a crowd mention "melees" and "skirmishes" already occurring prior to that in passing. Oh, that's because someone died? Well, there were politically-motivated attacks with a deadly weapon before — sheer luck, that asshole merely injured his victims.

Lastly, much as the Nazist symbols and racism annoy me, they clearly have no real following and thus pose little danger. Meanwhile, the symbols of Communists and other hate-groups (like Black Lives Matter) were also on display and those, despite being far deadlier, do not seem to outrage anyone...

Using Brietbart and YouTube as your only sources just discredits your argument. I know, the evil mainstream media would never cover a juicy story like students violently beating each other, no interest in boring stuff like that.

Breitbart, known to fabricate stories and not print corrections when exposed, and YouTube which is unverifiable, doesn't lend your argument any credibility. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Would you accept Berkeleyside then, the newspaper of the City of Berkeley? They have two good writeups of the riots of April 15:
Who exactly was it that turned Berkeley into a battlefield April 15? From the article:
On the Right: Rich Black, rally organizer. The Proud Boys, “Western chauvinists who refuse to apologize for creating the modern world.” Identity Evropa. Oath Keepers, a civilian militia.
On the Left: Antifascist Action aka "Antifa," came to "hold the space" at the park from the right-wing protesters, by force if necessary. The Oak Roots Collective, a new group affiliated with anarchists. By Any Means Necessary aka BAMN, which gets attention since several of its members are open and public as opposed to Antifa's sheer anonymity.

Then, a few days later, the police chief in another Berkeleyside article says that the demonstration and counter-demonstration were kept apart by fencing. That worked until three dozen 'antifa' scaled the fencing to confront the other demonstrators. Someone broke out a large amount of an irritant, maybe pepper spray, and the fighting began there.

Using Brietbart and YouTube as your only sources just discredits your argument. I know, the evil mainstream media would never cover a juicy story like students violently beating each other, no interest in boring stuff like that.

Breitbart, known to fabricate stories and not print corrections when exposed, and YouTube which is unverifiable, doesn't lend your argument any credibility. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Would you accept Berkeleyside then, the newspaper of the City of Berkeley? They have two good writeups of the riots of April 15:
Who exactly was it that turned Berkeley into a battlefield April 15? From the article:
On the Right: Rich Black, rally organizer. The Proud Boys, “Western chauvinists who refuse to apologize for creating the modern world.” Identity Evropa. Oath Keepers, a civilian militia.
On the Left: Antifascist Action aka "Antifa," came to "hold the space" at the park from the right-wing protesters, by force if necessary. The Oak Roots Collective, a new group affiliated with anarchists. By Any Means Necessary aka BAMN, which gets attention since several of its members are open and public as opposed to Antifa's sheer anonymity.

Then, a few days later, the police chief in another Berkeleyside article says that the demonstration and counter-demonstration were kept apart by fencing. That worked until three dozen 'antifa' scaled the fencing to confront the other demonstrators. Someone broke out a large amount of an irritant, maybe pepper spray, and the fighting began there.

Did you even watch the Youtube video he linked to?

Video footage of that particular incident, from multiple sources, is plentiful.

Not only that, but the attacker that is being exposed has been charged for it.

If you want to criticize Breitbart, or talk about how a single Youtube video from a single person does not make for a credible source and thereby encourage people to check sources and dig deeper to make sure they're getting all the facts ... great. I'm with you. But wait, that's not what you've done. You used the fact that you take issues with those sources to dismiss what the person has to say outright, instead of doing your own due diligence by checking those sources to see if they're correct or not. And in this case, turns out they were correct. So way to go, you've actually undermined the very argument that people should be careful to check and verify sources for accuracy.

This person (allegedly) killed one woman and wounded another, but Berkeley is mad because the media keeps using the "wrong" pronoun for "they"?

http://www.berkeleyside.com/20...

http://www.dailycal.org/2017/0...

The amount of complaining on the internet hasn't changed.

I'll concede, that there was complaining and there still is — from another direction. But the quantitative estimate needs citations — what makes you think, the amount hasn't changed?

For example, over 8 years Obama racked up about a score of verified death-threats. It may be too early to tell for Trump, but if Bush is any indication, he'll have so many, Secret Service will stop investigating...

Indeed, I can not recall anyone beaten up, or anything set on fire or otherwise destroyed during an anti-Obama protest...

It's just moved venues.

It also stopped being racist — as I keep pointing out — without becoming sexist instead...

don't imagine that the Obama administration was free of public outrage.

It having existed does not mean, there was just as much of it.

Ten cops show up. Like the CHIEF of police in Berkeley did... http://www.berkeleyside.com/20...

Maybe some analogue to these guys?
As for the article, my response:

His two hour commute - Well duh it can be considered research! If he's 'driving' a prototype self driving car you need it to be able to handle all sorts of situations, including rush hour traffic. Given that accidents are still a low order event(most people make it through without an accident each day), you need a LOT of hours in the vehicle to get statistically valid results. Plus, as a developer he can use the time to muse on optimization schemes, notice anything out of spec, etc...

Association with the military- Google bought a military research company. They don't even consider that maybe Google was after the research to reuse it for civilian purposes. Technology that can deliver a missile to a target can be used to help navigate a drone, whether it's a spyplane or cargo craft.

77 unit apartment building - 'cyber-capitalist utopia'? What the hell is this supposed to mean? Searching around I found this description of the buildings. Seems to have some neat sustainability ideas.

The Nautilus Group is composed of designers and builders who have created military installations, malls, and hospitals. Levandowski is now making his contribution to the further sterilization and gentrification of Downtown Berkeley and Shattuck Avenue.

So they're professionals. So frigging what? The military needs buildings as well, and generally speaking has the same demands as any other business - outside of very specific buildings(such as munitions dumps), their warehouses, offices, and housing are no different than civilian versions.

"The proposed project is a testament to the arrogance, disconnection, and luxury of the ruling class. Growing their own vegetables in a rooftop garden and selling them to other wealthy people allows them, somehow, to pretend that the planet is not being ravaged by the same economy they depend on for their wealth, comfort, and safety."

...So doing something about our resource usage/despoiling the planet is 'pretending'? Students and 'young professionals' who are poor enough to work on a rooftop vegetable garden are the 'ruling class'? I'm not going to say that there will be poor people living in these apartments, but they probably won't be .1%ers in the states either.

He had Google Glasses over his eyes, carried his baby in his arm, and held a tablet with his free hand. As he descended the stairs with the baby, his eyes were on the tablet through the prism of his Google Glasses, not on the life against his chest.

Oh my god, if he's not paying attention to the baby he's a robot!!! Never mind the physical sensations providing constant feedback about the kid's status.

There are men and women in the Congo, slaving away in giant pits in order to extract gold and other precious metals from the earth. This gold will go into phones and tablets made by companies like Google, Apple, and Microsoft. Anthony Levandowski has never worked in a pit mine nor will his children.

As has been mentioned elsewhere, not much gold in electronics today, it's too expensive.

In short, sounds like the protestors are a group of delusional, self absorbed luddites.

If you're a Nobel laureate at Berkeley, you know the Nobel parking permit is worth at least 2 million kronor.

Good time to cancel the special parking permits for Nobel Prize winners

  * http://www.berkeleyside.com/2011/10/04/new-nobel-winner-gets-real-prize-a-special-parking-permit/
  * http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113883274

"Nobel Prize winner Saul Perlmutter joked that the “only reason to win a Nobel Prize” was to receive the famous Nobel laureate (NL) parking permit, reserved for laureates on the Berkeley campus."

Article appears to be slasdotted..and sparse per prior posts. Any better links?
Oh that's right.. unlike the submitter or the eds.. I can use google.
http://www.livescience.com/20048-ridiculously-automated-dorm-room.html
http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/05/01/cal-student-creates-a-ridiculously-automated-dorm/
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-video-berkeleys-most-ridiculously-automated-dorm-room-ever-20120501,0,2225746.story