This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months.
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@andrewstroehlein "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. 1/2
@independentpen@mas.to @andrewstroehlein@mastodon.social There's actually a pattern here. The depraved, the criminal, the bigoted, the corrupt very frequently seem to operate on an unconscious belief that everyone else is secretly just like them. And therefore they're not doing anything wrong.
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@andrewstroehlein
MAGA assumes "the left is insincere in its values, and that principles of inclusion and unity are superficial forms of virtue signaling.This has turned out to be true of many liberals in positions of power—university administrators, attorneys at white-shoe law firms, political leaders. But it is not true of ordinary Americans, who have poured into the streets in protest, spoken out against the admin, and, in MN, resisted armed men in masks at the cost of their own life."
@shansterable @andrewstroehlein
"university administrators, attorneys at white-shoe law firms, political leaders."
In other words, people who get paid enough to remove themselves from the dirty working people who serve them.
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@shansterable @andrewstroehlein
"university administrators, attorneys at white-shoe law firms, political leaders."
In other words, people who get paid enough to remove themselves from the dirty working people who serve them.
@troy_frizzell
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This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months. We look from abroad and wonder where the hope is. Read this. Now.
@andrewstroehlein I hate these times so much.
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"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that (the depraved are) the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave."
These types of people always 'assume' the worst in everyone, because it's exactly how they think, how they act... and they are incapable of thinking or understanding that others aren't as ignorant, racist, selfish and evil as they are.
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This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months. We look from abroad and wonder where the hope is. Read this. Now.
"If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme."
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"If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme."
"Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu."
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This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months. We look from abroad and wonder where the hope is. Read this. Now.
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Wow! you are totally right! what an uplifting article. It really brings back hope that there's a light at the end of the tunnel. -
This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months. We look from abroad and wonder where the hope is. Read this. Now.
@andrewstroehlein @noiseician when you've lost the centrist rag's writers...
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This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months. We look from abroad and wonder where the hope is. Read this. Now.
@andrewstroehlein
"The MAGA faith in liberal weakness has been paired with the conviction that real men—Trump’s men—are conversely strong. "I know strength, and the person hiding behind the mask with the gun ain't got it.
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"Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu."
@xankarn @andrewstroehlein Neighbours only stay strangers if you keep it that way.
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@andrewstroehlein
"The MAGA faith in liberal weakness has been paired with the conviction that real men—Trump’s men—are conversely strong. "I know strength, and the person hiding behind the mask with the gun ain't got it.
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@andrewstroehlein
Wow! you are totally right! what an uplifting article. It really brings back hope that there's a light at the end of the tunnel. -
"If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme."
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This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months. We look from abroad and wonder where the hope is. Read this. Now.
@andrewstroehlein The article is well written but what troubles me is that these things Minnesotans are doing have been done by Portland, Seattle, LA , Oakland, DC, New Orleans and not that long ago Chicago. People have been fighting since before August! Press is only interested when a white person gets killed or threatened. I applaud all the folks standing up in Minnesota, but it isn't an anomaly, it's the new reality.
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This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months. We look from abroad and wonder where the hope is. Read this. Now.
@andrewstroehlein - I have to laugh at this photo. Bear with me please it looks like the man in the middle is wearing a DIAPER or Depends. Or the biggest Blubber butt shorts for those long cold nights acting tough on front of the photographer.
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@andrewstroehlein I hate these times so much.
@kAlvaro , try checking public library; many now have free sameday access to Atlantic's Web edition.
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This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months. We look from abroad and wonder where the hope is. Read this. Now.
@andrewstroehlein
Thoughtful read
many insights, including:
“The real reason may be that a majority of Minnesotans did not vote for him. Trump has said that “I won Minnesota three times, and I didn’t get credit for it. That’s a crooked state.” He has never won Minnesota.”
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@andrewstroehlein The article is well written but what troubles me is that these things Minnesotans are doing have been done by Portland, Seattle, LA , Oakland, DC, New Orleans and not that long ago Chicago. People have been fighting since before August! Press is only interested when a white person gets killed or threatened. I applaud all the folks standing up in Minnesota, but it isn't an anomaly, it's the new reality.
Yes! It's a good example about the power of organised resistance, and the important context that the resistance movements go way beyond what is happening in Minnesota is worth highlighting
I'd add that practising organising mutual aid and building the relationships needed for neighbourhood resistance movements are urgent, regardless of if/when we live through sustained attacks by an oppressive state
" a real resistance, broad and organized and overwhelmingly nonviolent, the kind of movement that emerges only under sustained attacks by an oppressive state. Tens of thousands of volunteers—at the very least—are risking their safety to defend their neighbors and their freedom...
If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme"
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These types of people always 'assume' the worst in everyone, because it's exactly how they think, how they act... and they are incapable of thinking or understanding that others aren't as ignorant, racist, selfish and evil as they are.
@Anomnomnomaly @FediThing @andrewstroehlein And they can't fool themselves that they are the good guys if everyone else isn't just the same.
