This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months.
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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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"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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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.
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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
"Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs." -
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 It's like reading a story about the resistance in World War II.
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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.
@fulanigirl Without being in all of those places, it's hard to know if they all played out in a similar way.
It's possible that MSP took lessons from those that came before, and all those lessons coalesced with "Minnesota Nice" to make something different.
I don't think any other city got to the point of a general strike, for instance.
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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.
@Rozzychan Yep. The last paragraph nails that.
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@andrewstroehlein I hate these times so much.
@kAlvaro It's such a good article that people are quoting the heck out of it in the comments. You can read a good portion of it just from that!
But there's this as well... https://archive.ph/IE7Dv
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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.
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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 jd & usha are strangers? sounds right
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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 Why is he acting like the ICE commander getting replaced is a win?
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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
'Judy is a rabbi. “I did protective presence in the West Bank,” Lime told me, referring to a form of protest in which activists try to deter settler violence by simply being present in Palestinian communities. “This is very similar.”" -
@fulanigirl Without being in all of those places, it's hard to know if they all played out in a similar way.
It's possible that MSP took lessons from those that came before, and all those lessons coalesced with "Minnesota Nice" to make something different.
I don't think any other city got to the point of a general strike, for instance.
@solitha @andrewstroehlein We do know how it played out. The whistles were from Chicago. Faith leaders in Portland etc. Rapid Responders in ALL the cities. The general strike was because a white person was killed. She shouldn't have been killed but that's what grabbed the news and the community (white) that finally got the message of what has been going on. People are working on a nationwide strike through Indivisible before anyone was killed.
