This is honestly the best thing I have read about the US in months.
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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 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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"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.
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@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.
@fulanigirl My point is that everything used has been in evolution and iteration all this time, and used in different communities with different cultures in every iteration.
You can certainly frame it around the death of a single white person if you'd like. You might be right. I choose to disagree, especially with the extremity of variables in play.
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