Photo credit to /u/Blue_G_Productions on that other site.
Wow americans are protesting. TIL
They’ve occupied the metro. Of course we are protesting. Minnesotans have been protesting every day since Renee Good was murdered. But it doesn’t show up in the news.
But they just go home in the evening. The Fed gov’t feels no pressure to change. ICE will continue tomorrow as if nothing happened.
The movement is being sandbagged while Trump builds his personal army to crush any resistance.
After watching the latest shooting video. FUCK ICE, they are trigger happy lunatics.
The group that cried about their guns and government oppression got a boner at the thought of using their guns to go out and oppress people.
Indeed and the MAGA fucknuts holding the reigns, will eventually turn on 2A and use the national security excuse to consolidate their power.
That’s why they’re in Minneapolis, they want to shoot people and they want to trigger riots so Trump can bring in the big guns as it were.
Thank you
I think they were all shouting booerns! Right?
Nah!
Lookit all them paid protesters! Soros gonna be bankrupted! /s
Anyone good at crowd estimates? Curious how many people this is.
It’s less than Trumpy’s inauguration which had the most number of people /s
It is clearly hundreds. Dozens even!
I think in that picture, I’d guess between 2k and 3.5k are visible.
“Nobody even showed up. Lazy liberals just took a day off of work to smoke weed and fuck.” --MAGA
“those are paid crisis actors. and all those people making loud noises all night while ice tries to sleep are Japanese sex bots programmed for drumming”
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Here’s the neat part - we did! Minnesota is pretty consistently the top state for voter turnout. The rest of you need to quit slacking and get on our level, lol.
And that’s a big part of the reason why ICE is there.
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you did your part and you couldn’t even do my part?
Guarantee you that the same people protesting are the same people who voted.
I remember watching interviews at some dumb “The 2020 election was stolen” nazi rally. So many of those MAGAts admitted to not even voting. Americans are just the worst at voting. It’s either not voting because of apathy or some selfish purity justification, or they vote for corporate enablers. Then everyone gathers around and bitches about the shitshow.
How do you guys think Trump will try staying in power? You think it will be an attack on the parliament again? This time with a bigger goon squad?
He’ll probably be either dead or so far into dementia that he won’t even know his own name by the time his term closes.
Even the midterms don’t really matter even if free and fair, bills won’t pass at all anymore (Republicans will still have a third of the Senate, so vetos will stand) and the executive branch will keep on ignoring everything because the judicial branch already gave him a pass that only 2/3 of the Senate can hold him accountable for anything, and there is no midterm result possible that gets there.
Why wouldn’t the disgusting pedophile party stay in power “democratically”? Don’t they have control of gerrymandering and electronic voting machines? And didn’t they abolish all checks and balances?
Works for Putin
if they try to gerrymander their way to permanent power, blue states will continue their countermandering work. it seems like the republicans are trying to provoke a civil war, use that to justify suspending elections, and establish permanent power for themselves.
the key for us, the people, is that we absolutely must organize into collections of people power that have the resilience to defy all this. in Minneapolis, everyone is mobilized. it’s reached a point there where everyone is out in the streets defying ICE, supporting the people out there in some real way, be that recruiting, educating, feeding, keeping warm, or they’re tacitly in support of ICE.
this regime is offering everyone a simple, sadistic, choice. you can fight in civil war they want to enact, or you can die in the genocide that’s been in motion for 600 years. DC, Chicago, North Carolina, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis are becoming proving grounds of what does and does not work.
the biggest thing is organization and for organization we need recruitment. too few are active. so please, any fellow americans reading this comment, seek a local mutual aid project to work with. seek a community defense league. get out here and help us fight before there’s no fighting left to do
Haven’t been following the news? He’s trying to start WWIII in order to stay in power.
In order to deflect from releasing the Epstein files is a better reason.
He’ll rig the election, or just declare himself the winner, and simply refuse to vacate the office or the White House, and count on Congress and the Supreme Court to back him.
If SCOTUS doesn’t back him, he’ll just ignore them, there is no mechanism to enforce their rulings.
This is how change is created, hope it continues and they get the results humanity needs.
It bears mentioning that none of this would have been necessary if people have gone out and VOTED in numbers like these.
Instead they first passively threw a tantrum enabling this Gestapo, now their country is a global pariah, not to be trusted again, while expending so much more energy, experiencing much more inconvenience and risk than voting, just to send a symbolic message to sociopaths who have the power, enjoy abusing it, and do NOT care to listen.
Which is to say: this is meaningless, voting is everything and you blew it yet again. But people insist on wanting to be inspired by one godking figurehead, refusing to understand how consistently voting just one day a year, in presidentials, midterms and off-years, is how political momentum is built or eroded, how a government is not one godking president, but an entire system with hundreds of thousands of civil servants, elected, appointed and hired, at every level of government, momentum builds slowly.
If Democrats ever win again, it will be with one hand tied behind their back, facing right-wing sabotage every step of the way, just as has happened every time since Jimmy Carter, and if they can’t wave a magic political wand and fix this unfixable mess in one go, the oh-so-precious impatient electorate is going to throw yet another destructive tantrum and back to square minus five or worse.
We’ve consistently got the best voter turnout in the country here in Minnesota, it’s everyone else who needs to get on our level.
Please grow the fuck up. The majority of people who didn’t vote for Harris weren’t, “throwing a tantrum.” They were tired, working class people who didn’t feel that voting would improve their lives and didn’t want to waste their time on it.
Election day is not a holiday in this country. Mail-in voting is not available in many states. Voting is a hardship, one which is most felt by working-class voters making hourly, minimum wage. If you want those people to vote for you, you have to give them something to vote for.
How did the Democrats do that? Well, first they ran an 80-year-old man that the majority of their voters didn’t want running in an essentially unchallenged primary. Then, when the cognitive issues his team were clearly hiding spilled out on national TV, they allowed him to dig his heals in and stay in the race until the 11th hour. When he finally dropped out, they replaced him with a candidate who failed to win a single primary state and had her campaign with Republicans because they decided it was better for her to appeal to conservatives than her base. Oh, and they wouldn’t stop funding a genocide, can’t forget that.
It is not the voters job to get politicians elected; it is literally the exact opposite of that. The Democrats did a spectacularly bad job in 2024, and the fact that the people associated with the administration and the campaign still have influence within the party is absurd and disgusting. Point the blame at those who deserve it.
Voting can stop you from going backwards, but voting alone is not enough. It will not fix the mess we are in by itself. It’s vote and take action not vote or take action. There is absolutely not time to wait for elections. Voting is important, but it has to be done with other action or the country will not survive
Minnesota is also in the middle of general strike today as well. Statewide, for the first time in almost 100 years. Economic power matter, and people are starting to use their leverage there in a real meaningful way
Political power grows from the barrel of a vote 🫢
This is decades in the making. Voting got us here. Couch surfing got us here. It doesn’t fuckin matter what got us here. Be helpful, be supportive, get out and take your rights however you see fit (peaceful or not) or shut the fuck up already. Blame needs to come later. The horse is dead.
Voting wrong got us here. Of course it matters what got us here. It matters a lot.
It’s interesting that when people remind you of that you want them to shut up and spur them out of the trenches
Historically democrats have mostly kept a lot of bad stuff done by republicans. Voting only delayed the catastrophe waiting to happen
Then people voted for the wrong democrats in the primaries?
A captured system is just that. There’s no right vote in it. You can argue the lesser of two evils but you are already on the downhill slide by the time that thought even occurs.
Despite the shit ancient system, it’s still possible to get a good outcome. But it requires people voting for good candidates consistently. Saying people should shut up about that and just get violent instead is not the way
If Minneapolis can do this in below zero temperatures then we all can.
Hell Yeah!
And some people on Lemmy were worried that the cold would keep Minnesotans indoors lol their fears were clearly unfounded
So such things as too cold. You just aren’t wearing enough layers.
Still have to wonder how many will out wait ICE. What’s this picture going to look like by Wednesday?
Per Midwest culture, rain is the weather that keeps the most people indoors.
I went to college in Ohio. I much preferred 30° and precipitating to 35° and precipitating, especially as a pedestrian walking to classes. Snow you can brush off before you go in, a cold rain just soaks in.
Cold and dry is uncomfortable. Cold and wet is dead.
The number of whole city gridlocks that occur when there’s a light misting says otherwise
Mist is mist. Rain is rain.
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I know. But It’s not enough to cause the panic it does gridlocking the city
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My point, which you missed, was that if people were staying in, there wouldn’t be enough cars on the road to gridlock the city due to idiots panicking over some slightly moist pavement.
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