Minneapolis shooting latest: Victim Alex Pretti’s family condemn Trump administration
www.independent.co.uk
The Obamas urged the Trump administration to ‘reconsider’ their approach to immigration enforcement

Federal agents have been involved in yet another fatal shooting in Minneapolis, city officials have said

  • TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    132·
    2 days ago

    This is the most harmful rhetoric to a resistance movement that I can imagine. You’re literally saying that people organizing themselves to force radical change have no power or ability to succeed.

    Resistance does not look like a witty sign. It looks like community self defence, direct action, union organizing, general strike, and the miriad other methods that have been historically successful against authoritarian and oppressive regimes. These are the methods being used by organizers in Minneapolis today.

    And you’re here arguing that The People dont have power.

    • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Problem is times change. They have enough money they don’t need us.

    • the_q@lemmy.zip
      31·
      2 days ago

      What power? This country has been beginning more and more authoritarian regardless of the peaceful protests. You’re delusional and that’s the task harmful part of all this.

      • TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        2 days ago

        “Peaceful protest” has very little to do with what I’m talking about. I’m talking about militant resistance, such was what anarchist/communist movements have put into practice for 150+ years, including in the US. It isnt delusional, it’s history.

          • TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            1·
            2 days ago

            Ask the union leaders in Minneapolis if “no one is doing that.”

            Minneapolis is where the George Floyd Uprising started. Go ask those organizers (who are absolutely active today) why “no one is doing that.”

            Just because you dont see it, doesn’t mean it doesnt happen. Its not the job of the resistance movement to look like what an outside observer thinks it should look like. Read radical theory and you might recognize the signs of radical resistance.

            • the_q@lemmy.zip
              11·
              2 days ago

              ICE just murdered another citizen in Minneapolis. They had a single day of economic disruption. None of it has made a single dent in the occupation of Minneapolis. I genuinely cannot understand this delusional world people like you live in. It has to be some kind of coping mechanism, but it certainly isn’t actually helpful. Until large groups of armed citizens start actively engaging ICE or an unending economic stopper is put in place nothing will change.