• triptrapper@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Every second of coverage that Jacob Frey gets is a centrist distraction from a sincere conversation about what’s happening in Minneapolis. He is uninterested in doing anything that helps anyone vulnerable in this city. He bumbled his way through the uprising in 2020 (on the side of “restoring order”), he constantly had homeless communities bulldozed, and now again he’s distracting people with stern-sounding rhetoric while doing nothing to support the community.

    The precinct map for the 2025 mayoral election (which Frey won) overlays neatly with the city map of ICE activity this month. That is, the parts of the city that supported Frey are being less affected by ICE raids and kidnappings. He doesn’t care about protecting immigrants and BIPOC community members because they’re not “his people.”

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    4 months ago

    It wasn’t that long ago that basically everyone would be against the idea of deploying active-duty soldiers against U.S. citizens.

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      4 months ago

      It wasn’t that long ago that being a fascist was absolutely unacceptable in mainstream society, and the idea that the USA and other wealthy countries could fall to fascism seemed fantastic.

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        Authoritarianism doesn’t flourish in times of economic prosperity, historically. Techno-feudalists of the contemporary era require economic despair of the populace to provide “the solution” of their supremacy.

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      Pretty much the only people who like it are glued to screens blasting nonstop billionaire propaganda like the kid in clockwork orange. There is a significant amount of people who just aren’t online and don’t work in an office who will be suprised by all of this.

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    4 months ago

    If the government calls the national guarding into a mission, the president cannot use them for whatever the fuck he wants. We just have some Democrats that rather send harsh letters and posts instead of stepping up.

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    Me: wondering how the supreme court is going to repeal the 3rd amendment after the hotels burn down.