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And some people on Lemmy were worried that the cold would keep Minnesotans indoors lol their fears were clearly unfounded
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.
So such things as too cold. You just aren't wearing enough layers.
If Minneapolis can do this in below zero temperatures then we all can.
I initially thought: Yes!
Then: Oh, it must be Saturday for this to be happening at all.
I checked the date. It’s not Saturday. In addition the weather is awful.
I came back around to: Yes!
Do protests need to be sustained to be effective? Of course. Widespread? Absolutely. Regardless, the standard guardrails on protest comfort we’ve witnessed thus far are broken here, in a good way. Cascade effects may follow.
The problem is if it remains local to one city, that’s easy peasy for authorities to squelch.
A lot of people underestimate just how fucking cold it was today.
It's really fucking cold.
Im a local and I walked to work at 10am and it was -20, only a few blocks luckily
As a California can we trade weather? -20 sounds so much nicer than 50 something.
"But why don't Americans protest? All they do is sit back and take it up the ass!" I hear every European crying as they ignore this right alongside all the other protests.
I love how it's a bajillion degrees below zero and they are all outside protesting, flipping shit. Yeah, Americans don't do anything. Fuck y'all that say it.
We have a significant population of people who think vaccines are bad. You think they'll do anything for society?
Because just standing outside is not how a protest achieves anything. True protests must be disruptive and last. The Yellow jackets burned down the avenue des champs Elysées every Saturday for multiple months. The protests following Nahel's murder (very similar to that of Renee good in some aspects) burned down multiple police stations.
Standing protests like this a regular occurrence in France, but those are not the ones you hear about. Their only role is so build momentum and make people feel united.
Real change happens only through either much stronger protests or through actions like the whistles and following ice around making them feel unwelcome 24/7.
It was true when I said it and I'm proud of everyone for what they've achieved since then.
The protests last year were some of the largest in US history. There have been smaller protests popping up constantly since the first few months of the regime.
And this is going on during a (one day) state wide general strike in Minnesota
"Delicious protests. Finally, some good fucking"
Heh, I can actually pick myself out in that picture.
And just to confirm, yes, it was really fucking cold out.
Thank you for your service.
Holy moly. (this is °C)
Lookit all them paid protesters! Soros gonna be bankrupted! /s
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After watching the latest shooting video. FUCK ICE, they are trigger happy lunatics.
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.
I think they were all shouting booerns! Right?
Nah!
This is amazing but the protests need to be sustained until things change. Nothing will change if you set a date for when the protests end.
Protests in Minnesota have been going on constantly every day in multiple places, the media is just hardly reporting on it. They are not small either. People have also formed entire network to monitor ICE and make sure that people can respond fast anywhere they go
this right here. every news source is refering to that crowd as "thousands". most protests dont even get a mention in local papers.
The problem here, as in local to Minnesota, is it’s too local. It’s easy for authorities to gather enough resources for 1 city.
But Minnesotans are likely the only population that’s been brought to the breaking point just yet. (Trump spite for Walz, probably.)
im sure most of whats happening here isnt getting past the geofencing and content mods in regular social media. but they have not had enough resources to control even individual neighborhoods. even after bringing in more agents than the entire combined police force of the most populated metro area in the state. every increase in violance by ice drives more volunteers into community patrols. the administration cant subdue one medium sized midwestern city. they're weak and its showing.
Trump has some obsession with Minnesota.
This is how change is created, hope it continues and they get the results humanity needs.
I'm not an American, watched Dare Devil Born Again last year and thought wow that police task force the King Pin set up was bad... Didn't think you guys would face the real thing in the US. This is dystopian come true. Well, FUCK ICE from across the globe.
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