Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says city ‘invaded’ by ICE as Pentagon reportedly readying active-duty soldiers for deployment
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/minneapolis-protests-national-guard-jacob-frey-trump-b2902768.html
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Hegar@fedia.io · 58 pts · 203d
This fascist regime has clearly been planning for a while to send the military to attack american cities.
If they feel confident in using the military instead of the death squads they've been building under ice, that implies they are optimistic about their control over the military, or at least ready to test that control.
Anyone who thinks there's an electoral path away from fascism is deluding themselves. They'll shoot us dead in the street before giving up power.
Bell@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 203d
Impeach. Noem, Bondi and Trump.
grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one · 10 pts · 203d
defund the Department of Noemland Security while yer at it!
PoopDeckInspector@lemmynsfw.com · 7 pts · 203d
Sorry, the best we can do is increase funding for ICE
Soulg@ani.social · 1 pts · 202d
No actually hang them
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 203d
Lmao
beanie@lemmy.ca · 29 pts · 203d
General strike. Nationwide.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 203d
Start with Minnesota, this Friday. Just like ICE's invasion and occupation, start targeted and then spread.
Hegar@fedia.io · 9 pts · 203d
That's definitely something to work towards but a general strikes requires years of planning, organising, network building, and just fucktons of money. People still need to eat and pay rent. People will be fired and need help fighting it. The regime is likely to injure and maybe kill.
There hasn't been a general strike in living memory.
A general strike takes time, it's not something we can just do. Rushing it and fucking it up would be a huge win for the fascists.
beanie@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 203d
Those who can, stock up like you should have already for a national disaster. Maybe double.
Then stock up again for donations to food banks and soup kitchens.
If a general strike did happen, it would take less time than eviction proceedings for any given household.
And they can’t fire and evict everyone. The point of a general strike is to demonstrate exactly that.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 203d
I wish.
triptrapper@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 203d
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."
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 203d
Can anyone recommend local sources to follow?
triptrapper@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 203d
On Instagram: @bygeorgiafort @somalisnaps @mprnews @mercadomedia1
BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 203d
Been a while since I've lived in MN but the Star Tribune is the big one
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 203d
I was thinking something more on the ground, not run for profit
jim@lemmy.org · 9 pts · 203d
Frey is a simp for fascism. His non-committal to abolishing ice is a clear message.
RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 202d
It wasn't that long ago that basically everyone would be against the idea of deploying active-duty soldiers against U.S. citizens.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 202d
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.
RustyShackleford@programming.dev · 3 pts · 201d
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.
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 202d
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.
saimen@feddit.org · 6 pts · 202d
pdxfed@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 203d
LICE
Lie-ice
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 202d
Me: wondering how the supreme court is going to repeal the 3rd amendment after the hotels burn down.
not_that_guy05@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 203d
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.
ccunning@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 203d
They’ve put two active duty army infantry battalions on alert; not national guard.
Eldritch@piefed.world · 13 pts · 203d
Trump isn't supposed to be able to deploy them without consulting the governor. But that's not been respected, so I doubt that will be either. But I hope so.
dan1101@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 203d
Yep tradition and courtesy left the government the day trump was sworn in for the second time.
frongt@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 203d
Federalizing the guard doesn't require anything from the governor.
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 203d
We're no talking about the National Guard, we're talking about two 11th Airborne Infantry units who has specifically trained for arctic warfare. This is how the period of truly monstrous civil conflict that we all know is coming starts. This right here.
And in terms of Democrats stepping up: Walz has already staged the Minnesota National Guard and have them at the ready to defend the protesters against ICE and U.S. Army
jaxxed@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 202d
Airborne don't really make sense here, but I guess they are general purpose troops.
Maybe they'll launch for Greenland, using Minn. As a distraction (Malcome Nance.)
nixfreak@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 203d
Why is that downvoted? It’s the truth.