If so, then what was the point? If this was some revolutionary action, then you can't claim it wasn't going to affect anything. Lighting stuff on fire for funsies isn't revolutionary action.

I don’t want ICE in my community. I don’t want strange masked men taking my neighbors. I don’t want strange masked men lighting fires in my city. I want the world to see what’s happening in my community. I want Minneapolis to be left alone and not made into a war zone.

this is indeed real, and it will be taught in law schools for generations, if nothing else because that last line is a real zinger

the great joke of this era of unprecedented abundance is that our elite universities could easily solve this "problem" by being bigger, but the point of elite universities is not to ensure that kids go to good schools but to ensure that the right people's kids are the ones who go to the good schools

we have people on this platform who *aren't even leftists* posting stuff about how much they hate liberals hyperliberalism has developed a distinct posting style here on bsky, nonprofit radicals with a growing array of the most annoying memes in existence my god we have to burn it out

I admit, I don't really see the point of setting a dumpster on fire at a protest, but I especially don't understand the point in setting a dumpster on fire at a protest and expecting to keep it secret.

Over time people more interested in "organizing" than fighting ICE have moved in, and the result has not been good. I've heard reports of local networks struggling to find enough observers even as they screen people out. A recommitment to those initial principles is badly needed.

I'm not entirely sure what has led the anonymous admins of these networks to begin treating them as guerrilla cells, but it is contrary to their purpose, contrary to their effective functioning, and ironically gives greater credence to ICE's claims that they are somehow an illicit conspiracy.

Okay, I'm now hearing reports of other locals being removed from Minnesota rapid response for interacting with press, as well as some "organizers" instituting onerous screening processes to join these networks. It's time for local leaders to step in. These policies are incredibly counterproductive.

The Marxist-Leninist vanguard saw a mass movement of spontaneous resistance to capital and thought "no, no, this is all wrong, we can do this better" many such cases

The inability to imagine why a person actually resisting ICE in their own community might not be thrilled with strangers setting random, literal garbage fires in the place they live is, I would say, the sign of a person for whom activism is experientially identical to commenting on YouTube videos

oh I see, it's fine for *you* to protest outside of ICE's regional HQ, just not the people of Eugene-Springfield

seems like these folks are very mad that they built their entire identity around advancing a political agenda and then a bunch of baristas and retired teachers *who would rather be doing anything else* made more of an impact than they ever did.

It's really cool how any time that someone does something ethically dubious in service of a political cause the hikikomori leftists of the world turn it into an abstract conversation about violence versus nonviolence instead of "was this act, specifically, ok"

Yeah I was trying to be charitable but I stopped being able to somewhere between "you owe us deference based on time we put into activism toward completely different goals" and "if you don't let black bloc pricks light fires in your neighborhood you deserve the consequences"

I dunno. I feel like the trauma of hearing a bunch of whistles is significantly less than having your entire family carted off to be brutalized in concentration camps. But then again, we all know this is about protecting the people who organizers care about, not those being threatened.

Sounds great. Now turn replies and quotes back on on your dipshit whistle posts.

An understated detail here is how ICE are literally just thugs. They are going around the country and literally just stealing shit as routine part of their operational mission to terrorize, assault, rape, and kidnap. They are literally thugs.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

The Revolution Will Be In Compliance With Local Noise Ordinances To Avoid Traumatizing The Community

This shit is so gross. Saying trauma and harm and accountability and solidarity to disguise the fact that you think warning people that ICE is here with a whistle is cringe lib shit

you want to LARP being the French resistance while gossiping like high schoolers

"pre-emptively collect evidence for the gestapo" oh I see are we doing the talia jane thing where we accuse libs of collaboration that would have gotten them shot by the resistance? are we doing that cute little bit again?

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

it's going to be so funny when we terminate all the new ICE and CBP guys and, by the terms of their bonus agreement, they have to pay back $50k in bonuses

No offense but if anything MN puts the lie to the idea that popular resistance takes a bunch of time and preparation by established activists who are allegedly quietly building goodwill. Mostly I see those people upset that it's succeeding and trying to gatekeep the normal people out of it

If random masked men are setting fires in your community, I think you should feel free to film them. Especially if dozens of other people and several national news crews are filming them. They are not "allies," they're arsonists. Grow up.

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

Colin Allred's campaign was incredibly mediocre. It was notable at the time!

Because there’s no functioning theory behind any of this. There’s just a set of nonsensical rules, which are deployed selectively in dominance contests in the loosely organized activist network. Iron law of institutions.

my take on all of this security theater and paranoia bullshit is that there's a time and a place and if you feel safe posting it on the internet it is neither

it seems almost disqualificatory to be a long-standing activist. healer, heal thyself innit

there's not a nice way to say this: it's because it's normal people *who have experience being held meaningfully accountable for failure* rising to the occasion. people in actual real organizational roles IRL, paid or volunteer, who can't launder their failures through NGO-speak and retain clout.

emotional extractionism is the only woed for this lol

If you read under a lot of the these claims, it’s the same thing: “Ignore the newcomers, they have no insights, pay attention to us instead.” Most of them don’t even live here. They are DESPERATE to remove the challengers, even if it means MN anti-ICE activists have to be expelled as threats.

lots of activist organizers are control freaks and hate to be usurped.

i'm about 2/3 convinced that Stancil's replies are the King in Yellow and anyone who reads too many of them loses their mind

it's incredibly, wildly ironic to see random faceless accounts freaking out the regime knows who they are and a white man like Will can't understand when he started Trump II deliberately catching the attention of the Head Goons of the regime

the primary drive behind the stancil haters is that he's not giving them their social troll toll. if everyone is equally welcome and capable of serving the body politic, then why on earth would anyone subject themselves to such a hateful, backbiting priesthood?

why does the kennedy center have a hey arnold idol of jfk

If you think this is cool, if you defend this, fucking unfollow me, I am not for you

if you were purposefully trying to wreck the popular resistance to fascism by infiltration i'm just not sure how different it would be from all of this horse shit

and yes, this appears to have happened, and yes, the biggest freaks ostensibly on the left are defending it because the brain rot has reached their souls

Columbia Heights (Liam's school district) cancelled school today because of a credible bomb threat at Liam's elementary and multiple ICE vehicles parking in the high school staff parking lot at 6:15am.

This is the business in Uptown that got randomly tear-gassed by ICE a few weeks ago. Guess they didn’t like it

Did Castro escort them back and hand them off to Omar like they’re Roman tribunes trying to protect someone from perfidious senators?

we will, if Trump doesn't find a new power level or the union doesn't fracture, have one more shot at eradicating these people and I for one do not intend to let the Life Alert Caucus squander it this time

truth is stranger by far than fiction

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