ICE is at my door. Do you live in Minneapolis? I do, and I'm out every day, but not everyone is able to do that. People have kids, they have patients they have to see, they have disabilities. It's bleak right now, and I promise you that even though these organized protests aren't physically confronting ICE, they keep the community engaged and send a message that they're not wearing us down. Even if you believe what you're saying, it contributes nothing helpful to this movement.
I shouldn't bother responding to this energy-suck, but god damn I get so mad reading so many versions of the same defeatist comment. Why do you even take the time to write it?
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."
The more granular the analysis, the more I feel completely insane. I watched the video from 4 angles at regular speed and I saw nothing ambiguous. She turned to drive away and he shot her dead. There's no other side of the story.
EDIT: To clarify, I'm talking about the clip of the two agents falling together. Look at the space in the background that seems to be across the street. It doesn't make any sense. There's some Picasso concrete work with a seam that extends into the snowbank on the right? It's AI.
You go ahead and do that, but make sure there are no innocent people nearby when you do. They haven't been trained on the rules of engagement, nor do they care about them. When they're fired upon, they won't just fire back at the individuals who shot them. They'll consider everyone a threat and start spraying the crowd. If you shoot one of them, you're creating exponentially more danger for everyone around you.
Look at the videos from their attack on Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis. A kid threw snow at one of the agents - not even a snowball, just a handful of snow - and the agent turned around and bear maced everyone he could see.
Are we talking about the ceremony of marriage or the legal contract? I highly recommend committing yourself to a partnership if you find one, but personally I don't see a benefit to government marriage in many cases.
I often remind people that what we refer to as "personality disorders" don't appear out of nowhere. The most narcissistic person you know is paralyzed with fear that they're unlovable. When they speak highly of themselves, they're desperate for you to tell them they're good and special, because they can't find that goodness in themselves. Unfortunately when their efforts repel everyone around them, they end up confirming what they fear the most.
For all the darkness and evil Trump has brought to this world, remember that he's never really felt loved a day in his life.
I wasn't implying that you're the one preying on them. I'm talking about the scammers. You might find it hard to believe, but there are people with less tech literacy than you, and many of them wouldn't stop to question why a chatbot is free.
There are lots of people who know enough to use a VPN, but don't know enough to understand the risks of a free one. They haven't done anything wrong and they shouldn't be preyed upon.
ICE is at my door. Do you live in Minneapolis? I do, and I'm out every day, but not everyone is able to do that. People have kids, they have patients they have to see, they have disabilities. It's bleak right now, and I promise you that even though these organized protests aren't physically confronting ICE, they keep the community engaged and send a message that they're not wearing us down. Even if you believe what you're saying, it contributes nothing helpful to this movement.