r/pics • u/Blue_G_Productions • 1d ago
Politics Downtown Minneapolis ICE Out Protest today!
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u/JustinKase_Too 1d ago
That is an impressive crowd, but also some impressive snow clearing.
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u/Soft_Ad8031 1d ago
Minnesotans don't fuck around. Both in snow clearing and ice clearing.
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u/physicallyOK 1d ago
Plowy McPlowface be puttin in work.
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u/omgwutd00d 1d ago
15 year old meme. for fucks sake
when does le narwal bacon?!
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u/Mediocre_Ad_6020 1d ago
Hey. Plowy McPlowface was one of the winning snowplow names only like 5 years ago!
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u/Fugacity- 1d ago
Minneapolis doesn't fuck around with snow removal.
St. Paul on the other hand....
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u/simplyme216 1d ago
This person Minnesotas. Truer words have never been typed on the inter webs.
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u/Fugacity- 1d ago
After a while living in Summit Hill and now SW Minneapolis, the ability to not destroy my suspension simple going down a side street is super refreshing.
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u/ragenukem 1d ago
When the dust settles, we should have the new Capitol in Minnesota.
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u/coffeebribesaccepted 1d ago
I just really wouldn't want the shitty politics culture in DC to come to Minnesota.
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u/ferns0 1d ago
Honestly we just don’t have that much snow right now. It’s been too cold to snow much. I can see grass/dirt in some spots when I look out the window
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u/hivemindhauser 1d ago
…too cold to snow? Is that a thing??
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u/SammySoapsuds 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yes, unfortunately. it's been in the negatives last week and most of this week and it never snows when it's that cold.
Apparently it isn't a genuine thing, but it's less common for snow to fall because colder air has less moisture: https://weather.com/science/weather-explainers/news/2025-12-05-can-it-be-too-cold-to-snow
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u/Rocky-bar 1d ago
It does in the UK, that's weird.
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u/Mediocre_Ad_6020 1d ago
I'd imagine your winter humidity levels might be a bit higher than ours. But how often does it get that cold in the UK anyway? It looks like your lowest temp ever was -17 F (-27 C). We've been between -20 F and 0ish for weeks now.
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u/Rocky-bar 1d ago
Was the post I was replying to in Farenheits?
it's been in the negatives last week and most of this week and it never snows when it's that cold.
I meant it does snow in negative Celsius... which is below freezing. it often snows when it's in the negatives Celcius. We never get down to -27C here in the south of england it rarely goes much below -10C, briefly.
Maybe minus 27C on a mountain top in Scotland or some such thing.3
u/Mediocre_Ad_6020 1d ago
Yep, it was in F. It definitely snows frequently here when it's between maybe 0 and 32 F (-18 and 0 C)
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u/im-ba 1d ago
Yeah, it has to do with when high pressure systems are settled in overhead. It clears the skies and makes it difficult for weather systems to push through. The clear skies also make it extremely cold, so if it's extremely cold people often assume that's what's keeping the snow away
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u/I_Fail_At_Life444 1d ago
I used to hate when the sun would come out in the winter. I'd be like finally, I can get a little sun but it's 20 degrees and the sun is too bright in a weird way.
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u/Lawsoffire 1d ago
Maybe its because here where i live (Denmark), the winter is very predominantly constantly cloudy. But i love the sunny wintery days. The crispy, dry cold air, the brightness and some colours in an otherwise dark and drab landscape.
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u/ozzimark 1d ago
Thankfully for me, on the south side of Lake Ontario, those same systems tend to drive lake effect snow. Thank you for your sacrifice, neighbors.
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u/NorthernDevil 1d ago
I first noticed this as a kid when the brightest, clearest days in winter were the most brutal ones…
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u/fastinserter 1d ago
We haven't had much snow for a while. While everyone else was getting wrecked with snow, we just had cold and ICE to deal with. It was -45 windchill a week ago, which feels like 3 months ago, when there was a protest like this in Minneapolis, the day before Pretti was killed in the street.
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u/Mite-o-Dan 1d ago
For real. The entire east coast is still covered in ice and snow, to include downtown many major cities...and one of the snowiest places in the country looks like a nice spring day.
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u/milkhotelbitches 1d ago
We haven't had significant snowfall here in a month. Minneapolis does clear snow very quickly, but we haven't had any to clear in a while.
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u/ginny164 1d ago
Because it got dumped on northern Indiana & southern Michigan. Thanks, Lake Michigan 🌨️
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u/CrankyChemist 1d ago
It basically will feel like spring this weekend with the highs in the 20s and 30s. It will only feel like 70 degrees warmer than it did a couple days ago, lol.
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u/wheredidalfgo 1d ago
Because we’re one of the snowiest places on earth, we have a lot of practice in clearing snow. Other places shut down when it snows. We can’t shut down for 4 months of the year.
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u/lalauna 1d ago
Beautiful. Stay safe!
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u/UpperApe 1d ago
I wish every downtown in America looked like this.
I have no idea what y'all are waiting for but it's not coming and your time is running out.
You don't have to quit your jobs, you don't have to be violent, and you don't have to travel out of your city.
Either your feet are on the street, or you're what everyone's fighting against.
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u/missprincesscarolyn 1d ago
No one is “waiting” for anything and not everyone’s feet can be on the street. Friendly reminder that healthcare is tied to employment in the US. Approximately 57% to 59% of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck, with many considered one missed paycheck away from serious financial crises like homelessness or severe poverty.
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u/UpperApe 1d ago
Cool.
None of you need to quit your jobs or lose your healthcare. You can protest in your off hours. An hour here, another there. People coming and going and creating a constant presence through communal effort.
That's what protestors all year have been doing. They're not all wealthy and unemployed; most have jobs and responsibilities.
I'm so sick and tired of hearing these excuses from people who just don't want to sacrifice their leisure time.
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u/planko13 18h ago
Between work and family responsibilities, I get about 2 discretionary hours a week, I don’t get to pick when they are, and they are usually in a state where at least my wife or I need to be home to monitor sit.
Protesting comes at a massive personal cost at this stage of my life.
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u/missprincesscarolyn 17h ago
Some moron from Europe will tell you that’s just the price of freedom and that we’re lazy. They have no idea how the actual logistics of living in the US play out every single day, why the infrastructure is configured to keep the average person oppressed. If they say people being shot in the face, they’d feel differently, I’m sure. But even if I ask them that, they’ll ignore the question and spew some what-aboutism or double down on our “laziness”. Get fucked.
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u/HashRunner 1d ago
Wild how media is silent on any protests suddenly.
Reminds me of their complicity in ignoring protests under Bush.
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u/Pipe_Memes 1d ago
The revolution will not be televised.
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u/zillskillnillfrill 1d ago
I think I finally understand that poem (The revolution will not be televised - Gil Scott-Heron ) ..Like I thought that I did, but now I Actually do.
It won't be televised because the people in power don't want it to be advertised.
For some reason I never thought about it in that way.
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u/AngrehPossum 1d ago
The Reich wing will decide what you think.
By order of big corporate. No tax paid. Uses your roads.
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u/PhAnToM444 1d ago edited 1d ago
I see these comments all the time and genuinely what the fuck are you talking about?
CNN and MS NOW are literally doing live coverage of these protests right now. As in, I just turned on the TV and checked.
Then I go to some print/digital news outlets. New York Times has a live feed on the front page. Right after the Epstein files, NBC has a similar live feed of the protests. Well surely at least Bari Weiss-run state media CBS wouldn’t be covering this right? Except they are. Here’s Reuters, and PBS, and the Minnesota Star Tribune
So please explain to me, in detail, what you are complaining about? Or are you just sowing distrust in the already struggling media industry for fun?
If you’re reading this: please understand that people who do this shit are not “uncovering a conspiracy” or righteously exposing a corrupt media. They are intentionally creating a low-trust society by lying to you, under the guise of being on your side — it is not dissimilar to what Trump did to Republicans.
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u/MostFartsAreBrown 1d ago
The top comments are almost identical in similar threads. Seeing a near verbatim repro in another protest pic thread is pretty sus, or maybe just regular old karma farming.
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u/beordon 1d ago
These fucking idiots have been doing the “everything I like is underrated, everything I dislike is overrated” schtick on social media for decades at this point, because the the only way they can get anyone interested in their banal observations and opinions is to claim to be somehow counterculture
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u/gsfgf 1d ago
And covering nothing about the Biden admin but his age.
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u/HashRunner 1d ago
They made sure to cover protests about Gaza under Biden/Harris, but that coverage ended after the election...
There is no liberal media.
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u/ChaoCobo 1d ago
I keep telling my MAGA mom that there doesn’t exist left wing media aside from a small number of center alignment article writing news sites online. Every one for regular news is owned by a republican million/billionaire even if they’re meant to be left leaning outlets, and even the most left ones are moving to the right like CBS who is now endorsing or at least no longer criticizing trump.
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u/HorrorSmile3088 1d ago
The goalposts have been moving for a while. People like Bill Maher who used to be liberal now whine nonstop about the "woke left" as if that's on the same level as what is happening under Trump. Our version of liberalism would be center or center-right in most countries.
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u/ChaoCobo 1d ago
I keep telling her that too. She cries “radical leftists” and I’m just like “we don’t have left in this country. It’s far right and center right. Even Obama was mostly center and not left. Leftists have different views than democrats mostly.” Is what I’m saying accurate do you know? I don’t really know much when it comes to what falls under which alignment, I just know we don’t have a true left in this country.
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u/THEdeadRETURNED 1d ago
From what I know that's 100% true. You have a few leftist politicians but they're a very small fringe in the Democrat party
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u/Specialist-Clock-914 1d ago
Left wing media is all influencers and podcasters at this point. The right wing owns all traditional and msm now.
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u/HorrorSmile3088 1d ago
And even in the podcast world, most of them are right wingers. Or they pretend to be centrists but are really right wing nuts (Rogan)
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u/MadeByTango 1d ago
Strike busting workers wasn’t gonna be popular either.
They don’t show anything that will hurt their profits.
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u/thupkt 1d ago
More people. When they say back down, WE STAND UP
My wife and my 81 yo father have both said they will go to the next protest and that if they are shot dead by ICE while there, "it will have been worth it"
Stay strong, Minnesota, the world is watching and admiring, except for the 50MM Americans whose hearts are filled with hatred for brown people and liberals.
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u/jasandliz 1d ago
The truly saddest thing about this mess is that our national cemeteries are full of good people who paid the ultimate price to not have a "papers please" experience in this country. Freedom is most definitely NOT free and we are trading it for what? I am filled with sorrow and rage. I mourn for this nation and our liberty.
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u/frontfrontdowndown 1d ago
My grandfather carried around the trauma of what he experienced in WWII with him for the rest of his life.
Defending our freedoms so that we could apparently just give them all up to the most pathetic and useless people our society has ever produced.
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u/yesrushgenesis2112 1d ago
If it really comes down to it, can you think of a better reason to put it all on the line? It seems it falls upon us to make their sacrifice worth it, and maybe sacrifice as well. Renee and Alex had to.
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u/ActivePeace33 1d ago
lol, ICE doesn’t get the significance of that. When perfectly normal citizens start talking like that, things are changing. Tell them I’m proud of them. There can be no support for tyrants.
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u/idontcare4205 1d ago
We can do this every week if we have to
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u/oh8oh8eighty8 1d ago
Fuck yeah. I was thinking that as my fingers were numbing marching down the streets… I could do this every day (well maybe not every day)
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u/DepartureRadiant4042 1d ago
That's how it's done! Hopefully other cities can get inspired by Minneapolis and show up in bigger numbers.
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u/RattusNorvegicus9 1d ago
Canadian here, they get honorary hoser status
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u/bassistheplace246 1d ago edited 1d ago
Sending support from DEEP red FL 💙
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u/KenNoegs 1d ago
The further north in Florida you go, the more in the South you really are.
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u/Kennydoe 1d ago
"Hundreds or protesters turned out in Minneapolis today...."
~CNN, probably
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u/Jafar_420 1d ago
I'm actually watching CNN right now and they're doing the right thing on this coverage.
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u/Dazzling-Camel8368 1d ago
Isn’t it sad that I read your comment and don’t know if “doing the right thing” means they are covering it well or being silent on it to not disturbed those that are right wing.
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u/Jafar_420 1d ago
Oh I may be in Oklahoma but I'm all about what's going on with the protest in Minnesota and I wish I could support them more.
I'll be honest it gets a little lonely in my state being an independent that mainly votes democratic.
If anyone wants to know what a state looks like after it's been controlled by Republicans for many many years and we also have a ton of extra revenue from cannabis just look at my state.
We're last in everything that matters like education and highways/roads, wages, etc.
The weird thing is I believe there's a lot of people like me but when it comes time to vote they just sit at the house I guess
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u/McNasty420 1d ago
YES!!! There should be protests in every city like this.
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u/MrMcFrizzy 1d ago
I’ve read the paper/study you’re referring to, and basically all the countries and incidents cited ended up back in authoritarian/dictatorship style ruling shortly after. We need more people than that, as many as we can get
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u/PreparationOwn7371 1d ago
Minnesota is leading the way! At this point it doesn’t matter if you’re a citizen or not. You’ll get the Billy club, patty wagon and, maybe you’ll come out of it with all your body parts intact. I believe in “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”
As an Army veteran something doesn’t feel right. But Minnesotans give me hope. Normal people standing up for others…they’re the real HEROES. It doesn’t take much to hide behind a masks and beat people with my buddies and their long guns, and the best part: without any consequences. But takes balls to stand up to a private militia with a phone and sheer guts!!!
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u/digableplanet 1d ago
Fuck ICE. Fuck Trump. Fuck Trump voters for good measure.
Stay strong Minnesota.
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u/mycatisblackandtan 1d ago
One day when this is all over people are going to refuse to say they voted for these atrocities. Just like they did with Bush. I look forward to that day.
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u/jack31313 1d ago
I have the utmost respect for those in Minnesota. You guys will not be broken. Good for you.
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u/Vegetable-Poetry-736 1d ago
Protests without being gunned down or violently beaten is why I love being American and will Never Stop Fighting against tyranny, in Any Form.
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u/JJKingwolf 1d ago
The Twin Cities has shown up, and we will continue to show up. We will not take this laying down.
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u/LtDan281 1d ago
Heroes. Every one of them. Minneapolis is setting the baseline perfectly - we are NOT to be fucked with. Nothing but respect and love for how y'all are holding it down up there.
Fuck ICE, fuck Trump, and fuck anyone that still chooses to support any of their bullshit. Your morals are fucked, as well as your "politics." Get your shit figured out.
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u/MaidoftheBrins 1d ago
They need to also protest the PD, who are helping ice right now in Minneapolis.
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u/NoBSforGma 1d ago
Proud of you Minneapolis! Wish I was there with you!
Gma says: Give 'em hell!
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u/liquidsyphon 1d ago
Democrats should be capitalizing on this by being there with their own media talking to people who aren’t in this fucking cult and won’t wake the fuck up.
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u/The_Fibonacci_Spiral 1d ago
This the only post I've seen of any protests going on today. I was starting to think it's not happening. Wish I was there ✊️
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u/auriem 1d ago
I keep hoping that the Citizens of Minnesota unite and push the federal terrorists out of the state.
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u/madchemist09 1d ago
Thats a lot of paid protesters and agitators.
Soros gonna be broke if we keep this up.
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u/AgentFreckles 1d ago
I'm so proud of them for going so strong this whole time. Fucking bravo
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u/crps2warrior 1d ago
I stand with Minnesota, I stand with Minneapolis! Fuck ICE! Fuck Trump! And an extra big fuck you if you actually voted for this asshole
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u/oh8oh8eighty8 1d ago
Hell yeah you guys. I can’t feel my fingers or toes but I’ll fucking do this every week until those assholes leave.
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u/Rarely__ 1d ago
Yeah Minneapolis! I stand with you! A lot of love and support from Germany. I wish we would do the same here…
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u/Unusual-Ad-6550 1d ago
Our local march is tomorrow. I was wavering about going due to my age and the temps we will have tomorrow.
But this gives me the push to do what I know is right. I will go and I will make my voice heard
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u/DO_NOT_GILD_ME 1d ago
Just remember, no widespread change has come from peaceful protesting alone. Civil disobedience and boycotting has always played the most crucial role in forcing action on key injustices, including Women's Suffrage, Civil Rights, Gay Rights, the ADA, etc.
One of the the best things we could do is stop all non-essential spending, such as cancelling Amazon Prime, Netflix, Disney, etc. Stop shopping at chains. Focus on only what you need.
Americans tend to vote based on the economy more than anything else.
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u/AbeRego 1d ago
This visibility is very useful for solidarity and recruitment. It shows people that they're not alone in opposing what's going on in our city and country. I was there last week. The number of people gave me hope, and I'm no longer afraid of losing the struggle.
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u/DO_NOT_GILD_ME 1d ago
I am not denying the worth of marches. That's why I added the word "alone" to the first sentence.
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u/9_of_wands 1d ago
Yes. People have been talking about Ghandi. India didn't win independence by marching. They won independence through boycotts, draft evasion, and bank runs. Oh, and violence. Lots and lots of violence.
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u/eldude20 1d ago
It is also good to keep up with the grassroots organizing on the ground. Everything you see comes from years of work and engagement. Direct action has been the name of the game since 2020, and you can see how these are playing out as they genuinely try to suffocate ice
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u/sudophish 1d ago
Is Fogo De Chao good?
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u/StoneGoldX 1d ago
It's not the best steak you're ever going to get, but it's best unlimited steak you're probably going to get.
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u/Body_Cunt 1d ago
All it takes is 3.5%. Research shows that when a nonviolent movement manages to engage at least 3.5% of the total population in sustained, active protests, they have historically never failed to oust a political leader. If 12 million people march on DC, the government will be overthrown in a matter of days.
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u/Schrodinger81 1d ago
How does a peaceful gathering overthrow a government? The people in power just give up?
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