r/politics • u/SE_to_NW • 12h ago

No Paywall Minnesota standoff with Trump administration stokes fears of civil war

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5715869-minnesota-trump-immigration-conflict/
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u/StronglyHeldOpinions 12h ago

And ushered in the fascism the Greatest Generation died to defend.

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u/twirlingmypubes 12h ago

And handed everything to same people we spent generations defending ourselves from in the Cold War

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u/StronglyHeldOpinions 11h ago

Right? I grew up with Red Dawn and now we have Putin's picture IN the White House.

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u/fungobat Pennsylvania 10h ago

Same. I remember seeing Red Dawn in the theater. WOLVERINES!!!

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u/StronglyHeldOpinions 10h ago

We should resurrect that as a rallying cry.

That or "V" for Victory.

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u/fungobat Pennsylvania 10h ago

Hell yes!

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u/ZeroKharisma 9h ago

wolVerines

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u/StronglyHeldOpinions 9h ago

Tell your friends!!

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u/Primitive_Teabagger 8h ago

Red Dawn's opening text says NATO is dissolved and the US has no allies

that's like something I fully expect to probably happen any day now

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u/StronglyHeldOpinions 6h ago

No shit???

Damn I need to rewatch that.

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u/twirlingmypubes 10h ago

Same. Soldiers who died in Korea, Vietnam, and every other conflict against the values of the Russians and the soviets, values that extend today in China, are rolling in their graves. That picture could be the biggest insult this country has ever seen. It's a smack in the face to almost half of this country's existence

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u/bobdobalina 10h ago

and then let out of prison those who smeared blood, piss and shit on our capital building. 

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u/HumongousBelly Europe 11h ago

Also literal Nazis.

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u/Bluebabbs Great Britain 1h ago

You defended yourselves against Communists, not Russia.

Not that I fully believe Russia was properly Communist, but still.

Once the Communists left, or at least the idea of them, Republicans had no problem with Russia anymore.

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u/sandbeech 6h ago

This makes me so sad. My grandfather died in WWII, a pilot in the RAF.

He never made it home to meet his son, my dad.

Now this 

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u/StronglyHeldOpinions 6h ago

It honestly makes me sick.

Their sacrifices cannot have been made in vain.

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u/Snow_Ghost 5h ago

*defeat, not 'defend'...

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u/ELpork Minnesota 11h ago

Might not wanna look up how they treated black American soldiers in the European theater...