And some people on Lemmy were worried that the cold would keep Minnesotans indoors lol their fears were clearly unfounded
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I initially thought: Yes!
Then: Oh, it must be Saturday for this to be happening at all.
I checked the date. It’s not Saturday. In addition the weather is awful.
I came back around to: Yes!
Do protests need to be sustained to be effective? Of course. Widespread? Absolutely. Regardless, the standard guardrails on protest comfort we’ve witnessed thus far are broken here, in a good way. Cascade effects may follow.
The problem is if it remains local to one city, that’s easy peasy for authorities to squelch.
A lot of people underestimate just how fucking cold it was today.
It's really fucking cold.
Im a local and I walked to work at 10am and it was -20, only a few blocks luckily
As a California can we trade weather? -20 sounds so much nicer than 50 something.
As also a Californian, no, absolutely not. We will keep our 50. If you want cold, you can visit it.
That said, insanely impressed with these protesters. Stay warm, stay strong!
Orange Mussolini moved swearing ceremony indoors because it was -2.
Heh, I can actually pick myself out in that picture.
And just to confirm, yes, it was really fucking cold out.
Holy moly. (this is °C)

Damn, that's proper chilly. Respect to people going out to demonstrate.
There were so many people handing out hand warmers. I even brought a few to share. Dude at the DSA table in the commons was handing them out and quipped "can't flip off ICE without your middle finger".
After watching the latest shooting video. FUCK ICE, they are trigger happy lunatics.
That's why they're in Minneapolis, they want to shoot people and they want to trigger riots so Trump can bring in the big guns as it were.
The group that cried about their guns and government oppression got a boner at the thought of using their guns to go out and oppress people.
This is how change is created, hope it continues and they get the results humanity needs.
Anyone good at crowd estimates? Curious how many people this is.
"Nobody even showed up. Lazy liberals just took a day off of work to smoke weed and fuck." --MAGA
It's less than Trumpy's inauguration which had the most number of people /s
I think in that picture, I'd guess between 2k and 3.5k are visible.
And this is going on during a (one day) state wide general strike in Minnesota
"Delicious protests. Finally, some good fucking"
It I were Trump I would arrest them all, annex Greenland and send all these people there to the mines.
How dare they rise up against my tyranny! Do what I say or I'll send your whole family to the gulag!
Oh wait, that was Stalin. Ah well, I'm sure Trump will do the same eventually. That country is completely fucked up, I have no more hope. World War 3, then needs a complete rebuild. Just don't you dare touch our Greenland, mthrfckrs!
How do you guys think Trump will try staying in power? You think it will be an attack on the parliament again? This time with a bigger goon squad?
Haven't been following the news? He's trying to start WWIII in order to stay in power.
He'll rig the election, or just declare himself the winner, and simply refuse to vacate the office or the White House, and count on Congress and the Supreme Court to back him.
If SCOTUS doesn't back him, he'll just ignore them, there is no mechanism to enforce their rulings.
He'll probably be either dead or so far into dementia that he won't even know his own name by the time his term closes.
Even the midterms don't really matter even if free and fair, bills won't pass at all anymore (Republicans will still have a third of the Senate, so vetos will stand) and the executive branch will keep on ignoring everything because the judicial branch already gave him a pass that only 2/3 of the Senate can hold him accountable for anything, and there is no midterm result possible that gets there.
Why wouldn't the disgusting pedophile party stay in power "democratically"? Don't they have control of gerrymandering and electronic voting machines? And didn't they abolish all checks and balances?
if they try to gerrymander their way to permanent power, blue states will continue their countermandering work. it seems like the republicans are trying to provoke a civil war, use that to justify suspending elections, and establish permanent power for themselves.
the key for us, the people, is that we absolutely must organize into collections of people power that have the resilience to defy all this. in Minneapolis, everyone is mobilized. it's reached a point there where everyone is out in the streets defying ICE, supporting the people out there in some real way, be that recruiting, educating, feeding, keeping warm, or they're tacitly in support of ICE.
this regime is offering everyone a simple, sadistic, choice. you can fight in civil war they want to enact, or you can die in the genocide that's been in motion for 600 years. DC, Chicago, North Carolina, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis are becoming proving grounds of what does and does not work.
the biggest thing is organization and for organization we need recruitment. too few are active. so please, any fellow americans reading this comment, seek a local mutual aid project to work with. seek a community defense league. get out here and help us fight before there's no fighting left to do
You think it will be an attack on the parliament again?
Maybe after they create one or attack a foreign one.

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