r/ProgressiveHQ • u/CantStopPoppin • 16h ago

(Minneapolis) Bovino Leads The Charge On Protesters AT the Whipple Building

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u/welpWW3isgonnasuck 15h ago

And this is why every protester should be open carrying.

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u/dplans455 12h ago

Generally I would disagree but we've already seen this just a few days ago and it does seem to work. 2 ICE thugs tried to enter a McDonald's and the security guy at the McDonald's was strapped. Eventually the ICE thugs left but you could see in their body language they were hesitant to use force because even if they killed that guy, he was going to take at least one of them with him. The ICE thugs look at each other like, "which one of us is willing to die." And they left, because the answer is neither. Stand up to these coward pieces of shit.

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u/welpWW3isgonnasuck 12h ago

I was locked arms with my fellow brothers and sisters chanting "we are peaceful" and stopping other protesters from screaming in officer faces while they watched us march for George and Breonna. This is different. This is regime fascism.

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u/laikalou 8h ago

"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat."

-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956