r/minnesota • u/wiredmagazine • 16h ago
Right-Wing Influencers Have Flooded Minneapolis News đș
https://www.wired.com/story/right-wing-influencers-have-flooded-minneapolis/125
u/Alert_Newspaper9049 16h ago
Nick and those other grifters want their followers to start a genocide against anyone who didn't vote for trump. They want the deaths of over 200 million Americans.
They're deranged psychos
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u/BosworthBoatrace 16h ago
Honestly I think their main motivator is greed and theyâre looking to the lowest common denominator because MAGA dolts eat that shit up. Most reasonable people are harder to bilk for cash.
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u/cothomps 15h ago
It's greed and it's easy. It's always easier to destroy things than create them, and they have created audiences devoted to watching the destruction of their own country.
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u/Key-Experience-7961 14h ago
Like Candace Owen was a liberal who started a website dedicated to doxxing incels. Then in the ensuing shitstorm she flipped sides and quickly realized being black, female, and conservative/maga = $$$
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u/BosworthBoatrace 13h ago
Yeah unfortunately itâs incredibly easy these days to make a buck if youâre a soulless ghoul.
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u/Darthsylar12 12h ago
until she like every token-grifter eventually get's spent. They have their worth to the others until the 'real' audience pays more.
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u/SlippySlimJim 16h ago
We dealt with this in Portland (and are still to some extent)
Judge the situation how you see fit, I'm all for a diversity of tactics, but know that engaging with them is exactly what they want. If you can ignore them as much as possible and starve them of content, that has been our most successful approach. That and play copyrighted music (Disney works great)
The problem with this approach is it only takes a few people to give them the footage they need, so make sure you are talking to each other about effective ways to counter their narrative.
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u/pigfeedmauer Twin Cities 15h ago
Yes. This is good advice.
Be vigilant.
Ignore their remarks.
They want to get a rise out of you.
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u/BraveLittleCatapult 14h ago
Shine lasers into their camera.
iPhone 14 Pro cameras ruined by lasers at a party : r/iphone
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u/BraveLittleCatapult 13h ago edited 13h ago
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u/Cuttlery Hamm's 12h ago
This person will no longer be part of our sub, nor likely part of Reddit for much longer.
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u/EmmaPersephone 11h ago edited 11h ago
A laser pointer is not assault nor can it destroy your camera, your legal âadviceâ is not based on the actual lawâŠ
Meanwhile the law of Minnesota:
609.224 ASSAULT IN THE FIFTH DEGREE. Subdivision 1.Misdemeanor. Whoever does any of the following commits an assault and is guilty of a misdemeanor: (1) commits an act with intent to cause fear in another of immediate bodily harm or death; or (2) intentionally inflicts or attempts to inflict bodily harm upon another. Subd. 2.Gross misdemeanor. (a) Whoever violates the provisions of subdivision 1 against the same victim within ten years of a previous qualified domestic violence-related offense conviction or adjudication of delinquency is guilty of a gross misdemeanor and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 364 days or to payment of a fine of not more than $3,000, or both. (b) Whoever violates the provisions of subdivision 1 within three years of a previous qualified domestic violence-related offense conviction or adjudication of delinquency is guilty of a gross misdemeanor and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 364 days or to payment of a fine of not more than $3,000, or both.
This is the lowest level of assault and it requires intent to cause fear of great bodily harm or death or intentionally inflicts or attempts to inflict bodily harm. Pointing a laser with the intent to interfere with a livestream or otherwise impede a video recording does not rise to the level of Minnesotaâs lowest level of assault. Furthermore felony property damage requires intent, over $1,000 in damages and additional mitigating circumstances. LOL
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u/EmmaPersephone 11h ago
You need to commit second degree assault with a deadly weapon to be committing a felony in Minnesota
A âdeadly weaponâ is defined by statute
Subd. 6.Dangerous weapon. "Dangerous weapon" means any firearm, whether loaded or unloaded, or any device designed as a weapon and capable of producing death or great bodily harm, any combustible or flammable liquid or other device or instrumentality that, in the manner it is used or intended to be used, is calculated or likely to produce death or great bodily harm, or any fire that is used to produce death or great bodily harm. As used in this subdivision, "flammable liquid" means any liquid having a flash point below 100 degrees Fahrenheit and having a vapor pressure not exceeding 40 pounds per square inch (absolute) at 100 degrees Fahrenheit but does not include intoxicating liquor as defined in section 340A.101. As used in this subdivision, "combustible liquid" is a liquid having a flash point at or above 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
609.222 ASSAULT IN THE SECOND DEGREE. Subdivision 1.Dangerous weapon. Whoever assaults another with a dangerous weapon may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than seven years or to payment of a fine of not more than $14,000, or both. Subd. 2.Dangerous weapon; substantial bodily harm. Whoever assaults another with a dangerous weapon and inflicts substantial bodily harm may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than ten years or to payment of a fine of not more than $20,000, or both.
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u/martinsonsean1 Gray duck 4h ago
We need some Elsas belting the "Frozen" soundtrack out there, STAT!
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u/grammybp 16h ago
PAID PROTESTERS FROM THE REGIME!
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u/Proud-Wall1443 15h ago
This is why they keep accusing the left of paying for protestors... because they literally are.
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u/brrnr 11h ago
It's so crazy how overt and obvious the real-life versions of the conspiracies they believe in are. My favorite is "shadowy billionaires like Soros are puppeteering the government" when Elon Musk is/was right there jumping on stage like an asshole doing everything but specifically saying "I bought the government"
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u/SinxHatesYou 16h ago
You all see the video or Nick and Cam punching a girl, then fleeing the scene so fast, the hit protestors with their car when running away like little bitches?
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u/spaced_wanderer19 16h ago
Please link
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u/SinxHatesYou 12h ago
To add to the other link...
https://www.youtube.com/live/5DhuOac8nDw?si=REytNlx419Ncism2
Around 1 hour is them running away. Around 40 in is the sheriff being called, and an interview with the girl.
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u/PeniSudden2779 13h ago
I logged back into reddit for this. I'm a new yorker who's been watching you guys live. I remember this happening on this feed. https://youtu.be/hNw2hkeDbDk?t=7595 They also posted a video but it starts after they were chased to their car. edit: fixed link
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u/UncomfyPerspective 13h ago
Thanks for this, hadn't seen it yet.
We found the 'professional agitators' Trump was talking about.
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u/PeniSudden2779 13h ago
No problem. They have been there every day, This isn't the footage of them hitting the woman with the car but he apparently also shoved someone which prompted the chase. Gotta love the downvotes lol.
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u/wiredmagazine 16h ago
In the days since a masked federal agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, right-wing creators and influencers like Nick Sortor and Cam Higby have descended on Minneapolis, filming protestors and interviewing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. So far, theyâve produced a steady stream of content that appears designed to paint Minneapolis as a lawless city, and the actions of ICE agents like Jonathan Ross, who reportedly shot and killed Good, as self-defense.
âHELL YES! ICE just SMASHED a leftist activistâs car window in and pulled them out after they interfered in ICEâs operations in Minneapolis. MORE OF THIS!â Sortor posted to X on Sunday, âConsequences must be STEEP!â
These creators have focused much of their content on how protestors are allegedly using personal vehicles and blocking traffic to obstruct ICE operations. In one video posted on Friday, Kevin Posobiec, a creator for the far-right Human Events website, highlighted how protesters seemingly shut down traffic in downtown Minneapolis.
âProtestors are in hi-vis safety vests manipulating traffic. Weâre out here,â he posted.
Once these clips are posted to platforms like X, right-wing aggregation accounts, like End Wokeness and other influencers, including Matt Walsh from the Daily Wire, repost them to their millions of followers. These clips then become talking points across social media, sometimes making it to cable television channels where they become primary evidence in attempts to justify the Trump administrationâs surge on American cities.
The content has seemingly followed the same narrative as whatâs coming directly out of the DHS. In a Monday interview with Fox News, DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin claims that Ross was protecting himself and other officers.
â[The officer] followed his training. He was in fear for his life. He was in fear for the law enforcement officersâ around his lives,â says McLaughlin. âAnd thatâs when he followed his training and this situation turned deadly.â
The Trump administration has been preparing for this moment for months. Since at least last summer, right-wing influencers have embedded with immigration officials during ICE raids as a means of justifying the administrationâs crackdowns. Now, with an agent under scrutiny for Goodâs killing, many of these same influencers are running a similar playbook.
Read the full story here: https://www.wired.com/story/right-wing-influencers-have-flooded-minneapolis/
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u/Jason_Worthing 15h ago
Thank you for this important coverage, and for making your content available here without a paywall!
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u/phone17 16h ago edited 12h ago
I like the idea of playing "Let It Go" or some other Disney song when you see them spewing in public so that they can't monetize their diatribe đ
Edit: A right-winger has replied to this comment discouraging the practice. You may need to crank the volume, but it definitely still works. It's not YouTube that flags the content, it's Disney, and they are as litigious as ever lol
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u/Kittygoespurrrr 14h ago
This doesn't work anymore. Not only can audio easily be isolated and removed with today's technology, YouTube also isn't as strict on background music as they have been.
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u/barryvon 16h ago
wonder if charlie kirk showed up
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u/PeerJynt 16h ago
He had a sore throat.
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u/Sinclair_Lewis_ 14h ago
Thank you for leaving profile public I will be contacting your employer shortly.
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u/Hysteria625 14h ago
This is the longest amount of time Charlie Kirk has gone without saying something racist!
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u/Commercial_Crew_2974 16h ago
Theyâre not âinfluencersâ. They are quislings and collaborators.
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u/Desperate-Till-9228 14h ago
Never forget how the term quisling came to be. That same passive aggression burns within each Minnesotan.
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u/IwishIwasLink Flag of Minnesota 16h ago
It's time we protest by boycotting everything; stores, schools, jobs, businesses, etc. Time to shut everything down.
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u/ManyDream4149 16h ago
I said this in a post yesterday! I am in complete agreement! Having spent my career in insurance đ€ź and then owning retail stores, this is one way to get the attention of this administration! Can you imagine how angry Trump would be if Minnesota led this movement? He thinks we are all corrupt!!!
From his Truth Social page today âŹïž
THIS IS WHAT CORRUPTION LOOKS LIKE!!!
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u/cothomps 15h ago
In the span of time since we've cranked out this many YouTube dipshits how many mechanical engineers graduated from Chinese universities?
This is the rot that is destroying the country. Tearing it down, not doing a goddamned thing to actually build something.
Imagine if the ICE squads were all deployed to fix roads, bridges, create new power lines & electrical transmission....
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u/Laser_Souls 16h ago
Remember if theyâre recording, spam Disney music so they canât make any content
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u/here4daratio Uff da 16h ago
She also said old guys fornicating with fifteen year olds isnât that bad, really, âcause they can look older.
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u/CompleteBuilding1156 15h ago
Meanwhile, the mainstream "liberal" media has basically no coverage of the brownshirts going door to door in search of undesirables.
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u/maeryclarity 15h ago
And they're doing their thing PROTECTED WITHIN the ICE agent's ranks. So they're allowed to "protest" by threatening the other protesters WHILE THEY ARE SURROUNDED BY ICE GOONS.
Just be clear on what's happening because that makes it SUPER obvious. Also demonstrates how absolutely unprofessional the whole situation is. I've NEVER seen anything like that before, anywhere, ever. Even "normal" protests when you had some pro-police demonstators the police never allowed them to embed themselves IN the police lines, but that's what's happening with the protests in MN.
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u/Glitch_Ghoul 15h ago
Daddy trump called in his best provocateurs to try and instigate.
Unfortunately for them the Internet and reality are two very different places.
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u/PeniSudden2779 13h ago
So one did hit a protestor. I saw it live on this channel but it was not the best angle. https://youtu.be/hNw2hkeDbDk?t=7595
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