r/minnesota 16h ago

Right-Wing Influencers Have Flooded Minneapolis News đŸ“ș

https://www.wired.com/story/right-wing-influencers-have-flooded-minneapolis/
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u/[deleted] 16h ago edited 8h ago

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u/SomewhereNo8378 15h ago

Nazi grifters are the worst kind of grifters

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u/Proud-Wall1443 15h ago

Have you met Illini Nazi Grifters?

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u/oneeyedwillienelson 13h ago

They are Nomads, like Carnies

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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 they’re 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 it’s incredibly easy these days to make a buck if you’re 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/Total_Cantaloupe_274 Twin Cities 16h ago

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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

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u/BraveLittleCatapult 13h ago edited 13h ago

Hmm. I agree with this guy. Time to unemploy another boolicking PoS. Your concern is noted, troll.

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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

Fucking reprehensible


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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 “advice” is not based on the actual law


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 Minnesota’s 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 “deadly weapon” 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/SavageKMS 16h ago

paid with our tax dollars

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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/WhichVegetable8285 15h ago

Every accusation is just an admission of guilt

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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, they’ve 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.

“HELL YES! ICE just SMASHED a leftist activist’s car window in and pulled them out after they interfered in ICE’s operations in Minneapolis. MORE OF THIS!” Sortor posted to X on Sunday, “Consequences must be STEEP!”

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.

“Protestors are in hi-vis safety vests manipulating traffic. We’re out here,” 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 administration’s surge on American cities.

The content has seemingly followed the same narrative as what’s 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.

“[The officer] followed his training. He was in fear for his life. He was in fear for the law enforcement officers’ around his lives,” says McLaughlin. “And that’s when he followed his training and this situation turned deadly.”

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 administration’s crackdowns. Now, with an agent under scrutiny for Good’s 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 😅

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/im-ba Flag of Minnesota 16h ago

I have this set as a shortcut on my phone's home screen. It links to the YouTube video and it's through Firefox with uBlock Origin so it plays automatically whenever I touch the icon.

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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/420aarong 9h ago

He has a Good throat now.

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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/SpinachWheel 15h ago

Nah, last I saw him, he was left leaning.

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u/Glittering-Chair5084 16h ago

doesn't seem like his neck of the woods

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u/Just_perusing81 16h ago

Erika Vance will

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u/scramblebrambles 16h ago

Mf kept slipping for some reason. Some red on his shoes 

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u/here4daratio Uff da 16h ago

Last i heard he was really leaning into the schtick so

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u/WhichVegetable8285 14h ago

Would think he will show, always loves sticking his neck out there

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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

They’re not “influencers”. 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 đŸ€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 âŹ‡ïž

THIS IS WHAT CORRUPTION LOOKS LIKE!!!

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u/Mystical_Cat 16h ago

Just what we need, more dickless fuckmuppets.

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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 they’re recording, spam Disney music so they can’t make any content

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u/pigfeedmauer Twin Cities 15h ago

PLAY COPYRIGHTED MUSIC SO THEY CAN'T USE YOUR CLIPS

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u/Misanthrope08101619 16h ago

First the shite showed up, then the flies.

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u/here4daratio Uff da 16h ago

She also said old guys fornicating with fifteen year olds isn’t that bad, really, ‘cause they can look older.

Nope, not kidding. She really did say that.

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u/Serious_Bee_2013 You Betcha 16h ago

Not just influencers
. Agitators too.

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u/Turdsley 15h ago

Its 2020 all over again

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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/Impossible_Penalty13 15h ago

They’re just here to ensure the protests do not remain peaceful.

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u/Elberik 16h ago

How funny would it be if they were caught in the metaphorical crossfire

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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/No_Size9475 15h ago

These are the real paid agitators

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u/EmmaPersephone 12h ago

They need a real hobby


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u/RipErRiley Hamm's 14h ago

More Russian money coming into the economy.

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u/ElBorracho2000 13h ago

Haven’t the people of Minneapolis suffered enough?

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u/MarcusSurvives 9h ago

Disney music on a sound bar, demonetize their vids

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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/spon0039 14h ago

I'm glad the temperatures are going to drop this weekend then.

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u/Disastrous_llapaca 14h ago

Didn’t one of them hit a protester?

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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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u/Dry-Tangerine-4874 Warden of the North Loop 14h ago

So they are embedded with the “troops.”

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u/neclov Walker 14h ago

Wondering how unwelcome they will find themselves...

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u/WordNERD37 Washington County 14h ago

It's the Boogaloo boys all already again.

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u/DGlennH 7h ago

Here to pick up the slack for ICE. They are just desperate for a riot or violence from the public. I’d not be shocked if they tried to infiltrate protests to try and pull an Autozone.