If you would like to show your support but can't get to MSP this afternoon, your pals at The Onion have options for you with a lovely "Sinister Minnesotans" tee or hoodie. "Net proceeds from the sale of this T-shirt will be donated to local organizations doing their part to keep Minnesotans safe and send ICE agents home to ruin their own fucking communities."
https://store.theonion.com/products/sinister-minnesotans-t-shirt

@GrimmReality I can't find what or who coined the term "sinister Minnesotans." Is it just a play on "Minnesota nice?" Like, we are nice, but don't push us too far?

This what my local looks like at 10pm on a -13F night but I figure if 100 thousand heroes can shut a major metropolis down in this weather to roar fuckyous at the neo-nazi pricks Kristallnachting their community on the daily, I can go raise a few beers to them.

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I understand fascists, sort of, I really do, I've known a few conservatives and libertarians in my time whose utopian endgame turned out to be THIS, Fascist America 2026 - because their philosophy is dogshit and they are fucking awful people - but for the life of me, I do not know how any human being claims to be smart or rational or enlightened or even marginally well-meant and actually thinks "Occupying and randomly beating and gassing and murdering these people will surely show them and everyone that we are good."

And, guys, yes, I get the intrinsic jaundice of Kool-Aid-hoovering redneck assbags given badges and the nigh-impossibility of ANY of these truebeliever deadender Wermacht fuckwits arriving at any point of enlightenment as to OH NO DID I DO A BAD, because no, these are the least fucking likely human beings to develop self-awareness. SSes and Tonton Macoutes and Stasis and Khmer Rouges keep manifesting throughout the History of Awful Wrong Murderous Dipshits and none of us think of those motheruckers as good now, do we? The point and mission is changing the narrative to reflect the reality that those people are actual loathsome neo-nazi cunts and bringing out enough people to make that point that the compromised pieces of shit at every major corporate medium lazily ok with fascism can't ignore it and let the fash Official Story be the story.

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The professional-managerial class is the petit bourgeoise, the knowledge workers of the world that resist uniting because Karen of the HOA has an iron grip.

@kimlockhartga Oh I don't know, I'm not aware of an antecedent use of phrase, I thought it was just funny on its face because of the juxtaposition. Like "bloodththirsty corgi puppies" or something like that.

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Minnesota nice usually means being nice to your face but talking shit behind your back. Growing up in Minnesota we just called it being polite.

@mwestley @GrimmReality ha ha ha. I remember those faces that were unreadable. It unnerved me, even as a kid. I felt like every adult in Minnesota (especially my parents) were walking around like mannequins, never letting you know how they were really feeling.

@GrimmReality true. I just thought it was something a right winger had said. Kinda like "Nevertheless, she persisted."