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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.com

To those saying “nuh-uh, ICE picked Minneapolis because they WANTED the city to rise up as one against them” - no, pretty sure they expected a scattering of blue-haired protesters they could easily crush for content + tacit support from other whites, not the organized total resistance they got.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com

ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.” it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.

Faine Greenwood
@faineg.com

these idiots absolutely do assume there will be a small and easily manageable number of weird blue haired college kid queer POC and hippie activists who will go against them: they don’t really know what to do with huge numbers of enraged respectable “normal” looking white people fighting them

Faine Greenwood
@faineg.com

Yes, MAGAs have been picking blue cities to target because they BELIEVE us urban Democrats actually are mostly virtue-signaling hypocrites who are secretly as racist as they are, and they’ll thus only face a bit of easily-destroyed resistance from weird blue-haired kids - we keep proving them wrong.

Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron
@karlrolson.com

The media bubble surrounding some since the AM talk era, let alone post-algorithmic social media, along with lots of "yeah sure whatever" responses they've read as support rather than "shut up" had some folks thinking there's a silent majority of bigots when that's likely been wrong since the 1950s.

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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron
@karlrolson.com

Yep & on vibes, that feels like how the Overton Window shifted heavily in some places (lots of media deregulation & cut backs to public broadcasting,) yet mostly stayed steady, if not became more progressive, in others (regulations & public media relatively intact until social media bypassed those)