Please stop spreading this. He will be charged by the state which would require the Minnesota Pardon Board to vote to pardon him. That’s the Governor, the State AG and the Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court. 2/3 would be required to vote in favor of a pardon.

More frightening, I think. I worry most for the children and young adults in the US.

Because a lot of states, Minnesota included, have more sensible processes and rules than the federal government.

The mistake you’re making is thinking Minnesotans will let this man walk free because the Pretender in Chief says so.

We’ll stick this asshole with the 28th Virginia battle flag and they can come and try to collect him.

Notice the merelly starting the very sentence sentence you quote from me about the George Floyd protests. The pigs are still often holding people down by putting their knee on that person’s neck, so how exactly has the largest demonstration in America changed anything?!

Assuming you meant merelly as merely I saw it but your claim that no change occurred is wrong. The change that did occur was unsustained because people in the US got complacent. They protested and cared for a while but then they stopped paying attention and things started back the way the were, now worse in some areas.

Notice how I said sustained effort? The thing that didn’t happen after George Floyd.

If all that people do is walk and shout with lots of other people and then at the end of it go home with a feeling of achievement and do nothing further

“Do nothing further”? You mean further than the protests 2 days ago that set record numbers? Or the ones that have been ongoing every weekend for months? That have been building and increasing to the No Kings day protest? Is that the do nothing further you’re referring to?

People here are way over-celebrating something which means very little unless we see that it has led to many following it with getting involved in politics and/or grassroots movements

Are you in regular contact with the majority of the US population that you can say that hasn’t been happening? I’m pretty sure the growing numbers of protesters is people getting “involved in politics and/or grassroots movements”.

it’s premature and it makes me suspect that for many who participated this one demonstration was it and they aren’t following it through with next steps.

Oh, you’re predicting the future 48 hours post protest. This is just the same bullshit “your protesting isn’t good enough” sentiment everywhere else on Lemmy repackaged and with more words.

So my point is that people need to keep their eye on the long term solution for America’s problems, and that doesn’t stop with kicking Trump out, it requires a far deeper cleanup of the American political system and addressing the problems of common Americans so that another guy like Trump (or, more likely, worse) doesn’t get eventually get in power after Trump is out.

Denigrating the effort to date doesn’t do anything to further your point. Instead it serves to quell support and push a negative outlook and view of protesting.

Offering support, encouragement and advocating for sustained effort would.

You mentioned the George Floyd protests and said, in relation to that, “merelly coming out and walking for a bit in your own time while holding a board up doesn’t seem to achieve anything” but that’s not true.

During and immediately after George Floyd the protest effected a lot of change but then the protests stopped, complacency set in.

Trump is not the disease, he’s a symptom, so merely Trump out isn’t going to cure it.

No, the cure is sustained effort. The problems in the US have been building and evolving for decades, if not longer, and they’ll take at least that long to get a handle on.

Ah, now I understand your “logic”. I didn’t pay attention to the instance you are from at first.

I’m not sure if you forgot a /s or if you’re being serious. If serious this is some ridiculous logic.

Protests aren’t about the Political and Money “elites” as you put it because they don’t care no matter what.

You think they’d give a shit if what is happening in LA is happening everywhere? They’re like cockroaches that will skitter into hiding until it’s safe to come out and monopolize on the ruin.

Protests are about galvanizing support and building unity among the populace. The US has been so divided for so long and that division has been manipulated and grown to benefits those “elites”.

I do think a general strike may be effective but it’s unrealistic. A nationwide general strike would require massive financial and material support. Where will that come from?

They work on a smaller, union scale because they’re supported by the union and outside supporters that are not on strike. They work in other countries that have the social programs in place to support the people which is something the US does not have.

I keep seeing this repeated comparison to France but let’s look at that. France is a country a little smaller than the state of Texas with an adult population only slightly more than the total population of California.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say it’s a little easier to coordinate a general strike in a country with 1/6 the population of the US spread across an area 1/15 the size of the US.

Protests in the US are getting bigger and more widespread but it’s like a slow wave, it takes time to build.

Funded by?

So your mad that protesters in other cities aren’t being attacked by local police and federal agents, got it.

Pass the word everyone, if you’re not getting hit with tear gas and rubber bullets your protest doesn’t matter. Might as well not even try.

What is good enough for you?

Quiet everyone, Mustakrakish is about to tell us the acceptable number for a protest.

Go ahead, the floor is yours.

I think you misunderstood. I wasn’t talking about the people who claim to have some European origin but the practice in general in the US of acknowledging ancestral ethnic heritage as part of where you’re from.

Descendants of slaves generally have very little knowledge about the origin of their ancestors.

This might be true now, but 200 years ago people were brought here from other countries unwillingly and had children here. If we’re were forcefully taken to another country and then had children at some point I would talk to them about the people left behind and where I came from.

That’s the road trip film he did right? I think I have it, just haven’t watched it yet.

Coming everyday to sit with me in the hospital for a month; from the ICU all the way to the general ward until he walked out the front door with me.

I always knew my dad loved me but he wasn’t great at expressing it, but it was never more apparent than during that time.

They can be used interchangeably typically but anytime in this usage is grammatically correct. Any time usually would be preceded by a preposition like, “at any time” and is a noun. Anytime is an adverb.

I get this. I was listening to a podcast, Conan O’Brien’s I think, where Will Ferrell came up and they were talking about how he’s typically a pretty straightforward and serious kind of person off camera.

He turns it on for the camera but it’s not who he is in real life. There’s nothing wrong with it per se but it made him seem a lot more disingenuous to me.

I wonder if some of it doesn’t come from the people who came to America through forced immigration (I.e. the slave trade).

I think it makes sense for people brought unwillingly to America to hold on to that ethnic heritage and culture work hard to instill it in their children, even if they were born in America.

Fortunately Sinclair only has 1 station in Minnesota, WUCW, which is not one of the big ones where most people get their news (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX).

I think they’re dead last in news market share.

I’m in South Saint Paul so if you were in Saint Paul it was a different one since that’s a different city.