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At least 13 people were injured, five critically in two separate mass shootings at homeless encampments in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Monday. The first shooting took place at East Lake Street and Interstate 35W around 11am local time.

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[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 97 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Move past pointing out hypocrisy. They don't care. We all know and on the scale of shit they're guilty of; it seems petty. The institutions are not going to do shit.

Consider what you will be doing about this.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 100 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Pointing out hypocrisy is not usually for the benefit of the hypocrite, it’s for the benefit of everyone else.

[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus -3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

But we know and it just seems like an excuse to not talk about solutions at this point.

[–] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 43 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Comrade, organizing online is fraught in the best of times but I think people are hyper aware of the risks of talking about these things online right now.

Dude the wife and I like talking long bike rides without our phones, the only electronics on us our lights and our motors. Get in some good conversations outside the city limits once it's quiet and we don't have to worry about blocking the tractor that comes by hourly (only traffic on that road) at 10mph, which we can both do without our motors.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Who's stopping you from talking about Solutions?

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 20 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Just the opposite. Continue to point it out at every opportunity. They hate being called out. It doesn't matter if they care about what they practice, they hate hearing it.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So far, it only seems to be ratcheting up persecution.

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

We're at the point now where the only way out is through. The basic checklist includes staying alive, staying sane, trying to stay out of trouble, helping out when you can, and looking for others doing the same. More or less in that order. There is always a "final battle" when society does a fascism that ultimately unwinds it. We're on track for that and have just missed our last exit. That's what we have to look forward to. We're firmly in "weeks where decades happen" territory, buckle up. Hopefully this time we can clean up properly after.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 5 days ago

We've been there for a long while and refused to see it, for personal comfort and safety. It will require a lot more temperance, courage, sacrifice, a lot less reactionarianism.

I'm pretty sure at this point if you're not doing anything else you're just emphasizing impunity and lack of consequences.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If Republicans didn't have mirrors they wouldn't know their own reflection

[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So, what, some sort if orbital magnifying glass to burn them with? Wouldn't the atmosphere make that really hard?

[–] Nightlight17776@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not a magnifying glass. Giant tungton rods. No explosive need. Just drop them from space. Kinetic energy does the rest

[–] SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Weaponizing giant tungsten rods takes a lot more than 'dropping' them, you can't just let go when they're in orbit and expect them to hit targets because .... they're in orbit, they ain't going anywhere without some delta V. Plus, if they're massive dense objects, getting them up INTO orbit is gonna take a ton of rocket fuel. At that point you might as well just use an ICBM with an explosive payload because the destruction-to-cost ratio is way better.

[–] DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Probably the most expensive way to turn cash into 1/100th the energy of a nuclear bomb but I don't want to give them any ideas.

[–] Nightlight17776@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's the rods from god program. It was not pursued for obvious reasons. I just wanted to sugjest an even more ridiculous solution than a giant orbital magnifying glass

[–] Stabbitha@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not only do they not care, they get off on people getting upset over the hypocrisy. It's a power move.

I know. Did none of these people ever have a bully?