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Should've 
the shit out of this scum. Missed opportunity.
this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2026
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I'm not in Minneapolis, so I don't know what the vibes are on the ground, but I have to wonder where all this is building towards.
I don't know that you can brutalize a community like this and not develop its militant tendencies. There are things developing in the consciousness of people in Minneapolis that might be hard to unwind through force.
Bourgeois education and its focus on the nonviolent aspects of the Civil Rights movement is the root of the civility myth that blooms in the minds of liberals. This education teaches the virtues of nonviolence without ever connecting it to the militant movement and its virtues. It doesn't want to show you that progress was only made by the dual character of struggle. Militancy to express seriousness, to communicate to the state in the only language it understands, and peacefulness to expose the state's brutality to the citizens who still believe in the states ability for justice.
The exposure to the brutality, both directly, and indirectly, develops a militant consciousness. Militant consciousness demands militant action. Militant action heightens the brutality, but strengthens the whole movement through this relationship.
But I'm not in Minneapolis. I'm not sure what is developing in the collective conscious there. I see videos like this, and videos of people looting a lockbox from a ICE vehicle, and it makes me wonder.
My understanding is the National Guard may be soon deployed or is already deployed there. Which will only escalate the situation. What lessons are the people there learning?
One of my big political awakenings was getting bored in the library in middle school and deciding to read a book about Malcolm X. I read him talking about how black people have every right to armed self defense in a society that was killing them and I was like "Yeah makes sense to me, how come we never learned about this guy in class?"
it's not building towards anything. establishment liberals will co-opt and defuse this threat to the status quo exactly like they did the enthusiasm for BLM after george floyd was murdered. it's what establishment liberals exist to do
You can see this much happening on reddit even, though people who favor violence will be quieter on the internet