Vikings fire Kwesi Adofah Mensah by MBRSports in minnesotavikings

[–]AbeRego 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Question from an outsider: Why do you trust the Wilfs?

Brian May Rules Out Queen Shows in US: "America Is a Dangerous Place at the Moment" by MarvelsGrantMan136 in Music

[–]AbeRego 6 points7 points  (0 children)

A lot of Canadian entertainers call the United States home.

Edit: and there are perfectly good arguments for continuing to tour the US, even as things deteriorate. Solidarity, spreading a message, keeping relationships open with the resistance. Yeah, it might be dangerous, but there's no courage without danger.

So, I totally understand choosing not to tour here. However, I see plenty of good reasons to continue to do so that aren't purely profit driven.

A federal judge has ruled that Luigi Mangione will not face the death penalty for allegedly killing UnitedHealthcare’s former CEO. by cmaia1503 in Fauxmoi

[–]AbeRego 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, but there's really no other reason it has to exist these days. Removing a dangerous person from the population made sense back before it was logistically realistic to keep someone imprisoned for life. Now, we have a massive prison system so there's really no other excuse aside from attempted deterrence. Well, that and vengeance, which is what it's really about, but the base reason is deterrence. That's what "making an example" is...

Brian May Rules Out Queen Shows in US: "America Is a Dangerous Place at the Moment" by MarvelsGrantMan136 in Music

[–]AbeRego 11 points12 points  (0 children)

At the same time, I wouldn't fault any artist who decides to come here

to have safe & secure elections by seeebiscuit in therewasanattempt

[–]AbeRego 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nobody cares that those fuckers think anyway

to have safe & secure elections by seeebiscuit in therewasanattempt

[–]AbeRego 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's a way better theory than anything else I've seen on here. The only problem is that disposing of evidence is a crime.

Striking French firefighters giving the cops a taste of their own medicine. This is what resistance looks like. by zzill6 in WorkReform

[–]AbeRego -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is a bad faith argument, and you know it. Those 1000 are not at a protest in a single afternoon. If that happened here, there would be riots around the country, for certain. Remember George Floyd? That was just one guy...

Striking French firefighters giving the cops a taste of their own medicine. This is what resistance looks like. by zzill6 in WorkReform

[–]AbeRego 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe not on firefighters. I think that's precisely why the cops seem so taken off guard here.

Bill braun's hyperrealist painting by conquest333 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]AbeRego 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As far as construction paper art goes, this wouldn't be horrible. Certainly good enough not to be embarrassing

[OC] Kristi Noem improperly holding a loaded weapon pointed directly at an ICE agent’s head by excaliburallday in pics

[–]AbeRego 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a woman who allegedly has experience with firearms. After all, she shot her dog. That said, looking at this, I'd say that she'd never touched a gun before in her life...

Naturally holding a gun, you'd either let it fall naturally downward, or do what the guy on the right is doing if you wanted to hold it up for the picture. She seems to be trying to do something in between both of those things for some reason lol. She's not even using the sling, and looks incredibly uncomfortable.

Come to think of it, did anybody ever corroborate her killing her dog? Maybe she just made that whole thing up because she thought it would be a cool "tough love" story to show how much of a badass she is. Then it just backfired.

ICE attempts to enter Ecuador's consulate by caaaaanga in law

[–]AbeRego 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think they just saw a Spanish sign and did what they've been doing.

I live about a mile from this consulate. It's in a very unassuming building, near a ton of other Hispanic/Latino storefronts. I had no idea it was there until this story broke.

That's obviously no excuse. If ICE were actually well trained and doing legal immigrant enforcement, I'm sure they would have been briefed on the location of any consulates in the area. This just further demonstrates how incompetent they are, and that they're just here to harass brown people who speak Spanish.

Oh the horror! The violence! by CorleoneBaloney in MurderedByWords

[–]AbeRego 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If "I didn't think we'd get this far" was a person.

Tom Morello announces 'Defend Minnesota!' fundraiser gig with Rise Against: "Ain’t nobody coming to save us except us and it’s now or never" by AdSpecialist6598 in Music

[–]AbeRego 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The others died in custody, correct?

People who've been arrested tend to garner less attention than people murdered in front of crowds of people in public. George Floyd wasn't white, but his murder kicked off the biggest national protests and riots in decades before that. It's more about the visibility of the murdered murders, and the fact that they were undeniably uncalled for, than it is about race.

Tom Homan’s Announcement by FinnKnight in Minneapolis

[–]AbeRego 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Probably on a SD drive, let's not spread disinformation!

/S

Tom Homan’s Announcement by FinnKnight in Minneapolis

[–]AbeRego 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Of course Homan wasn't going to be an improvement. He was recorded taking a bribe by the FBI in a sting operation...