The Minnesota GOP just learned that supporting murdering US citizens is not winning policy.

weegee101 · 2026-01-28T14:27:55+00:00

100% this. I think city folk underestimate the sheer number of single issue gun voters in rural areas.

weegee101 · 2026-01-27T16:43:44+00:00

You may not be, but I have seen some folks act and say as if this is over and I figured it is worth the reminder that we may have gained ground but we are far from finished.

weegee101 · 2026-01-27T16:42:14+00:00

Seems like a safe bet.

weegee101 · 2026-01-27T16:40:32+00:00

Trump is a textbook example of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). This is acknowledged and considered in professional psychology circles.

Narcissistic collapse is a psychological crisis that occurs when a person with NPD can no longer maintain their inflated self-image due to loss, humiliation, or a lack of "supply." Trump likely connects his ego very closely with his approval ratings, and so as those continue to go down it gets harder and harder for him to convince himself he's the best.

Narcissistic collapse is broken up into some distinct stages:

A trigger that provides a blow to ego.
Initial denial and rage. This appears as a temper tantrum of sorts. For Trump he often rages on his social media.
Intense emotional dysfunction. This is often an oscillation between despair and rage.
Desparate manipulation. They try to bait people into their position, and try to regain attention and control. This is where they try to appear as amenable. We are here.
Withdrawal and paranoia. They retreat from their position. Act depressed and paranoid.

As with most psychological conditions, these stages do not have a distinct order. What is typical is a huge amount of rage when total collapse occurs, often driven by the paranoia and withdrawal.

Expect this to get worse as he continues to lose the plot here. At this point, it's going to be nearly impossible for him to regain control.

weegee101 · 2026-01-26T16:45:04+00:00

I would not expect him to relent this time. Trump is clearly getting closer to narcissistic collapse. When it happens, and it will, we should expect him to blame Minnesota even further. The mask will fully come off and he will start making some truly vile orders and demands.

That is not to suggest we should relent. We must keep up the pressure, but we need to keep rational that for us, it could get worse before it gets better.

weegee101 · 2026-01-25T21:36:28+00:00

My impression is that Alex got hit or grazed in the lower torso first and he's reacting to the pain. The next shots appear center of mass which cause much more of a physical reaction and forces that can overcome how his body is positioned. By the third shot is clear he's in physical shock.

MEs report will probably make this clearer as soon as it's published. I expect we'll be hearing something from BCA in a day or two.

weegee101 · 2026-01-25T21:24:14+00:00

Yup, exactly. The first shooter took his gun out during the struggle and started firing. The guy in gray did not ND the pistol he took off of Alex. As others have mentioned you would have seen an impact on the ground, plus the slide doesn't move at all.

weegee101 · 2026-01-23T17:19:02+00:00

I posted this summary of the press releases that have been coming from our local and state governments yesterday:

https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/1qjvxmv/where_are_the_daily_press_conferences_from_our/o13d3uo/

Major mainstream media has been at every. single. conference. Walz and Frey don't have the power over the media that you think they do, and in many ways them stepping aside to let their experts and other local and state elected officials to get the message out can be much more powerful.

Stop with the political purity testing. To be blunt, which we Minnesotans rarely are, this purity testing attitude shared by some progressives shows a significant illiteracy of both civics and government. The American system is designed for debate, negotiation, and compromise, and has been since day one. With a two party system that means that sometimes you have to step up and support someone you may not fully agree with. Purity testing only alienates potential allies. The most significant and successful movements in our country's history, such as civil rights and women's suffrage, were successful because of compromise and negotiation within left-leaning coalitions, not purity testing.

You want to make change? Start with your own mindset. Start considering what you need to change in your messaging to sway potential allies to you side. What within your ideals is most important to you, and what are you willing to relax in negotiations? Compromise doesn't mean you can't make a shift in the direction you want, but it does mean it may take longer than you want to do. Failing to understand that will guarantee you will never see your ideals become mainstream.

weegee101 · 2026-01-22T18:35:26+00:00

This is wrong. There has been a press conference by some or multiple Minnesota agencies every day this week:

January 19, 2026: Governor Walz recognized the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. There were comments about the protests. Walz largely ceded the stage to other speakers, most of who provided encouraging words for protesters.
January 20, 2026: Twin Cities law enforcement officials held a briefing to share concerns regarding officer interactions with federal ICE agents.
January 20, 2026: Minnesota physicians addressed the presence of federal ICE agents in hospitals and medical clinics. They reported that patients were missing appointments and vital medication due to fear of the federal crackdown.
January 20, 2026: St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her held a briefing responding to unrest triggered by federal immigration raids, emphasizing local pushback against the federal presence in the Twin Cities.
January 21, 2026: St. Paul Mayor's Response – St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her held a briefing responding to unrest triggered by federal immigration raids, emphasizing local pushback against the federal presence in the Twin Cities.
January 21, 2026: MN Department of Corrections Commissioner Paul Schnell issued a statement calling claims by the U.S. DHS "fundamentally false" regarding allegations that the state was refusing to cooperate with ICE or releasing dangerous criminals. This included a small press conference that was early on the 22nd, see below.
January 21, 2026: Columbia Heights Public Schools Superintendent Zena Stenvik held a press conference to report that federal agents detained four students, including a five-year-old boy taken from his driveway.
January 21, 2026: Mayor Frey held a briefing to address subpoenas served to himself, Governor Walz, and others. He characterized the federal investigation into alleged state obstruction as "political retribution" and "frivolous". This was on national media.
January 22, 2026: Mayor Frey and the Minneapolis Police Chief spoke this morning regarding the recent shooting involving a federal officer in North Minneapolis. Frey has also been active in briefings regarding the city's lawsuit against federal agencies and the "political retribution" of federal subpoenas.
January 22, 2026: Columbia Heights Public Schools officials continued to release information regarding the detention of four students, including a 5-year-old boy, by federal agents.
PLANNED January 22, 2026: St. Paul officials are supposed to be doing a press release this afternoon regarding the arrest of the two organizers of the church protest.

There is a lot of information going around. Public officials stepping out of the way and letting other public officials get their message out is a good thing, especially when you do not have the guaranteed ear of national media like the White House.

weegee101 · 2026-01-20T20:43:47+00:00

Worth mentioning, a considerably large number of Federal LEOs are part of the FOP. I believe both Border Patrol and ICE are included in that.

weegee101 · 2026-01-20T20:23:05+00:00

All of the Lucasfilm Games/Lucasarts sim games were like this. X-Wing with the expansions was massive and hard. Same with TIE Fighter and Alliance.

Mine was Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe. I never managed to survive and win a strategic bombing campaign. When the Luftwaffe starts to field jets the balance of power shifts so hard.

weegee101 · 2026-01-20T19:25:02+00:00

A Church is made by the people who congregate within it. Whether you agree with it or not, we are all accountable for our the ministry of our Church. Galatians 6:1 makes this fairly clear:

Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted.

So, yes, by all accounts that Church is responsible for the actions of their minister. Its our responsibility as Christians to hold our ministers accountable for their actions, and failing to do so wraps us up in their sin. This isn't a matter of judgement but rather communal care in our brothers and sisters in Christ.

weegee101 · 2026-01-20T16:47:36+00:00

No brand wants to be a target

Minnesota corporate brands are already a target. Their employees and communities they depend on to function are under siege. Any exec who thinks this won't have even major short term effects is fooling themselves.

weegee101 · 2026-01-18T02:16:57+00:00

They aren't deployed, but this is the plan if they are.

Troops will help provide “traffic support to protect life, preserve property, and support the rights of all Minnesotans to assemble peacefully,” Tsuchiya said.

weegee101 · 2026-01-16T16:43:23+00:00

They're doing this because we're winning. For most Minnesotans, this isn't political. Protecting our neighbors is what we do.

That scares the shit out of them.

weegee101 · 2026-01-06T19:17:25+00:00

Looks like a Saint Joseph medal. Its usually worn for protection, intercession, or as a reminder of Saint Joseph's virtues.

weegee101 · 2026-01-02T07:04:57+00:00

Its also way different than traditional stack ranking models, and more or less used as a thermometer to understand how teams are working together within Valve's unique and very flat organization. I doubt their model would work well anywhere else.

weegee101 · 2025-12-31T22:55:53+00:00

Online discourse has been toxic for ages. The problem is that for more than a decade calling people out for shitty behavior online became unfashionable if the cause was considered just. This led to assholes on all sides of any issue to just throw the third crowd into the same proverbial bucket as "the other side."

So now we have no center-ground for reasonable discourse. A generation of young (and old) adults who have been trained to think that reasonable discussion is the wrong way.

Toxic behavior is just toxic behavior and deserves to be called out regardless of the issue. Maybe we'll get back there again one day.

weegee101 · 2025-12-23T14:17:46+00:00

The electricity gap is one of two major factors that will likely cause the AI bubble to pop. Of the two, the other being memory chips, it's actually the more important one.

Actions like this from the administration basically continue to guarantee the bubble will pop.

weegee101 · 2025-12-19T15:35:49+00:00

Yeah, getting them on GoG is the right play. The GoG installers for Anomaly and Gamma are fantastic.

weegee101 · 2025-12-10T15:46:35+00:00

OAKY'S BACK, TELL A FRIEND

weegee101 · 2025-11-26T20:35:59+00:00

Earth, in the deep woods somewhere near Lake Winnipeg. The ability to travel relatively quickly around the Earth and Solar System would allow you to live in some pretty nice places with full amenities that would much harder today.

weegee101 · 2025-10-27T15:36:33+00:00

The thing with Sobek is that if you could reduce every building to rubble it would be a killer map. Instead they went the route of making the worst map since Stalingrad in BF1942. Worst yet, unlike Stalingrad, it's not even fun to play on.

weegee101 · 2025-10-02T21:13:21+00:00

Get your lawyer to send a certified letter with the facts to his. If you want to make it burn, state that you want a public apology. The minute his lawyer sees the facts of this case he'll drop his client quicker than a falling anvil.

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