@andrewstroehlein
MAGA assumes "the left is insincere in its values, and that principles of inclusion and unity are superficial forms of virtue signaling.

This has turned out to be true of many liberals in positions of power—university administrators, attorneys at white-shoe law firms, political leaders. But it is not true of ordinary Americans, who have poured into the streets in protest, spoken out against the admin, and, in MN, resisted armed men in masks at the cost of their own life."

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You could say that about anything Adam Serwer writes, always an insightful counterpoint to others at The Atlantic and much of the general punditry. Thanks for sharing.

@independentpen@mas.to @andrewstroehlein@mastodon.social There's actually a pattern here. The depraved, the criminal, the bigoted, the corrupt very frequently seem to operate on an unconscious belief that everyone else is secretly just like them. And therefore they're not doing anything wrong.

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"university administrators, attorneys at white-shoe law firms, political leaders."

In other words, people who get paid enough to remove themselves from the dirty working people who serve them.

@troy_frizzell
Shame on them. Shame!

@andrewstroehlein I hate these times so much.

@FediThing @andrewstroehlein

These types of people always 'assume' the worst in everyone, because it's exactly how they think, how they act... and they are incapable of thinking or understanding that others aren't as ignorant, racist, selfish and evil as they are.

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"If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme."

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"Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu."

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Wow! you are totally right! what an uplifting article. It really brings back hope that there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

@andrewstroehlein @noiseician when you've lost the centrist rag's writers...

@xankarn @andrewstroehlein Neighbours only stay strangers if you keep it that way.

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@andrewstroehlein The article is well written but what troubles me is that these things Minnesotans are doing have been done by Portland, Seattle, LA , Oakland, DC, New Orleans and not that long ago Chicago. People have been fighting since before August! Press is only interested when a white person gets killed or threatened. I applaud all the folks standing up in Minnesota, but it isn't an anomaly, it's the new reality.

@andrewstroehlein - I have to laugh at this photo. Bear with me please it looks like the man in the middle is wearing a DIAPER or Depends. Or the biggest Blubber butt shorts for those long cold nights acting tough on front of the photographer.

@ariaflame

Vance makes cultural difference into something insurmountable and unbridgeable, forgetting/ignoring everything that humans share in common. It's political poison.

@kAlvaro , try checking public library; many now have free sameday access to Atlantic's Web edition.

@andrewstroehlein
Thoughtful read many insights, including:
“The real reason may be that a majority of Minnesotans did not vote for him. Trump has said that “I won Minnesota three times, and I didn’t get credit for it. That’s a crooked state.” He has never won Minnesota.”