What state is bluer, by your measurement?

Blue State has a generally accepted meaning of ‘votes blue in the presidential election’.

Doesn’t mean that 100% of our politics is democratic.

Are you arguing this for any particular reason?

Those are great numbers to bandy about, but they’re different from being here and participating in the local politics.

Like many other blue states and many other places worldwide we’re suffering from a resurgence of right wing authoritarianism and political disenfranchisement.

But we’re actively fighting it, and winning. And doing far better than most other blue states.

We have a free school lunch program, we have excellent social programs, we have sanctuary status firmly in place for reproductive and trans rights.

Walz stepping back from the Governor seat is local politics inside the DFL. He’s been a lightning rod of hatred for our red/purple voters since COVID, and after being party to an honestly embarrassing loss on the national stage seems a good time to transfer power, despite his fantastic successes.

We’ve been a solid blue state since the '70s. And we’ve only voted Republican 3 times since 1932.

Our GOP is already pathetic and impotent. Our local Democrats (DFL) are already significantly more progressive and effective than the DNC.

But this is adding fuel to the fire in a big way, no doubt.

Minnesota ain’t no fucking swing state. We’ve voted Blue in the presidential election longer than any other state.

StreetComplete is a great way to help fill in the blanks!

Because they sent their socialists into gulags?

Because if it isn’t commercial, it’s much harder to control and monitor.

It is poorly phrased.

a pro-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and anti-Muslim hate rally organized by racist Jake Lang

ICE is short for “Immigration and Customs Enforcement”.

The next part is even phrased worse.

Anti-Muslim hate-rally would be a better phrasing, but “hate rally” is a weird phrase already. A good editor would have dropped “hate” from the phrase entirely.

So, rephrased: “a pro-ICE and Anti-Muslim rally”

It’s saying the rally was in favor of ICE and opposed to immigration and Muslims.

Don’t besmirch the good name of pussies like that.

I’m not shocked.

Minnesotans have the highest voter turnout, have the second hours per capita of volunteers, has a rich history of immigration, and in general neighborhoods, churches, and other ‘third places’ are both welcoming and tight knit.

Hell there was a massive “socialist” co-op movement here in the 70s and 80s that had a huge and lasting impression on our politics.

Even our conservatives in the past tended to be the ‘libertarian’ type of conservatives, though of course the national circus has been having an influence since around 2015.

But even to this day polls show that identity politics don’t play as well in Minnesota as they appear to on the national stage. People don’t care about what happens in your home (perhaps to a fault), but if you visibly contribute to the community even in a small way (shoveling snow for or with a neighbor is the very true trope), you become one of us.

The massive protests following George Floyd’s death proved that Minnesota is a place where normal people will take real political action when they are pushed.

All this in mind, I think ICE was always going to fail here. But the death of Renee Nicole Good has dumped gasoline onto the fire and is turning what would have been a quiet failure they would have just stopped talking about nationally into an explosive situation.

I don’t know where this ends. I don’t want Minnesota to bleed any more then it already has, but I know we will stand firm.

56%? So basically the popular vote when voters actually fucking vote.

It’s the same damn statistic every time. 60% people horrified, 30% cheering, 10% cheering while making a good show of wringing their hands.

First past the post, education politicization, political disenfranchisement, and gerrymandering have created millions of monsters. I only hope democracies abroad take this as their wakeup call to fix the broken systems creating the global authoritarian / auth-right movement.

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Made in France

Fuckin football team with a side hustle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar-a-Lago_face

Writing for Mother Jones, Inae Oh calls Mar-a-Lago face “gender-affirming care the right can celebrate”.[7]

https://github.com/th3jesta/ha-lcars

I much prefer QT. The GTK ethos since Gnome 3 is basically: “We’re making this for our own needs, we don’t care about what you want”

And while I sympathize and understand the frustrations that downstream brings, I don’t think any project not part of Gnome/GIMP should be building on it.

QT is built from the ground up to be used by anyone, regardless of needs or use case. It’s a better fit for building complex software like desktop environments.

It’s like the pigs can’t read.