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The Minnesota governor said that the path to tyranny "is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting"

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was testifying before Congress about his state's handling of immigration when he learned Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was forcibly removed from a Department of Homeland Security news conference Thursday.

The irony, he told the attendees of the Center for American Progress’ “Listening to Lead” event Friday, was in lawmakers grilling him and his colleagues, Govs. Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y. and JB Pritzker, D-Ill., over the “incredible crime of treating people like human beings” as FBI agents tackled a sitting senator to the ground and handcuffed him in Los Angeles.

“I am not prone to hyperbole. I am prone to, like, popping off a little bit. I know that,” Walz said, prefacing his argument that Americans are living in a “dangerous” time. “I believed all along we were marching towards authoritarianism, and people were telling me in December, ‘You know, you're overreacting.’ And I said, “The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you're overreacting.”

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 15 points 4 hours ago

Conservatives have made it abundantly clear that they have zero respect for our Constitution. They are traitors to the United States and enemies of the American people.

It is past time that we start treating them as such.

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 13 points 4 hours ago

There goes his Chance at a Democratic Presidential Run! They'll NEVER let someone who BADMOUTHS their Strategy to Run!

[–] lorski@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago
[–] sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Hear my stern words about how the time for stern words is over

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

The time has come... For two sternly worded letters!

[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 290 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (12 children)

people were telling me in December, ‘You know, you’re overreacting.’

One day after saying this, the former speaker of the Minnesota house is gunned down by a pro-Trump extremist.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 173 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)
[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 79 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Redundant statement is redundant.

MAGA == terrorist

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

It’s technically redundant, but it’s also meaningful, intentional, and warranted. Especially when at least half of our legacy media establishment is committed to grossly misrepresenting the entire fascistic political movement, and the other half seems to be going whole hog on false equivalence and theatrical shock at entirely predictable authoritarian developments.

It’s a lot like how we need to refer to the rapist Brock Turner (who is a rapist), for the simple reason that it needs to be aggressively forced into public perception. A lot like how the rapist Brock Turner aggressively forced himself on his rape victim, except the outcome here is increased public knowledge instead of Brock Turner (the rapist) getting his jollies.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

I agree. I also think a bit of humor can help spread a message. I think the statement is kinda funny and I do think they are terrorists, and so do they.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

It's not redundant until the mainstream media frames the narrative based on reality instead of propaganda.

Words have meaning, and we should do our best to use the most accurate, truthful words to reframe the narrative and ensure clarity; even when others do not.

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[–] Wiz@midwest.social 5 points 1 day ago

*Republican MAGA terrorist serial killer

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 72 points 1 day ago

People have been telling me I've been overreacting for the last two years. My "overreacting" is the reason why I'm now comfortably in another country.

[–] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago

Yes. I don’t understand his much more “shits gotten real” it needs to get.

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[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 50 points 1 day ago

He is right at this rate the dems might lose the 2024 elections!

[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 156 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The time for 'strongly worded letters" was over the day they stormed the Capitol.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 5 points 6 hours ago

There was never a time for "strongly worded letters." Republicans never bought into that weak shit, and now they rule everything.

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 2 days ago

HoStAgEs of the PeAcEfUl PrOtEsT.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ok, so what time is it, Tim?

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Might be the time for Minnesota to join Canada, Tim. Think big.

If you want to end politically-motivated gun violence becoming normalized, time to leave the USA and ban guns not used for hunting or within shooting ranges.

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

time to leave the USA and ban guns not used for hunting or within shooting ranges.

Respectfully Canada has been taking it too far with their gun control.

Canada has rightfully banned assault rifles/firearms for personal use back in the 90’s however, recently they’ve been banning guns solely based on appearance calling them “assault style firearms”, just because a firearm looks like it belongs in the military does not mean it was designed for such use.

Edit: I made a post a while back about the Crusader Arms Crypto rifle entirely designed to comply with the recent ban’s on firearms however, the Government of Canada had it reclassified as a prohibited rifle.

I can attest to the fact that these current bans effect people like myself who enjoy sport shooting at ranges or in the wilderness on crown-land, if a criminal has possession of an illegal firearm there is no chance they’ll lawfully turn it over.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago

I totally understand that overreach makes hunting and recreational shooting activities a lot more difficult.

On the flipside, it means that assembly in Canada is peaceful by default without the constant threat of escalation into gun violence as can happen in the USA. It means that in our cities, 19 times out of 20 we only have to worry about pointy objects being potentially used as weapons by people walking down the street rather than guns.

The styling of firearms is just for show over safety I agree. But maintaining a culture of responsibly using firearms as a privilege of partaking in the sport, rather than as a right, is a distinction that gives us Canadians a better quality-of-life overall. There's far fewer grey areas in Canada as to where and what guns should be legally used for.

[–] boughtmysoul@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

brow furrowing intensifies

[–] eddanja@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (28 children)
[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"Israel has a right to expand" immediately DQs him.

[–] aramova@infosec.pub 40 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Shit, you're right. Guess Trump 3rd term it is.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 13 points 1 day ago (4 children)

My dude if y'all allow Trump to run again or the DNC to survive you frankly don't deserve democracy. You're smackdab in the middle of a revolution so don't fucking compromise in advance with the idiots who aren't even lifting a finger to help you. You run the show now, so act like it.

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