Also: the very normal, non-radical, everyday people who make up 95% of rapid response in MN will never, ever agree to some kind of code of omerta around random arson. Dads standing in front of schools do not want to turn their cameras off when someone lights the neighborhood on fire.
If random masked men are setting fires in your community, I think you should feel free to film them. Especially if dozens of other people and several national news crews are filming them. They are not "allies," they're arsonists. Grow up.
The "organizer" code of conduct here, where we don't "snitch" on arsonist allies, is not going to be widely shared by the people who make Minnesota's resistance possible. They will not see fires or violence in the street as good or righteous. I know this because I know many, many of these people.
I think I don't understand from the outside why a movement that seems to be having unique success thanks to unique tactics should shift to the same tactics activists have used over and over again for years.
I (like average person) went to a protest here (Portland Maine) a few weeks ago. It was about 2F but well attended with nonactivists hungry for meaning since ICE had just arrived. Like tell us what to do and how to help. The first speaker was...a guy talking about Puerto Rican independence 1/
Feb 3, 2026 16:58and how the US conquered PR with "secret weapons" etc. The following speakers (DSA, a local DSA candidate, etc.) were better but still struggled to connect with the present moment and the people who were there. It seemed more important to them that they had a captive audience they could get 2/
their individual messages out to, and then the issue that had brought everybody out was secondary. I do think normies like me have some patience with longtime activists - like ok, they've been dedicated to this for years so I can be patient for a bit - but it makes you question individual 3/
decision making. Like if I was up there with 1000 people in the freezing cold, I would not be lecturing them on capitalism as the root of all evil at this time. If somebody told me to do that I'd be like dude they aren't here for that. end/
I (like average person) went to a protest here (Portland Maine) a few weeks ago. It was about 2F but well attended with nonactivists hungry for meaning since ICE had just arrived. Like tell us what to do and how to help. The first speaker was...a guy talking about Puerto Rican independence 1/Feb 3, 2026 16:58
