• D61 [any]@hexbear.net
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    ICE still exists and is still operating in Minnesota, slowing down things a bit until the media cycle moves on and the protesters go back home is not a “defeat of ICE”.

  • miz [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    defeated

    let’s not get carried away, this is a strong word to be using. I would not make a fuss over “sent packing” even, but let’s get real here

    • Parzivus [any]@hexbear.net
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      Yeah its been over three weeks since Pretti was executed on the street and they’re only now reducing ICE to the level it was at in December, which wasn’t exactly low to start with. I don’t see any reason not to expect another surge on some arbitrarily chosen blue state in the next month or two

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      Definitely. A retreat is followed by a regrouping. The reactionaries can’t forgive 2020 and they won’t forgive this either. But they are overextended in so many ways; pressing them into further retreat is possible in theory, if the mobilization and coordination was there.

      But as for the people of the Twin Cities, they are getting worn down and broke. Out of state donations to the aid networks dropped off after the corpo media used the Bovino demotion to pivot away, just like with the Gaza “ceasefire”.

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        Homan is also a cooler head who seems to prefer working quietly to putting on a big show of force. Ice has largely gone back to their stealth-and-ambush tactics and away from staging daytime raids on popular restauraunts in the middle of lunch rush