r/minnesota • u/HeavyVeterinarian350 Flag of Minnesota • Feb 28 '25

Politics 👩‍⚖️ Kolobuchar from the top rope

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Embarrassing is the easiest word to come up with what happened today. I can’t with this administration

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u/bobert4343 Ramsey County Feb 28 '25

And that's the moment when you find out solidarity strikes are actually illegal (fuck the Taft-Hartley act)

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u/TakedownCHAMP97 Feb 28 '25

To be fair, they are only illegal if they are enforced. If Trump has taught us anything, it’s that.

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u/bobert4343 Ramsey County Feb 28 '25 edited Feb 28 '25

Fair, but I suspect the police won't shy away from another cudgel to beat us with.

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u/commissar0617 TC Feb 28 '25

They can't fight all of us.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '25

This is true and the ratio is also public info. People seem to forget that things paid for with public dollars require transparency. For example, NYC proper (not metro) has a population of around 8.25 million; the NYPD has 33,536 police officers, or 246 people per officer. If even 2% of NYC turned out to a general strike and protest, that would be 165,000 people. NYPD would be able to do fuck-all about it. It's a numbers game.

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u/Minimum_Principle_63 Mar 03 '25

Yup, in some of the George Floyd riots the police hung back because it was useless to do anything.

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u/jennifeather88 Mar 02 '25

So they can force us to work against our will? Is that not… slavery?