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OneCrustySock 6/28/2022 12:08 AM
Any Fellow Minnesotans here?
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BrutusBrutus 6/28/2022 1:17 AM
I’m here now
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OneCrustySock 6/28/2022 4:47 AM
Howdy midwestern partner
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Seems like we got a lot of Minnesotans after that post on the subreddit! Great to see! Feel free to let me know if you have any questions/concerns
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OneCrustySock 6/28/2022 10:08 AM
Hello fellow Minnesotan and vet! I couldn’t believe the response I got in that post. So tell me what drew you to the AIF?
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Seems like we got a lot of Minnesotans after that post on the subreddit! Great to see! Feel free to let me know if you have any questions/concerns
yep, i found the post and came here
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Minnesotan here! Saw that post on Reddit as well. I'm just looking to network with other like minded individuals in the area, you never know when shit could hit the fan again. I think I am looking to join a local chapter of the John Brown Gun Club as well once I have a little more free time.
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@OneCrustySock The post brought me here too. Been following the subreddit for awhile. Guess this was what I was waiting for. I agree with @Benito on finding like minded people, we're going to need them in the coming days.
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OneCrustySock 6/28/2022 11:08 PM
How is everyone doing tonight?
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Ragnar Bear-Fister 6/28/2022 11:18 PM
Doing good! I’m another one who saw the Reddit post and decided to see what was up
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OneCrustySock 6/28/2022 11:30 PM
Nice. Welcome! Did you leave a intro post? If not tell us a lil about you.
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GG @OneCrustySock, you just advanced to level 1!
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Ragnar Bear-Fister 6/28/2022 11:42 PM
I’m 26 and a transplant from Michigan originally, I’m not really sure where I fall on the political spectrum but a through line of my ideology has always been anti-authoritarian. Im into history, the outdoors, and some leather and woodworking.
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Ragnar Bear-Fister 6/28/2022 11:54 PM
I think I’m a democratic socialist but I’m not familiar with the movement currently,
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ExtinctionBurst 6/29/2022 3:22 PM
Hello everybody I'm 55 years old and live in Minneapolis. I work with the developmentally disabled love running Dungeons and Dragons games and playing other board games.... But I'm here because I'm alarmed at the rising power of the fascists.
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OneCrustySock 6/29/2022 6:03 PM
I'll give a lil info about myself. Name is Tyler (Hi Tyler). I am 32, a veteran, currently a railroad maintainer. I can tinker on things, and love to cook and also am an avid board and card gamer as well as video games. earlier in life, thanks to my fathers CONSTANT stream of fox news i was a pretty far right leaning individual at an early age. jr high through high school i flirted with neo-nazism and was basically a closet case racist. And then i joined the military which happened to be the best thing i ever did. I saw the world. i lived it. saw most of europe and parts of asia cause i was stationed in the UK as a crew chief on F-15's. but more importantly than that, i met people from all walks of life and met some of the most incredible people i have ever had the fortune to meet. that RAPIDLY showed me how fucking stupid i was for thinking the way i thought. it showed me that skin color is just that, color thats it. it showed me that we are all human beings, trying to cut our own paths. from the people that i met it showed me that some people have had to constatnly struggle to make it anywhere in life. since then i have become more and more left leaning on just about everything. I see the far right for what they truly are, god damn monsters that want nothing more than to advance white supremecy by any means they can. want to force religion into every facet of our lives and let our laws be dictated by that. I say fuck that. I will do everything in my power to prevent that from happening. I cannot in good faith sit idley by as far right, white supremacist fascists' take over everything and fucking ruin it.
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butterball612 6/30/2022 8:43 PM
@MN-GypC cold dropped the Iron Front on me, surprised I wasn't really aware of today's presence or the knowledge of the original, I'm decently read up on history, or so I thought. 38 here, near the Twin Cities. Grew up country and christian. Never liked the music, learned to hate the christian hypocrisy. Still, grew up right wing, began moving left as Trump came to power, the events surrounding Philando Castille opened my eyes to ACAB and the chickenshits the NRA are by their absence. Yet they'll have a meeting to celebrate every big school massacre every time. George Floyd's murder and how the right dragged him through shit, and did the mental contortions to defend his murderers cemented me against the right. Fuck authoritarianism, fuck all assholes. Violence is their language because their ideas lose in an honest debate. Skills: jack of all, master of none. Can fix cars and all kinds of random stuff, carpentry, survival skills, firearms, cooking. Interest in free and open source software, data, maps and knowledge.
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I'm 34 and grew up in MN but now live in Canada. I grew up in a conservative setting but long grew out of it. Have been finding myself drifting left faster and faster. I'd consider myself a socialist but am really skeptical of the authoritarian nature of full communism. I saw the post on Reddit. While I live out of the country, the direction of American politics is pretty damn scary, especially the rise of organized Christian fascism and I want to contribute in any meaningful way beyond watching the news and cringing
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Ragnar Bear-Fister 7/1/2022 9:33 PM
anybody aware of protests on the 4th in the TC area?
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OneCrustySock 7/2/2022 7:06 AM
No! Are there some?
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Ragnar Bear-Fister 7/2/2022 8:09 AM
I’m not aware of any,
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thechromatograph3r 7/11/2022 4:03 PM
Many abortion restrictions in Minnesota have been ruled unconstitutional in district court. Includes law requiring: an abortion can only be done by a physician; certain abortions must be performed in hospital; reporting laws; parental notification, etc. https://t.co/6XypfzjAxa
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Skullmaggot 7/11/2022 9:22 PM
@Benito @MN-GypC Hello! I am from Human Resources. I’m looking to find point people who are interested in establishing a chapter in this locale. Are you interested in being point people for Minnesota? Do you have other group members?
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@Benito @MN-GypC Hello! I am from Human Resources. I’m looking to find point people who are interested in establishing a chapter in this locale. Are you interested in being point people for Minnesota? Do you have other group members?
Not sure what duties that all entails, but why the hell not. I'm game and will figure it out. Gotta contribute to make it work!
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MN-GypC
Not sure what duties that all entails, but why the hell not. I'm game and will figure it out. Gotta contribute to make it work!
Skullmaggot 7/12/2022 10:48 AM
There’s a lot of people and too few of us to meet with everyone individually, so I’m trying to establish point people for groups. AIF members are looking for skilled and active people, but there’ll have to be some self-organization on your end to get started. (Things are a little chicken-and-egg that way.) Groups have also been individual, with different compositions, different goals, and different needs. As Human Resources, I’m going to ask what you need to get internally organized for the things you want to do, and I can get you people and resources for that.
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Skullmaggot
There’s a lot of people and too few of us to meet with everyone individually, so I’m trying to establish point people for groups. AIF members are looking for skilled and active people, but there’ll have to be some self-organization on your end to get started. (Things are a little chicken-and-egg that way.) Groups have also been individual, with different compositions, different goals, and different needs. As Human Resources, I’m going to ask what you need to get internally organized for the things you want to do, and I can get you people and resources for that.
Alright. Sign me up and let's see what we can do.
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MN-GypC
Alright. Sign me up and let's see what we can do.
Skullmaggot 7/12/2022 10:54 AM
Noted
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BrutusBrutus 7/13/2022 9:44 PM
It's probably more effective to intermingle with other anti-fascist groups and grow brand recognition that way. That might espeically be good, since the black and red flag that's usually used signal anarchism and communism
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Plus our symbol, by design, is simple and quickly recognizable
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thechromatograph3r 7/13/2022 11:08 PM
We should focus on remaining independently dedicated to standing against authoritarianism. Intermingling with commies and annies is a bad idea.
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#minnesota I'd wager what brought a lot of us here is concern for our communities. My hope in coming here was to find a place to communicate with others around Minnesota and have an online resource to help support my local communities if they should need it in the coming days. What that need or support will be is as numerous as the outcomes of the days ahead. The polish and shine can all come later. Communicating and making some connections may help find some strengths group members possess or that people are interested in learning as well as discussions may lead to a community in need and neighbors willing to help, be that protecting a march, to extra hands supporting a community event, or rebuilding after catastrophe. I don't need to tell the people here how much worry and pain we are living with these days, hopefully this place starts people communicating and feeling a little more fulfilled by working to make our communities a little better. The mods tapped me to be a communication conduit for the Minnesota channel. To begin, I'll post an open thread for some topics, certainly add thoughts ideas. Any information I receive from mods will be passed along to the group. DM me if you feel that is more appropriate for the message, but for the most part I think this will all work best as open, free and, transparent as possible. (edited)
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MN-GypC started a thread. 7/15/2022 7:26 PM
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I just posted in the #firearms board about wanting to join firearms group. I'll have to check out John Brown Gun Club.
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Mram
I just posted in the #firearms board about wanting to join firearms group. I'll have to check out John Brown Gun Club.
@Benito mentioned it in this channel as well. Does anyone have any info on current local groups for John Brown Gun Clubs or have any experience with one?
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Skullmaggot 7/19/2022 1:36 AM
Hello! I am with the Human Resources Team. We are looking to find those interested in working with the AIF to do open source intelligence (OSINT). If you are interested, please reply to this message.
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BrutusBrutus 7/19/2022 3:00 AM
@thechromatograph3r I’m not recommending that. I’m talking more general BLM activists and anti-fascist people who aren’t bolted to leftism
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Especially since the average person who is against the right, outside of the internet, is probably not a leftist
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Skullmaggot
Hello! I am with the Human Resources Team. We are looking to find those interested in working with the AIF to do open source intelligence (OSINT). If you are interested, please reply to this message.
I am interested, I can help in whatever way I can. What qualifications does one need? (edited)
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Mram
I am interested, I can help in whatever way I can. What qualifications does one need? (edited)
Skullmaggot 7/19/2022 2:15 PM
Here is a description: “Having a tech background is a plus but not necessary. OSINT is a pretty big space so so a better question for them is what they’re interested in researching. Are their local groups or individuals they want to expose? Are they willing to make sock accounts and try to infiltrate fascist spaces on places like Gab or Telegram? Lot of it will involve tedious researching of targets, organizing information and publishing it ourselves or passing the information on to outlets with bigger platforms.”
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Here is a description: “Having a tech background is a plus but not necessary. OSINT is a pretty big space so so a better question for them is what they’re interested in researching. Are their local groups or individuals they want to expose? Are they willing to make sock accounts and try to infiltrate fascist spaces on places like Gab or Telegram? Lot of it will involve tedious researching of targets, organizing information and publishing it ourselves or passing the information on to outlets with bigger platforms.”
I have done some of that on my own, going into these spaces and whatnot. My experience is just limited to the traditional web, have no experience with dark web.
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Skullmaggot
Here is a description: “Having a tech background is a plus but not necessary. OSINT is a pretty big space so so a better question for them is what they’re interested in researching. Are their local groups or individuals they want to expose? Are they willing to make sock accounts and try to infiltrate fascist spaces on places like Gab or Telegram? Lot of it will involve tedious researching of targets, organizing information and publishing it ourselves or passing the information on to outlets with bigger platforms.”
I've done some very basic OSINT in the past, but could do more. Especially if we have a coordinated effort to collect it and us it. Which channel is that being coordinated in? Hoping to have some free time soon to devote to this.
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Mram
I just posted in the #firearms board about wanting to join firearms group. I'll have to check out John Brown Gun Club.
Ragnar Bear-Fister 7/19/2022 4:26 PM
im getting a group of people from R/Liberalgunowners together in a few weeks, youre welcome to come as well
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Ragnar Bear-Fister
im getting a group of people from R/Liberalgunowners together in a few weeks, youre welcome to come as well
Where?
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Ragnar Bear-Fister 7/19/2022 4:43 PM
in the twin cities, probably bills in circle pines
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I've done some very basic OSINT in the past, but could do more. Especially if we have a coordinated effort to collect it and us it. Which channel is that being coordinated in? Hoping to have some free time soon to devote to this.
Skullmaggot 7/19/2022 5:05 PM
We would be putting you in contact with AIF members here. I don’t know if there will be a channel for OSINT, and I would expect it to be off of Discord.
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Skullmaggot
We would be putting you in contact with AIF members here. I don’t know if there will be a channel for OSINT, and I would expect it to be off of Discord.
Got ya. I'll make a burner email and get in touch. DM you or who to get added on the email distribution list?
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MN-GypC
Got ya. I'll make a burner email and get in touch. DM you or who to get added on the email distribution list?
Skullmaggot 7/19/2022 5:07 PM
You can DM me.
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BrutusBrutus 7/20/2022 1:30 AM
Hopefully my new arrival and updated gun permit arrive by then
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butterball612 8/2/2022 12:52 AM
"The value that unborn baby has to society cannot be underappreciated" -- Minnesota Republican state Rep. Tony Albright on the Wrong About Everything podcast says 10 year old girls should be forced to carry pregnancies to term https://t.co/ZIFdbMbLRF
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possumtrot 8/2/2022 8:14 AM
Fuck that guy
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Name of the podcast fits
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W host though
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@Minnesota This isn't some rural blowhard. District 52 is Eagan/Mendota Heights. Also in case you run across them, the Dakota County Patriots are a "family values" group that I first saw around the area for the 2020 elections.
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Braakinthesaddle 8/27/2022 12:46 AM
@keffals @RekietaLaw Explicit calls for murdering people like this would be a violation of the attorney ethical rules. He is barred in Minnesota. You can file a formal complaint here. https://t.co/pbfL6EuIYk
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thechromatograph3r 8/29/2022 6:50 PM
Me waiting for politicians to be held accountable for advocating violence:
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And running cover for them, giving them an out. Quote from article: 'None of those identified in the study have been named by the ADL, which acknowledges that a person's inclusion on the list "is not proof that they were or are still are an Oath Keeper," or that they share the Oath Keeper ideology, as it's possible that some "misunderstood the nature of the Oath Keepers."'
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Caught the Vikings game yesterday. And man some of those MN governor race adds were truly awful. I don't care for walz but fuck whomever is running against him.
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ive been going around and posting PF telegram posts to the relevant channels, so when they post content in your state, i'll do my best to post it here
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Saturday 9:30AM at Arlington Hills Library in St. Paul (1105 Greenbrier Ave, St Paul MN 55106) fascists from "Hold the Line MN" plan to disturb drag story hour. Join your comrades to tell fascists to fuck off. Roll with a crew, cover up, and have a plan to stay safe 🔥🖤💥
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this is a new one from PF
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never seen them reprogram a fucking road sign
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Yeah that's wild, I'd love to learn that tech. But also it's like, was that sign originally displaying something very important for motorists to know but instead they get a chuddy fudd website?
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JohnBrosGhost 10/26/2022 9:06 AM
I remember a how to years back about those things. Apparently 99% of DOTs leave the generic manufacturer password on them, so they’re easy to ‘hack’
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Just have to go up, maybe open a box, and try whatever the generic PW is.
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str8 up demon 7/23/2023 7:49 PM
greetings my fellow minnesotans
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str8 up demon 7/23/2023 8:12 PM
idk how practical this is
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but when we get a lot of members i kinda want to try and get into abandoned building squatting for temporary homless housing
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Oh hai durr
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str8 up demon 7/23/2023 9:13 PM
lol
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in case anyone missed it
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str8 up demon 7/24/2023 3:14 PM
i found out that the 3%ers are active in minnesota
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which is surprising
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SPLC isnt even aware of this
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Theres a pickup truck floating around near duluth with a 3%er sticker and a calvin and hobbes piss on antifa sticker on the glass.
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Both times i saw it i was traveling, didnt get the deets
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Totally possible. Plenty of woods to play in up north.
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str8 up demon 8/23/2023 1:24 AM
sooo
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i had a run in with a nazi today
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i was doing some bootblacking work at a local bar
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intentional housing
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for queer peeps
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4 floor 10 member housing
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looks and sounds poggers
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I'll be dressing punk for pride in Duluth this weekend
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no one is illegal backpatch.
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