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At their state convention, Minnesota Republicans held a moment of silence for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

Like many other GOP state chapters, the Minnesota Republican Party has been unabashed about flaunting its extremism in recent years.

One of the clearest examples of this has been in the party’s promotion of far-right figures like Royce White, who rode the Minnesota GOP’s endorsement in his 2024 Senate race to a shellacking in the general election.

But even so, a moment of silence the party held for Derek Chauvin over the weekend — that is, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd — underscores a uniquely sadistic strain of racial bigotry within the state Republican Party.

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[–] Marty_TF@lemmy.zip 104 points 3 days ago (1 children)

130 years ago after the haymarket affair, where workers fought for the 8 hour day, they erected a monument not to the workers who fought and died in the struggle, but to the police killing civilians in order to keep up the system.

same system, same people, same victims, same pigs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 9 points 3 days ago

Thanks for the history

[–] pizzatime69@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

While doing that they should've knelt down on each other's necks to show solidarity

[–] Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah and centrists want us to reach across the aisle to these pieces of shit

[–] jrTug_2T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago

Even Dr. King had disparaging words for people like that.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 24 points 3 days ago

I had to reread that headline, I guess that was too unthinkable for me to parse correctly on the first try

[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

I'm glad I wasn't there to witness this, I might have succumbed to a moment of inglorious bastard violence.

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A moment of silence for a guy that's fine...?

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 days ago

Oh. I thought this meant that he died. I was scrolling through the comments to see if anyone mentioned how or when.

Okay then...

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 43 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Wonder how they'd feel about a minute of silence for Mangione or the guy that off'ed kirk...

[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

Maybe instead of a moment of silence for Mangione they should play Feels So Good

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We may not know who got kirk. That case is fucked. There's no smoking gun but it seems like movie level forshadowing of a frame up

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Left his screw driver, that he supposedly used to disassemble the rifle on the roof, within second of firing, with his DNA on it (‽), even though he was wearing gloves! Then they found a fully assembled rifle in the woods. It's all smoke and mirrors.

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 1 points 2 days ago

And the smoke is crack

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 25 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The GOP can't resist the urge to intentionally go out of its way to do the wrong thing

[–] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It is vice signalling. Which seems to be a thing Christians(!) in the US do.

[–] stickyprimer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Anyone they perceive to be hated by “the other side” is an instant saint. Look what they did with Charlie Kirk.

[–] tacoplease@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

These guys pardon and protect pedophiles so what's surprising about this?

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

I do think it’s amusing that dude is not worthy of anything more to his masters than a moment of silence. They’ll move mountains to protect their own, ain’t doing shit for their servants.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

But call them racists and they give you shocked picachu looks

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Hell is ~~other people~~ Republicans