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Culture War Roundup for the week of January 5, 2026

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Here is the list of the topic of top level posts in this thread since the viral ICE shooting.

  1. Minneapolis
  2. Minneapolis
  3. Minneapolis
  4. Iran
  5. Minneapolis
  6. Minneapolis
  7. Greenland
  8. Venezuela
  9. Minneapolis10
  10. Doctor Toilet hookup
  11. Minneapolis

Seven out of Eleven posts and they're by far the largest threads. It's probably too late at this point but I'd like to suggest that in the future mods should exercise some judgement and make a megathread on events like this that are likely to generate a ton of back and forth discussion with an expectation of new information coming out over the course of days/weeks. Both because it is more convenient for the reader to be able to check a dedicated thread and because it makes it much easier to find the more general discussion for those of us who find the interesting angles of the subject to have already basically been exhausted.

Minneapolis isn’t an obvious megathread. It’s not dominating my twitter algo. It’s something weird here that is causing a massive amount of posts. This lady dying is one of like 5-10 news items currently and from what I can tell barely mattering nationally.

A good board now would be 60% Venezuela (it matters), 20% Iran, 10% Minneapolis, 10% random. Venezuela has interesting discussions on whether we bribed people or we have some really cool new tech. Iran what I could tell from Israeli actions something like 90% of their administration are on Mossad payrolls. This should be geopolitics week.

I agree that it doesn't need a megathread, but Minneapolis is incredibly important. The left has their mojo back. This is the moment the pendulem swings back and we end up with an immigration policy based on, "14 heartbreaking photos that will make you say fuck having borders and law and shit."

I haven't observed that. The only places I'm hearing about Minneapolis are here and DSL. I think I saw one thing on Youtube, but didn't click and it went away. There was a Facebook and Instagram storm in 2020.

What "you" are you thinking of here. The people who have strong feelings probably already wanted soft borders and lots of refugees.

Go to youtube and scroll down the front page until you get to the section that suggests news clips even though you never watch the news on youtube. For me, 3/4 are MN shooting (the other one is Trump talking about Cuba). Looking at the general news tab, the MN shooting is at least a plurality if not a majority of suggested videos.

OTOH, apparently the NYT has decided that this story is bad for their interests and begun memory-holing it.

OTOH, apparently the NYT has decided that this story is bad for their interests and begun memory-holing it.

There's a David French opinion column today. Predictably dishonest:

An eyewitness, however, said that she heard conflicting instructions — one agent telling Good to get out of the car, while another agent told her to drive away.

French probably knows this isn't actually the case, that's why he is careful to attribute it to an unidentified eyewitness. There's a shitload of video and audio, and not one indication that an agent told her to drive away. (Her wife yelled "Drive, Drive", however)

The Minnesota videos show that it was never necessary for the officer to open fire. If a first shot is taken only after an officer is out of the path of the vehicle, that shot is not necessary to save his life.

The first shot went through the front windshield. Seems unlikely it was taken once he was out of the vehicle's path.

That means a frame-by-frame analysis of a shooting doesn’t come close to resolving its legality.

Translation: "Well, shit, the evidence is against me, so don't look at it"

The first shot went through the front windshield.

I admit to not keeping up with this as much as most mottizens. Would you link me a timestamp or screenshot of when this?

There aren't any good videos from that perspective, but this shows him firing and being hit almost simultaneously at 7 seconds (in the slowed-down video)

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