This story coming out of Minneapolis seems to be the next wedge issue that American conservatives will exploit for votes and support for ICE terrorism against the Somali community. So what exactly happened here? Some MAGA kid went around a few Somali-owned daycare centres in the Twin Cities area outside of operating hours and harassed the care workers in order to "prove" these centres were fronts for money laundering without proving any hard evidence. Is that correct?
For the past week, the American right has been using this alleged issue as a way of drumming up hysteria and outrage, not to mention extreme amounts of hatred and xenophobia.
Any comrades from Minnesota want to chime in?
66 posts and 8 image replies omitted.>>2620518somalis defrauded the government of closer to 1 billion, and it was not limited to daycare centers.
>>2620650
Pedophile president by the way
It’s the “welfare queen” redux
>>2620361you can tell how quickly the lumpenization of the proletariat has been during the course of the capitalist crisis this decade judging by how willingly people are swallowing this outrageously biased and fake video made by a grifter
i'm sure something about this relates to marx's 18th brumaire….
>>2620470Not surprised in the slightest
>>2620361>>2620377You're enemies are shadows created by bourgeois press
Somali undocumented migrants quite literally can't abuse anything because although they pay most in taxes for social systems like social security and unemployment, they don't get any benefits because of their citizenship status.
https://immresearch.org/publications/immigrants-pay-taxes-but-are-excluded-from-many-benefits/https://itep.org/undocumented-immigrants-taxes-2024/ >>2620759That’s not what this is though. The controversy is that Somali immigrants are allegedly running fraudulent businesses like daycares which give them huge sums of money in federal grants.
Welfare fraud is an insult to working people.
>>2620361this whole thing started because somali groups did in fact swindle the state out of millions of dollars in covid relief funds and then rightois caught up to this and are now spinning slop out of it
>>2620361>Federal funding for childcare in the entire state of MN is pulled because of some content slop where a guy went around to daycares going "WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN SHOW ME THE CHILDREN" while his camera man wears a balaclavaI need people to understand that as long as these people continue to draw breath they are a danger to literally everyone.
>>2620833
Captain retard with the big brain take
Multiple things can be true at once.
Yes, the Somali community in MN is scamming people, and this has been confirmed by multiple sources for years.
Yes, the American right is 100% going to use this as an excuse to harass and mass-deport Somalis in MN by way of ICE and FBI raids.
Yes, the GOP is making this a big deal now because they need to pump up outrage so they can win in the midterms.
Yes, Nick Shirley is a GOP plant whose journalism methods are unethical.
Yes, there’s nothing wrong with stealing from the capitalist system when the system steals from us daily.
>>2620838>Yes, the Somali community in MN is scamming people, and this has been confirmed by multiple sources for years.Except that's fucking wrong you racist piece of shit. "The Somali community" isn't scamming anybody. Individual people and small groups are scamming, and some of those are Somali. Nobody is paying attention to any other scammers because the point is to gin up hatred against one group in particular, which you are contributing to by saying this shit.
It's also very important to point out that the government lies fucking constantly about welfare fraud, and has done since fucking REAGAN so this shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody that this kind of narrative is being weaponized. Plus with the current regime, they have notoriously made up all kinds of obvious bullshit lies so absolutely no information about alleged fraud should be believed, especially not numbers like 3 small time operations allegedly defrauding a billion dollars collectively. You must still be suffering anosmia from covid because this shit does not pass the smell test.
>>2620668no one on this website know what "lumpen" is
>>2620843
There's 80,000 Somalis in Minnesota you stupid racist fuck. The number claimed is less than 1 in 1000 were involved in this shit. Take the L that your fucktard unconscious bias led you to smear an entire ethnic group and do better next time.
>>2620841Pointing out it’s Somalis doing it isn’t any more racist than pointing out how Hasidic Jews frequently engage in welfare fraud is antisemitic.
Indians also engage in welfare fraud too.
>>2620848>Pointing out it’s Somalis doing it isn’t any more racist than pointing out how Hasidic Jews frequently engage in welfare fraud is antisemitic.Both are racist when you accuse them of doing it as an entire community you dense motherfucker
>>2620496it’s a reliable apparatus for serving their interest.
>>2620849No one is accusing the ENTIRE community of doing it though.
>>2620851
>wow you're so mad that you're pushing back against extremely obvious racism being tojan horsed into a "both sides" argument amidst national-scale spin designed to scapegoat an ethnic minority group by a fascist government already doing ethnic cleansing
You need to stop under-reacting
>>2620858uigger that is literally what you said
>>2620838>Yes, the Somali community in MN is scamming people >>2620361Oh look, a distraction that gets both sides riled up and being retarded.
There are more important things to focus on than this typical slop on the trough.
>>2620864
Saying that a community does something is the fucking problem you idiot. The Somali Community didn't do shit. It was a number of people in the dozens, and some were Somali.
>>2620667It's a Sam Hyde quote, so yeah it's fascist agitprop. If you hadn't noticed, /pol/ has arrived.
>>2620867
WOW THATS HUGE BRO! THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE OF OUR TIME!
>>2620470No shit.
Every single "scandal" pushed by the right-wing is planned and organized in advance and promoted by their media outlets. It's never an accident. You should ALWAYS be instantly skeptical of anything they claim. And never ever ever play devil's advocate or cede ground in any way, you are just being a useful idiot.
>>2620870
>priorities
You need to go back
>>2620650
>ANOTHER namefag with a retarded reactionary take
Filtered.
>>2620833
…you're saying there wouldn't be fraud if not for Somalis?
Genuinely you are so retarded that you should be forcibly sterilized.
I’m not seeing the problem.
>>2620913
Nice tautology,
There would also be no fraud if there were no fraudsters.
REMOVE ALL FRAUDSTERS is a better position.
Where there are large government grants there is significant fraud if there aren't controls put in place. Doesn't just apply to monetary outflows but also concessions. We have the same problem with daycares in Australia. Big daycare subsidies are very popular and win votes but end up just increasing costs by and benefiting land owners and scammers.
>>2620869It's an issue if you live in Minnesota.
>>2620361>what exactly happened here? Some MAGA kid went around a few Somali-owned daycare centres in the Twin Cities area outside of operating hours and harassed the care workers in order to "prove" these centres were fronts for money laundering without proving any hard evidence. Is that correct?no, the guberment announced that there'd been a billion dollars scammed by somalis in Minnesota then this guy went around and kicked up trouble
The somalis already bagged 250 million from a feeding our future scandal a few years ago too
>outside operating hoursi've never seen a day care that wasn't open at 2pm
Conservatives are calling for the FBI to hit the Somali scammers with a RICO.
It’s WAY WORSE in Canada. Welfare fraud is everywhere.
>>2621048Why is that? My tax dollars are being used for something i didn't elect them to be used for?
How is that different from the "American Experience" we have come to love for 100 years.
>>2621877Yeah the EBT was going to be eternally cut and there were riots planned.
>This is huuuugeIt's not. Thanks for playing
Walz said he's stepping down as Minnesota governor.
Politicians with nothing to hide don't do that.
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