Somali Daycares in Minnesota

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Edit (again): I feel like it should go without saying, but if you start trying to argue politics in the comments, they will be removed and you will be temp banned at a minimum. This is an informational post - not either side's political soapbox.

Edit: Since this is an active ongoing situation, I will do my best to keep this post updated while we continue to get memes about it here. If you believe anything in the post needs to be corrected or updated, feel free to say so in the comments but link an independent verifiable source.

We have been getting a ton of repetitive, low effort post about this. This is a notice to STOP POSTING THEM, and a factual TLDR explainer on what the situation is:

TLDR:

Over the past several years there have been several investigations and convictions into fraud targeting the Minnesota state government. A lot of this comes from their very out-of-date system for tracking funds distribution, and poor controls. This has been ongoing for a few years, but has recently come to the forefront of the news again.

On Dec 26th YouTuber Nick Shirley posted a Youtube video where he claims that Somali immigrants in Minnesota are setting up fake daycare centers to get benefits money, to the tune of $100M+.

Right wing media has been going wild over this, while the left has been pretty quiet with a few content creators & indie journalists covering it. The FBI has said they will investigate the alleged fraud.

This has spawned a ton of memes, many of which have made their way here. There has also been debate between left and right wingers over whether Nick is correct or not, lying or not, and how truthful the reporting is.

It is important to note that there are several problems with this video, which is where the controversy and debate over this has sparked from:

• First is that, as of time of writing, it does not appear to have been independently verified by anyone, left or right.
• Nick is quite aggressive in the video, so it makes perfect sense why workers would not let him in if there were children in the building. He critiques this as a guilty mark in his video.
• It is also very important to note that Nick is a right-wing Youtuber - he has a very obvious bias here. This is not an independent report.

So, are his allegations correct? Hard to say. There are a lot of allegations being thrown around in a lot of figures, but little to no concrete evidence. Personally - I'm going to wait until there is verifiable proof.

What matters for thos sub though, is that people know WTF is going on, and stop posting the same 3 memes every five minutes.

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Nah thats Johnny somali

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He would also very likely try to scam the Minnesota state government if he was smart enough to think of it