AOC: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir...
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mrdown@lemmy.world · 67 pts · 185d
Get rid of Schumer and Jefferies
Maeve@kbin.earth · 20 pts · 185d
Get rid of the whole lot.
tempest@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 184d
Sure but you gotta eat the elephant one bite at a time.
Might as well make those two an amuse-bouche and get some people that actually represent you.
discocactus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 184d
It should be like jury duty imo.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 185d
It's long past time for the MAGA comedy act of Schmuck & Jeffries to get the hook, and be dragged off stage.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 185d
Or just get enough people that you can abuse quorum rules and obstruct every fucking thing.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 185d
Abolish?
Say abolish or say nothing.
BigBenis@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 184d
AOC has been one of the few consistently calling for the abolition of ICE. She's literally selling an "Abolish ICE" hat on her official merch store.
jaek@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 184d
American politics is hilarious -- she has an "official merch store"?
BigBenis@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 184d
You're telling me. Money runs everything here.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 183d
The most influential of influencers.
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 184d
This has been the plan since DHS was created. Do you see how those wealthy freaks talk about the rest of us in those Epstein emails? The American people are caught in a pincer movement being executed by both political parties. We are being normalized to soldiers in the streets with machine guns, kicking peoples doors down and kidnapping them, murdering people in the streets. That’s just phase 1. Phase 2 is to use a disaster to expand ICE authority or simply change the name of the agency to something like “Federal Security Forces”, and give them authority to violate the rights of all citizens. The trajectory is obvious. They know uprisings are right around the corner and they cannot allow anything like the New Deal to happen again.
discocactus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 184d
Great. Practice for the rest of the MIC. Too bad the rest of Congress is firmly in their pockets.
gaymer@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 184d
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · -16 pts · 184d
By abandoning genocide agents like Always Oppositionally Controlled.
ViceroTempus@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 184d
Okay, no. Look I definitely believe the DNC elite are controlled opposition.
However, AOC has been consistent about her messaging, and has been pushing for the abolishment of ICE. Has championed progressive causes consistently, and actually comes from a working class background. We need more people like her in politics in general.
Calling her, in particular, controlled opposition is bullshit.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · -11 pts · 184d
It's amazing people still fall for this bullshit after AOC voted to send weapons to Israel a year into the genocide. Most people really don't have a memory span of more than 2 weeks.
BussyGyatt@feddit.org · 1 pts · 184d
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 183d
Did you know when the genocide started and what year it is now
BussyGyatt@feddit.org · 1 pts · 183d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 183d
There's multiple genocides on Palestinians by Israel. That's why there's multiple Wikipedia pages. Maybe you can find another one.
BussyGyatt@feddit.org · 1 pts · 182d
no, im actually quite pleased with what i already submitted. a quote:
maybe you want to nitpick the difference between 'genocide' and 'persecution.' i will just observe the fact that while the number of Palestinians genocided per year between 1948 and today varies, the number is always non-zero. not incidentally, a genocide may consist of other dehumanizations than the relatively simple process of mass murder. a historian might see fit to draw distinctions between periods of more and less genocidal behavior- or i suppose i should say more or less overtly genocidal behavior. i do not. i invite you to claim such an arbitrayr historical semanticism if you so please.
or show me how i am wrong and i will thank you for the education: demonstrate an actually peaceful year between then and now. demonstrate a year, even one single year, where you can in good faith argue palestenians did not live in fear, under subjugation, their land invaded, their sovereignty usurped, their culture effaced, the people subject to arbitrary detention and plain unaccountable murder: In short, a year of no genocide between then and now.
in other words, i challenge you to find a way to describe the unbroken campaign of ethnic cleansing and apartheid and displacement and settlement and indiscriminate murder and intentional famine etc etc etc as something other than constituting genocide in aggregate. it would be like trying to show that a person infected with herpes virus is periodically cured by looking at the periods between outbreaks. i predict you will run into a problem of finding many different forms of "unpeace" consistent with genocide. (actions taken with the intent (i will even allow intention and effect to lower the bar of this challenge) of destruction in whole or in part a people according to their categorization along lines of eg religious, national, ethnic groups)
until then i remain intransigent. i assert genocide is unbroken from then to now and therefore insulting others as having a 2 week memory is an ironic hypocrisy. glass houses and stones.
before i leave off, in fairness to you, i dont hate you. i fundamentally agree that it was shitty of aoc to vote to fund israel's ongoing genocide and am skeptical of her intention and ability to affect meaningful positive change. i take exception to the unworthy insult. i write in disappointment, not anger.
theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 184d
What a ridiculous characterization.
dogbert@lemmy.zip · -22 pts · 185d
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 185d
Yeees. Yeeeeesss. Good leftist. She's unpure. Reject her. Refuse to vote. The left must maintain purity, even at the cost of progress.
dogbert@lemmy.zip · -12 pts · 185d
Zexks@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 184d
Yes non patucipation will totally work. They cant hurt you if you dont participate
dogbert@lemmy.zip · -4 pts · 184d
Zexks@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 183d
And you didnt do that either. So you did literally nothing to stop this thing you consider so important.
dogbert@lemmy.zip · -2 pts · 183d
Zexks@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 182d
Oh so your contributing to the demise of some other country with your apathy. Congratulations! Cause we see you all slipping too.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 184d
Y'all throw out your toolbox in favor of one sledgehammer, and then fail at every small project and blame the project.
You can have multiple tools, numb nuts.
dogbert@lemmy.zip · -5 pts · 184d
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 184d
Repeating the same point a second time when someone offers valid criticism is a sign of a weak argument.
Go on, get me a meme that explains why we can't protest AND petition AND riot.
dogbert@lemmy.zip · -7 pts · 184d
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 184d
I feel like you're just trying to convince everybody that I'm correct and that you're a caricature. Thanks I guess?
Maeve@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 180d
🤣
hobovision@mander.xyz · 19 pts · 185d
Her job is to do what she's doing right now: achieving real tangible improvements. Your job is to get more people like her in positions of power so what's achievable is closer to the outcome you want.
Yelling about ICE in the streets and on the internet doesn't do anything. Getting a deal done to defund ICE so that can't keep terrorizing the country does do real good. It would actually save lives. Far more than I bet you've ever accomplished.
dogbert@lemmy.zip · -28 pts · 185d
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 185d
They're not the majority, abolishment isn't on the table at the moment. Keeping your eye on what is feasible to accomplish is not something to throw a hissy fit over.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 185d
She's going in the wrong direction.