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Ocasio-Cortez took to Instagram after the Department of Homeland Security suggested they may pursue arrests of three Democratic lawmakers who partook in a protest outside of an ICE facility in Newark, New Jersey. Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Rob Menendez (D-NJ) and LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) all attended the protest.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 hours ago (5 children)

If he does that, all solutions should be on the table. Including second amendment solutions.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

it's long past time for violent solutions but we are all talk.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

stop pushing the goal post... 2a solutions were more than justified 2 two weeks after the clown took over the circus

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah I can't help but read this headline and think "the line they crossed" was kidnapping people and shipping them off to a Salvadoran concentration camp. Who gives a fuck if they're representatives, we're supposed to be a democracy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

That's part of the problem with the people of the USA... when a republican does something evil, you guys twist in pretzels to justify it is not quite THAT evil... when someone stands up against evil (I am not going to say Democrats to that but in this case AOC is standing up and she happens to be a democrat) then all the "yes but..." comment start

This is how I see it:

  • The USA was circling the drain for at least a few decades and now it has been flushed (flushed, it's done, you are now in the sewer)

  • You now have a small (very small) window to save yourselves from starting WWIII which is the logical outcome when the US economy collapses (they are not going to suddenly say "hey we were wrong" and take it)

  • You should fight not just because it is morally compulsory but because you will suffer greatly personally. If you wait to be in pain (no job, no house, etc) it will be too late, you are already almost too late

  • You need to stop cherry picking the very few people you have that seem to have the bravery and/or smarts to fight back somehow. An imperfect ally is NOT an enemy

  • You need to JOIN the fight

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

By who? Whose going to do that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

You and me, brother.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

2a is for "white" people. That's how we got here.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

Now maybe I'm being pedantic here but this does seem to slightly suggest that the ordinary citizens being kidnapped off the streets, and sent to death camps...whoops, I mean 'prison', without any legal support is not a problem?

However the upper class fools doing absolutely fuck all to stop the ordinary people being abducted by the us's Gestapo being fingered by tRUMP and his cronies is a step too far?

I like her. Don't get me wrong. She seems to be a good one. Speaks her mind etc etc but if she, and the congress people, would've had a problem about the little guys being taken on broad daylight then there wouldn't be any need to have a problem about her unpoors being fingered!!

Remember the German poem:
First they came for the poors but I did not speak out for I am not poor.
Then...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

What are you even on about? She's been one of the few that's been talking about it non-stop. Tell me you've not been paying attention and are only interested in grandstanding without telling me..

Also, I will never take anyone seriously that types out "tRUMP."

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

many members of Congress have been fighting for the people that have been and are being targeted.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
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