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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] 98 points 1 week ago (10 children)

AOC 2028. Fuck the republican traitor filth.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (26 children)

Fun to think about, but American males are not ready for a strong female presence in their lives. They can't handle it.

I would love for AOC to show the world her fire and Americans some grace. Not going to happen with the lot in America right now sadly.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 week ago (20 children)

I don't know if American men are ready for it, but neither Harris nor Clinton were strong presidential candidates, and not because of their gender.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Male here. Hillary was probably the worst female option who's ever ran for president.

Kamala wasn't much better, and felt like a rush job to prevent Biden being an easy sweep.

Not that I'm advocating for trump in either case. I'm just saying its like the old south park joke of douche vs turd sandwich.

Only difference is that AOC is actually a good choice. Whereas Hillary and Kamala were never good choices.

I would fully support an AOC run. I would vote FOR AOC. Whereas with Hillary and Kamala it felt like it was voting against trump by selecting "whoever the opposition is".

Which for the record, isn't a gender thing. Biden was also "not trump" on the ballots in 2020. You didn't vote FOR Biden. You voted AGAINST trump.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 week ago

Ma'am, with the greatest and utmost possible respect, the rest of the world submits that you people already have several problems.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

AOC reminding Americans how to be brave. Penny auctions were a thing, which implied Americans used to be able to stand up to corrupt oligarchs and monied interests. Where is that solidarity and sentiment now? Do Americans need to be poor again altogether in order to rise up?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The key to the penny auction was intimidating speculators and outside interests from scooping up property being auctioned away.

Good luck intimating a Blackrock agent at a sheriff's auction in the modern United States. You're not going to scare off a trillion dollar oligarch and a paramilitary police state with pitchforks

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Now they would have the auctions online, and there would be no opportunity to intimidate them.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you come for my constituents, stop no...

If you come for our mayors, that's unfortunate.

Threaten our governors? So sad, horrible, can nothing be done?

Come for me? We're going to have a problem.

None fo the Dems are going to do shit until they come for them directly, a year after it's too late to do shit.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (4 children)

dude we should all be rioting at this point. shit is so fucked.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The oligarchs have the population exactly where they want them to be: poor, unhealthy, divided and unable to mount a concrete unified resistance.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (28 children)

the whole US population has been indoctrinated to believe non-violent action is effective and the only thing thats acceptable. fucking strange for a country that is so hardcore 2a.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (6 children)

You can't defeat an enemy that you refuse to fight.

I'm sure the Democrats will take every legal avenue available to them. However, if they run out of legal, nonviolent options, they're going to be in a very rough spot because they don't have any other arrows in their quiver.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are going to be so many furrowed brows.

I hope they don’t need to write another Strongly Worded Letter!

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I'm willing to chip in for t-shirts:

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Tell me, did she also sLaM him? I'm fucking sick of this posturing, do something already

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"suggested" they "may pursue"... wow. Did they fire six shots or only five? Y'know, in all that excitement, I kinda lost track myself.

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[–] drascus 29 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Oh a big problem!? Like what exactly? What are going to do against a group of people who laugh at the supreme court and dont follow court orders? All they can do is send a strongly worded letter and say "Shame shame". We are already a dictatorship these other branches have no power other than for optics.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

except you got enablers like schumer and hakeem bending the knee to the megadonors.

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[–] Disaster 27 points 1 week ago

After watching that video, there already is a problem. Assaulting an elected official is a felony and the ICE officer that did this needs to be up on charges.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

If the bar has to be that high given everything they have already done, then perhaps you are living in an oligarchy.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What? You don't have a problem already? Stop drawing lines. They've already crossed enough of them.

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

Look for a video Hasan Piker posted on IG. He explains that customs agents ask him if he had ever said anything wrong against Trump. That's a sign we're already in a dictatorship. You can call it fascism but it's a dictatorship where you can't say anything wrong against the supreme leader or you get punished for it. CBP agents asking if someone has ever said anything against Trump is a sign of dictatorship.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

I'll radicalize with her.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If the trump admin goes after congress members, they're going after the Squad first so most democrats will be on board.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I’m so ready for the problem. Pleeeease let me be a problem on these evil Nazi Republicans.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 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] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

You can discuss all you want, they can be members of Congress or what ever but unfortunately we don't have a Congress and we are already in a dictatorship, even if you brand it as fascism. I saw the video posted by Hasan Piker. If you listen carefully the question he was asked to answer by customs agents it shows we're in a dictatorship.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

You had had a problem for decades. Stop pretending there's some red line that you won't allow them to cross.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Do something that would warrent the GOP being hostile tward you, maybe.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (21 children)

So this thread has

  • people upset the party with no power has no power
  • people suggesting violence for others
  • defeatists who haven't digged their suicide hole yet

What's new that I missed?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the party with no power has no power

They have the same power that the other party manages to regularly fuck stuff up with, yet can't seem to pull of anything even remotely close

Gonna keep pretending they're not to blame or what?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Mmkay. Keep drawing lines and saying "I'm warning you!". Fuckin do something now. Quit yelling at them to stop, and make them stop. If this is all that can be done we are turbofucked.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In fairness, this is her doing something. She can't impeach and remove trump by herself. She has to win over republicans. If she can get to some who will realize that if trump will arrest dems he doesn't like, he will do the same to republicans, then she can win. It's the same tactic poloticians have been using, polarize the voters. Just in this case the voters are congress. Side note, you can shorten democrats to dems. But if you shorten republicans to reps you could still be talking about dems, because they are all representatives. How annoying.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

That's a good threat, but what happens when nobody backs it up? You just know that establishment Dems will sit it out and people are not going to do anything. So what then?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (9 children)

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

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