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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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[–] D_C@lemm.ee 3 points 33 minutes ago* (last edited 32 minutes ago) (1 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...

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 3 points 23 minutes ago

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

[–] PalimpsestNavigator@midwest.social 16 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 15 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 39 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours 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?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 21 points 5 hours ago (2 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

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 15 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 hours ago

Sigh, have Luigi taught you nothing?

[–] Peck@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours 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?

[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 16 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 33 points 7 hours ago (1 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.

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 1 points 37 minutes ago

Its the DNC, not the IRA. What else do you expect from them?

[–] SarcasticMan@lemmy.world 246 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

You should already have a problem.

[–] Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 118 points 10 hours ago (12 children)

How many red lines have been crossed now? I like AOC but the Democrats and Congress aren't going to do shit if they haven't already.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 12 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Seven red lines. All of them strictly perpendicular. Some with green ink and some with transparent.

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[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 53 points 10 hours ago (5 children)

They do. They can’t do anything through Congress, but they’re helping the ACLU get the cases through the courts. If they go after a member of Congress, that member can personally press charges on the administration. That is her point.

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 hours ago (11 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?

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 3 points 2 hours ago

So far Trump needed a bunch of traitors among the Democrats to pass things such as his budget. Claiming the Democrats would have no power is a lie. They choose to use the power they have to enable Trump rather than to fight him. Otherwise they would have kicked people like Schumer out already.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I just figure people are venting. AOC posts aren't really the right place, though. I like her videos, and she does give my students hope for what it's worth.

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

They don’t need hope. They need to realize if they don’t fight now there won’t be a future for them.

[–] gabbath@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

You're right. But they also need hope alongside what you said. Specifically, hope that there's a future to fight for and that they're not alone.

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[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 6 hours 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?

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago

Exactly my thoughts too. They have to get creative to do it. They need to adopt to the new climate.

[–] CMonster@discuss.online 1 points 3 hours ago

The Lemmy trifecta

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[–] _wizard@lemmy.world 21 points 7 hours ago

I'll radicalize with her.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 68 points 9 hours ago (32 children)

AOC 2028. Fuck the republican traitor filth.

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