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[–] basket@pie.gravitywell.xyz 97 points 2 months ago (1 children)

more politicians putting their bodies on the front line please.
the more headlines like this the more apathetic boomers wake up.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If only it was the boomers that had to wake up.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah there's a lotta people that need to wake up. This is gonna be a case of things getting a lot fucking worse before they start getting a bit better.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If only age-cohort scapegoating did anything buy play into divide and rule.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Could not agree more.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 84 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Isn't that part of their job? To tour things like this?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 88 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, and ICE is required by law to let them visit with no advance notice. ICE has been refusing access when they show up without warning.

[–] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Makes one wonder how many bodies they are hiding.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If the democrats miraculously manage to take back power, watch them do absolutely nothing to investigate what happened in the concentration camps

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They won't even close them. Remember when Biden spent four years bragging about how many people they were deporting and then was dunking on the GOP for not passing their draconian immigration bill?

Half the reason we are even doing this is because Trump is trying to beat Bidens numbers.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

The only way this ends is revolution

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 61 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sadly, she is a person of color and the facists want her in prison even if she is a congresswoman. Now, if we could get a pretty white woman thrown in jail, then you might wake up some brain dead maggots.

(god it felt gross, just typing that out.)

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Just because it's gross doesn't make it not true.

Source: open your eyes

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

BANANA!

USA is a BANANA republic. Where the rulers don't give a shit about the law.l

[–] Spezi@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago

At this point, I trust Chiquita much more to lead the US than any of the Republicans.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

What the fuck is this shit?