I mean getting the government running is a priority RN. I’m sure Dems will get to it in time

Like they got around to closing Gitmo right?

the bill wasnt to fund ICE by itself the bill was to FUND THE GOVERNMENT PERIOD. Like seriously voting no to stop funding the government specifically to stop ICE from being funded is 1. not actually going to deal with the problem of abolishing ICE and 2. Only will continue to harm those who are affected by the shutdown. Like those whos families need the welfare programs that the bill voted to fund??

 If we want to abolish ICE you dont do that by just saying ‘hi i vote to stop funding it’ once?? it takes LEGISLATION and WORK. Not just voting on one bill that isnt even focused on the issue at hand. 

this is such a bullshit outrage piece and yall keep falling for it. incredible. 

in 2019 we ARE reading articles and making sure we comprehend their contents and we are NOT posting headlines and reacting in outrage without even attempting to accrue further information

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THIS WAS A FUCKING HIT PIECE.

YOU NEED TO STOP SCROLLING AND UNDERSTAND THIS.

THIS WAS NOT A MISUNDERSTANDING.

THIS WAS A DELIBERATE ATTEMPT TO TURN US AGAINST HER.

THIS WAS A FUCKING HIT PIECE.

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They always do this with her and faux liberals get their page on, call her a cop and a fake.

Anyone else reading stuff like this and wondering how many people commenting saying she is Terrible are actually Russian psyops?  Like, not to sound paranoid but IT ALREADY HAPPENED BEFORE.

@beachdeath @thenonbinaryspacegem @katjohnadams this was not a hit piece at all, it’s from a libertarian socialist site, and if like you claimed, you actually fucking read the article you’d have read this:

This was not a catch-all bill to reopen the federal government, which has been shut down for weeks while Trump refuses to sign a budget until he gets funding for a border wall. That was a different vote. No, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi scheduled an entirely separate vote solely on funding the Department of Homeland Security. This is the department which oversees ICE as well as US Customs and Border Protections. And it passed with support of every Democratic member of Congress, including democratic socialists Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Talib, as well as a number of other self-proclaimed ICE “abolitionists.”

Change is not coming from above, stop putting faith in elected representatives and make the change you want to see yourselves. For the sake of the rest of the world, we are terrified of your faith in the political system.

Also, before you even come at me with that “the DHS is an essential part of government” bullshit, it didn’t even exist prior to 9/11 so miss me with that state propaganda.

Cortez hasn’t called for worker ownership of the means of production once, she has no desire to change the top-down tyrannical hierarchy of the workplace, she’s a social democrat at best and over here we’re fed up of their “capitalism can be fixed” mentality. We’re well past the point at which that sort of politics is helpful.

As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will continue to exist and inevitably lead our planet to ecological extinction. 

Nor do piecemeal steps however well intended, even partially resolve problems that have reached a universal, global and catastrophic character. If anything, partial ‘solutions’ serve merely as cosmetics to conceal the deep seated nature of the ecological crisis. They thereby deflect public attention and theoretical insight from an adequate understanding of the depth and scope of the necessary changes.

- Murray Bookchin