we have more millionaires and billionaires in Congress than ever before
they think middle income is 157k when it is in fact, 50k
the Republican run congress, and states, are in government for themselves and their corporate cronies
almost all are lawyers, it’s time we have teachers, plumbers, artists, professors, engineers, truckers, hairdressers, baristas, who actually understand the people and who will work for them!
I’m not defending her or anything but honestly, what do you expect? She’s a mainstream American politician. She might be better than most but if any politician at this point ran on a platform of not deporting anyone then they’d instantly be seen as too radical and “idealistic” by the media and the general public. I mean it took us a very long time before most people got on board with the idea that having a health care system similar to basically every other first world country wasn’t too radical.
The context for this was that a 95-year old Nazi war-crime suspect who happened to live in the district for which she is running for Congress was finally deported (he was actually ordered to be deported 2004 but no country would accept him until now, when Germany finally agreed), and the GOP attacked her for it, and then when she clarified that yes, she still wants to abolish ICE but some deportation will be necessary, like the deportation of Nazis suspected of being war criminals, the left attacked her for that, because that makes her a cop.
Why do ya’ll look for a reason not to support people?
“Now there’s this about cynicism, Sergeant. It’s the universe’s most supine moral position. Real comfortable. If there’s nothing that can be done, then you’re not a shit for not doing it, and you can lie there and stink yourself in perfect peace.”
Quotes aside, I really… really kind of feel the need to remind people of a few pieces of perspective:
I don’t particularly care about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She’s nowhere near my neck of the woods and it’s unlikely I’ll ever run across her on a voting ballot, nor that her positions will have much effect on where I live. That’s really not the point.
What IS the point is that the reason the Democratic party, specifically, and American left, generally, are flopping around like worms cut in half for the last two years while an increasingly hostile fascist force occupies our offices of government is because every time, every time, every goddamn time anyone raises their head an inch above the crowd and begins to look even slightly like they might become some sort of the leader for the Left, this. Shit. Happens.
The smear machine will stop at nothing, they’ll go back twenty years or five thousand miles or pull one sentence out of War and Peace to present out of context or just flat out make shit up to present the would-be leader as a Failure and a Sellout and a Traitor To The Cause. And every one of y’all that goes along with it and declares that people like Ocasio-Cortez or Kamala Harris or whatever is “cancelled,” every one of you is part of the problem.
I don’t know whether the OP is a genuine leftist purity zealot or a Russian dissent monger, but either way, they’re doing the Right’s work for them.
“i find myself motivated by an unremitting and bottomless well of fury. a feeling in politics i’ve never had in my entire life and i sincerely think it could power a city. so, there’s that too. the fury is there, the hope and the fury.”
someone: so what do you think is the solution to homelessness?
me, socialist:
Let homeless people occupy peopleless homes, build houses for use rather than exchange, 3D print comfortable houses in a day, convert corporate skyscrapers into housing and commercial malls into publicly-accessible community centers with living commons and entertainment
When you say it to people and they break
“But the money? … we can’t just? But, Money? We can’t just… help… people? Can we? The Money. We can’t just help people? Like that? We can’t just? Money?”
There’s more to it than free real estate.
A massive portion of homeless people are mentally ill, and many of those illnesses aren’t being treated. Homeless people who have been on the streets and had their illnesses untreated for most of their lives aren’t going to adjust super well to suddenly having a place to live.
We need to build safety nets. We need social workers and mental health care professionals to help the homeless.
Every person deserves a roof and health care. Those two things need to go hand in hand.
The Housing First model of dealing with homelessness does exactly this. But actually when homeless people with mental illness or drug dependencies get into housing they start to do a lot better. Yes there are safety nets and things to work on after but it starts with housing. Homeless shelters right now aren’t doing enough because they either limit stays or make it so that drug addicts aren’t allowed to stay there at all. Obviously they’re still helping people but the Housing First model would actually help a lot more people long term and even be cheaper for the government in the long run. Unfortunately I don’t have sources but if someone can add them that’d be great.
I was actually gonna scroll past this but no. Everyone needs to see and reblog this. I will never be desensitized to this act against humanity…40 CHILDREN…not on this Earth anymore…because of the United States
The bomb dropped on a school bus in Yemen by a Saudi-led coalition warplane was sold to Riyadh by the US, according to reports based on analysis of the debris.
The 9 August attack killed 40 boys aged from six to 11 who were being taken on a school trip. Eleven adults also died. Local authorities said that 79 people were wounded, 56 of them children.
The death toll keeps going up btw this is a specific type of missile that they’re using, they first started using this during the Obama administration, but he put a block on them, during the election the Saudi government donated millions to Trump and when he became president he agreed to sell them 120 billion dollars worth of weapons so that they could up the massacre on the Yemeni people
Friendly reminder that Canada is complicit in this inhumane crisis in Yemen too:
When Global Affairs Canada announced another aid package to war-torn Yemen in January, it boasted that Ottawa had given a total of $65 million to help ease what the United Nations has called “the worst man-made humanitarian crisis of our time.”
What Justin Trudeau’s government did not mention in its news release is that since 2015, Canada has also approved more than $284 million in exports of Canadian weapons and military goods to the countries bombing Yemen.
“It’s a bit like helping pay for somebody’s crutches after you’ve helped break their legs,” said Cesar Jaramillo, executive director of Project Ploughshares, a research and advocacy organization that studies Canada’s arms trade.
Jaramillo calls Canada’s position “blatantly contradictory,” saying the government can’t claim to be a champion of human rights while arming the world’s worst offenders. “The problem is Canada also wants the sweet multibillion-dollar deals, so it cuts corners on human rights.”
The Canadian government is the seller in some of these transactions. In others, they broker and approve deals for Canadian companies. Government officials could not say whether weapons exported from Canada have been used in Yemen.
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