• But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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    What liberals opposed this? It’s weird that liberal is now a word Americans use to mean whoever they dislike. I know the right loves ICE but what liberal does?

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      From Wikipedia:

      Many Democratic politicians, such as Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and former Vice President Kamala Harris of California, believe that ICE should be reformed rather than abolished. Harris stated that Democrats should “critically re-examine ICE” and “think about starting from scratch” with American immigration policy, while Senator Bernie Sanders stated that Democrats should instead encourage Trump to work with them on “a national program which deals with this serious issue.”

      • That was about 7 years ago.
      • Even Bernie opposed abolishing ICE.

      He used the word absolutely the correct way.

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        Hey look at that, more evidence of bernie being a spineless lapdog for the exact same powers he claims to oppose. This certainly proves the point about abolishing ice being wrong and doesnt show exactly how liberals allowed this to happen.

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      Obama and Biden had full, 100% unchecked authority to shut down ICE but they didn’t.

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          ICE has literally always been this way, just smaller scale and careful to do their bullshit out of public view.

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            just smaller scale

            They’re raiding schools and courthouses my dude. If you think Obama tolerated ICE ambushing people at their immigration hearings than you are reeeeeeeeeeaaally dumb. Sorry not sorry.

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              You don’t think immigration enforcement had been doing horrendous shit before this last year? At the school of the Americas border patrol agents taught fascist kill squads that systematically raping nuns is a good way to pacify a populace. It’s always been a shit organization.

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                You don’t think immigration enforcement had been doing horrendous shit before this last year?

                A frog in hot water you are.

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              You allllllmost made it to the end of my single sentence post.

              Since you don’t seem to be a big fan of text, listen to this podcast which talks about some of the bullshit they’ve always been up to.

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            Oh I forgot, the American left has gone insane. You guys punch left and blame Obama now, while trump and the right eat your lunch.

            FYI it’s not Obama, or even trump, it’s your trash country and its trash people. As an indigenous person, im enjoying you morons eat each other, can’t wait for your country to die

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              as an indigenous person

              Then why the fuck would you advocate for keeping ICE around? ICE has been harassing native people for being dark-skinned for its entire existence.

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                They never did.

                Neither did 90% of what the left considers liberals.

                You are literally proving their point here.

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                See that’s the problem, when did I advocate for ice? You hear what you want to hear and explode on anyone who even so much as asks a question. There is no more discourse, anyone even slightly right or even left of you is an enemy. That’s why you guys are fucked, and you deserve it.

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                  You asked should Obama have abolished ice. I said yes. You then called everyone on the left insane and the entire country trash. But it’s other people who explode huh? And if someone answering yes to a simple question gets that vitriolic of a response I have trouble believing you weren’t advocating one way or another.

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      You must understand, the Russian and Chinese agents who seek to divide us are now turning Democrats against each over by bisecting them into “the left” and an ancient definition of “liberals” that would include George Bush Sr among other right wing characters.

      That what the aim of these posts is. Any time you see “the left” pitted against “liberals”, you can safely ignore whatever bullshit else is on the page.

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        Or maybe Democrat policy deserves legitimate criticism after repeated failures? No, it must be those scary foreigners.

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        Are these Russian and Chinese agents who want to divide “us” (who do you mean with “us”?) In the room with us right now?

        Any time you see “the left” pitted against “liberals”, you can safely ignore whatever bullshit else is on the page.

        I guess I can ignore about 150 years of history then, huh? Liberalism is a right-wing ideology, homie.

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          My favorite feature of being a lefty is how well we get along with each other.

          My favorite lefties work on themselves and seek to genuinely understand the roots of any disagreement.

          At the best of times, they cut through the crap by aligning with me on the basic values we all hold. Such as:

          • Don’t kill babies to get free real estate.
          • People who rape kids need to be stopped.
          • Don’t intentionally starve the population of your country because the potatoes they grew fetched a higher price internationally.

          Isn’t this everyone’s experience?