liberals are not leftists and the two have never been the same thing. liberals support capitalism and leftists do not.

seeing libs call people tankies because they care about immigrants is nasty work.

He's right. I do want that. I don't see a problem with people being free to go places without constant government surveillance.

This is the perfect example of why when people are like "why are you Leftists so skeptical of veterans who run for political office on the left?" I roll my eyes. This dude was in Vietnam killing civilians to stop leftism! And he's proud of it! So much so that he made a career out of US imperialism.

ah, found the war criminal.

im not here to be a therapist for CisHets, take your rants that have nothing to do with me elsewhere

fellas is it white privilege to be against genocide

Y'all voted for a warmongering zionist and normalized a genocide. Don't complain about the violence and brutality of ICE. All of it is state-sanctioned.

Trump is doing what he's doing bc all this repression and brutality was normalized decades ago, by both parties, Congress and by voters. Lose me w/the pearl clutching and get over yourselves.

This guy's a nazi.

That this old white man proudly announces he dumped agent orange on innocent human beings, and has 11k followers and isn't universally despised and spat on at every opportunity, is entirely the reason our society is as horrible as it is.

If you read this post and thought, "Yeah, those white people who don't self-examine are ruining this country. Luckily, I'm one of the good ones who doesn't need to do that." Nope, it's you too. It's also me. Every single one of us.

the same arguments people put forward to defend joining the military would apply to the cops or ICE or whatever too but wouldn't be accepted there because Americans more readily regard other Americans as real people than the people being brutalised overseas

I think yelling and dismissing criticisms and skeptical responses from leftists will not have the result you want and it reeks of chauvinism

I think it is very normal for people to be skeptical of US veterans who are getting involved in electoral politics while presenting themselves as a leftist, socialist, anti imperialist etc

I owe more money to student loans than I'll ever be able to pay back and if you asked me to go kill some Iraqis to get rid of it I'd say no.

People dont like hearing it but the reason dems arent calling to abolish ICE is because they want their turn with the freedom gestapo

I still think about how quickly "kids in cages" turned into "unaccompanied minors in migrant overflow facilities" when biden took over

I think about this almost every day

It’s actually not hard when you realize it’s a complete non-issue pushed as an excuse for the blatant failures of post Reagan capitalism

Means testing, "pathways to citizenship", the creation of a massive surveillance state, a militarized border, trans sports, bathroom and healthcare bans - All of these are either concessions to bigotry or participation in it, supported by Democrats. Is it appeasement or agreement? Doesn't matter.

Well, a lot of parents have trouble disowning their own children, even when those children grow up to be monsters. The Democrats enthusiastically helped create this situation. They've never properly stood up for immigrants without prevarication and concessions to baseline xenophobia.

It isn't that hard if you reject the underlying premise. Immigration isn't a threat, it's only a crime when you make it a crime, and you can save a lot of money and time (and avoid all the human rights abuses) by not having a separate legal system to prosecute it.

If you possessed pattern recognition you would see the pattern where every time Israel commits an atrocity Democrats go out and run cover for them then send them billions more in weapons.

It's fine really. They think ICE dropped out the sky & don't wanna analyze any factors that created it that marginalized people can tell you all about from our experience of this country, it requires them to interrogate whiteness. So you don't want solutions. You're not down. You not with the crew.

I'd rather die than abandon my trans friends.

average liberal when faced with an 'uppity' tranny. shut the fuck up

i am begging white people to get thicker skin if they're going to talk down to PoC

America's least transphobic liberal 🙄

And that proves absolutely nothing about his (or anyone’s) thoughts on if the country is intrinsically evil. You can be evil and have goals of not being that way that but it doesn’t change the reality that you are in the moment. Yall love to incorrectly invoke Dr. King and it’s insulting at best.

Black people are face reality from birth in America. We don’t have the privilege of pretending “lofty, aspirational goals” will do jack shit when white people sabotage us all for the sake of racism & greed. You trying to chide this Black woman for being firmly planted in reality is gross.

This reads like an abused person talking about their abuser. "Well, he does hit me every night and screams that I'm worthless and should kill myself, but I'm not going to let that define him. He's such a good person and has good values!" Repeated actions define our nation, not proclaimed values.

White people really will just take any chance to tell a BIPOC that's actually endured the horrors of the American systems that they're stupid and wrong, actually.

me saying abolish ICE is a roundabout way of stating what I actually feel towards them. One can use their imagination.

I wonder if trying to court the "undecided homophobic and racist" vote is going to work for democrats this time(it wont)

Why couldn’t she? And more importantly why were you okay with Biden’s stance on Gaza?

Belfast stands with 🇵🇸

I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow

I truly don’t know how anyone could accept this from the Democratic leadership, much less defend it. They still think all the have to do is talk about the cost of living and people will come around. People are SCARED. They are ANGRY.

They can’t do it because it points out that they themselves are doing nothing to help. Maybe three of them saying Abolish ICE. The rest are talking about retraining and body cams and QR codes.

the fact that the shit goin down in Minneapolis can go down n liberals will still say "we need ICE to arrest 'illegals' that are felons". oh well if the fuckin 5y/o boy in detention were a...

I can 100% handle being looked at funny for living here, especially by marginalized Europeans, it's okay by me, to be clear. White Europeans however should stop talking, so... stay in your lane.

No elected official who refuses to strip money from ICE is going to do anything to give you health care. It takes empathy and prioritization of the populace over the state and capitalists to address both problems, and they don't give a fuck about the voters; we don't pay their campaign bills.

"sit there and take it or your father will *really* give you something to cry about"

consistent refusal to meet the moment

Yeah bc liberals aren’t people; they’re counting-obsessed goblin freaks who fucking melt and deliberately destroy everything the moment anything threatens to stop the numbers going up

I had a lot of mean words for the Americans but Europeans are also The Great Satan