The State 🤝 Capital interests = Fascism.
The bill titled Enhancing State Energy Security Planning and Emergency Preparedness Act of 2021, would create a federal law that weaponizes and mobilizes state AND private security forces against native water/land protectors. It opens up a direct avenue for states to accept and solicit private funding from anyone (including any private corporation) to protect their investments under the guise of creating “energy security plans” which includes any “critical” infrastructure. This also opens the door to payment of private security forces by the state. This is a fucking horrifying real time descent into fascism.
Read more about it from the Lakota
We're having potato salad for lunch, thats new.
With extra mustard too 😋
you're right, Jun 22nd. she voted for it
Ocasio-Cortez Democratic New York YEA
https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021173
At this point, I think that AOC wants to be President, but realizes she needs to get into a higher office to do that. Additionally, I think that she believes she has to move to the right or otherwise ally with the Democratic establishment to do this.
In a sense, she's not wrong. At worst, she can keep getting re-elected to her House of Representatives seat, as long she has a presence in the district. At best, this will pay off and she'll get to higher office, but after going against a lot of what she said she believed.
She'll face a similar problem to Elizabeth Warren, in that she'll still be viewed as being too far left by a large amount of the country and her party, but will have destroyed any goodwill and support she had on the left.
pretty sad how all that social media clout and mainstream media attention got to her head. Went from hearing about her all the time to almost nothing, aside from the occasional criticism. Do people in the US still fawn over her like they did during the Trump administration?
I looked her up on Google News, there is just one article about her published today. Back in 2019, nearly the whole page had new articles or the older ones were from the previous day.
The thing is: a lot of the (usually valid) criticisms she made when Donald Trump was President still apply with Joe Biden as President, but she likely does not want to buck the party on a lot of topics.
It's astounding how I can have zero expectationns and still be disappointed on a daily basis
To be fair AOC actually follows the Lakota Law Project on Twitter which is the group that I’ve linked to.
Call me squirrely but this AOC sounds like she's two-faced 🤔
I mean if they can kill you anyway might as well just start bombing the pipelines in the dead of night instead of getting shot protesting during the day
Sanctioning Cuba for doing a fraction of what the US does to its protestors
Fuck what is there even to say? Shit just keeps getting worse.
honest to god a politician that just doesnt vote on anything would be better than AOC
i'd vote for a guy to just sit in his office and jerk off all day, for sure
In the US? The chronic jerker is doing 10x less damage than anybody else. When was the last time actually beneficial legislation was passed anyway?
A congressman that cooms on every bill that crosses his desk is a true man of the people
So glad they're doing this instead of preventing 7 million homeless.
The biggest challeneg to mounting any kind of meaningful resistance to this is that it just doesn't immediately affect enough people. Most people (especially white people) in big cities won't care. Suburbanites definitely won't care. Small settler farmers might care if the pipes leak on "their" land, but I have a hard time seeing the potatoes willingly jump in their sack to fight this as a unified class.
You need a critical mass of people willing to bodily oppose this construction in order to stop it, and I have no idea where that mass will come from.
Mainstream media will barely cover this if at all but if a worm slave owner cries about Cuba, you know that shit will be front page.
I fucking hate this timeline, Sam how do I leap?
this just codifies into law things that were already happening. Not to shrug my shoulders at this, but resistance should always be multi-pronged in scope.
Yeah I mean sure and the Lakota write up on it recognizes that but to codify it into actual law makes it so even though the law is morally wrong, for acting against it YOU are now acting illegally
