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

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        you're right, Jun 22nd. she voted for it

        Ocasio-Cortez Democratic New York YEA

        https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021173

          • Ryan_Holman [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            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.

              • Ryan_Holman [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                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.

            • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              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?

              • Ryan_Holman [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                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.

        • TheFuckYouOnAbout [hy/hym]
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          3 years ago

          It's astounding how I can have zero expectationns and still be disappointed on a daily basis

    • opposide [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      To be fair AOC actually follows the Lakota Law Project on Twitter which is the group that I’ve linked to.