AOC

[Peeps]

while i certainly dont agree with everything she says i commend her for wanting to make a change in government and ran a campaign to do so. i enjoy her busting the balls of people who in the past were not even remotely questioned (such as the ceo who was asked why their pill cost $8 in other countries but is over $2k here in the states)

[Bammer]

Whose 15 minutes were more impressive: AOC or LaVar Ball?

[BurtReynolds]

team-up

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/31/72855990 ... m-lobbying

[Green Habit]

team-up

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/31/72855990 ... m-lobbying

There might be First Amendment issues with this, and even if there isn't, there's a zillion ways it could be circumvented.

[Bammer]

I gotta admit, Lyin’ Ted is taking an interesting approach to trying to get in AOC’s pants.

[washing machine]

They’re both politicians, so TBH they’ve probably already done it with each other.

[Bammer]

They’re both politicians, so TBH they’ve probably already done it with each other.

[Bi_3]

“Concentration camps are not the same as death camps”

Classic AOC

[JuanHamm]

“Concentration camps are not the same as death camps”

Classic AOC

I don't know the context for this statement, but isn't it true? Nothing about the name "concentration camp" implies people bring killed.

[Bi_3]

“Concentration camps are not the same as death camps”

Classic AOC

I don't know the context for this statement, but isn't it true? Nothing about the name "concentration camp" implies people bring killed.

While technically true that concentration camps were not always death camps, its was used to conjure images of the Holocaust in reference to CBP holding centers.

[Norah]

Exactly. Japanese Internment camps were no big deal.

[Bi_3]

Aaaaaaand now everything is a 'concentration camp':

"And yes, we have a history of this in the United States as well. Whether you call them slave quarters, or reservations, or internment camps, or family relocation centers, or the mass incarceration of tens of thousands of young, African-American men for minor marijuana possession while millions of dollars are made off the legal sale of the same product, make no mistake that they are indeed concentration camps." - KIRILL REZNIK, a Democrat, represents Montgomery County’s District 39 in the Maryland House of Delegates.

[Bammer]

Every time I see this thread bumped I’m hopeful for some potential porn parody material.

Nothin’ doin’ today. Dang.

[McParadigm]

It’s just a place where we are involuntarily concentrating a group of powerless “others” and denying them things like comfort, tooth brushes, and familial contact. FFS most of them haven’t even died. That AOC sure is on the wrong side of the moral divide, here.

[McParadigm]

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – The Trump administration argued in front of a Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday that the government is not required to give soap or toothbrushes to children apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border and can have them sleep on concrete floors in frigid, overcrowded cells, despite a settlement agreement that requires detainees be kept in “safe and sanitary” facilities.

All three judges appeared incredulous during the hearing in San Francisco, in which the Trump administration challenged previous legal findings that it is violating a landmark class action settlement by mistreating undocumented immigrant children at U.S. detention facilities.

“You’re really going to stand up and tell us that being able to sleep isn’t a question of safe and sanitary conditions?'” U.S. Circuit Judge Marsha Berzon asked the Justice Department’s Sarah Fabian Tuesday.

U.S. Circuit Judge William Fletcher also questioned the government’s interpretation of the settlement agreement.

“Are you arguing seriously that you do not read the agreement as requiring you to do anything other than what I just described: cold all night long, lights on all night long, sleeping on concrete and you’ve got an aluminum foil blanket?” Fletcher asked Fabian. “I find that inconceivable that the government would say that that is safe and sanitary.”

[digster]

I feel like it's a bit of a red flag when the argument is "yeah, but they're not those kinds of concentration camps."

[Norah]

you can't say that until 6 million of them have died

[Bi_3]

you can't say that until 6 million of them have died

Can’t even say that:

[JuanHamm]

This is classic American politics. Getting all hung up on semantics instead of actually debating the issue.

[Bi_3]

It’s just a place where we are involuntarily concentrating a group of powerless “others” and denying them things like comfort, tooth brushes, and familial contact. FFS most of them haven’t even died. That AOC sure is on the wrong side of the moral divide, here.

So it’s a high school?