During the agents’ violent attack on a delivery worker Saturday morning in DC, bystanders repeatedly demanded the agents share their badge numbers. One of them—his face fully obscured by a black balaklava—eventually shot back, “Do I have to answer to you?”
“You guys are ruining this country. You know that, right?” one bystander said to the agents at one point during the incident. An agent, ironically clad in a rainbow face mask, replied “Liberals already ruined it.”
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Last week on stage at the Netroots conference in New Orleans, I spoke with Congresswoman Delia Ramirez (D-IL) about ICE: specifically that she believes it should be abolished. It’s a stance that’s considered far left, but after witnessing ICE and other federal agents in DC this week, abolishing ICE should be the baseline Democratic position.
“ICE is a terrorist organization,” Ramirez told me. “It needs to be defunded and needs to be abolished.”
Is he wrong though?
nuance
Talking about the broad liberal who values hierarchy and private property. That’s exactly who ruined this country. Not that I agree with how this guy is going about trying to fix it. But whether you’re talking about putting us in our techno capitalist subscription based dystopia, or the land that was burned and decimated to lay its foundation, liberals deserve all the credit.
That’s true, but in this man’s mouth, “liberals” almost certainly means anyone to the left of Hitler, and he doesn’t deserve the charitable reading you’re giving him. We have to interpret the statement appropriately to who is saying it.
Definitely should’ve added that to my nuance. He and I are definitely not using the same definition of liberal.
Nah, liberals don’t deserve all the credit. Also I’d wager this pig uses liberals to mean “left”
He is wrong to use it as an excuse to be a fascist thug
True, no good reason for that
Not wrong, but for the wrong reasons.
I was gonna say ‘you are a “Liberal,” jackass!’