Have you seen the response from communities? libs and apolitical people are on the streets ready to throwdown against armed thugs, that’s giving me a lot of hope.
Electorally (sorry anarchists), even Democrats are talking about abolishing ICE, we’ll see what happens in the primaries if such Democrats can win control of the party, but even if they can’t what we’ve seen on the streets should scare them into compliance! Time to remind them that what is “legal” doesn’t matter if the will of the people is at odds with the “law”.
Anarchist praxis and using the levers in the current system to better ends are not mutually exclusive. The line is understanding that the state itself is largely not built or operated in the interest of the common people.
We can hold our noses and vote, and show up to local councils, and not put all our eggs in one government/corporate-appointed basket by building mutual aid and having each other’s backs.
If politicians are actually throwing some action behind slowing down the mess they’re complicit in, that’s great! In the meantime, there’s a video on here showing the BPP protecting people in Philadelphia as a solid example of good anarchist(adjacent) organization and action.
One-or-the-otherism leads to nothing getting done. And hope is definitely an important part of resistance. We’re all in this together, for better or worse so we should fight side by side.
TL;DR: anarchists are on your side, no need to frame us otherwise. /gen
There is no chance president newsom or whatever snake they pick will abolish ICE. Bet on even more funding. Basic pattern recognition from the last several Administrations shows us this is the most likely outcome
I don’t think ICE should be abolished. They do serve a purpose, just not the one they’re currently being used for. They do need their budget reduced back to pre 2025 levels, though, and a massive culling of all the recently hired thugs.
ICE was established in 2003 (Futurama is older than ICE) and since it’s creation has been a shit show.
What purpose do you think they serve?
Personally I think borders should be abolished, but even if you disagree border security is already handled by CBP and anything else can be handled by existing police structures (this is litterally how the rest of the world does it).
ICE ONLY exist as a tool of white supremacy, they exist to terrorize non-white residents far from the border (a border that has existed for less time than indigenous people have lived here), because as previously noted border security is handled by CBP.
Fair enough. I thought they handled regular customs and immigration stuff. I wasn’t aware that CBP was a separate department. Why indeed do they need both?
Have you seen the response from communities? libs and apolitical people are on the streets ready to throwdown against armed thugs, that’s giving me a lot of hope.
Electorally (sorry anarchists), even Democrats are talking about abolishing ICE, we’ll see what happens in the primaries if such Democrats can win control of the party, but even if they can’t what we’ve seen on the streets should scare them into compliance! Time to remind them that what is “legal” doesn’t matter if the will of the people is at odds with the “law”.
Anarchist praxis and using the levers in the current system to better ends are not mutually exclusive. The line is understanding that the state itself is largely not built or operated in the interest of the common people.
We can hold our noses and vote, and show up to local councils, and not put all our eggs in one government/corporate-appointed basket by building mutual aid and having each other’s backs.
If politicians are actually throwing some action behind slowing down the mess they’re complicit in, that’s great! In the meantime, there’s a video on here showing the BPP protecting people in Philadelphia as a solid example of good anarchist(adjacent) organization and action.
One-or-the-otherism leads to nothing getting done. And hope is definitely an important part of resistance. We’re all in this together, for better or worse so we should fight side by side.
TL;DR: anarchists are on your side, no need to frame us otherwise. /gen
Anarchy means no hierarchies not no voting. We can still vote on shit if we wanna.
There is no chance president newsom or whatever snake they pick will abolish ICE. Bet on even more funding. Basic pattern recognition from the last several Administrations shows us this is the most likely outcome
Basic pattern recognition from the last administration should teach Dems that a buisness as usual candidate, will be their last.
They’re rather lose than change
I don’t think ICE should be abolished. They do serve a purpose, just not the one they’re currently being used for. They do need their budget reduced back to pre 2025 levels, though, and a massive culling of all the recently hired thugs.
Edit after being corrected: Yes, abolish ICE.
ICE was established in 2003 (Futurama is older than ICE) and since it’s creation has been a shit show.
What purpose do you think they serve?
Personally I think borders should be abolished, but even if you disagree border security is already handled by CBP and anything else can be handled by existing police structures (this is litterally how the rest of the world does it).
ICE ONLY exist as a tool of white supremacy, they exist to terrorize non-white residents far from the border (a border that has existed for less time than indigenous people have lived here), because as previously noted border security is handled by CBP.
Fair enough. I thought they handled regular customs and immigration stuff. I wasn’t aware that CBP was a separate department. Why indeed do they need both?