• finitebanjo@piefed.world
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    19 hours ago

    The movement gained mainstream traction in June 2018 following controversy of the Trump administration family separation policy.

    So basically liberals supported if not spearheaded the movement.

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      11 hours ago

      No

      Many Democratic politicians, such as Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and former Vice President Kamala Harris of California, believe that ICE should be reformed rather than abolished. Harris stated that Democrats should “critically re-examine ICE” and “think about starting from scratch” with American immigration policy, while Senator Bernie Sanders stated that Democrats should instead encourage Trump to work with them on “a national program which deals with this serious issue.”

      Liberals where the pearl-clutchers.

      Sorting political affiliations into liberals/conservatives is a false dichotomy that basically only happens in the US (due to the two party system). There are other political movements, though. Otherwise, Occupy, BLM, Stop Cop City, Defund the police, etc. would be considered liberal movements, even if they oppose liberal (DNC) politicians.

      OOP (the person posting the tweet/toot/notlearningtheblueskylingo) is an explicit leftist, so he makes that distinction.

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          9 hours ago

          Maybe with the philosophical definition. Not with the political definition, though.

          OP means the political definition.