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How do you build and cultivate revolutionary optimism, given what's happening in the US?
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2026
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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".
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.