Van Hollen and Booker showing how representatives in government should be working for their constituents. I hope their aim is to be as annoying as possible until something good comes of it, but I worry Bukele will just arrest them and further erode the numbers we have in Congress.

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    Because organizing voters and creating policy and helping it get passed is his actual job? I’m not sure to be honest. Just seems like sending 40 people to release one prisoner while ignoring the institution violating the prisoners constitutional rights is a bigger picture issue. What does freeing this one citizen really do in the grand scheme of things? Just let him get kidnapped in the middle of the night and go through it all over again once he’s back?

    I feel like you’re trying to justify your own in action through declaring this meaningful action. Does that resonate with you?

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      while ignoring the institution violating the prisoners constitutional rights

      Who ever said anything about ignoring anything?

      Freeing one guy is the start. It proves that getting sent to these concentration camps isn’t a one-way ticket. And it gives him the opportunity to go public with the conditions there and how he was treated. That’s going to motivate people organizing a hell of a lot more than a Senator giving a speech at a rally ever would.

      Why are you pretending like this is about just saving one guy?

      I feel like you’re trying to justify your own in action through declaring this meaningful action. Does that resonate with you?

      No, that doesn’t resonate with me in the slightest. I feel like you’re trying to justify your own inaction by pretending like a Senator sitting in his office writing legislation nobody will ever read has some kind of impact on anything.

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        https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1k26v6t/john_leguizamo_from_the_mt_article/

        Heres a guy with a couple of ideas that seem to be better than photo ops! It would be nice to see a coherent strategy that brought people together. Taking pictures and pretending to resist is not it chief. It’s exactly how we got here in the first place. Would love to see a few ideas from this guy come to life. Dragging the ICC into investigate. Starting a civil investigation outside of congress, preparing evidence for prosecution. There are plenty of ideas floating around. I was inspired by Bookers filibuster, i watched for 14 hours. There was no follow up. If you’re serious about the fascists and you think that the media is going to suddenly wake people up against them, I have some really disappointing news about media: social, art, and news.

        How much oppression do you need before photo ops feel underwhelming? I guess i just have to wait for the hunger to take hold, won’t be long now that we’ve disrupted our agriculture and food imports. big angry hungry mob knows what to do with congressmen who violate their oaths and everyones rights. Democrats are not working to solve this issue. this doesn’t go away with Trump. If trump loses Fox news, that doesn’t mean fox news is done with this plan. It means their plan got away from them and they need a quiet reset. We can’t let this societal rot continue, but it seems we will. As long as the dems can feed you enough false hope through photo ops.

        The republicans always lead a good opposition party because they know how to get people pissed, and get the pissed off people involved. We’re not doing either lol. Organize more marches, protests boycotts, I want to see more civil rights movement protests, I’d like to see lawmakers organizing those not speeches for the press. Go to republican states, find the republicans who are losing benefits, jobs, houses farms, turn them against republicans. Stop with the TV bullshit, more people watch joe rogan than all of cable news you goobers. its a new world and we let joe rogan hand 15% of trumps voters directly to him. You want a CNN clip. Bro get with le Times.