Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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If you are a survivor of sexual abuse or assault, as I am, having been through that experience, you really feel actually how much it's about power.
And this need for power, it becomes like a sickness.
It becomes a compulsion.
It's not for pleasure.
And then it just becomes more about what more...
or things that you can break.
It's about who can break the law.
It's about, yeah, those, like, ICE, they don't need the judicial warrant.
How visible can you make this and get away with it?
You can do the illegal things.
And by the way, they're not just, we know they're not going after immigrants.
Now, they're all putting on, it's not a coincidence, they're all putting on meta glasses.
And they're putting tons of money into Palantir contracts to create a national surveillance state so that if you go out and you want to protest, that they want to scan your face and put it in a system.
This is about a compulsion.
This is about also like, this is a system and there's a psychology of the people pulling the levers of this system.
And so that's like, okay, you know, doom, gloom,