Honestly, good. The fact that elected officials can exist in the world without any consequences for their actions is one of the most frustrating parts of our society. Sorry AOC, no movie for you while you support genocide
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Politicians in America especially Democrats are elected by taking entire policies hostage and being like "If you don't elect me then the republicans will take away your right to exist" then proceed to do nothing to actually protect the policy until it gets taken down and then they go "If you don't elect me then the republicans will take away your right to exist but worsely".
I'm definitely not defending her, but she's doing this to avoid getting primaried again. Amerika has a billion little ways to maintain control of things.
(Edit: I'm not saying that avoiding a primary is worth it to ignore mass murder)
this only makes her chances worse
If the democrats truly cared about winning they would loudly and proudly champion things the majority of Americans support (ie, not wanting a fucking genocide).
That’s not how it works in America. Campaign contributions win you elections. Without a stream of cash flow from campaign donors, you’re not winning anything. That’s how the system is designed to work.
I mean, I don’t not agree with you. The democrats clearly care more about winning corporate donors than elections. And if they do win then they govern in a way to keep those corporate donors for the next election.
That doesn’t change the reasoning that democrats could leverage public sentiment to win election after election. It’s just that that same public sentiment goes against the interest of capital.
I also don’t disagree. What I’m saying is that the system is rigged to give disproportionate power to the campaign donor class.
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She's in one of the most progressive districts in the country, she doesn't do anything because she doesn't want to
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Watching her get ghoulified in real-time by the machines of "democracy". 
The more this goes on the more I'm persuaded by the theory that she was an op from the start and this is just the mask dropping
Chapo had a guy on semi-recently who advanced a pretty compelling narrative, not that she was an op, but that she was just never as progressive as her support base wanted her to be. Same thing basically happened with Bernie, everyone who is even just center-left really wants someone to glom onto and these are the best options the system is capable of spitting out.
She fired her activist chief of staff who fought for her during the election, and replaced him with a former Kamala Harris’s foreign policy aide.
She could deny all she wants, but her initial electoral success was built on a progressive base who volunteered and staffed her campaign office.
Yup. 100% pure ghoul origin arc.
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I've had this hunch for a while. Her initial win came out of nowhere and she defeated Joseph Crowley, a very embedded Democrat who had been around for a while. He was even Democratic caucus chairman at one point. I thought it was a case of Democrats accidentally leaving the door unlocked but now I'm more tinfoil hat
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Isn't her 'bartending' job kind of stolen valor? Like how we were lead to believe Fetterman is just some working class hero from a humble background.
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She's running so she can make it on time to the next DSA anti-china public lecture series on how everything that's being accused of Israel is actually happening in China, sweaty
The alternate reality where AOC attends DSA meetings
Only time you'd see her at one is when the meeting notes comes from Nat.End4Dem and zenz
I really like the "just stop" bit, like they're aren't 2 million people in Gaza begging for that exact thing.
No one who holds even a modicum of power in this rotten country should enjoy a moment of peace
DO IT AGAIN!
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AOC just experienced 15 9/11's.
AOC couldn't call out genocide, billions must tank
I can't believe that I thought her and her bf were cool 5 years ago.
Good on ya for continuing to grow and learn
and her bf
oh no what did he do this time?
Sorry to say but he's engaged to a tubolib and that makes him a lib at best
Was he not the one telling the protestors to back off? Maybe I'm confusing people, but he looks like the same bf from 2020.
Like 3 years ago I was on Twitter and I saw a tweet about how AOC would have enabled the rise of Hitler. I thought it was inflammatory and hyperbolic then, but that dude was 100% correct.
I remember in like 2016 all the people saying things like Bernie killed Rosa Luxemburg. Back then I thought it was a little hyperbolic, that maybe compromise with social democrats could still be done. Now I'm 100% with the Stalin quote
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President Ocasio-Cortez, reluctant as she was, summoned the ~~Freikorps~~ Proud Boys to crush violent leftist uprisings across American cities demanding for single payer healthcare as medical bankruptcy skyrocketed under her watch.
“You’re not helping.” Her words when addressing the nation on live television and justifying the use of violent force to restore law and order.
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she should scream at people to go back to China, to follow her mentor's footsteps
Brave Sir Robin ran away. Bravely ran away, away!
What more do you want? She's doing what the unions wanted her to do. Do you disagree?
I love how Hexbear has embedded certain phrases in me. I'm gonna repeat things from this site on my death bed and no one will know what I'm talking about
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"Just say the word" is a classic bit of Monstering. But given the context, I can't say him sorry to see her day ruined over this.
Monstering?
Unrelated but for some reason at first glance I always parse your profile pic as 
Monstering?
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Monstering
The art of abusing people. Of ambushing them with questions, following them with questions, hounding them with questions, driving them to their fucking graves with questions. It’s sort of being like a photographer, except no ones' killed any royalty doing it…yet.
I don't think ~~Garth Enis~~ Warren Ellis coined it in Transmetropolitian, but that's definitely where I heard it first. A popular method of British media harassment.
Unrelated but for some reason at first glance I always parse your profile pic as
Lolz
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So hang on. Libs now love AOC and hate interrupting peoples nights out?
Libs have always vehemently opposed any sort of protest that interrupts their daily activity.
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"You're not helping"
Ok and neither are you, AOC.
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