AOC voted against MTG’s amendment to strip Israel funding from the Defense Appropriations Act of 2026
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33371684
When MTG is more correct on an issue than you (for the wrong reasons no doubt) I don't think you count as a progressive any more
The reasons being that it is a waste of American tax payer money on a war that doesn't benefit the American people
Which isn't a wrong reason there are certainly better ones
But this is the correct approach to reach the average Republican
And this makes her infinitely better than any other pro war democrat
This is also the correct approach for those liberals that are like "why should I care about Palestine?" I like to hit them with "because your tax dollars are going to blow up children instead of fixing our roads and paying for you to be healthy and have a nice environment". It's certainly the least empathetic path to get someone to support your side, but when it comes to stopping a genocide, we don't have a lot of leverage which is crazy
My only worry is the current crop of rising anti Israel voices that are rising on the right (notably Tucker Carlson) will parlay their correct stance on Israel into future anti semitic actions.
I can see a movement in the future to deport American Jews to Israel, because "we supported Israel for so long you Jews need to be grateful"
She is broken clock correct because she's a raging antisemite who didn't get the memo that you're supposed to hate Jewish people but love and materially support the entity
Shocking, a soc dem dipshit is also pro genocide
is she a soc dem? as far as i can tell she's just a run of the mill dem
Not a socdem? She's the highest profile elected DSA member in the United States. I get that people are embarrassed in hindsight that they used to treat her with the kind of messianic fervor that they treated Bernie in 2016 or Mamdani now, but their politics really haven't meaningfully changed. She remains the same extremely average imperial radlib as she was when NYDSA got her elected, and she acts accordingly. Despite the disproportionate attention she gets for being relatively young and conventionally attractive, I don't think her positions on Palestine are even worse than average among DSA-electeds, especially if we're acknowledging the former-DSA former-electeds. Rashida Tlaib's the only DSA member I know of whose positions are consistently better, and she's basically a coin toss away from being lynched on the House floor on any given day while the House Minority Leader cheers.
People don't want to acknowledge that there is no legal nonviolent path to reforming this genocidal settler empire, so they keep lowering the bar for what counts as "winning". After they've "won", they act like they've been betrayed because their circumstances haven't changed. These are the extremely predictable results of putting effort behind getting big tent radlibs that disavow revolutionary politics and party discipline invited onto to the bridge of the death star. They get a front row seat to watch the emperor fire the superlaser while they try to convince themselves that being in the room looking upset while the button is pressed is doing harm reduction.
I think she could still qualify, but only because general level of the succdems in the west is lowest ever.
Wouldn't want to accidentally cast a deciding vote to make the world slightly better with a vote this close
To me the larger statement here is that Dem house members and Repub house members are just the same bloodthirsty war mongers, with a different consonant next to their name.
AOC is but one of them.
I think most people are acutely aware of that part,
I don't.
Otherwise you wouldn't see folks hollering about vote
4 not shitty democrats, what progress
Same people voting against sending weapons to Israel at the start of the genocide. So to conclude the entire genocide did nothing to shift American policitians stance.
Insane. Dem voters despise Israel now, this is such an easy W.
Pot legalization has been a slam dunk for either side for over a decade. They don't want to win and be popular. It's too much work
AOC continues to prove that she is trash
I'm pretty convinced that this is just a spiteful move on her part. She fucking hates MTG and knew this wasnt going to pass. That said even from a liberal perspective you should still agree with a broken clock when its right even if its for the wrong reasons.
Right? There was an opportunity to use Republican support for something good and pride got in the way of progress again. In the liberal mind, It's better to chide TACO trump into nuking Palestine than to agree with a Republican when they actually propose something helpful. The real victories are sticking to your guns in the face of progress.
Sheepdog lib gonna lib
I don’t even think this stripped all funding, or even a majority of it. Just reducing it by $500 million.
Yeah isn't that like 0.1%?
Pre-Oct 7 it was around $3 billion per year, but probably higher in this bill.
AOCIA strikes again.
Let's seem if
gets to Mamdani on easing up language against Pissreal too....
Sanders urged his now-protégé to be firm in calling for Democratic leaders to rally behind him but also to more carefully address what he’s said about Israel. ... Sanders, a Brooklyn native, was eager to welcome Mamdani for their first meeting after several phone calls, including a congratulatory one after his primary win. The closest that they’ve come in person before was at Sanders’ October 2019 rally in Queens marking his comeback after a heart attack , which Mamdani used as an early organizing opportunity for his first assembly campaign.
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Sanders, who is Jewish, urged Mamdani to be cautious about how he approaches talking about Israel. Both are critics of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s handling of its war in Gaza.
Ahead of the trip, Mamdani told business leaders in New York that he would discourage the use of the phrase “globalize the intifada.” Mamdani, who has not used the phrase himself, has said he believes the phrase to be a rallying cry for Palestinian human rights and refused to condemn its use when asked during his primary campaign.
According to the person familiar with their conversation, Sanders told Mamdani he had to do a better job explaining that his criticism is not antisemitic and to not let himself seem like he’s minimizing the fear Jews in New York and elsewhere feel from the threat of hate against them.
Bolding mine. Bernie seems ro have a difficult time sepersting Zionazis from Judiasm. Plenty of Jews in New York have been on the front lines of anti Pissreal Aktion.
Love how Bernie just erases them and their fears and violence against them by and Zionazis.At the end of the day Mamdani is a Democrat. I hope he doesn't turn into another AOCIA.
SPD moment
Is this true? Where can we verify that? Is there a source?
Edit: thank you for your answers
Here you can see the name the amendment and here you can look up how everyone voted on it, just look for Ocasio-Cortez. It's really not surprising with her track record, however.
https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025207 6 - 422, she was not one of the six
Just for future reference as well
Drop site is generally one of those "you can probably just believe them" sites. Similar to Ken Klippenstein on domestic US "security" state side of things. That doesn't mean don't verify when you can. Just that they don't generally post bullshit especially regarding Israel and MENA politics.
Situations like this convince me that there will be no chance of leftist (read: anti-capitalist [and not anti-commerce]) cohesion against the goddamn Nazis.
Fuck off Nazi you just called for extermination of the middle east.
Modlog is not showing it but for anyone interested you can easily glean what was said from context here:
What do you even mean by "anti-commerce?"
I don't think it is worth engaging this person. They literally called for nuking the entire Middle East because they are "uncivilized"
Honestly not sure why they aren't banned yet.
There is a huge chasm between commerce (trading goods and services for money) and capitalism (extracting wealth without providing any good or service through leveraging of financial power). Many think that socialists and communists are lazy welfare queens who dont create or have jobs or even want them. I put that disclaimer in to deflect that crap.
Liberals demonstrating that to them the optics of agreeing with MTG are worse than the optics of supporting genocide
Don't look at the .ml thread about it.
There is even a hexbear in the ml thread basically saying voting with MTG is worse