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
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)
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.
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
I doubt she's an op, I think she's just a massive pushover and was always more Lib then her base.
Somebody on here a while back read a book about her and did a pretty good write up, made it sound like she was just a habitual people pleaser, when talking with more left wing people she said more leftwing stuff, when around Lib colleagues she said Lib stuff. It's simple as that.
What’s this theory? I think the system is transforming people like AOC because they probably realize you can’t get shit done when you’re outnumbered by hundreds. It’s not her fault change can’t come from within. But this doesn’t excuse her or anyone of condemning a genocide.
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
Which is exactly what they would be saying if these people were protesting McConnell or Kavanaugh.
The current treatment of protesting by the supposed "left wing party" in this country will be the final nail in the coffin for protesting for another generation.
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
I would honestly be fascinated to see an honest interview with bernie where somebody asks him how he feels that his legacy will be convincing two generations of progressives that electoralism is a dead end.
Something something power levels 4d chess something something.
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.
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
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 EnisWarren 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
You wanna be on Colbert, you want to be at the met gala, you want to play government and choose to do nothing from your position of power and privilege but you also want to be able to enjoy a movie in Brooklyn (whatever happened to BX anyway? Guess we’ve moved up in the world lol)
Every politician should actively live in fear of their constituents
that's all you need to say tbh. even in a socialist society those who are entrusted with leadership should be afraid of the consequences of screwing up.
If it was some random chud calling her a Chinese funded woke tankie turning frogs gay asking her to apologize for 9/11 yadayada even then you wouldn't have a point. We would be dunking on that loser but this is still a consequence of her choosing to be a politician, also aren't liberals the first ones to die on that "both sides" hill?
You get to endure the criticism just like you get to enjoy your fans, if you don't like it quit doing the whole "democracy" bit. This should be the pretty standard liberal core values for her.
Alright now on a rudeness scale of 1 to 10, how much more rude is interrupting date night than refusing to say "sorry my coworkers and I incinerated all those babies"? 4 points higher? 6 points higher?
Germany blindly walks themselves into fascism and genocide denialism but somehow they are superior because they have that shitty post-war anti-extremism political foundation.
our political class is providing material aid to a genocide. fuck you if you think they deserve even a second of peace. in a just world they'd have been shot alongside every other member of our government who is participating in genocide
non-Americans are always real quick to call us out for not doing anything to control our government
those particular non-Amerikkkans are probably communists, anarchists, and third worlders who are getting bombed by Amerikkkans. the non-Americans who are saying it's rude to harass politicians on date night are probably liberal and conservative capitalist non-Amerikkkans in NATO aligned countries. If it seems like non-Amerikkkans are contradictory in their critiques, it's because they're not one person, but a large group of people; So large in fact that they make up the entire planet besides Amerikkka.