Summary

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez urged countering the Trump administration’s policies by resisting at every turn, arguing that its incompetence makes it vulnerable.

Her remarks followed chaos caused by a rescinded executive order that temporarily shut down Medicaid portals nationwide.

She encouraged activists to take offline action, citing ongoing mobilization efforts.

Her strategy focuses on making governance difficult for Trump, calling his administration “dangerous and cruel” but also “shockingly dim.”

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[–] 139 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (12 children)

It isn't chump and his taintsuckers you gotta worry about.

It's the army of Federalist Society lawyers and policy experts around him. They've spent decades figuring out the removed in the armor of our governmental system. Figuring out how to dismantle it piece by piece.

Edit - wtf is that removed about? Wait....oh. bot thinks I did a racism.

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Fucken hell, that's the correct fucking way to define a gap in armor. Bullshit. I really want to try a bunch of slurs out and see what sets it off.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I really want to try a bunch of slurs out

    This is surely the most rational reaction to being slightly inconvenienced by a word filter.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    SEE WHAT YOU'RE MAKING ME DO? NOW I HAVE TO SAY THE N WORD... I DON'T WANT TO BUT YOU GAVE ME NO CHOICE!

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    I'd be slightly curious about why a child would make that particular dying wish, why they think anyone really has the power to either grant (if the wish is to say it without anyone thinking badly of them) or prevent that wish (if they just want to be able to say it, they already can), but mostly just lose any sympathy I might have had for the kid because I wouldn't expect any good answer to that first question.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Anyone else remember Neopets? They had a filter that was extreme and multilingual. I can't count how many times I'd write a friendly message, the filter would block it, and I would end up editing chunks of text trying to avoid whatever word or series of letters the filter thought was inappropriate. Sometimes it'd be a few letters embedded in another word (like "associate" being banned for the letters a s s.) But sometimes, I was truly stumped. The only explanation I can think of is that some letters in English words matched up to swears in other languages.

    Anyway, fun fact - I met my first boyfriend through that site. We decided to see how dirty we could talk while still getting messages past the filter. We used innuendos, slang, and other turns of phrase with each other just to see what we could get away with.

    In the end, all that filter did was make us more creative at communicating forbidden topics. Whoops ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Not much since you're on .world. .ml is much more strict.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Jebus. I still haven't figured out if .ml is government funded or true believers. Very strange to me.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's the home instance of the founders of Lemmy, who are communists. I don't know their views on authoritarian communism like Stalin or Mao, but people who thought these were good leaders are the "tankies" you may have heard of. There are a lot of them on .ml.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I've basically only ran into 90% left wing, sporadic sprinklings of conservative, tankie, liberal, other. "A lot of them" is pulling extra weight here.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Wait until you try the in-game chat in Rocket League. You can't even type "Discord". It's a banned word. 🤡

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They’re probably trying to prevent people spamming discord invite links in game. I don’t necessarily have an issue with that. If someone got invited to a scam discord server from RL chat, blowback would definitely hit RL for allowing that on-ramp. If you vibe with someone and want to invite them to a discord server to enable teaming up easier, you can always send them the code after the discord.gg/ part of the link.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ha. Reminds me of an Asian standup comedian who had this routine about how he grew up in the inner city where the basketball nets were made of chains and so the chains didn't go 'swish,' they went 'chіnk.' So when guys wanted to play basketball, they said, "let's go shoot us up some chіnk."

    Thank you, Cyrillic letter і, for letting me bypass the bot to tell that joke. Because I've remembered that joke for years.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Are you saying your comment was edited?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    .ml replaces certain words with "removed"

    In this case it seems to have been this term.

    The "r" word will be removed too.

    I haven't noticed what the others are. I swear fairly often and those haven't been removed. I would guess only things that are slurs etc.

    Edit: It was removed from my link as well. LOL. Look up "gap in suit of armor" if you haven't figured it out already. Kinda ironically, when it's used as a slur it's against chinese people.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    There are better Lemmy hosts out there, just waiting for you to join.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    There was as guy running around with a list of smaller, worthwhile instances.

    I ended up on lemmy.zip more recently after starting on kbin, then moving to .world.

    lemm.ee seems to be gaining popularity.

    sh.itjust.works is also pretty well represented, its users seem normal enough afaik.

    lemmy.dbzer0 is an anarchist instance, their admin is super knowledgeable and seems like a cool guy.

    lemmy.blåhaj.zone is a radically inclusive, safe instance. They're virulently anti-bigotry and anything perceived as "anti-marginalized" groups will likely be removed/banned.

    There are hundreds of instances, 569 as of writing this. Some are niche and focused on specific hobbies or uses and a bunch of others are general purpose. It's worth clicking around and sorting a few different ways to find a server you like. Remember you can export your settings and import them into an account on another instances so moving is relatively painless.

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