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Democrats doing everything in their power to lose the election.

https://twitter.com/HotSpotHotSpot/status/1764829771324698823?s=19

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[-] [email protected] 121 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago

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".

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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)

[-] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago

this only makes her chances worse

[-] [email protected] 92 points 1 year ago

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).

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

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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[-] [email protected] 103 points 1 year ago

Watching her get ghoulified in real-time by the machines of "democracy". lenin-shining

[-] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Yup. 100% pure ghoul origin arc.

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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[-] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago

The alternate reality where AOC attends DSA meetings

[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

Only time you'd see her at one is when the meeting notes comes from Nat.End4Dem and zenz

[-] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago

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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[-] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago

I really like the "just stop" bit, like they're aren't 2 million people in Gaza begging for that exact thing.

[-] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago

AOC just experienced 15 9/11's.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

AOC couldn't call out genocide, billions must tank

[-] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago

I can't believe that I thought her and her bf were cool 5 years ago.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

Good on ya for continuing to grow and learn

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

and her bf

oh no what did he do this time?

[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

Sorry to say but he's engaged to a tubolib and that makes him a lib at best

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago

she should scream at people to go back to China, to follow her mentor's footsteps

[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

Brave Sir Robin ran away. Bravely ran away, away!

[-] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What more do you want? She's doing what the unions wanted her to do. Do you disagree?

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Meemaw's last words were 'post hog, lmao'"

"Don't worry, Braydenne, her brain was dying. It doesn't mean anything "

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[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

AOC is doing what the unions asked her to

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[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

"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.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Monstering?

Unrelated but for some reason at first glance I always parse your profile pic as yeonmi-park

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

"You're not helping"

Ok and neither are you, AOC.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

So hang on. Libs now love AOC and hate interrupting peoples nights out?

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

Libs have always vehemently opposed any sort of protest that interrupts their daily activity.

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