Democrats doing everything in their power to lose the election.

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

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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  • [–] [S] 56 points 2 years 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".

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

    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)

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  • [–] 81 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    this only makes her chances worse

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  • [–] 92 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    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).

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

    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.

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

    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.

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  • [–] 103 points 2 years ago (21 children)

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

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  • [+] 48 points 2 years ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (20 children)
  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    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.

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

    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.

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

    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

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

    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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    [–] 79 points 2 years ago

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

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

    AOC just experienced 15 9/11's.

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  • [–] 66 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

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

    and her bf

    oh no what did he do this time?

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  • [+] 62 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)
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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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    [–] 59 points 2 years ago

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

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    [–] 43 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

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

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

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

    AOC is doing what the unions asked her to

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    [–] 40 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    "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.

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  • [+] 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago

    "You're not helping"

    Ok and neither are you, AOC.

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

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

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