What are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Flaws?

I'm honestly confused about milo's "route to success."

If it's more productive "to remind people of how awful and useless the Democrats have been for multiple generation," what does that actually accomplish in the long term? Even if I accept that it's true, how does it help change the reality of the situation?

I want to go back to how Howard Dean was never actually popular outside the Internet but everyone acts like a goofy yelp torpedoed his campaign, tbh

xp: milo doesn't have a route to success

I don't accept that the Green New Deal is doomed from the start. I would rather give money to the Democratic Party in the hopes that it does get passed

I didn’t say that it was - I was describing a scenario where she tries to ‘pass legislation and benefit people’ while also serving the function I described earlier.

I’ve never claimed there is a guaranteed route to success? There is a route to continued failure and it’s the one that has been pursued my entire life and gets us a guy talking about shooting people in the leg in the face of national unrest at the murder of innocent black men by police.

History only ever moves in one direction, it is known

No one believes there is a "guaranteed" route to success, but I'd like to hear about a route that you think has some promise.

note to self: come up with a guaranteed route to success, sell it to people for $

If it's more productive "to remind people of how awful and useless the Democrats have been for multiple generation," what does that actually accomplish in the long term?

... I didn’t say one was more productive than the other, you did? I drew a line about why people, including ILXors, who bemoaned the politician closest to AOC ideologically think (for now, with low stakes) that she’s the best thing ever.

Yes, I said that one was more productive than the other, and you disagree and said that it wasn't.

"Making people more complacent with the Democrats does not seem more productive to me."

Anyway, I'm still waiting on your route to success.

... I disagreed with your statement that one was more productive, yeah.

You’ll have to keep waiting on that thing I’ve never claimed to possess I guess?

You should ask if I’ve stopped beating my dog next!

can somebody please beat me over the head with their opinion until i am dead

... I disagreed with your statement that one was more productive, yeah.

― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, August 25, 2020 2:22 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Fine, maybe I extrapolated too much from that.

You’ll have to keep waiting on that thing I’ve never claimed to possess I guess?

― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, August 25, 2020 2:24 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

Convenient!

here you go, Brad: Lana Del Rey is terrible

can somebody please beat me over the head with their opinion until i am dead

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson)

"Seven Wonders" rules!

in the spirit of this thread, i feel like the musical opinion that should be beaten on someone's head is probably something about radiohead or the 1975

er wait, no

i think this calls for a straight up beatles v stones discussion

Hail To The Thief really is their best album

nooooooooooo we were so close to solving something

The Blessed Madonna remix of "Levitating" is meh.

How can you say Nickelback is awful if you haven't had a quadruple-platinum album yourself?

Nickelback is better than The Strokes

Historical import aside, The Beatles were too inconsistent to be numbered among the greats and all of their albums are rife with unforgivable flaws.

(Shit, almost forgot.)

Fite me.

xxp

Lol, I see my Twitter challops truly struck a chord of sorts

lol not gonna lie, mentioning The Strokes will always make me mad

Take your anger to the next level:

Noteworthy album covers of 2020

(Sorry.)

The Democratic comms masterminds are right in tune with this thread.

Biden campaign responds to the first night of the RNC by playing off of Simon & Garfunkel lyrics pic.twitter.com/bg46RxHfnF

— David Freedlander (@freedlander) August 25, 2020

Both @CoriBush and @AOC might be two of the lowest income Americans ever elected to the United States Congress.

They reflect America in terms of class more than almost all of their colleagues. pic.twitter.com/hfsz7NpuLG

— Waleed Shahid (@_waleedshahid) August 31, 2020

so weird that the only people even close to my income level seem to represent my interests much more than all of the rich members of congress!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who are the six Senate poors?

willing to bet the poors are like 15-20 years younger than everyone else on average.

class and generation are such strong relevant predictors of ideology yet you can't engage anyone on those terms because they get angry and that's bad.

flaw: wears thong birks

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wore-most-150646147.html

the kind of journalism that makes me to be a proud Yahoo Mail lifer

Those look like really nice shoes. Fashionistas: what's the deal?

I don’t think it’s fashionistas who have a problem with them. It’s people who haven’t kept up w the fact that Birkenstock’s have been very hip and acceptable for like the last 5 years.

nice

Some days I wake up & it seems there’s 500 GOP wannabes pitching themselves as the “anti-AOC.”

First of all, as Republicans y’all don’t have the range.

Secondly, most of you are just afraid to run against your actual Dem opponent. It’s lazy. Work harder. https://t.co/rMMQOSo3lG

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 18, 2020

We laugh now but when she runs for higher office we'll see all these "her negatives are so high, just like Hillary's" stories

an excellent rejoinder by AOC... that no Republican will ever be exposed to

its not AOC but she's good too

Firstly, this is my country & I am a member of the House that impeached you.

Secondly, I fled civil war when I was 8. An 8-year-old doesn’t run a country even though you run our country like one. https://t.co/zcKKjdC8ju

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) September 23, 2020

I've been offline for several days, but I did watch the VP debate. Most of it was the usual carefully crafted talking points, some blatant lies from Pence, and the frequent evasion of direct questions by both participants, but there was one moment that genuinely astounded me. It was when Vice President Pence, speaking to a wide cross-section of tens of millions of Americans, referred to Representative Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) as "AOC" with no further explanation of who he was speaking about.

That sort of three-initials fame in the USA has been limited until now to FDR, JFK, and LBJ. And she's a first term congressional rep! That moment truly gobsmacked me.

You know, I noticed that, too. At first I thought it was a sign of disrespect, but then I thought it was a symbol (however unintentional) of her power.

OTM

For the record @Mike_Pence, it’s Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez to you.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 8, 2020

otm

@AOC is live

https://www.twitch.tv/aoc

if you've never bothered to check out twitch, this might be a fun way to do it

(it's just streaming video)