What are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Flaws?

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in my opinion, astrology is bad

in my opinion, anyone who takes astrology even 1% seriously should have to live on an island with nothing but astrologers

Aleatoric oracles are fun and cool, no problem.

People being super into astrology makes me feel very sad

it's weird, i feel like astrology was a joke for like years and years and now i see that shit all over the place

i guess maybe it's a 70s thing, millennials love their unicorns too

My spouse is an astronomer. He even gets prickly when people talk about biodynamic wine (using astrology and moon phases for growing/harvesting grapes).

I should totally tell him he needs to figure out how to do my chart.

idk I've dealt with astrology quacks my whole life -- there was no hiatus

i think like 70 percent of my friends all actively engage with and keep up with their astrology? they also know it’s all bullshit. sometimes i think it’s fun

yeah it's fun and relatively harmless, or more harmless than instead believing the descendants of Ishmael will have a home at the Temple Mount or whatever

I grew up around Christians w/ this absurd snobbery about astrology and it's like, yeah mom, well the tide *really* is out and you *really* are on your period, so lets's dial it down a little

I may have mentioned it before but my mother’s family joined the JWs in the 1950s to get access to childcare during a family crisis and once my grandfather decided it was bad to be affiliated with them, actually became an astrologer to freak them into leaving the family alone.

talking about astrology is more a social faux pas--especially because people who do it will not stop even if you give them a ton of signals that you don't fucking care. It's like people going on about their RPGs.

It's ... interesting ... that only 23% of Republicans haven't heard enough about @AOC to form an opinion, compared to a sizable 44% of Democrats https://t.co/PIoWFDjUiK pic.twitter.com/ybf0YhykSa
— Brett LoGiurato (@BrettLoGiurato) March 28, 2019
― Karl Malone, Thursday, March 28, 2019 9:01 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm fairly certain if you drilled down that Republican subset to "Republicans who watch Fox" that 23% would almost completely disappear. I genuinely think most Fox viewers are already convinced she's the second most powerful politician in this country aside from Trump.

Good.

The most fervent believers in astrology in my purview tend to be gay men looking for supernatural forces outside traditional churches -- a view with which I sympathize and repulses me too.

I have no opinion on the accuracy of this story, just for the hell of it

Yeah, this is the Post, but @aoc really needs to tend to constituent services if she wants to be re-elected. I admire her tremendously and want her to stick around, but this is not the way to go about it. https://t.co/d7b4uKcewW

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) March 31, 2019

She definitely should not be ignoring constituents, but this -- “I thought AOC would be our savior, but that’s not the case,” complained Roxanne Delgado -- was their first problem.

I thought if I voted for AOC that I could lie immobile in the street and that all my wildest dreams would come true. Boy, was I ever wrong about her.

This NY Post writer seems to be assigned to investigating everything Ocasio-Cortez.

I can imagine this is what happens when you win the lottery. Distant relatives and old classmates all have a ten minute pitch and get mad when you don't have the time to entertain every single one right away.

"I could lie immobile in the street and that all my wildest dreams would come true [just four months later]"

I definitely believe that her staff probably has trouble keeping up with all the calls and emails coming in.
The full voicemail thing seems pretty common for lawmakers.

(for the record her official house site has a casework intake form just like every other representative's)

I was just looking at Roxanne Delgado's twitter. She was already mad at AOC in mid Feb for not having her constituent office in the Bronx already opened and for being spotted shopping at Whole Foods.

yerac otm

here are some more gems from this journalist's file:

https://nypost.com/2019/03/02/gas-guzzling-car-rides-expose-aocs-hypocrisy-amid-green-new-deal-pledge/

https://nypost.com/2019/03/02/ocasio-cortezs-chief-of-staff-might-have-broken-campaign-finance-laws/

https://nypost.com/2019/03/23/ocasio-cortez-still-hasnt-paid-tax-bill-from-failed-business-venture/

lol as if pushing for the GND ISN'T about helping people in the Bronx, where they have the highest child asthma rates in the country and ANY improvement to the environment, emissions controls, improved/safe/affordable housing, access to health services, etc would immediately and directly help them.

Most of "asks" in the article are things the people can very well do themselves. They just want the Ocasio-Cortez touch thinking it will be made easier.

I hate how district 14 is divided up. It's completely undoable for public transportation.

To sigh about legislators and presidents failing to live up to the expectations of their voters is a worn, often effective GOP tactic because "Morning" Joe types repeat it.

yeah, like DH said it's the Post. but she shd be locally attentive if there's room to improve.

there is always room to improve in the first three months of doing any job. people love to attack this woman :(

btw: http://www.ifccenter.com/films/knock-down-the-house-pnf/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6akmMYGHI3w

i would view with skepticism any article in the NYC tabloids that finds a handful of locals dissatisfied with any person, policy or program - - - - i mean it is really not hard to find someone dissatisfied with something, it's inherently anecdotal and better for building hit pieces and retweetable "gotcha" memes than for understanding the politics of a district.

This story feels like cranky bullshit because a) it's the New York Post, and b) there was a story recently that because Ocasio-Cortez doesn't have to spend time calling rich assholes for cash, she's able to spend that much more time responding to her constituents.

literally no need to post this story

gotta hear both sides i guess

the veracity of this story is at the very least in question so i daily to see the utility in debating AOC's merits on this point based on this

fail not daily god damn it

xxpost Yes, important to hear both the words from the mouth and the farts from the butt. Fair and balanced.

no, with the POst the farts and words come from the same place

you got it, Brad (Superman III was a shameful waste of R Pryor's talents)

eh?

both sides now

Blue Collar is the only movie Pryor is in that isnt bad

you heard him, AOC is entirely to blame for SIII

Oh yeah also the Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings is good too.

AOC sabotaged Pryor's movie career imo

you heard him, AOC is entirely to blame for SIII

This is meant to be a thread about her flaws.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4f/5c/6b/4f5c6b3e3b34f272b0950558bb9999d9.png

someone photoshop AOC

As Superman.

the folds in Pryor's clothes are mesmerizing