What are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Flaws?

tremble at the power, bro

Wow

batshit leftwing comics 2k19

Devils Due are left wing now???!?

still not as bad as that one shot in endgame

I just assumed it was from the AOC comic upthread

Snaps her fingers for universal max diversity

I just assumed it was from the AOC comic upthread

the logo is right on the cover

all the gems on the inclusivity gauntlet are all the same colour, smdh

more like the white genocide gauntlet amirite

the gauntlet image is from a different book entirely; believe it or not, there was briefly enough AOC interest to spur not only left-wing hagiographic power fantasies but also right-wing talking-point parody as well.
https://www.devilsdue.net/
https://babylonbee.com/news/an-exclusive-look-at-the-new-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-comic-book
not seeing any evidence that "Golden Gulag" books actually published this thing though.

here's another winner from the former publisher:
http://i.imgur.com/skkjIFo.png

Isn't Babylonbee a conservative version of Onion/Hard Times satire clickbait stuff?

A quick google around suggests yes and that i have been fooled. Not that the actual comics are that much more unlikely!

A new day, a new friend 🐧✨ pic.twitter.com/1PmPEHP5Yx

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 24, 2019

As usual, the comments aren't worth the electrons.

Unbelievable! A congressional representative capable of spontaneous light hearted playfulness. I bet she wasn't even wearing a US flag lapel pin!

Crenshaw is such an unbelievable dumbass

You are a member of Congress. Why are you “lending” guns to people unsupervised who can’t pass a basic background check?

The people you’re giving a gun to have likely abused their spouse or have a violent criminal record, & you may not know it.

Why on earth would you do that? https://t.co/TQFjcLQebO

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 4, 2019

All questions of legality and propriety aside, lending out a firearm which might be used for any purpose under the sun and can be traced back directly to you seems...oh, what's the word I'm looking for...incredibly fucking stupid.

omg that's the Monterey Bay Aquarium! Thought it looked familiar. Hope she got to check out the cephalopod exhibit.

I grew up with guns and my dad's a nut on the subject, but I grew up hearing about the evils of lending guns even to your closest relative.

I have fractionally more sympathy for gun fans who are strictly adherent to safety rules, don't keep their guns loaded, and harbor no siege fantasies, and I bet they're going to wish they spoke up more loudly before their hobby got taken over by murderous clods and the gun manufacturers who manipulated them

I am guessing that Crenshaw and twitter assholes will ignore the substance of AOC’s comments and instead focus on this:

The people you’re giving a gun to have likely abused their spouse or have a violent criminal record, & you may not know it.

I understand her point here, that you can never know for sure that people you know, even friends, are trustworthy and aren’t hiding something. But she should have said “may have” instead of “likely have”

That was a boner imo

To the extent that the scenario under discussion seems to be 'the wisdom of lending a gun to someone who's failed a background check' I can't say she's wrong. It just wasn't made terribly clear that that was the scenario under discussion.

I assume most of Crenshaw's friends are cops or ex-military so she's probably right

maybe, but surely she undercut/distracted from her point by including that in there.

Oh no, she allowed proven shitheads an opportunity to loudly proclaim their shitheadedness like they already do every second of their worthless fucking lives. Major gaffe there on AOC's part.

In other news...

AOC made Steve King so mad he made a video of himself drinking toilet water. All that remains for the rest of us is to sit at her feet and learn https://t.co/qMfSanrEki

— Sam "Pun Terrorist" Thielman (@samthielman) September 4, 2019

hahaha wait what

I have fractionally more sympathy for gun fans who are strictly adherent to safety rules, don't keep their guns loaded, and harbor no siege fantasies, and I bet they're going to wish they spoke up more loudly before their hobby got taken over by murderous clods and the gun manufacturers who manipulated them

same, but at this point i gotta wonder if their numbers hover right around those of Never Trump Republicans

Steve King at least correctly identifies as "prisons" those facilities where the immigrants who are asking for asylum from violence and injustice in their home countries are being housed by the US government.

xp: the gun fans I know who fit that description left the NRA 15-20 years ago

what the absolute fuck

ABC can go to hell. Running propaganda with a picture of @AOC being set on fire, with dead bodies & skulls in the background, was absolutely despicable. People need to be fired over this. It’s ridiculous & evil. ABC profited off of it, during the #DemDebate. Shame on ABC. Shame. pic.twitter.com/o7msRtQI3J

— Scott Dworkin (@funder) September 13, 2019

A reminded that ABC is owned by the merry Walt Disney Company.

The Happiest Media Mega-Conglomerate on Earth.

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/09/11/atheist-group-abc-wont-air-our-ads-during-the-democratic-presidential-debate/

people in that thread point out that it was a local Sinclair affiliate in DC that ran the ad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG0T_hVMqLs

Ah right, that old socialist practice of forced marriage.

You're just blind to the meaning of TRUE socialism!

the ad is very *slow heavy metal music playing*

Ah right, that old socialist practice of forced marriage.

read the republic! they'll rusticate your babies!! and your pawpaw!!!

pawpaw grows better in non-urban areas tbf

The USA is completely insane.

Only the parts with people in them.

Actually the parts with the least people in them seem to be the most insane

sure but once you get down to zero people it's all staggering open spaces or crazy mountains or wetlands

Viral Video About Eating Babies at AOC Town Hall Was Staged by Pro-Trump Group

LaRouche PAC, a far-right group that supports Donald Trump, has taken credit for trolling Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during a town hall meeting yesterday. An operative with LaRouche made headlines overnight after standing up at AOC’s town hall in Queens yesterday and saying that humanity should eat babies, among other ridiculous things, to address the climate crisis.

Viral video from the incident shows a woman posing as a supporter of AOC and wearing a shirt that reads, “Save the Planet, Eat the Children.” Many people clearly thought she was mentally disturbed, but LaRouche PAC, a fringe organization that believes climate change is a hoax, was behind the stunt, according to the group’s Twitter account.

...AOC can be seen trying to calm the woman down, repeatedly saying “it’s okay,” and ignoring the comments about babies. While the woman’s reference to “bombing” Russia may seem odd, the group supports both President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“It was us,” the LaRouche organization tweeted late Thursday, in response to a question about whether the woman was serious. “Malthusianism isn’t new, Jonathan Swift knew that. Sometimes, only satire works.”

President Donald Trump got into the fray last night, tweeting “AOC is a Wack Job!” in response to the viral video. Trump likely had no idea that the woman in the video was one of his supporters.

Better than being a criminal who betrays our country. https://t.co/UnShA6gcQQ

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 4, 2019

this will be much more fun when someone deepfakes AOC responding to the fake supporter of babyeating with approval and praise, and then trump responds to THAT, and the deepfake video is the only version 90% of his supporters see

(note to people who still don't think this is a problem: the tech is there to do it now, and people are demonstrably incredibly dumb and gullible with 0.00000000001% media literacy)

It's kinda cool how we're reaching peak technical sophistication at the same time we're reaching peak incuriosity/ignorance. And by 'kinda cool' I mean (puts out eyes with knitting needles and just keeps on pushing those needles as far as they'll go)

"at the same time we're reaching peak incuriosity/ignorance" [citation needed]

like i understand the sentiment but are you aware that people in the past were remarkably incurious and ignorant as well?

AOC treating someone with dignity, no matter what their issue, completely blows Trump's (and Trump Jnr's) mind. They can't even comprehend what that must be like, you gotta be a wackjob to act like that, amirite!?

Jeez, the group claiming to be behind that stunt thinks it's satire.

It was us. Malthusianism isn't new, Jonathan Swift knew that. Sometimes, only satire works. https://t.co/vR8oXdx39i

— Lyndon LaRouche PAC (@larouchepac) October 4, 2019