What are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Flaws?

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

the "modest proposal" reference is the nod to satire but the lack of intelligent application and general pride at one's belligerence without making a reasonable point marks them as the asses they are. just because you read it doesn't mean you understood it.

"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?

― Mordy, Friday, October 4, 2019 12:35 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeesss, daaaaad, I'm awaaaaare, jeeeeez. Let's say the gap between easy access to pretty much all of the information in the world and people's willingness to engage with said information critically is at an all-time high.

just goes to show that the causes of ignorance + incuriosity aren't a lack of access to information

Third degree, bruh.

People wondering when that endorsements coming

Another month or two at least, prob not before Iowa & NH

Yeah, its fair enough, best for it to come when its has most impact! Seemed like a lock for Bernie but you never know

I'd say AOC and Bernie share more in common than AOC and Warren, but I respect AOC's independence and I know she will do whatever she thinks best, regardless.

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

― Mordy, Friday, October 4, 2019 1:35 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think it’s probably fair to say that the extreme degree of partisanship and niche “news” services contributes to this

we're reaching peak technical sophistication at the same time we're reaching peak incuriosity/ignorance.

I'm not sure this is true. Incuriosity/ignorance implies a kind of passivity, which I don't think is really what we're experiencing. I think gullibility might the more accurate term.

But I'm not sure even gullibility covers it, because if a mistakenly believed fact is disproved, even to the satisfaction of the person holding a particular opinion, it rarely changes the underlying fundamental belief. We're under the illusion that facts matter but they don't, at least not in and of themselves. Facts on any one particular story or issue are just raindrops, even if a thousand of them turn out not to be raindrops - what difference does it make? Even if it turns out not be raining at all, well its raining somewhere, and it will be raining here again sometime, so in a way its raining anyway, regardless of if there is any rain

People wondering when that endorsements coming

― anvil, Friday, 4 October 201

People didn't have to wonder for long!

Only 1818 years

you, quite literally, love to see it

ilhan omar and rashida tlaib officially on team bernie too

this is the opposite of surprising but still, yes, you love to see it

good. thought she might melt

maybe Warren's ludicrous tweet about the history of benevolent capitalist wages moved the needle here

Nah, AOC is a fair bit smarter than to base such decisions on tweets.

not what I said, but u do u fredzo

https://t.co/Ix1Opmh8Kf pic.twitter.com/emQjKO7LNI

— Garbage 🦍 (@GarbageApe) October 16, 2019

Here is @IlhanMN's official endorsement letter of Bernie. I'm crying. pic.twitter.com/5frgKhWYWE

— Eric Blanc (@_ericblanc) October 16, 2019

😂😂😂

it's good, and i like it

My good friend's pastor is trying to run against AOC and she was asking me what the deal is with so many people disliking her. I was like, have you got a minute?

maybe Warren's ludicrous tweet about the history of benevolent capitalist wages moved the needle here

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), 16. oktober 2019 13:05 (thirty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Nah, AOC is a fair bit smarter than to base such decisions on tweets.

― Frederik B, 16. oktober 2019 13:19 (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

not what I said, but u do u fredzo

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), 16. oktober 2019 13:23 (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Help a poor foreigner with a shaky grasp of the English language out here. How the fuck is that not what you said?

Whatever you say Morbius said, that's not what he meant. Whatever he said yesterday is no longer applicable if there's a cheap, lazy, cynical point to be scored today. How is this difficult to understand?

Ur mom is cheap, lazy & cynical.