What are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Flaws?

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.

im saying it could've been "the last straw" or somesuch

unperson, cancel yr ass

Okay, I still don't get the difference, but let me rephrase what I said.

"Nah, AOC is a fair bit smarter than to let a tweet be 'the last straw' or somesuch."

Look how easy it is if we help each other :)

So is anyone legitimately melting down over these endorsements or is this simply some weird horseshoe theory of "liberal tears" at work within an extremely narrow sliver of left social media?

what the fuck

Reacting to the news that three members of the Squad—Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar—were set the endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for president, CNN anchor John King wondered aloud after Tuesday night’s Democratic primary debate whether the move would help the progressive senator in the race or be seen as “too urban.”

“It’s an extension of what we see tonight,” King said of the young progressive congresswomen of color. “A debate of who will lead the party and where the party is going to go. Which part of the party will lead the party into the 2020 election? They are more of the younger, fresher face. More aggressive and liberal. Less compromising.”

Noting that the endorsements would “certainly help” Sanders as he looks for a lane to victory in the Democratic primary, King added that they may have some other Democrats asking: “Is this too far left? Is this too uncompromising? Is it too urban? Is it too internet? Does the Democratic Party need to find a broader audience?”