What are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Flaws?

she's playing a collaborative 8-player game in beta mode, on twitch, while using twitch for the first time

this is the day she became president

http://i.imgur.com/E64Zj5q.png

Surprised there is so much interest in this

It’s 90% me treesh

haha, I turned on Pokimane's stream without knowing this was happening and was briefly very confused.

it's at least 50% jmm as well

flaw: just turned on the stream and the first thing i hear her do is metagame

what game did she play?

Among Us

Thanks sic

There may have been another earlier - I dipped in late and just kept half an earphone on to pay better attention when she was chatting about policy or asking a UK player how the NHS works at point of service. Most of the time she was just talking through her exploring the game - "if I open this, will it kill me?" - when the other players weren't in the same room / screen.

now I will never vote for her

very sus

That was fun. Kind of a hardcore group to go up against for the first time.

Surprised there is so much interest in this

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It’s 90% me treesh

― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Tuesday, October 20, 2020 8:41 PM (yesterday)

ok so there was a lot of interest, it's true. many people are saying that AOC’s record-breaking Twitch stream is the future of politics

I wish that article were better.

so do i

hopefully someone else will do it

trump just called her AOC, tonight, during a debate with biden

calling it now, 2028 or 2032, AOC

How many viewers know who he's talking about?

and i am so fucking excited for it. she gets it. she isn't perfect, but she gets it, and already has a huge following. also, preview of 2028 or 2032, but if you don't vote foe her for president you are wrong

xpost lots

AOC+3

went down for a snack and caught that bit. AOC+3 wtf is that

also agreed that this is actually laying the groundwork for her to be more popular than ever

that's what he wants, tbf, the republican strategy is not to reduce the popularity of AOC, it's to make her seem to be the face of the democrats. Of course democrats tried exactly that strategy with trump and we all know how that went

has she ever really done anything that's genuinely offensive (to these supposed Americans)? i don't get it. all i see are snippets on Fox News calling her the devil over and over again, Socialist hell, etc.

she's a woman and she knows things, ergo a witch

she wants to raise your taxes and take away your coal-rolling mega truck

young educated intelligent woman of color from a major urban center, knows her history and motivates a younger electorate, tends to speak up instead of stepping away, all the things they know are coming and fear

Perhaps a lot of them are secretly attracted to her as well and they know she wouldn’t give them the time of day.

I mean I think there are two overlapping questions here: why do they hate the left and why are they making her the hated face of the hated left, and the answer to the former is about taxes and guns and racism and fear of socialism and the latter is the other stuff you guys just said. And the undertone is "she's hot and that makes me mad" is pretty strong.

like I think they'd hate the green new deal whoever presented it but they also really enjoy getting worked up about her being the poster person for the green new deal

Perhaps a lot of them are secretly attracted to her as well and they know she wouldn’t give them the time of day.

no male politician has to deal with that

so in other words, stop doing that

I get that and she shouldn’t just some of the shit you see posted about her comes from fucked up places.

Barack Obama had to deal with that from a lot of older white women who reallllllly fancied Johnny Mathis in their 20s.

This is some cold truth from @AOC. If NYC were in a swing state, its election administration would be a national outrage. pic.twitter.com/Hu7nNIR4G4

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) October 26, 2020

Here is a flaw: tweeting about packing the court now instead of waiting until after the election.

if every democrat follow that advice, they would have zero "mandate" or public support to _expand_ the court after the election. someone has to talk about it and socialize the idea. otherwise, when republicans inevitably make their attacks about the evil democrats springing a court expansion surprise on everyone, they would be correct.

don't get me wrong, i very much understand the thinking behind "wait until after the election" to talk about it. you may very well be right.

but i do think it's kind of absurd how cynically we and everyone else seem to operate. one of the most important issues in american politics is the supreme court and the wholesale theft of it by the republicans. that SHOULD be a huge topic, like a central debate question and one that everyone is talking about. biden SHOULD be talking about it, the people who are voting for him SHOULD know what he wants and what he really thinks. that's actually how things are supposed to work.

but here we are, instead, in a world where the politically strategic thing to do is say nothing and make no commitments. it makes sense, i guess, but it's cowardly and wrong and not how politics should work. and i think it's bad when that kind of cynical thinking penetrates down all the way to people like us who are nowhere near the decisions being made.

It would only be a flaw if she were currently the democratic presidential candidate. Which (double checks real quick) she is not.

(but at this point, yes, the die is cast - the campaign decided not to take a position on it, and most surrogates are following their lead. i still think someone needs to talk about it, though, and if anyone's in a position to do it in the democratic party, it's AOC)

xp

actually old lunch, you are wrong. AOC whispers in the ear of socialist joe biden

I like that it's her because she's good at framing issues like this. You need to shift the discourse from "Democrats are trying to pack the court" to "The GOP already broke all the rules to entire a Supreme Court supermajority despite never having a mandate, to not unfuck the court would be to ignore the will of the American people"

it's also going to be AOC and her crew of evil socialists who lead this fight in the next term, sparring not against the republicans, but against pelosi and everyone else in congress who used to ride bicycles with giant front wheels when they were kids. i'm happy to join her side early

Well, if we're going to talk about it, I think we need to work on the rhetoric, like instead of rage-tweeting "GRRR PACK THE COURT THEY ARE SUCH ASSHOLES" we should be talking about "restoring balance" or something like that. McConnell always correctly points out that everything the Republicans did to "steal" the court was actually very much within their power under law and the constitution. So is packing the court, thankfully.

xpost Yes, I look forward to all of the pursed lips and exasperated sighs she provokes among the democratic fossils who are just trying to maintain a little bipartisan decorum while the infrastructure crumbles around them.

she did say expand the courts not pack fwiw

is AOC "ragetweeting" anything close to that? here's what i see:

Expand the court.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 27, 2020

Republicans do this because they don’t believe Dems have the stones to play hardball like they do. And for a long time they’ve been correct. But do not let them bully the public into thinking their bulldozing is normal but a response isn’t. There is a legal process for expansion.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 27, 2020