What are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Flaws?

We can all agree that AOC's next mixtape will be straight fire.

it might even be straight ICE!

well it seems to be a standard she meets to posters on this thread

piss poor m8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA5UqUyFmT0

I was born piss poor m8 and still am tbh. Which is one reason why I have a very low tolerance for melty bullshit merchants or tedious wankers with unfunny humour tumours.

jeez someone just call everybody a buncha simps and let's lock teh thread

i've skipped the last several days of posts. but let me guess
covfefe!

or sorry, i meant aoc's dress

and if i posted yesterday, then that wasn't "me", ok

calz was just channeling his inner fred, as he said upthread. ofc, when fred channeled fred he got banned, but that's neither here nor there

it's always quite enlightening to see what you are really about, just a horrible old man who I'd despair to meet irl.

this thread has turned uglier than AOC’s gala dress (ba-dum-tsss)

damn doggs...cool it down

this thread update has me wondering, does the killfile still work?

Yes it does

ugh wtf going on in here?

Bookmark removed, but calzino: I'm with you and don't understand how people can see this whole kerfuffle as anything but AOC being performative to a bunch of rich assholes who either felt better about their useless fucking philanthropy or rich assholes who hated her for it. That she tried to cast the designer as an "immigrant woman of color" (which is coded in identity discourses) instead of an unimaginably wealthy woman with shady business practices is absolutely up for discussion, because *she began the discussion that way.*

I'm with you and don't understand how people can see this whole kerfuffle as anything but AOC being performative to a bunch of rich assholes

see, the thing is, if this were like, AOC going to Bohemian Grove, which is a private club, then I would agree, but the Met Gala is a highly publicized and photographed event. Like, the photos of people's outfits worn to this event become fodder for astrology memes on instagram. The performance was not just to a bunch of rich assholes, it was for everyone. (I don't think it's necessary to reiterate the discussion from last week which went into this in depth.)

That she tried to cast the designer as an "immigrant woman of color" (which is coded in identity discourses) instead of an unimaginably wealthy woman with shady business practices is absolutely up for discussion, because *she began the discussion that way.*

And here I totally agree. However, I don't see this inherently as a criticism of AOC, or something that makes me think less of her.

I'll spare folks the "tax code mumbo jumbo" unless there's interest.

Please take WS of shame to the appropriate thread and/or share your personal fantasies about high school girls elsewhere.

― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, September 20, 2021 12:19 PM (yesterday)

also in orbit otm and <3

I moved it to the 90s HOT thread, but no one seems to have taken interest. :\

The only take I really have on the AOC dress thing is that it's all symptomatic of the grossly insufficient levels of left power in government in the US that we are kind of forced to "let it all ride" on a few highly charismatic figures like Bernie and AOC and then wind up having to micro-analyze and micro-adjust our personal positions on shit that doesn't really matter at all. It's also just a symptom of the way we are so used to conflating personal/consumption/celebrityish issues with actual politics that we aren't even aware we are doing it. But so is the fact that we have this thread in the first place, I guess.

I feel like if you engage with this shit in any way you are already losing. But it also just makes me tired to think about, so maybe I'm missing something.

I'll spare folks the "tax code mumbo jumbo" unless there's interest.

― sarahell, Tuesday, September 21, 2021 12:10 PM bookmarkflaglink

There is for me

I moved it to the 90s HOT thread, but no one seems to have taken interest. :\

― peace, man, Tuesday, September 21, 2021 12:56 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Take a fucking hint, dude.

lol

I hope after this cowardly vote that more people start seeing AOC for what she really is — the DNC’s greatest asset — because she takes grassroots energy and funnels it into a corporate party that actively fights against progress.

— Ryan Knight ☭ (@ProudSocialist) September 23, 2021

whereas Ryan Knight is the greatest asset to, uh... gosh, you got me there

Jayapal voted "Yes" btw https://t.co/dwQmZa3g92

— 🇯🇲 Capybara Comrade ☭ (@SiggonKristov) September 23, 2021

All we want is life beyond the Iron Dome

ALL THE CENTRISTS SAY

Remember this? pic.twitter.com/gFS1dvVvUn

— Rob (@robrousseau) September 24, 2021

very clear illustration of how trying to change the system from within tends to change you instead pic.twitter.com/D0EiudQ5OK

— Moya Lothian-Mclean (@mlothianmclean) September 24, 2021

This is especially terrible since it was such a nail-biter, and she was the deciding vote.

nothing says "breaking the fourth wall" like an unprincipled career politician abstaining on a vote for the sake of their own career ambitions and then doing a tearful performance to show how bad it made them feel. There is probably a Dril post for this but I can't be arsed digging it up.

I guess you won't be voting for her any time soon, then.

what am incredibly original gotcha

Aimless won't be voting for her either, of course.

I just figure the snarky should be snarked at from time to time. On principle.

I will never vote for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

But just for balance, I will also never vote for Marjorie Taylor Greene.

why is criticising putatively left politicians considered snark on US pol threads? When they consistently seem extremely full of shit and useless for the masses are you supposed to keep saying what a good job they are doing?

why is criticising putatively left politicians considered snark

You seem surprised at the word. According to several dictionaries snark is "an attitude or expression of mocking irreverence and sarcasm." There's plenty of that to go around on ilx political threads and I freely state I do it myself with great pleasure at times. It would be silly of any of us to deny that (e.g. quote above).

So go right ahead and dish it out as much as you please. Just don't expect your own invariably snarkily-phrased political opinions to be received in polite silence or by choruses of hosannas. Even the Canadians around here know better than to expect that.

to those who call me "coward," let me just say: i hear you and you are valid pic.twitter.com/dNZYx3qAWG

— Richie Deals (@allahliker) September 24, 2021

What a statement lol

this seems about right, no idea how "the left" would have processed President Bernie greenlighting drone strikes but it would have been ugly one way or another

just don't stan, celebrate, or be a Fan of any ejected official. at most grant them grudging yet fleeting respect when they vote 'no' on the America Freedom Plan For Flags And Child/Puppy Dronestrikes, anything beyond that is embarrassing

— 2 early for spooky username 55 (@two5five) September 24, 2021

it's ok Aimless I've already got access to online dictionaries, thesauruses and wikipedia, your superfluous mr logic posts are much more than I need further on any subject.

Anyway i'll stfu because I'm not American.

Narrator: He did not stfu.

narrator:how did this boring as fuck middle class mediocrity wanker poster ever become an admin?!!!!

big supporter of yelling at politicians when they do dumb shit. dngaf who it is.

i once started a thread where i asked ppl to name politicians they admired, iirc it got like three or four answers

boy that statement is really...something

boring as fuck middle class mediocrity wanker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rzNLXxo01Q