I fully understand that AOC is not perfect but she’s doing a hell of a lot more than the podcast grifters are.
“fuck you = violence”. If you really think these are the people who are going to create real change then you’re dreaming.
Dore has an audience that can target harassment at people, and spreads active misinformation so not only is it targeted harassment, it’s over shit that isn’t even true.
https://twitter.com/themattdimitri/status/1339478371214917632
Focusing on the language of a tweet over a change in how the government operates is :LIB: shit
How reversible is this change? How long-lasting?.. Maybe it matters and this is a victory - but this doesn’t seem like a public defeat of the establishment. It seems like a bone the establishment threw her behind the scenes and may rescind at any moment. The public isn’t gonna engage with this incremental nothing. If it’s a step toward something good - cool, but I won’t believe it until the next step is taken.
Also - she’s a politician. She shouldn’t get language wrong. Good word choice is her business.
I think a reasonable comparison is the DNC rules changes (regarding superdelegates) Bernie pushed through in 2016. It wasn’t the whole ballgame, but it did keep him from getting stopped before he got started in 2020.
she’s a politician. She shouldn’t get language wrong. Good word choice is her business.
I agree, and I agree the whole “this is violence” bit is worthy of criticism. The issue is dunking on that while writing off the good thing she did, that she’s announcing in the same set of tweets. Critical support isn’t just criticism.
fuck off. AOC is one of four people in Congress who are loyal to the working class.
I like her - but that’s BS. Why is she promoting anti-China sanctions/Tibet interventionism? Are there no working class people in China? How does that benefit the American working class?
She’s not a labor leader ala Lula. She’s a cool progressive. But her affinity for the working class is not written in stone.
