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It would be cool if, seeing as AOC is a congresswoman and all, she did more things to help make the American public less reliant on charities to cover their basic needs but I guess that is too much to expect or request. I don’t know, seems like a valid criticism to me.
Call me unrealistic but I try to envision a future with some semblance of a centralized welfare state because I believe in my heart that it is possible. I also believe it is AOCs responsibility to stay true to the ideals she campaigned on by doing anything in her power to make that happen. Whatever this is is not that. Obviously money that can go towards helping people is good, but I’d be much more excited to see her using her power as a member of congress to exert serious pressure on Pelosi over stimulus checks that impact every single American than raise money in a one-off celebrity popularity contest that does zero to address the systemic issues causing these problems any day.
AOC’s influence is basically a tightrope right now. Of course we’d all love to see her go off against Pelosi everyday, but it would turn the already hostile DNC apparatus against her. I’m not making a moral judgement here, I’m stating facts. Should she expend all her political capital on doing what Bernie’s doing? If it worked, it might be worth it.
But she is only one member of Congress. Also this is one of many strategies, look into her mutual aid after COVID struck. But if she turned every elected democrat against her without an alternative funding network, she might realistically lose her next election. Which is the inherent contradiction in bourgeoisie parliamentarianism. You can only do so much working within the system, so I just don’t see why raising $200,000 is a bad thing?
What, though? As one individual (first-term) representative your power is pretty limited.
If she’s the deciding vote on something and comes down the wrong way, then yeah, criticize the hell out of her for it. But when something passes ovwrwhelmingly and however she votes makes zero difference, what’s she supposed to do differently?
The way to maximize the power of her office given the politics of everyone else in Congress is to push mainstream political discourse left. She seems to be doing a decent job of that.
Unironically, AOC becoming a full time twitch streamer would be a better use of her time then remaining an isolated representative of a useless and hostile government
Imagine her raising $200,000 a day, that’s serious dough for any nascent left movement, she’d make Hasan look like a blip
Exactly my thoughts. What do you think the average house rep does? Fucking around and playing video games is objectively a better thing than that.
Imagine her raising $200,000 a day
This is a silly take. She only has her notoriety as a result of the political process, and to project a one-off fundraising project as if it’s an everyday replicable thing doesn’t square.
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The problem with “mutual aid networks” is like any charity, who says what the money is being used for? AOC is extremely suss and a careerist snake.
Nazi lady is also correct that it is her job to be in Congress, not running a grift online. This is not substantially different from Joe Biden and Kamala asking for money ot fund the government transitiion.
It’s also a disgusting plague how every Left movement inevitably turns into a circular mess of begging/fundraising. You could easily double the size of any movement overnight if you put heavy behavior restrictions on the begging.
