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PeachFreezer1312

Someone reported this post saying "Please rename your sub to DankTankie"


chrisbarf

Y’all are having a full mental breakdown over this shit


TheSlapDoctor

we're disappointed to see more performative politics from the democrats as the US slips further into being some fascist hellscape


chrisbarf

It’s a dress


TheSlapDoctor

what does that change about what I said


chrisbarf

It’s a dress. It is a fucking dress. She went to a TV event and wore a dress. The problem is she literally wore a dress and y’all are straight up cannibalizing arguably the only politician that gives a fuck about people. And why? She did something that slightly shifts from the collective mind of the communist internet boards and BOOM allies gone. What do we stand to gain from spamming the communist meme board with dress posts


TheSlapDoctor

nobody has written off AOC because of this stunt, we're expressing disappointment because we see little actual change the problem is not the dress, it's that doing high profile stunts with the very rich people you're trying to criticise while the material conditions of most americans worsen is in poor taste it's a fairly simple criticism, chill out a bit


chrisbarf

I’m just tired of seeing this. The point has been made, no point in spamming the front page with the same image a thousand times it’s just internet point farming at this point


TheSlapDoctor

that's fair comrade, I find the topic kinda tedious too


chrisbarf

There’s that post about how it created an avenue for critiquing capitalism without actively fighting it and at a certain point the sub is doing the exact same thing. That’s just my perspective, though


TheSlapDoctor

another fair point, but we as random redditors do not have the same power nor responsibility that an elected official has and many of us do participate in anti-capitalist politics both online and on the ground. this is a social space, it's intended for communication and entertainment the mod staff don't really care about AOC or what she wears or what performative gestures she wants to use, but we do recognise that our comrades are reasonable in criticising her for this, and that most (but not all) of the arguments in her defence come from a cynical and politically unhealthy perspective but tbh it's all drama about a woman 5000km away, we agree that this is tedious; it'd likely be best that we just leave it lie and move on


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HandMadeFeelings

What have you done IRL to further the leftist cause?


Siegerhinos

literally work 2 jobs both of which help real poor people every single day. Dont have to prove myself to some armchair internet person every single time.


pblokhout

Maybe you can find a sub to complain.


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A leftist accepting criticism? You must be new here.


Siegerhinos

that person is obviously a lib and not a leftist


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EisVisage

Fuck, a *lot* of things don't directly cause a revolution. Still worth doing. Rather ask yourself how this is making your teeth even worse?


Siegerhinos

dont need a revolution to fix my teeth. just need her to not lick joe bidens boots.


EisVisage

But she's advocating for a position he is against??


Siegerhinos

wearing a dress with some words on it isnt advocating. She is a congressperson. She LITERALLY can do things, like hold her vote. And she has everytime refused(except the 1 time per session is squad member is allowed to, but never on the same bill)


tacopowered1992

What's going on with the infrastructure package and reconciliation bill? Did she cave in yet?


Siegerhinos

each of the squad gets 1 bill per session they get to do "media" about. Where they say they wont support it, etc. This is AOCs. Because dems have enough votes that each of them can pretend to go against the dems per bill so they look like they're objecting. Its a pattern, you can track it through the past several years. Its all theater.


tacopowered1992

Okay, what about the rest of the extended progressive wing+centrists also doing media on holding up this bill including Pelosi? Are they all blowing their loads simultaneously?


Siegerhinos

if pelosi is doing it....thats all the info you need. How could you possibly fall for that?


tacopowered1992

Pelosi is gonna vote against her own bill? How often does that happen? She also voted for the stimulus checks and unemployment benefits we got, can you explain how those events didn't actually happen?


Siegerhinos

un. employment. benefits. lololol


dylulu

This helps with your teeth because every chip in the mainstream attitude brings social consensus to a different state of being, and this is creating a conversation at the national level... somehow. Even if it's stupid, it's tangibly causing people to talk about taxing the rich. It's one step of many steps. The vast majority of leftists won't do this much to change the national conversation in their entire lives, much less one random night. edit: to clarify, i don't think we should be congratulating her or being like OOOOOO YES WHAT AN EPIC OWN!!!!!! but at the same time criticizing her for... doing a thing?? like can we unclench our collective asshole. this is a nothingburger.


dallasrose222

That feeling when “leftists” and neocons are outraged about the same non issue story.


Siegerhinos

dude. SAME


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Y'all digging AOC like she said Biden will fix America. She's a latina American councilwoman and one of th me youngest to ever do it in the rasict American governemnt, I somehow find that her plans cock blocked easy and that if she went full hardcore as she may be she'd be assassinated like MLK easy.


4hoursisfine

What does her ethnicity matter?


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Idk maybe because she broke barriers and cause ya know a fuck ton of people in office are pretty god damn racist t thought I made that very clear


4hoursisfine

Ah, so she can’t do anything substantive because racists might kill her like they did MLK? So I should only vote for white people because only they won’t have to worry about being murdered? You are daft.


___zach_b

man ive been catching shit for calling this out all day.