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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org -2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The cherry picked nature of only mentioning AOC. 428 other representatives did the same thing, which is the real story.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/aoc-is-a-genocidal-con-artist

People who say you should criticize AOC less because there are way worse members of congress act like she’s just passively sitting there being a mediocre lawmaker. She’s not. She’s actively anchoring the leftmost edge of the Overton window of US politics to militarism, capitalism, colonialism, and genocide. She’s actively stopping American politics from moving any further left than the nightmare we see before us.

Leftists shouldn’t hate AOC less than the politicians to her right, they should hate her much more. It isn’t Mike Johnson’s responsibility to move the US government to the left, and it’s not Nancy Pelosi’s job. It’s hers. That’s what she was elected to do. That’s what she framed the goals of her entire political career as being. And she’s taking her stand firmly bracing against any leftward movement from America’s genocidal, warmongering, unjust, exploitative, tyrannical status quo.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, yeah, I don't disagree, but surely its more important for this specific article to note that there are only 6 representatives in the house who care about reducing the money going to Israel?

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 4 points 22 hours ago

We all know the establishment is corrupt.

The progressives are the ones supposed to not be voting with the establishment.