More! I need more of this!
Arresting AOC would be the biggest mistake the MAGA Nazis could make. It would virtually guarantee that she will be the leader in post-MAGA America.
But it is absolutely the kind of mistake they would make.
Post-MAGA America is what they’re trying to prevent through their fascist attacks on the rule of law and the judiciary.
Every day I’m more convinced that those of us on the left needs to stock up before they start adding registered Democrats to the NICS database to keep us from buying weapons.
She’s always been such an action hero. Even now as the conservatives are emboldened. Tell me who’s gonna lead the god damn revolution.
By the looks of it, her being imprisoned is what might America stand up, or not. Most of Republicans are racist pieces of shit with no moral compass or compassion to the extent that it is guaranteed they all go tell hell if they are Christians for eternity, all to suck an orange mans cock for a few years. Talk about people hurt by being closeted.
Bernie and AOC are the only two representatives that have ever gotten me so fired up that I’m signing up for phone banking & door knocking even though that’s like the last fucking thing I wanna do in my free time.
I am even hate calling my state representatives and telling them to just do what AOC says because clearly she’s got the biggest balls in the room and actually understands what her job is-- fighting for the people she represents, not corporate interests.
I called my representative a few years back and his office said you should call your representative because they weren’t it. That was Florida. The day Rubio and Voldemort get to meet the working class, will be a day their family says, oh shit, that’s what I thought
Only thing they we’ll make Americans stand up is if they turned off the internet. But then they’d probably just go to tv again.
While I haven’t always lived among Americans, I’ve known many of them from many places, and I think this assessment is inaccurate. The ones you see the most online, especially on social media, are really not a representative sample.
Most Americans aren’t terminally online automatons, and although corporations and their own government have worked together to brainwash them into complacency, the gestalt of their culture and value systems still elevate the spirit of rebellion. I suspect that, by the end, you will see America become one of the noisiest fronts in the global war against these tyrannical elites.
Carry on AOC, just do not forget about the American people, even the asswipes supporting Krasnov.
I love her gumption, but I really fear she’s underestimating her opposition. They’ve already shown they care nothing about the rule of law, so counting on that to “protect” you is a losing bet in the long term.
No.
She understands the risks, and she’s willing to die and be a martyr if that’s what’s necessary.
We shouldn’t be talking like this regardless. Don’t normalize any ideas they might have. If you make what’s next expected, they’re more likely to do it and more likely to get away with it.
You didn’t read the article. Paraphrasing but:
“Use it or lose it. We’re gonna use it”
I like AOC, but I feel you may be overestimating her political will.
Really? Her actions show the opposite of that.
What makes you say that?
I think she’s doing what’s right and good, and there’s not a lot of that going around right now. I stand for and with her. Bring it if they want to mess with her.
I’m sure AOC knows what she is up against, and she still chooses to speak out because she is brave and these things need to be said.
It’s terrible, but what we need is the final layer of the mask to come of ASAP. Right now the US population is a slowly-boiling frog, and to get regular people to act we may need the heat to get turned up to 11.
I love her gumption, but I really fear she’s underestimating her opposition. They’ve already shown they care nothing about the rule of law, so counting on that to “protect” you is a losing bet in the long term.
I love how difficult it is to determine which party is her opposition.
Finally, a brave Amarican standing up
Homan is a Pakled.
y’all gonna have to give me a ‘blunt free speech reminder’ after I go non-verbal when I finish smoking that shit.
I with you OP. This is the right way and the right attitude.
She’s a Zionist. US needs a better opposition leader, it’s not her.
Fuck off person who led to trump
Don’t you belong with your god over on truth social? How did you get here?
Lol aoc is too good for americans, shes a smart person who actually worked to get where she is. No wonder those idiots dont like her
Oh? This you? Portuguese twat who’s never been to the US thinks AOC is a Zionist?
MF sit the fuck back down and learn how to operate a power grid.
She’s been seen many times supporting Israel.
You’re lack education and manners.
Wait how is she a Zionist??
well unfortunately @[email protected] is the sole world authority on who is or is not a zionist so unfortunately if o_arguido said she’s a zionist then well nobody can countermand the zion-lord sorrryyy
Ahh got it. I won’t ever question @[email protected]
And here we see a sighting of one nature’s truly disgusting creatures.
The internet troll.
I am so sick of people basing their entire political opinion on what happens in the middle east. News Flash: Many people dont understand what is even happenning. Most of us don’t care.
That’s why most of the world despise Americans. Keep it up. Fucking murderers. It’s your bombs you fucking idiot
Oh, I offended their gf.
What the hell are you on about? Zionist? Use English. Ain’t no one knows what the fuck that means unless you are some neck bearded troll.
I speak 4 languages. That comment is so fucking American.
And? We are talking about American politics and some dumb narrative that she has anything to do with some thousand year conflict. As much as I appreciate other parts of the world and their issues we have our own. A big one is parrot like morons smearing anyone with stupid catch phrases rather than having any clue what’s behind it. You are serving no one calling me out for calling them out.
Here’s another free speech reminder:
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/04/09/anti-war-activist-police-aoc-video/all she needs now to be taken seriously is to leave the sold-out Democrat party
I think I’d rather she stay. We all wish there were an alternative, but historically third parties have not done well. Easier to get her in as the head of the thing and clean it up that way.
If we could pass Ranked Choice voting, those third and more parties could actually do something. In neighboring Idaho, there were signs trying to prevent RCV on the grounds that it was “confusing”. Propaganda gonna propaganda.
If we could pass Ranked Choice voting
Sadly, that’s not going to happen any time soon. In fact, the Republicans are even now working on passing new legislation that will ban RCV in elections for federal office. Who’s going to stop them. There are maybe half a dozen people in all of Congress that would support RCV. This bill is almost certain to be passed.
Alaska and Maine have managed to get it so I think there’s still hope on that front so long as we continue to have free and fair elections…and that law doesn’t pass/is struck down.
Most Dems and independents would support RCV because it increases their chances of continued power.
There has been a lot of disinformation out there about RCV so you can’t even count on support from those who would benefit if they fall for the propaganda. It is definitely an uphill battle.
Remember that half of Americans are dumb enough to vote for Trump. A lot of the other half are also just voting for their favorite letter, without any thought of who’s holding it. Even with RCV, there’s an enormous amount of work to convince people who’ve been voting for their favorite letter for decades, who’ve been told for decades that politicians are all the same, to even pay enough attention to realize there’s another option.
RCV would be a start, but the start of a similarly decades-long process. IMO, it would be easier and faster to reform Dems from within. Recruit properly progressive candidates to primary the tired, old corporate Dems, inspire some of our younger non-voters, and change the party direction. Still take a few election cycles, but you’d keep the people who just vote for their favorite letter.
How does that help anyone? That would just be performative
The Democratic party is right there, and it stands for nothing. It has all the infrastructure set up already. So let’s take it.
Let’s tea party the Democratic party and force them left, kicking and screaming. Let’s build a large enough faction of actual progressives and leftists that Democrats are forced to come to the table. We flip red seats and take vacant ones. Then we primary incumbent Democrats who don’t get with the game plan
That’s what the whole fighting oligarchy tour is about
LOL
Is congresswoman
Is subject of article
Is one of the best known democrats
A nobody says she should leave the party to be taken seriously
lol okay. And I’m a nobody too, that’s why I have a Lemmy account
America has FPTP—she loses any practical chance of influence if she does that. Unless you vote for one of the main two parties, you create the same outcome as if you voted for the party you like least.
The better bet is to push her up to the top of the party and drag it kicking and screaming leftward. Then frankly, start pushing for voting reform to fix this problem
There is no reforming a right wing party or pushing politicians left. The only influence in DC is money, they don’t give a flying fuck what we think
So do what AOC did and get involved in changing it then? It’s certainly more left with her in it than not—imagine if half the party was made up with people with more left wing views. I do not understand why so many of you guys are so inert on this.
The alternative is revolution, and given that involves personal sacrifice in the most hyper-individualist country on the planet, you’re going to have an uphill struggle with getting enough people together to even make the news.
One option is a practical thing you can actually do, without having to wait for anyone else, to start on a path of improving things to align with your views. The other is basically waiting and hoping things eventually get so bad it short-circuits the capitalist propaganda that’s been shoved down every American’s throat since they could breathe. Then that you can get enough people together for a violent revolution at all, let alone enough for one to be successful.
Frankly, if you’re waiting anyway, you may as well get involved in the thing you can do today. Even if at the very least just to get voting reform done—then you can at least vote for a third party and benefit from that vote, could even be a vanguard party!
So do what AOC did and get involved in changing it then?
The party is still republican-lite, but now it’s your fault for not being involved enough.
I live in the UK, my impact has its limits. I’m involved in my country though
Chumming up to the Cheney’s isn’t Republican lite. That’s just a slip away from Trump.
is this still about being cisgender
They love their chains
agreed, the Dems are beyond redemption. Hard to stomach all the replies here, implication being that after enduring 4 more years of Trump we’re faced with another neoliberal smiley gladhand who will say some of the right things but work only to maintain the status quo and corporate hegemony. But alas, we can’t have meaningful change until people come around to the reality of what the Dems and Repugs have been doing since the 1970s.
Wake up you fucking jackasses, Dems are not going to save you.
