I have another comment saying the same exact thing as above, but I took the time to respond more eloquently, and it has the complete opposite reaction.
Clearly my message wasn’t communicated will in the comment, but holy moly it’s frustrating how they constantly jump to “you’re a Russian bot” for legitimate criticism of their own side.
My dudes, both parties want you poor and working until you’re dead while they hoard all the wealth for their children.
Probably for civility, because it told me to “f off Ivan”
I’m not offended that they told me to f off, but I’m deeply frustrated that I keep getting accused of being a Russian propagandist or a MAGAT when criticizing liberals instead of engaging with what I’m saying.
I’m not a republican, I’m a socialist Palestinian.
It protects the genocidal state of Israel from retaliation. If you want to protect innocents, fund an iron dome for Gaza instead of 2,000lbs bombs to drop on tents.
Enjoy.
Protecting himself. Trump is not the only one involved.
They are not vegan. They are into permaculture because they’re in a “manly man make money women stay home” cult and they can’t afford to have 5 kids and a stay at home wife on husband’s paycheck.
Those who have the room usually raise chickens at least, there’s centrally not a large intersection of vegans and far right people.
How many chances does she get? This is the second time she makes the same mistake, are you gonna still count it as one mistake the third time?
It’s not whataboutism, I have never defended Republicans. It’s good for you to see that both sides are bad.
I believe she’s a good person, I believe she’s a true blue progressive
Everything you typed after this implies the opposite. It’s painful to accept that someone you admired might no longer be who you thought they were. But the sooner you let go of that attachment, the clearer things become. She is not your friend. You do not join the Democratic Party to fight it from within. You join it to become part of its machinery.
Look at her record and measure it against her rhetoric. She voted to fund the Iron Dome in 2021 and then cried on the House floor. That was not courage. That was shame. She has now voted against cutting funding to Israel’s military while bombs are falling on Gaza. She condemns genocide and then votes to fund it. That is not strategy. That is betrayal.
She avoids confrontation with her party even when that party is enabling mass death. She speaks of justice, then backs imperial budgets. She delays, reframes, and pacifies while Palestinians are being erased. Her presence is soothing for liberals and neutralizing for movements. She functions as a release valve. She gives you a reason to believe in a system that should be dismantled.
You said she might be making backroom deals that do not benefit her or her ideals. That is what co-optation looks like. It does not require corruption. It only requires surrender. It happens when staying in the room becomes more important than changing what the room represents.
It is not that she is inactive. It is that she actively helps preserve a violent status quo. That makes her dangerous in a different way. Not because she is cruel, but because she is trusted.
Being disappointed is honest. But if you continue to hold onto the belief that she is still part of the solution, you will miss what she has already become. She is no longer a fighter. She is now a barrier.
Removed by mod
They haggled from a life sentence to 3 years and everyone is cheering.
Because the people largely don’t give a shit. They can’t even inconvenience themselves but boycotting shitty expensive products, let alone put pressure on their governments.
Well, considering freedom of speech doesn’t cover yelling “bomb”, probably arrested for causing mass panic.
AOC’s defense of her vote is a swing and a miss because it rests on a false distinction. She claims the amendment only cuts funding for the Iron Dome (a “defensive” system) and not for the bombs killing Palestinians, but that’s misleading.
The Iron Dome isn’t neutral; it enables Israel to continue bombing Gaza with impunity by shielding it from retaliation. It’s part of the war apparatus, not separate from it.
By opposing this amendment, AOC helped maintain the full structure of US military aid that underwrites the genocide she says she opposes. Her rationale sounds nuanced, but in practice, it protects the status quo.
And while she says she’s focused on cutting offensive munitions, the reality is that the US is sending Israel billions in lethal aid right now, and this amendment was a chance to actually stop some of it. Voting against it doesn’t show strategy; it shows inconsistency and a failure to act when it counts. If you’re serious about ending genocide, like she keeps insisting she is, you take every shot you can. This was one, and she missed it.
AOC is a beautifully blooming neoliberal, and it’s time for all to stop worshipping her. She had proven over and over again that she’ll vote for neo-liberal interests above all and justify it by wrapping it with a bow of humanity.
Think of all the American lives that could be saved with that money before you justify spending on the iron dome to protect foreigners from the consequences of committing Genocide. AOC is not your friend.
This is the US in a few years.
lol. You’re not wrong that it’ll be way easier to rely on AI to do the sorting for you, but you’re implying Google didn’t sanitize information and only give you results they approve of…
There’s way more to the internet than you can find on search engines.
Is it really that hard to stomach the idea of melting American cheese on pasta?
And US and Germany and UK and France and Canada and every country financially supporting and politically shielding this genocide.