AOC on bluesky
AOC on bluesky
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thx ill add it
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What is this in response to?
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Trump gave a speech at Fort Bragg (renamed back to Bragg after a WWII paratrooper with the same last name as the original namesake, a confederate general). He complained about people flying flags for other countries. He also said that we have contempt for the flag, that anyone who burns one should go to jail for a year
Meanwhile flag code says that a flag which touches the ground should be burned and they proudly fly confederate and nazi flags
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Some kinda argument about flag worship.
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This is the time you decide whether the Civil War was just about about keeping the country united to maintain its power or whether it was about ending slavery (which it didn't, but that's another point). It's clear that keeping the country together only helped maintain US power and influence internationally, because the assholes who rebelled to protect slavery have kept their agenda and are clearly in power now. It does not bode well when only the abuser is willing to stand up for themselves and their narcissism while the victim still thinks that if they are nice enough they will get anyone to see the error of their ways. Are democrats just willing to tolerate abuse? Is there nothing they would secede from, even a tyrant?
Right now, some GOP members are playing a charade of fighting the administration on side issues like Ukraine. Make no mistake, they are still complicit with a Trump admin, and midterms will be a charade as well.
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You can't fight fascism with fascism.
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The pillars of patriotism in the US's popular imagination are freedom and opportunity. It's ridiculous to say that any invocation of patriotism is civil religion or fascism, especially when people like AOC are right to say that they're the real patriots. Progressives need to reclaim the term because they actually do stand for the ideals that the American public thinks of when they think of patriotism. Meanwhile the GOP and power brokers at the top of the DNC are obviously enemies of the people who have embraced fascism, trample on constitutionally protected rights, and set up an economy that restricts people's opportunity as much as possible. The contrast couldn't be clearer and it needs to be addressed.
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I gotta ask... why do you post this link in like every other comment?
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It needs strong, compassionate, cooperative anarchism
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After her vote on the Take it Down act and seemingly no remorse, I will never take her seriously again.
She literally fell in line with party politics and lobbyist on a "think of the children" vote that is openly touted as ripe for abuse, Trump implied he'd abuse it, and victim advocate organizations tried to warn people.
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Reason 1433544 the left will never win.
One GD thing and this is how you act. The response to this about agreeing 51% of the time is nail on the head. It's a shit system but maybe try to fix it instead of being indignant all the time.
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Then. Do. Something. About. It.
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What is she not doing about it that she should be?
From my perspective, she's one of the few politicians acting appropriately
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OK. Cool. Stop trying to be some kind of social media hero that feeds the trolls and fuck use the electrical official powers you have to their full extent, please. We can't pussyfoot around for another day.
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Ok what powers do you want her to use when the dems are the minority party
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She had 4 years before this. Didn't do anything but support genocide. Still continuing that policy. Trump is just a continuation of liberal fascism.
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I dunno, maybe constantly raise a voice in actual congress without giving the GOP the advantage of adhering to useless decorum would be a massive start.
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There is ZERO reason to repost bluesky content on lemmy.
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Why?
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Perhaps she should have a Mastodon account.
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No one cares AOC
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Some people obviously care. You obviously do.
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Anytime you say no one cares, it really means "I care very deeply and you're hurting my feelings"
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I do. I care. Am I no one? Some people may think so.
At least I'm capable of using proper punctuation. There might be hope for me yet.
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She could have also mentioned bone spurs.
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what's happening now is what happens after years and years of "we need to acknowledge/respect their viewpoint" and "you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar" and other various "stop being mean to the nazis" shit
as evidenced by the reactions to couchfucker and taco etc, the only thing that does anything (however little) with bigoted fascist narcissists is shaming them with mockery and ridicule. too late now though. they will be murdering protesters soon. in the name of "protecting" them, or "freedom" or some other absolute bullshit
Liberals need to ask why the fuck their leaders are so keen on catching fascist flies, but so nakedly hostile to LGBTQ / Muslim / College Debtor / Migrant Laborer / M4A voters.
Because America is mostly a bunch of shit-eating flies and you don't win elections without them.
Because people are terrible.
"But they will just their heels in harder, so we can't do anything at all!"
After years of "we're the real patriots"... Still saying it.
Nationalism is a primary foundation of fascism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion
Destroy Nazi's yes, but there are way more people who are more like middle right who you can still talk and compromise with. It is not for nothing that countries like NL have so many parties that you can vote for. There is more than just left or right. There isn't anything more than being a Nazi or a Nazi hater
One of the more infuriating things the Reich wing media does is conflate those two groups as well... We go after actual Nazis and then Faux News two minutes hate prime time cries all night about how "the left are attacking YOU! they're coming for YOU!"
it's so goddamn absurd but the Magoos lap it up and beg for more...
In the middle. Between Authoritarians and their nazi troops and poor people going to work or going to immigration hearings or their kids graduation.
Fuck those people. Fuck them with every cactus in the mojave desert. Useless cowardly fence sitting cunts to a man. We don't need them. We don't want them. They chose their side. It's with the nazis. So fuck them too.
Edit - https://bsky.app/profile/iamthepaulina.bsky.social/post/3lrdi57lvok2y - This is what those cowards are supporting. Slavery.
How exactly does mockery and ridicule help?
I'd rather put energy in the education of those who can still listen, and the next generation.
Because fascist popularity thrives on power, and ridicule disempowers them. It's teenage "cool" vs "lame" politics.
You can cry about it being undignified or whatever, but it does work. See: teenagers.
this strategy has catastrophically failed over the last 10 years, and here we are.
do what you will. i will continue to paint them as every bit as ridiculous, stupid, gullible, and wrong that they are.
fuck R voters.
let me guess "well, they definitely won't vote D now!!"
yea. that whole "voting" thing is over with. welcome to fascism, and don't forget to thank your racist inbred magahat neighbors for now endless opportunity to "educate" them while they laugh at you and throw everything you say out the window