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I wished I’d experienced nuclear Gandhi when I played this back in the ’90s.

She could have voted for an amendment to kick puppies and then voted against the bill and thus ultimately voted against kicking puppies. You don’t seem to understand how bills and amendments work.

No u don’t seem to. If she knew a bill was ultimately going to pass, then why wouldn’t she vote against a puppy kicking amendment? At best she would have saved puppies from getting kicked, and at worst she would have demonstrated to the electorate that she’s against kicking puppies.

It doesn’t matter whether the amendment had a chance of passing nor what MTG’s motivations were in introducing it. AOC still voted against blocking military aid to Israel.

And the amendment didn’t say anything nutty or conspiratorial. It was a simple deletion: “An amendment numbered 114 printed in Part A of House Report 119-199 to strike funding for the Israeli Cooperative Programs.” However MTG spun it is immaterial.

But how can he be a fascist when he says he’s “Vaguely Left-Wing.” /s

Those words predate the Holocaust by centuries. It’s been a common English phrase since forever. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/to_each_his_own

I’m familiar with this person’s moderation behavior. They’re a Zionist.

Previously:

The bill removed “offensive” weapons, but left in “defensive” weapons. The distinction is meaningless; defensive weapon systems allow Israel to continue to prosecute it’s genocide without other countries (notably Iran) being able to act against them, so it still enables genocide.

Agreed.

If she votes against the bill: AOC opposes cutting military aid to Israel!

If she votes for the bill: AOC voted to keep sending weapons to Israel!

No. There were two distinct votes at play here.

The first vote, for which she voted nay, was to amend the bill, removing the sending of weapons to Israel.
The last vote, for which she voted nay, was to pass the bill itself.

At issue here is the first vote only.

This yearly military budget bill always gets passed, without exception, which AOC knows. She knew that, in the end, the bill would get passed despite her nay vote. That being the case, why did she vote against removing military aid to Israel?

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All she had to do was what Al Green (D), Marjorie Taylor Greene R), Summer Lee (D), Thomas Massie R), Ilhan Omar (D), and, Rashida Tlaib (D) did: Vote yes on the amendment and no on the bill.

Do you think the photo is fake, the police & AOC’s campaign manager are lying, or The Guardian is fake news?

AOC tells DNC that Harris ‘working tirelessly to secure a ceasefire, bring the hostages home’

AOC ran cover for Harris despite the fact that the VP’s office says ‘no daylight’ between Harris and Biden on Israel-Hamas.

I wonder what the logic was behind dual-licensing this under both a copyleft and non-copyleft license.

Tell that to the Russiagate conspiracy theorists.

Nothing is actionable because the Big Guy pardoned him.

This is wikipedia, so it’s probably a little biased. Biased in what way is something I don’t know enough to say.

On the whole Wikipedia is biased toward capitalism & Western imperialism/neocolonialism.

The Grayzone, 2020: Meet Wikipedia’s Ayn Rand-loving founder and Wikimedia Foundation’s regime-change operative CEO

Katherine Maher has since left her Wikimedia CEO position for the NPR CEO position. She’s also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Atlantic Council, and the US State Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board, among other Atlantacist organizations. She used to work for the World Bank.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Maher
• https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia#CEO_Katherine_Maher

Given that Zelensky nationalized Ukrainian media and made himself censorship czar, I’da thought.

Accusations which were warranted, unless the “Big Guy” was Arnold Schwarzenegger.

• IRS whistleblower in Hunter Biden probe says he was stopped from pursuing investigative leads into "dad" or the "big guy"
• How a fight over immunity unraveled Hunter Biden’s plea deal
• Whistleblowers Testify: Clear Links Between Joe Biden and Hunter Biden’s Business Dealings
• President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden

Seriously. MAGA keeps freaking out about Hunter Biden and we couldn’t give a shit either.

That’s not how I remember it. The way I remember it, it wasn’t that Democrat stans didn’t care if the Bidens were guilty of corruption, it was that they dismissed it as fake news, because they very much did care about the Bidens’ reputation. Hunter Biden investigation: FBI official admits bureau ‘certainly’ knew laptop was real

Downvotes from the most diehard Blue MAGAs 🙄