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Democrats doing everything in their power to lose the election.

https://twitter.com/HotSpotHotSpot/status/1764829771324698823?s=19

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[–] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 107 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Honestly, good. The fact that elected officials can exist in the world without any consequences for their actions is one of the most frustrating parts of our society. Sorry AOC, no movie for you while you support genocide

[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 54 points 8 months ago

Politicians in America especially Democrats are elected by taking entire policies hostage and being like "If you don't elect me then the republicans will take away your right to exist" then proceed to do nothing to actually protect the policy until it gets taken down and then they go "If you don't elect me then the republicans will take away your right to exist but worsely".

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

I'm definitely not defending her, but she's doing this to avoid getting primaried again. Amerika has a billion little ways to maintain control of things.

(Edit: I'm not saying that avoiding a primary is worth it to ignore mass murder)

[–] jack@hexbear.net 72 points 8 months ago (2 children)

this only makes her chances worse

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[–] EndMilkInCrisps@hexbear.net 94 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Watching her get ghoulified in real-time by the machines of "democracy". lenin-shining

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 41 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (9 children)

The more this goes on the more I'm persuaded by the theory that she was an op from the start and this is just the mask dropping

[–] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 26 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Chapo had a guy on semi-recently who advanced a pretty compelling narrative, not that she was an op, but that she was just never as progressive as her support base wanted her to be. Same thing basically happened with Bernie, everyone who is even just center-left really wants someone to glom onto and these are the best options the system is capable of spitting out.

[–] Kaplya@hexbear.net 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

She fired her activist chief of staff who fought for her during the election, and replaced him with a former Kamala Harris’s foreign policy aide.

She could deny all she wants, but her initial electoral success was built on a progressive base who volunteered and staffed her campaign office.

[–] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 22 points 8 months ago

Yup. 100% pure ghoul origin arc.

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[–] axont@hexbear.net 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I've had this hunch for a while. Her initial win came out of nowhere and she defeated Joseph Crowley, a very embedded Democrat who had been around for a while. He was even Democratic caucus chairman at one point. I thought it was a case of Democrats accidentally leaving the door unlocked but now I'm more tinfoil hat

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[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 82 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

She's running so she can make it on time to the next DSA anti-china public lecture series on how everything that's being accused of Israel is actually happening in China, sweaty

[–] Juice@hexbear.net 50 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The alternate reality where AOC attends DSA meetings

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 34 points 8 months ago

Only time you'd see her at one is when the meeting notes comes from Nat.End4Dem and zenz

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 73 points 8 months ago

I really like the "just stop" bit, like they're aren't 2 million people in Gaza begging for that exact thing.

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 70 points 8 months ago (1 children)

AOC just experienced 15 9/11's.

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 35 points 8 months ago

AOC couldn't call out genocide, billions must tank

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 68 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No one who holds even a modicum of power in this rotten country should enjoy a moment of peace

DO IT AGAIN!

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[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 57 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I can't believe that I thought her and her bf were cool 5 years ago.

[–] btfod@hexbear.net 43 points 8 months ago

Good on ya for continuing to grow and learn

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 24 points 8 months ago (2 children)

and her bf

oh no what did he do this time?

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 39 points 8 months ago

Sorry to say but he's engaged to a tubolib and that makes him a lib at best

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 30 points 8 months ago

Was he not the one telling the protestors to back off? Maybe I'm confusing people, but he looks like the same bf from 2020.

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 56 points 8 months ago

she should scream at people to go back to China, to follow her mentor's footsteps

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 42 points 8 months ago

Brave Sir Robin ran away. Bravely ran away, away!

[–] DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net 40 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

What more do you want? She's doing what the unions wanted her to do. Do you disagree?

[–] axont@hexbear.net 34 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I love how Hexbear has embedded certain phrases in me. I'm gonna repeat things from this site on my death bed and no one will know what I'm talking about

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 35 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

"Meemaw's last words were 'post hog, lmao'"

"Don't worry, Braydenne, her brain was dying. It doesn't mean anything "

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[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 35 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"Just say the word" is a classic bit of Monstering. But given the context, I can't say him sorry to see her day ruined over this.

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Monstering?

Unrelated but for some reason at first glance I always parse your profile pic as yeonmi-park

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Monstering?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Monstering

The art of abusing people. Of ambushing them with questions, following them with questions, hounding them with questions, driving them to their fucking graves with questions. It’s sort of being like a photographer, except no ones' killed any royalty doing it…yet.

I don't think ~~Garth Enis~~ Warren Ellis coined it in Transmetropolitian, but that's definitely where I heard it first. A popular method of British media harassment.

Unrelated but for some reason at first glance I always parse your profile pic as

Lolz

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[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 35 points 8 months ago (1 children)

AOC is doing what the unions asked her to

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[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 30 points 8 months ago

"You're not helping"

Ok and neither are you, AOC.

[–] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So hang on. Libs now love AOC and hate interrupting peoples nights out?

[–] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 31 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Libs have always vehemently opposed any sort of protest that interrupts their daily activity.

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