Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 5 天前Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves?message-squaremessage-square153fedilinkarrow-up1458arrow-down142
arrow-up1416arrow-down1message-squareWhy is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 5 天前message-square153fedilink
minus-squarechunes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down1·3 天前She’s a big deal because fox news made her one. She’s the new target after Hillary stepped out of politics.
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 天前Young, female, Latina, everything MAGA hates.
minus-squareThebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 天前Don’t forget she was a bartender in college, which they hate. Meanwhile boebert was very literally an escort, which is how she got into politics. Yet nobody cares
minus-squareLovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·edit-23 天前Chalking it up to racism etc. doesn’t give her the credit she deserves - typical superficial social media thinking.
minus-squareNate Cox@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 天前If you think that avenge MAGA thinking rises above this then you haven’t been paying attention.
minus-squareLovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·edit-23 天前If you only define AOC in MAGA’s terms then neither have you. How MAGA leaders think vs how they convince their flock to think are distinctly different.
minus-squareVitoRobles@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 天前Pretty much. She’s currently in their crossfires. Which honestly, is good. AoC is tough. Shes been doing this for a few years now, picking up the torch that Bernie Sanders lit three decades ago. And behind her are hundreds of politicians who are empowered by people like her to rise up. AoC (and Bernie) walked so these new folks can run.
She’s a big deal because fox news made her one. She’s the new target after Hillary stepped out of politics.
Young, female, Latina, everything MAGA hates.
Don’t forget smart and assertive
Don’t forget she was a bartender in college, which they hate.
Meanwhile boebert was very literally an escort, which is how she got into politics. Yet nobody cares
Chalking it up to racism etc. doesn’t give her the credit she deserves - typical superficial social media thinking.
If you think that avenge MAGA thinking rises above this then you haven’t been paying attention.
If you only define AOC in MAGA’s terms then neither have you. How MAGA leaders think vs how they convince their flock to think are distinctly different.
Pretty much. She’s currently in their crossfires.
Which honestly, is good. AoC is tough. Shes been doing this for a few years now, picking up the torch that Bernie Sanders lit three decades ago.
And behind her are hundreds of politicians who are empowered by people like her to rise up. AoC (and Bernie) walked so these new folks can run.