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[–] 9 points 6 months ago

May she succeed in her endeavors!

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  • [+] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Only problem is her idea of polishing is going farther right and distancing from anything that would make her actually electable to be more like Kamala or Schumer

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  • [–] -3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Not completely terrible, probably better than many other sociopaths that could take power. Not great

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    [–] 50 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    Nothing would delight me more than seeing her name on the ballot. We need more people like her and Mamdani in politics

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  • [–] 27 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    Honestly we need people even further to the left of her at this point but if it’s her or a neolib I’m AOC all day baby let’s goooo

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    We got where we are through steady shifts to the right over the course of decades. As nice as it would be to just vote in who we need right now, getting 50% of the population to agree about who that would be is impossible.

    AOC may not be perfect, but she'd represent a first of (hopefully) many steady shifts to the left that will eventually get us where we need to be. Of course that's if she even gets that far in the first place with how corrupt the system is. I'm not sure we'll get the chance without truly fighting and dying for it.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    AOC may not be perfect, but she’d represent a first of (hopefully) many steady shifts to the left that will eventually get us where we need to be.

    I hope it goes much faster than the incrementalists claim it will.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    Every small step will be a battle. Republicans have the benefit of having all the wealthy elite on their side to fund the incremental push, we have to fight against it like salmon swimming up a river. We'll be a pink half-dead mess when we get to the end if we're lucky enough to get there at all.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Every small step will be a battle.

    Then we'll need better politicians. We'll get nothing but capitulation from our current crop of useless bastards.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Yeah, that would be the fight. AOC is the best chance we've got right now, and if she wins, we'll need to get more people in that are closer to her political stance, then we can choose the leftmost from there, and so on. It's not dissimilar to selecting for preferable traits across several breeding generations for crops and livestock, a notoriously slow and steady process.

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  • [–] 34 points 6 months ago

    Lady is such a legit inspiration. Crazy to see how far she's come

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  • [–] 32 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Here's a fuller quote from a different article:

    “In this op-ed that Bezos paid for in The Washington Post, there was a veiled threat — it was the elite saying if you want this job, you just stepped out of line,” said Ocasio-Cortez. “What’s funny about that is they assume my ambition is positional. They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.”

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    You must protect, she's one of the few decent ones.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Thank goodness. Everyone else was campaigning on keeping things the same

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Well that was quite literally Harris' 2024 campaign so.. yeah. Most dems want to keep things the same and often campaign on it. At worst they dress more of the same with co-opted progressive ideas that historically have ended with just more of the same.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Not bad for a dancing waitress, bravo!

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  • [+] -23 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Welp, the Republicans just won 2028.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    was this not guaranteed?

    not because of the poor planning skills of the democrats.

    not because of the absurdity of the current admin.

    because of the rampant and systemic corruption in the seats of power that govern the US.

    because the republicans made a plan and executed it with foreign support.

    because we sat by and hoped things would get better, without actually doing anything.

    the republicans have sacrificed everything. what have you sacrificed to stop them?

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    [–] 19 points 6 months ago

    That’s the right answer!

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago

    Bitch you better do it! Thats a woman that actually has a shot at waking up the sleeping left. Do it! Let a woman show Nazis exactly how weak they are.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    why does she have two mics?

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  • [+] -8 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    I.e. she's not stupid enough to believe Americans will vote a young Latina woman.

    Pale, male and stale.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    We might vote for a woman of they’d run one worth voting for

    If you go back without the “Dems are the real left progressives and not voting for them is a vote for the alt-right!” glasses you won’t find any women they ran were good candidates.

    Plenty of people would vote for AOC, especially after a campaign raises her profile. And yeah, there would be shitlords who wouldn’t vote for a woman - but if you bring the policies, you bring the change people are wanting; the edgelords can’t outnumber the rest of the people.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Unpopular opinion: The Blue No Matter Who people won't vote for AOC, because she's too "uppity" to follow the party line.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    There's a great filter for BNMW folk.

    The ones who endorsed Mamdani as soon as be won the primary can be assumed to mean what they say, and expected to vote for AOC if she wins the primary.

    The ones who didn't, and either never endorsed or waited until the last moment, should be ignored, primaries, and never trusted on a political promise ever again.

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  • [+] -8 points 6 months ago

    She would be wasted without a solid house/senate majority who can then also expand SCOTUS. Like Obama was largely wasted thanks to Republican obstruction.

    Can you imagine MAGA at this point if we elected her? I think there WOULD be a large number of assassination attempts. :|

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    [–] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Can you imagine if privatized healthcare fell how many of those people would actually have to get actual jobs that contribute to society instead of just denying people the care they pay for?

    Fuckers will finally get to navigate the AI landscape in the job market like the rest of us.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    I guarantee they’re already navigating an AI hellscape. The problem are not insurance workers or working class wage workers, it is the system that is designed in such a way that instead of these folks facilitating actual care, which would be good and right (let’s catch fraud and such, and also make sure we have efficient claims services even with single payer so that treatment is even more cost effective). Better we have solidarity and convince the workers of these companies that they could still have jobs in public sector with equal pay and better benefits with a single payer system.

    There are vanishingly few people getting mega wealthy off of insurance in the US. It’s not the wage workers. It’s the wealthy class siphoning our money and stealing while we die from preventable diseases.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Yeah.

    For the better

    But the same people that have deep and abiding Obama Derangement Syndrome will keep repeating this like it's a bad thing, just like when Obama said something about fundamentally changing America.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    Um dumerikkklans have demonstrated twice that they would rather vote for a convicted rapist than a woman. So ya that seems like a problem.

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    well i think all that talk about people "needing experience" to be president can go right out the fucking window.

    all we really need is a human being with actual morals and ethics.... something completely devoid in the republican party and only mostly gone from the democrat side.

    id vote for smurfette at this point if she promised an actual healthcare policy

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    “My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go. Senate, House seats, elected officials come and go, but single-payer healthcare is forever. A living wage is forever, workers’ rights are forever, women’s rights, all of that, and so anyways … to a finer point to your question is that when you aren’t attached, when you haven’t been like fantasizing about being this or that since the time you were seven years old, it is tremendously liberating.”

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