Summary

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denied claims that she is secretly wealthy, stating she is worth less than $500,000 and doesn’t trade stocks or take corporate money.

Her financial disclosures show modest savings and student debt.

Some conservatives on X, despite opposing her politics, praised her perceived integrity.

Accusations of political corruption have surged online, partly fueled by Elon Musk.

  • @[email protected]
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    -134 hours ago

    If you’re surrounded by people who are millionaires and that becomes your definition of “rich” then you’ve become so out of touch with reality.

    There is a difference between someone with hundreds of thousands of dollars of net worth and someone with billions. Both are fucking rich.

    • acargitz
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      114 hours ago

      The middle class is so far gone in the US that people like you have difficulty remembering what it looks like.

        • acargitz
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          22 hours ago

          You’re wrong. Source: I’m middle class. Not American.

      • @inclementimmigrant
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        23 hours ago

        Yup and I can say by experience that even making 180K at a fortune 500 company, that makes you still not rich when medical shit goes south.

      • @[email protected]
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        -84 hours ago

        By that definition, nobody is rich. You can spend 200 billion dollars trying to fight cancer and still die.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 hours ago

          “Wise men speak when they have something to say. Fools speak because they have to say something.”