Don_Dickle to No Stupid Questions · 2 months agoWhy 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-square152linkfedilinkarrow-up1463arrow-down143
arrow-up1420arrow-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 to No Stupid Questions · 2 months agomessage-square152linkfedilink
minus-squarechuneslinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·2 months agoShe’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-up9·2 months agoYoung, female, Latina, everything MAGA hates.
minus-squareThebeardedsinglemaltlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoDon’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 SidekicklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down4·2 months agoChalking it up to racism etc. doesn’t give her the credit she deserves - typical superficial social media thinking.
minus-squareNate Cox@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoIf you think that avenge MAGA thinking rises above this then you haven’t been paying attention.
minus-squareLovable SidekicklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·2 months agoIf 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-up2·2 months agoPretty 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.