https://twitter.com/andersleehere/status/1437640261656526851?s=19
This criticism is 100% valid and applies to a large chunk of people on this website.
There is a sizable contingent of online leftists to whom losing and misery are essential parts of their politics, so when someone is not miserable or accomplishes something they must, by definition, be a sellout. Then those online clowns invent a reality to fit the conclusion. That's how you get smooth-brained takes like "if AOC was a threat to the bourgeoisie she would not have been invited to the Met Gala." Who the fuck cares?
I mean I don't think "if AOC was a threat to the bourgeoisie she would not have been invited to the Met Gala" is wrong, it's just not relevant. AOC has never claimed to be a serious threat to capitalism as a system, and a lot of people seem to project whatever their views are onto her like some kind of messianic savior. She is what she is. She won't bring the revolution, never promised to, and without her being beholden to a mass socialist party with the power of recall and the whip she'll never doing anything of note to help this end.
Shrek, only you can bring us back to our true calling.
I, for one, smell onions.
i hate bourgeois politics. what the fuck is an "AOC." i'll kill you :xi-gun:
yeah, but she wore a dress to a society event that said "Tax The Rich" and the :LIB: s here think it's cringe because they, themselves, would totally do something based like not get invited in the first place and write a 12,000 word medium article about anime from their parent's bonus room instead of doing their algebra homework.
If you knew what the Faircloth Amendment was, you would not be calling its repeal a nothingburger. It literally prevents the government from building social housing. Its repeal would be monumental.
(the odd part of the original tweet is that it hasn't been repealed yet, but its repeal is currently being negotiated in the reconciliation bill)
thank goodness the senate parliamentarian was working from home that day!
i can't even get mad because this is literally just the stuff people used to say way back about Hilary and Obama. like I just want out of groundhog day wtf even is this? are we doing occupy again next?
99% of the debates you see here are entirely about aesthetics
Sorry comrades but your struggles against imperialism aren't being followed, for some reason. I guess these social democrats just hang out in different circles? Really weird to not see materialism from Pod Damn America, a podcast about celebrating neoliberal subjectivity as liberation
Damn that's crazy, you're telling me people have an aesthetic critique of something that even its defenders admit is purely aesthetic with no impact? What a world.
