*advancing her career
https://bsky.app/profile/aoc.bsky.social/post/3ldhxclo4wk2c
This is about AOC losing her bid for the Oversight committee to a geriatric Dem lifer. Sure she has systematically shredded any last bit of credibility with her triangulation, but hey, at least all the 5D polítical chess is paying off! She’s changing the system from the inside! It’s working this time!
Girl, you abandoned any pretense of doing working-class mass politics when you decided to do insider politics! Why are you tweeting like Bernie Sanders circa 2012? There’s no we! There’s no mass movement behind you! It’s just NYC DSA and some Warren libs (but I repeat myself)
First of all, we don’t go for that sort of casual misogynistic language round here.
Secondly, your dedication to dozens of replies, saying nothing, calling people names, and refusing to engage on any particular point would seem to indicate otherwise.
If she can’t change it, while having to actively support (in money, votes, PR, volunteer time etc) a collosal amount of destructive, regressive, and downright evil policy, what exactly is her worth?
Why is it that liberals always frame ‘everything that could be done’ so narrowly that it’s actually ‘everything that could be done without the possibility of them recieving any kind of consequence or hinderence their advancement in that very system’? Why are your expectations so low that the possibility of damage to politicians continual professional success and ladder climbing (in a system you say is corrupt and they can’t effect change in) is somehow beyond the bounds of what’s possible? Why do you place a politician’s career progression beyond the important of the policies you supposedly believe in?
Thirdly, “man” to [pup/pup’s, null/void]
I missed that, but yes, also not on and very shitty.
That was directed at my comment and I don’t mind it because I assume it wasn’t meant as a “you are a man” but in the way some people will say, for example, “maaaan, I don’t know about that.”
I don’t know enough about linguistics to say for certain wether that excuses it or not, but I didn’t take it as being gendered. Had they previously used “dude” as well, then I would assume they were gendering me.
I take it as being gendered. Had it been “maaaan, I don’t know about that” I would be more willing to disregard it
I can see where you’re coming from, especially when it’s someone who’s throwing out slurs and insults then it’s pretty fair to assume ill intent.