AOC Says If You Feel Burnt Out By The News Lately, That’s ‘Exactly’ What Trump Wants
www.huffpost.com
“The paralysis and shock that you feel right now is the point,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) said before calling out the tactic.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25237778

Summary

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned that the Trump is deliberately overwhelming the public with chaotic news to induce passivity.

Citing Steve Bannon’s “flood the zone” strategy and historian Michiko Kakutani’s comparison of Trump to Mussolini and Hitler, she argued that Trump uses the internet to spread disinformation, much like past dictators used film and radio.

Urging people to stay engaged, she emphasized that collective resistance can slow harmful policies and that small acts of opposition make a difference.

  • ceenote@lemmy.world
    34·
    8 hours ago

    Rallying to fight harder against fascism is cowardice? Yeah, you’re right, it’s on me. Democrats don’t need to change, it’s unfair for me to criticize their lack of action against the man they’ve been saying for 4 years is an existential threat to democracy.

    Sarcasm aside, they’re validating everyone who stayed home after deciding they were exaggerating Donald Trump’s threat to democracy for rhetorical purposes. Let me know how many voters you turned out by attacking people for criticizing democrats.

    • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
      23·
      7 hours ago

      huddling behind idealism rather than doing what you can in the real world?

      Yes, that is cowardice.

      “Yeah, you’re right, it’s on me”

      yup.

      “Democrats don’t need to change”

      incorrect, if Democrats don’t change, your harmful cynicism will let another Trump be elected, as it did this term.

      “they’re validating everyone who stayed home”

      no, the cowards who stayed home are trying to validate themselves because they understand now that they were wrong.

      it’s much easier to see the destruction you and people like you caused when it’s in your face like this after you elected Trump.

      “Let me know how many voters you turned out by attacking people for criticizing democrats.”

      not what’s happening.

      you can criticize Democrats literally for the rest of your life, nobody cares.

      you didn’t fight for other people’s rights like I and people who voted against Trump did.

      I’m criticizing your cowardice and your selfishness, as well as the harmful and destructive effects. his second term are wreaking.

      • ceenote@lemmy.world
        11·
        5 hours ago

        Just a few things:

        • Very (almost stupidly) presumptuous of you to assume someone calling for democrats to fight harder didn’t even vote. I’ve voted Democrat in every election since 2008, the first time I could vote.
        • Republicans keep on winning, which is why I want democrats to change to distinguish themselves from Republicans. Their lack of action against the administration so far and recent selection for DNC chair makes it clear that’s not the trajectory they’re on. They’re on the trajectory of continuing to say we can compromise with fascists.
        • I explicitly stated afterwards that I was being sarcastic in my first paragraph when I said democrats don’t need to change, and it still went over your head.
        • Even if I hadn’t turned out or had voted for Trump, your immediately leaping to the defense of the DNC and name-calling instead of making any actual argument or proposing what should be done reinforces the stigma that libs/lefties are dogmatic virtue signallers.

        Take the last word if that makes you feel like you won, the only winning move in talking with you is not to play.

        • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          4 minutes ago

          you had to write that much just to agree with all of my points and pretend I said something different?

          Great work.