(1/X) I’m really shaken up right now. I was just visited by two plainclothes police officers from California Highway Patrol at my home. They said they came here on behalf of the Capitol Police and accused me of threatening @AOC on Twitter yesterday. This is provably false. pic.twitter.com/NGR8KViy93— Human Rights Watch Watcher (@queeralamode) April 8, 2021
When I first saw this my first thought was that it was some kind of half-baked op by the Capitol Police (as an extension of the general hostility cops have against her) to get her supporters to turn on her.
Because like the poster pointed out, they literally didn't do shit. Like think of all the usual death threats and dumb shit AOC gets sent to her why would she focus specifically on this one person who didn't even post anything that bad or critical of her
The post was literally "I disagree with Ms. AOC, very disappointing"
Assuming the visit happened, I would would interpret the AOC reference is a cover and possibly right wing humor ("ha ha AOC sent us") and the intel community is involved. Because they do this kind of thing and the pretext rarely makes sense.
Idk, this still doesn't change my stance on her (ergo: glad she's in her position but not worshipping her as a hero of the revolution)
The most maddening part about the AOC discourse is that even if there were a hundred AOCs in government rn it still wouldn't lead to a revolution of any kind because you need actual movements of people to push forward the goals of some kind of socialist project. And that involves stuff like mutual aid and breaking down theory into more digestible forms for people who aren't weirdo academics or sicko book-readers. Yknow, talking to people
The word: critical support comes to mind a lot with AOC but if people disagree that's fine and I'm glad we're in a space where it can be discussed from a leftist PoV and not the usual chud-lib axis where its either playing defensive for bad policy or trashing the opponent.
When I first saw this my first thought was that it was some kind of half-baked op by the Capitol Police (as an extension of the general hostility cops have against her) to get her supporters to turn on her.
Because like the poster pointed out, they literally didn't do shit. Like think of all the usual death threats and dumb shit AOC gets sent to her why would she focus specifically on this one person who didn't even post anything that bad or critical of her
The post was literally "I disagree with Ms. AOC, very disappointing"
Assuming the visit happened, I would would interpret the AOC reference is a cover and possibly right wing humor ("ha ha AOC sent us") and the intel community is involved. Because they do this kind of thing and the pretext rarely makes sense.
Idk, this still doesn't change my stance on her (ergo: glad she's in her position but not worshipping her as a hero of the revolution)
The most maddening part about the AOC discourse is that even if there were a hundred AOCs in government rn it still wouldn't lead to a revolution of any kind because you need actual movements of people to push forward the goals of some kind of socialist project. And that involves stuff like mutual aid and breaking down theory into more digestible forms for people who aren't weirdo academics or sicko book-readers. Yknow, talking to people
The word: critical support comes to mind a lot with AOC but if people disagree that's fine and I'm glad we're in a space where it can be discussed from a leftist PoV and not the usual chud-lib axis where its either playing defensive for bad policy or trashing the opponent.
Sure but I'm not really talking about whether AOC is good...