In fact, this is still happening among European soc dems today that are completely fine with supporting the far right in order to protect the US neoliberal institutions because “bad countries” like Russia has had enough.
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I suspect a lot of the leadership of major parties in Europe (including soc dem parties) are straight up compromised by either their own national business/intelligence interests, or by the :cia: directly. There is a Cold War precedent for this kind of thing, so I don't think the idea is too far fetched.
That would be fine in theory, but she co-opts the language of activists farther left than she is, and funnels it into do-nothing-ism.
She's a pipeline from "left-curious" to the DNC, imo
I think there is a wide gap between this OP, and calling them a "villain".
Joe Biden, GW Bush, Pelosi, Reagan are villains. AOC is a counterproductive hypocrite who sucks at politics.
I honestly think she's just substantially less productive than she should be and could be, rather than actually counterproductive
that's a gross misunderstanding of the process of radicalization. people coming to political consciousness go where they see activity. they're not joining your communist party because you don't have a party to speak of. if you're a "leftist" who knows someone who has expressed genuine interest in radical politics and you see them get pulled back to reformism, social democracy, whatever, it's your responsibility to engage and push them further, and help them grapple with the contradictions between the establishment and their desires. conceptual obfuscation by that establishment is a threat, but it's only possible when we refuse to define the terms of our politics.
This is fine I guess. Besides trying to negotiate the build back better deal that never happened, posts like these are probably her greatest contributions (not saying much, I know)
It's not bad advice, but it's coming from a hypocrite with the political instincts of a golden retriever.
Yeah I was gonna say, "not coming from her, this wouldn't be unreasonable."
Exactly. It is not about the content, it is that it is coming from someone with a modicum of power who refuses to challenge her new friends. She shouldn't be telling the poor how to get by, her job is to make sure they don't have to worry about getting by. Like you're not an influencer, you're a congressperson
Specifically in the context of building a local network of like-minded people who can depend on one another. We're dunking on this?
Cooking in bulk is good. Me and my friends took turns cooking in college and that's how we got through it
It’s amazing how quickly she was coopted just on being told “this is the process and the right way to do things” and she wanted to actually get things done and be a serious politician so here she is. Or epic CIA mind control/death threats. Probably the first one
Good things are actually bad if I don't like the person doing them.
aoc bad yadda yadda but this is literally correct like rely on your friends and acquaintances and make sure they know they can rely on you
As others have said, not awful advice. My only issue is it's very reminiscent of standard lib framing of "you'd get by fine if YOU just did things better by saving money".
