AOC says her office struggles to keep up with the 'astronomical' level of daily threats that she receives: NYT
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Since last year, Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez has spent over $120,000 on security protection, according to data examined by The New York Times.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said her congressional office struggles to keep pace with the "astronomical" level of threatening messages that she receives each day

  • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I’m pretty sure that if she goes that route her chance of being dead is close to 100%. Remember MLK?

    I don't think so, it was the same thing when people thought Bernie would be assassinated if he became president. The US must manage a fine line between outright dictatorship and the democracy circus. Straight up murdering politicians is something you are supposed to read on some obscure CNN article about a third world country election, not in the US.

    The better argument was that he would be mostly ineffectual on most issues including foreign policy. It is much easier to control Bernie than to kill him and risk the legitimacy of the empire. For AOC this is not even an issue, being a communist in US politics is even more useless.

    She can believe that all she wants though, it is more comforting for these western libs to think they can't do shit out of personal sacrifice or safety than straight up admitting to being a damn coward.

      • LamontCranston [any]
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        2 years ago

        JFKs presidential election campaign in 1960 ran on a confrontational policy with the USSR. He claimed that a missle gap had been allowed to develop and promised steep increases in military spending to meet this, when the Corona spy satellites brought back photo reconnaissance showing that the USSR had just four ICBMs capable of hitting the continental United States this generated no change in policy at all, he authorized the Bay of Pigs Invasion, he was belligerent throughout the Cuban Missile Crisis refusing to remove Atlas missiles form Turkey in exchange for the USSR removing its missiles from Cuba even though they were obsolete and earmarked for retirement when the Polaris SSBN became operational because of the insistence on the right of America to place missiles anywhere it chose, he then authorized Operation Mongoose, he began the planning for the 1964 Brazilian coup, and of course he expanded assisting the friendly dictatorship in Vietnam into an all out war. The man was not looking for "peaceful co-existence" with the USSR except on Americas terms.

        • CantaloupeAss [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          Yeah I really don't get that angle on JFK at all. The man was ready for hot war. Makes it all the more confusing to me why he was merked

      • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        No offense, but they literally assassinated JFK in broad daylight because he wanted a “peaceful co-existence” with Khrushchev’s USSR.

        That is true, but imo that was also 70 years ago, the USSR no longer exists, the US won and the point is that now they must maintain their legitimacy.

        Killing Bernie, then kill AOC, then someone kills Abe and suddenly people in the west may start having funny ideas that killing politicians is cool and good actualy.

        Besides what is likely to radicalize "far leftists" as they say? Seeing Bernie spend 4 years doing nothing or AOC doing some communist roleplay and getting dunked? Or seeing leftist in power getting murdered one by one.