https://twitter.com/the_vello/status/1321435262023536641
Feels like (the good parts of) old chapo again, drop an AOC post and go grab some lunch... come back and there are over 60 replies :)
https://twitter.com/the_vello/status/1321435262023536641
Feels like (the good parts of) old chapo again, drop an AOC post and go grab some lunch... come back and there are over 60 replies :)
Seeing people in this thread and others talking about AOC supporting the Bolivian coup based on that photo with coup supporters - didn't it come out that they asked to take a picture with her without explaining who they were? Don't have a source on hand so could be mistaken, but I do remember her making a statement against the coup at the time. There's a ton of legitimate criticisms to be made of entryist succdems (and conversations to be had about whether it's a tactic that's even worth pursuing) without spreading misinformation.
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Right - I think that tweet calling it a coup is the statement I was thinking of.
Yeah, I've been very skeptical of that photo being a smoking gun.
On November 16th, a figure named Ana Carola Traverso tweeted a photograph of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez standing next to her and several other people while holding the Bolivian flag, with the photo’s description going as follows: “We met @AOC to discuss Bolivia and expressed concerns over her earlier tweet. Also chatted about current violence & democracy. She strongly supports our democratic grassroots movement and urges the interim president to stick to their mandate and call for new elections!”
She wasn't just photobombed.
And the Tweet she made after the coup:
1. Didn't refer to it as a coup.Did not express any support for Evo or MAS.
Called for "free and fair elections", the implicatiom being that there hadn't just been free and fair elections.
Contrast with Corbyn's statement or even Bernie's. Ilhan Omar was identically disappointing.
Here's the original tweet: https://twitter.com/aoc/status/1193973410793238528?lang=en. She definitely calls it a coup. I'm also personally skeptical of the firsthand accounts of pro-coup dipshits, which best I can tell is the only source that she "supported their grassroots movement."
I agree that her statements about free and fair elections are weaselly and disappointing - but succdems gonna succ, especially in the imperial core. It's still a far cry from supporting the coup (Bernie's statement also fell back on vagueries about "respecting Bolivia's democratic institutions" rather than offering Evo and MAS full throated support).
Corbyn's position was head and shoulders better, but he's always been a more principled anti-imperialist and supporter of global socialism than the social democrats we have here.