In terms of actual power to influence real-world outcomes, it's absolutely a rule. The president can order troops out of whatever country you can think of; AOC can't.
I remember a time when it was “unacceptable” to question the Iraq War.
All of Congress was wrong, including both GOP & Dem Party, and led my generation into a disastrous + wrong war that virtually all would come to regret, except for the one member who stood up: Barbara Lee.
That doesn't mean they can't talk about it to draw attention, especially if they have a popular following that the media at large would be forced to cover. Wow, she worked up the courage to say the Iraq war was bad 18 years after the fact, when's the last time she uttered the word Yemen? I await your Google results. Is it really so much to ask that so called leftists stop playing 5d chess with Pelosi long enough to oppose the current mass murder campaign?
In terms of actual power to influence real-world outcomes, it's absolutely a rule. The president can order troops out of whatever country you can think of; AOC can't.
As for calling out genocidal wars:
What is there to be upset at here?
I think most folks who've been here a while can see exactly what some users are trying to do.
That doesn't mean they can't talk about it to draw attention, especially if they have a popular following that the media at large would be forced to cover. Wow, she worked up the courage to say the Iraq war was bad 18 years after the fact, when's the last time she uttered the word Yemen? I await your Google results. Is it really so much to ask that so called leftists stop playing 5d chess with Pelosi long enough to oppose the current mass murder campaign?
She's spoken out about Yemen a number of times. Keep moving the goalposts, though -- that's a fast track to One True Leftist territory.
Lol yeah you mean to blame Iran? Expecting leftists to actually oppose bloody imperial wars is just a bridge too far I guess