https://twitter.com/RepAOC/status/1369799701915201545

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    put it next to her pushing the Uyghur bullshit and "deferring to leadership" on the Bolivian Venezuelan coup attempts

        • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          Maybe it’s not worse, idk. The Bolivia thing at least seemed like some dolt in her staff set up a photo op with expats.

      • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        Her take on Venezuela eventually got pretty good. I don't think the "deferring to leadership" comment was anything more than a non-answer.

        This Tibetan bullshit is obviously bad, but it doesn't really matter (she has very little control over U.S. foreign policy, and China can take care of itself better than, say, Venezuela) and she's shown the ability to develop better positions over time.

    • fed [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      I seriously doubt she knows anything about South America or the inter-continental conflicts of China.

      pls stop caring about what our dem soc mom says about foreign policy

      • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Thank you mr. fed, but this is pretty gross what’s she’s doing. As soon as a more people start questioning the narrative on Xinjiang, she is trotted out to talk about Tibet

        She’s a house rep, so we can support her without concern for her shitty foreign policy knowledge. The problem is that she keeps talking about things she either doesn’t understand, or worse - is getting fed deep state talking points through her staff (who fucking suck ever since she was forced to fire Chakribati)

        Edit: Sorry if mr. fed isn’t an appropriate way to refer to you IRL, but the fed character I imagine in my mind is a mr. fed.

        • fed [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          yeah it would be pretty hard as a congressperson to take salon blogs/twitter leftists/non US state media more seriously than deep state information directly for the source.

          :sadness-abysmal:

          • congressbaseballfan [she/her]
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            4 years ago

            She doesn’t have time to study these things, though. I don’t blame her. I know these things because I spend my time online or reading rather than doing my job lmao.

            Her staff are setting up her speeches, media appearances, legislative efforts, everything. They are the ones who State, CIA, or spook NGOs are lobbying

      • Swoosegoose [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        If random assholes on a niche website know better an elected "leftist" politician with actual power has no excuse