• Contrarian [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Y'all can't recognize media manipulation if it walked it to you and bit you on the ass lol. Maybe try reading the actual interview and critiquing that instead of an article someone wrote about the interview lol.

    Yeah, she's supportive of the Dems in the actual interview, no surprise there, but the quote in the start of the tweet isn't even hers. This probably goes out to like, the five people who read the wsws article, but incomplete quotes should set of your Sus Alarm, at least.

    So many bad takes in this thread lmfao. This isn't even an "AOC good" argument it's just a "be accurate in your critiques" post

    • Bedulge [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Beat me to it. I was gonna say this exact thing. You're just going to listen to some paraphrase from some trot newspaper and have it tell you what to think? Just read the damn thing for yourself directly. Cut out the middle man.

      edit: As you said, it's not an "AOC good" thing but like, they are not even honestly quoting her

      quote from trot paper:

      Ocasio-Cortez presents the Democratic Party as having been completely transformed into a working class party. She says the Biden administration and incumbent Democrats are “totally reinvent[ing] themselves in a far more progressive direction.”

      actual quote by AOC:

      There’s a lot of that work that we can do outside of electoralism. But there is critical electoral work to be done as well. I think the strategy of supporting candidates, when that strategy is very calculated, focused, precise, when we aren’t casting our net too wide beyond the capacities of any given local organization, is extremely effective. Mounting continued primary challenges or just supporting candidates in general, putting candidates in open seats … I’ve seen the impact of it from the inside—how much even incumbent members of Congress will totally reinvent themselves in a far more progressive direction, because they know that their communities are watching.

      like, where does she say that the DNC is now "completely transformed into a working class party"?

      • Contrarian [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        like, where does she say that the DNC is now “completely transformed into a working class party"

        No where! Like you said, it's not even an honest quote, but when you think about how beneficial it is to have people reading about how progressive Democrats are, the WSWS article makes a lot more sense, and I'm totally expecting further articles from other outlets carving up the interview and basically writing fan fiction

      • spez_hole [he/him,they/them]
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        4 years ago

        It’s a ‘privileged critique’ to say that Biden has not done enough for brown people? Because saying this insults the brown people who voted for him? I’m out lmao

    • Gkalaitza [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      There is supportive of the dems and there is this

      https://twitter.com/andraydomise/status/1375577565960810500?s=19

      Even the misquotes you say people are wrongfully criticizing her for are better than these