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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 41 points 20 hours ago (7 children)

I still have to lol about how the stupid qons tried to use her dancing in university as some kind of BAD thing.

Back when Denver Post still had a comment section and they'd allow gifs, and if the topic was AOC, I'd post her dancing. A few of the local wingnuts would try to get me banned/my posts removed over it, esp. if one of the qanon mods was on-duty...

She's the best. Why the buzzkills in the unhinged right tried to paint a beautiful intelligent rep like AOC dancing during college as a bad thing is anyone's guess, but that sure as fuck blew up in their faces....

[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 19 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I don't get it neither, let's turn it the other way: why would anyone want to vote for someone/something that doesn't show basic human emotions and doesn't have fun?

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

well Trump shows the basic emotion of love but for money only

[–] King_Bob_IV@startrek.website 11 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I disagree. He doesn't love money. He covets the respect and power that he believes money brings with it and if forever angry that even with the presidency he can't get the true respect he believes he is entitled to.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

Yea that too but I feel like if someone told him "you would be the most respected person in the world and very powerful if you agree to live an economically average life (think Merkel but more modest even)", I don't think he would agree. Maybe because he thinks if he has money he can anyway buy the others but still money is not just a tool for him he is hooked on the luxuries it brings too.

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[–] Feelfold@lemm.ee 33 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Zero chance the DNC will run her. They'll give us another white bread, right of center, compromise candidate. The Overton window has shifted so far right we need to build a new wall to house it.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 17 points 19 hours ago (8 children)

Personally, I think it is too late to save the DNC. Best to start over in a better place.

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 11 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

The Overton Window isn't real. Political parties can create their own political realities by leading the electorate, rather than cowardly tailing the electorate like they're advertisers trying to sell a product.

[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemm.ee 3 points 14 hours ago

sounds extremely unlikely tho.

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[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I’ve been saying for about 5 years, maybe better, that she is the person I am most excited to vote for as president of the United States one day.

I don’t even have another name in mind.

I will be as happy to vote for her as I was for Sanders in the primaries, twice. I legit can’t wait.

[–] Alaknar@lemm.ee 9 points 19 hours ago

Jasmine Crockett seems to be "AOC but sarcastic".

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

How about Jasmine Crockett? I hope between the two of them, they start inspiring and generating tons more to go into politics.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Hope Crockett gets to be gov of texas... She reminds me of Ann Richards in all the best ways. She'd make a great president too.

[–] notannpc@lemmy.world 101 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I promise you the Democratic Party will do whatever it takes to keep her away from leadership roles because she actually wants to change things.

That’s the one thing the Democratic Party is consistent on: rejecting progressives, even if it means letting the conservatives win.

[–] BussyGyatt@feddit.org 1 points 12 hours ago

always so strange to see the words 'guarantee' or 'promise' when someone is giving a predictive opinion for an outcome they have no contol over.

[–] ExPLiCiT@lemmy.world 32 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

My concern is that now that Trump is in office and project 2025 is in full swing, that we will never see another fair election again.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 8 points 19 hours ago

The crimson lining is that we might get to build a new United States, free of the GOP and DNC. The problem is the nature of that crimson.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

That's his obvious intention, yes.

There's still some things that can go wrong for the fascists, but we're certainly on a trajectory towards eternal leader supreme chancellor Trump.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

When he dies they're just gonna make him into an LLM. He already ignores all previous instructions so he's laid the groundwork

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 70 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We should be so lucky to have a party she represents in this country. The only reason she has that seat is by defying the DNC as a spoiler. They only elevate politicians to the Federal level on the basis of how good they've proven they are at collecting that sweet, sweet corpo bribe money.

The DNC and democratic leadership would rather dissappear her Than Trump by a mile.

The pendulum is the point. Both parties are well bribed to maintain the capitalist's murderous control. Good cop and bad cop are both just fine with mass homelessness and entire murder for profit confidence scheme market sectors. One laughs at you when the capitalists cause you harm, the other just shrugs and says "golly gee market forces nothing we can do! But I affirm your right to die horribly as who you are here in this cardboard box under a freeway! Pronouns are free so whatever I still get bribed 😁" (edit to be clear, respecting others identity is the right thing to do and basic decency, but there's a hierarchy of needs, self-actualization only matters if you have your basic needs met. You cannot live in an affirmation ribbon, you cannot eat a preferred pronoun, priorities.)

If the Democrats were led by someone talking about redistribution, that bribe gravy train would stop. If by some miracle AOC manages to steal the party out from under them as Trump did the RNC, the DNC would be fighting her every move and comment the way we wish they were countering Trump right now. In fact, here's how Democrat leadership spent the months leading to Trump's inauguration:

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/12/aoc-pelosi-oversight-committee-connolly-raskin

Defending the country from one of the only slightly left Reps in the entire federal government.

Democrats like Schumer and Pelosi are far closer to Trump than AOC.

https://apnews.com/article/business-nancy-pelosi-congress-8685e82eb6d6e5b42413417f3d5d6775

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 99 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Next to Bernie she's the best the Dems have to offer. And for any possible run for President, she beats Bernie on age.

If they run Harris again, or Newsom or some other conservative Democrat in 2028, the party is fucked.

[–] KumaSudosa 11 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

You guys need more than just two relevant parties. AOC being this popular should prompt her to start her own movement, supported by Bernie, raher than clinging to the "Democrats".

[–] __dev@lemmy.world 16 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

They need election reform for that to happen.

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[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I'll trust her judgment on that one.

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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 57 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Newsom is trying his level best to have a right-of-center glow up right now. I'm almost certain that the DNC plans to tilt the scales for him. They likely will resist running a woman again for a long time because they've stupidly come to the conclusion that it was the genitalia of the candidates and not the quality of the candidate, campaign, and platform that caused them to lose what should have been two of the most winnable elections ever.

[–] solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 day ago

Progressive woman of color

Or

Conservative white guy with (D) next to his name.

Pretty sure we can guess who will win the primary if they can help it. DNC leadership is not interested in what it's membership wants.

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[–] AreaKode@lemmy.world 300 points 1 day ago (24 children)

Weird. The party that claims to be "for the people" keeps putting centrists in charge. We're ready for someone who is actually for the people!

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 197 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Quickest way to mobilize the Democratic party is to threaten to put a progressive in charge

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 149 points 1 day ago (11 children)

They learned their lesson with Obama. The funny thing is he’s not even a fucking leftist, the party is just so full of dinosaurs they think a modern centrist is a leftist.

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[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 54 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Water is wet. Wasn't this obvious when the DNC kingmakers, I mean, leadership decided to boot her out of a key committee position with a person that that could have passed for a republican and retired after getting the position? A poll was needed to see this?

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[–] gradual@lemmings.world 22 points 1 day ago

She's one of the few democrats that I would vote for president.

[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 69 points 1 day ago (6 children)

That's funny, because the dnc does not share any of her ideology, and it's not even close

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[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 149 points 1 day ago

she's got my vote

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