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It's funny who got caught out when the music stopped.
You gotta show some principles to be elected senator
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When she is elected new york senator in new administration of slotkin/boottigieg, she will be voting for palantir datacenters in disadvantaged communities
reminds me of when they had her go to the mat for Joe Biden a week before dumping him as the nominee
They really didn't catch as much shit as they deserved for that stunt
The way this keeps happening to AOC and Sanders feels like they're cursed
It's a combination of not being as genuinely progressive as they claimed to be and being locked up in the DC echo chamber bubble FOR YEARS
I will assert confidently that for the last 5 years neither AOC or Bernie have talked to a single human being who even halfway approaches our politics
I don't think either of them could even comprehend half of the takes we pump out here
It is being liberal cowards who toe the party line while being excluded from the party strategy table. Their role is to sheepdog and that means they eat shit when they inevitably support a reactionary candidate or policy or party line that is likely to get walked back. The alternative would be that they act as real critics or gadflies, but they are comfortably avoiding being so lest they get the Bernie Bro treatment, which is to say, party pushback (as weak as it is!).
They are more right wing than they describe themselves to be, yes, but they do not even allow themselves many opportunities to appropriate the left and create some kind of socdem "resistance" because of this calculus. AOC would love to be the pro-Palestine darling if it didn't mean a direct confrontation with the party machine and donors.
They are the middle of the human centipede between the dem power brokers at the front and the idiot left liberal voters at the back
Or it's intentional. Their "friends" tell them to go out and defend Israel and then leave them holding the bag to come out against Israel.
And they just keep falling for it.
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2025
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