AOC voted against MTG’s amendment to strip Israel funding from the Defense Appropriations Act of 2026 : usa

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Update: AOC clarifies she supports genocide and it is not about MTG

https://lemmy.ml/post/33383345?scrollToComments=true

[–] ghen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well that is certainly one interpretation of her words. Maybe not the one closest to the truth but definitely one way of thinking lol.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (12 children)

I mean I disagree I think it's absolutely closest to the truth. She's just trying to fudge what she means but that's exactly what the truth is.

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[+] fodor@lemmy.zip -6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The post title is BS, but the content is worthwhile, lol. Singling out just one person? Come on now, don't be a doofus.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What is BS in the title?

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The cherry picked nature of only mentioning AOC. 428 other representatives did the same thing, which is the real story.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/aoc-is-a-genocidal-con-artist

People who say you should criticize AOC less because there are way worse members of congress act like she’s just passively sitting there being a mediocre lawmaker. She’s not. She’s actively anchoring the leftmost edge of the Overton window of US politics to militarism, capitalism, colonialism, and genocide. She’s actively stopping American politics from moving any further left than the nightmare we see before us.

Leftists shouldn’t hate AOC less than the politicians to her right, they should hate her much more. It isn’t Mike Johnson’s responsibility to move the US government to the left, and it’s not Nancy Pelosi’s job. It’s hers. That’s what she was elected to do. That’s what she framed the goals of her entire political career as being. And she’s taking her stand firmly bracing against any leftward movement from America’s genocidal, warmongering, unjust, exploitative, tyrannical status quo.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, yeah, I don't disagree, but surely its more important for this specific article to note that there are only 6 representatives in the house who care about reducing the money going to Israel?

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

We all know the establishment is corrupt.

The progressives are the ones supposed to not be voting with the establishment.

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[+] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml -7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

~~I’m pretty sure a large contingent of her constituency is New York Jews, many of whom are probably Orthodox… It’s not a stretch to believe that many of those voters are also Zionists~~

[–] foggianism@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It makes no sense. It's not like there's a gazzilion jews in America and that's why the majority of US politicians support Israel unconditionally. Jews in New York or elsewhere can cast only so many votes.

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