Summary

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez urged countering the Trump administration’s policies by resisting at every turn, arguing that its incompetence makes it vulnerable.

Her remarks followed chaos caused by a rescinded executive order that temporarily shut down Medicaid portals nationwide.

She encouraged activists to take offline action, citing ongoing mobilization efforts.

Her strategy focuses on making governance difficult for Trump, calling his administration “dangerous and cruel” but also “shockingly dim.”

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    14 hours ago

    Who is this ‘we’ you speak of?

    I really wanted Bernie in 2016, 2020, and 2024. Somehow ‘we’ managed not to get out and get him nominated.

    But now, somehow, ‘we’ are going to get organized.

    Until ‘we’ shows me that they can organize a weinie roast, I’ll stick with the people who are actually on the ballot.

    I also notice that you had nothing to say about registering voters as an actual tool.

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      13 hours ago

      Until ‘we’ shows me that they can organize a weinie roast, I’ll stick with the people who are actually on the ballot.

      I guess you missed the part where we were manning barricades and taking tear gas canisters to the face in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022… directly confronting fascism on the streets and taking it to them. Your obtuseness has no external meaning.

      I also notice that you had nothing to say about registering voters as an actual tool.

      If voting changed anything about this system, they’d make it illegal. Voting as a strategy to stop fascism was attempted in 2020. The result was a 4 year hiatus, but with no real ability or intention to take action against fascism. Biden could have had Trump arrested on day fucking one of taking power. He chose not to. Democrats chose to only make a show of any kind of consequences for a literal attempted coup, because to them, it simply wasn’t a priority. Voting as a strategy to change the system doesn’t work when the people you are obligated to vote for as the “opposition party” are not, and will not, and have no interest in changing the system: ie, Democrats.

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        13 hours ago

        I agree with everything you said 100%, except the bit about how if voting worked it’d be illegal. Republicans are literally trying to make it that way. One of their main goals is to disenfranchise as many poor people and minorities as possible, bc if everyone voted, republicans would lose every election by a landslide. That’s why they love things like manually registering to vote, randomly deregistering people, the electoral college, and hand counting ballots, while opposing mail-in and absentee ballots, automatic voter registration, RCV, basically anything that gives Americans more voting power. Voting is very much the least you can do to affect change in America, but it is still a thing you can and should do regularly before republicans abolish it

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        13 hours ago

        So, in other words, bOTh SidES arE tHe SAMe. Don’t vote, because it doesn’t work.

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          2 hours ago

          bOTh SidES arE tHe SAMe

          Everyone who says this with mixed case sarcasm does so out of bitter disappointment at the remaining differences.

          The parties agree on more shit than they should.

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            13 hours ago

            If voting changed anything about this system, they’d make it illegal. Voting as a strategy to stop fascism was attempted in 2020.

            It’s like you just type away and don’t even bother reading what you wrote.