Look at my succdems dawg, we're never getting socialism at the ballot box dawg
"Bernie's supporters have been very, very damaging to him, and it's really frustrating to see and experience. They don't realize how influential they are. It's frustrating to feel like they are hurting him," Ocasio-Cortez said in the midst of the 2020 primary, according to the book. "I feel like Warren is scooping up LGBT, progressives, women, and progressives of color because of how they isolate."
She also worried that the behavior of Sanders's supporters were "forcing an unnecessary choice between class analysis and race analysis" through their "behavior, not so much policy."
Ocasio-Cortez made those comments as she mulled whether to endorse Sanders's 2020 campaign, even though she had worked as an organizer on his 2016 campaign.
Like, is there anyone that is more of a Bernie Bro than Hasan was? If I was going to describe a Bernie Bro to anyone back when that election was happening I would have pointed at that himbo.
So she believed the media hype about Warren during the primaries. AOC's peak popularity was during the Trump years when being a snarky Twitter reply guy got you attention. Early interviews after her win revealed how big of a lib she was with how she defended Obama and allowed herself to be restrained just by having a fellow Puerto Rican congresswoman talk to her.
She was kind of promising early on with the Green New Deal and fiery speeches, but Pelosi putting the muzzle on and the January 6 insurrection was all it took for her to shut up and sit down. Now she gets ratio'd by Elon on Twitter and continues to have terrible foreign policy takes.
She's the type of American liberal poc that is all race issues at the most shallow level and will talk a big game about economics while continuing to play the neoliberal game behind the scene.
AHHHHHHH THE WHOLE THING WAS A SMEAR, BERNIE SUPPORTERS WERE SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN TO BE THE LEAST RUDE OF ANY OF THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES' PRIMARY VOTERS
The whole respectability politics thing makes me actively want what's worst for the US and Americans at large sometimes. What, everyone else get to be boorish shitheads and i can't even fling a turd or two back at them?
Lmao, fraternal order of the Bernard brethren strike again, this time striking fear into the hearts of sellout AOC (an even bigger sellout than cowardly Bernie)
It's either the dirtbag left who donated time, money, sweat, and sanity to get you elected, or the Jan 6 fascist chuds. Which would you rather have breathing down your neck?
"That bastard! We can never forgive him for briefly getting people believing that American politics could be more than just a race to the bottom of "the lesser of two evils". And that they could demand that politicians occasionally think about the well being of the people. He cost Hillary the election!"
Liberals like AOC/Bernie that larp as more progressive than they really are, are so fucking cowardly. Their supporters are worse because they're convinced they're the only ones who are right about fixing the rotten capitalist system.
These people got a little bit of pushback from the left once in an entire generation and they completely lost their minds over it. Also, how are you going to "defeat fascism" if you're this soft?
insane that this is literally a thing that journalists decided to believe about the people sending them on twitter and the most gullible "progressive" in politics heard about it and decided it's true and relevant
The left should take a leaf out of the right's book, tbh, AOC is correct about that. The way that the right had that campaign to stamp out toxicity and mysogyny was really impressive stuff.
(Not that these things should be excused on the left just because the right does them, mind—I'm just bored of holier-than-thou-definitionally-right-leaning-libs preaching about progress while being not just part of the problem but the problem and also being complicit in trying to genocide Palestine.)
"Ben Mora from Seeking Derangements pocdast is one of the most influential people alive, instead of being toxic by cyberbullying liberal reactionaries such as Pete Buttigieg or Mitski, he should be leading us to the ballot box"
Sanders's supporters were "forcing an unnecessary choice between class analysis and race analysis" through their "behavior, not so much policy."
The Antifada just had an author come on to talk about their article and they also pointed at BLM activists that totally forego a class analysis for race analysis and similarly did dumb shit. It's something in the water man, baby-brain dogshit liberalism in everyone's drinking supply.
But according to reporting in Ryan Grim's "The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution," the New York congresswoman thought the idea had a lot of merit — and that it was hurting Sanders' prospects.
I'm definitely not defending AOC, but I'd like to point out that this quote came from some shitty liberal journalist, and was later quote mined from fucking Business Insider.