This person calls themselves a “historian of Cuba” lol
EDIT: Even though we're dunking on a few of these people, The Toxic Leftist isn't a good account either. They describe themselves as a "rightwing leftist".
She de-legitimizes herself through the way she interacts with and uses power. She is not serious about trying to form any kind of disruptive coalition within the party ala the Freedom Caucus, and she isn't even good at 'saying the right message' anymore.
I was totally on board with her when she was first elected. I ignored the pessimistic cries of the communists, but once again, they were correct.
It’s true that a lot of leftists are still pathetically obsessed with her because they felt “betrayed”. After Obama and Bernie, you should realize by now that all these people in federal politics are there because they’ve passed the ghoul test. There shouldn’t be any betrayal because you shouldn’t have trusted them now.
AOC as a symbol is a threat to fringe ideologies who see any engagement with electoral politics as necessarily impotent and morally bankrupt
AOC as a person is a threat to everyone. And politicians who do engage with liberal electoral politics are important and morally bankrupt
I encourage everybody here to start posting on mastodon under the theory that their personality & wit could be an attractant or reason to stay for refugees from twitter
I'm basically more sympathetic to AOC than the average person here because she needs a fuck ton of reinforcements and they ain't comin. After a half decade she has probably realized that.
Maybe there'll come a day where she's like a Kerensky figure opposed to some viable left wing power structure but we are very far from that.
This comment is a struggle session waiting to happen, and far be it from me to start it, but is she not already opposing left power by reinforcing American imperialism? She falls in line WRT China, Venezuela, Russia, etc.
Any pol that lacked reinforcements can just accept the L and fuck off rather than become a ghoul.
AOC isn't a socialist and never was, she's been an NGO and NatSec "progressive" the entire time and has acted in a very consistently inconsistent way you'd expect from that.
fr who cares if she's hiding her power level or if she really believes in all the genocides she's endorsing, none of matters if we're not replacing the rest of congress.
It’s funny, because the very first interview AOC did on leftist internet platform was with Jimmy Dore back in 2017 when she started her campaign. It was her first major exposure to the online left.
How things have changed. Or rather, how little things have changed.
Saying that he calls himself a historian of Cuba is a bit misleading. Andres Piertierra received a bachelors degree for Marxist Historiography from the University of Havana, Cuba. He has a history degree from the University of Havana. If having a history degree from a Cuban university doesn't qualify one to a be a historian of Cuba, then what does?
This is his photo in the 2012-2013 graduates book on the University of Havana website.
That’s quite literally what he wrote on his twitter page lol
Despite studying Marxist Historiography, he could have fooled me with the questionable statements he’s made on social media in the past. This isn’t me just bashing him out of the blue. Why are you defending him?