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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
She kind of looks and acts like the perky Congresswoman newcomer on a CW political show where all the older Republicans are big meanies to her.
And they look and act like it to her.
She has Beto's immunity to trolling so far but actually has things to say.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.This has been a serious problem for women for a while now. Not just in politics, but in damn near anything. Just check out the "Mean Tweets" vid from a couple years back that had men reading cruel abusive tweets that female sports reporters have gotten.
And of course there's that one thing that attracts so much awfulness that it's even a taboo subject here.
There's nothing that angers a lot of men more than a woman daring to express an opinion.
Edited by M84 on Mar 22nd 2019 at 1:43:46 AM
Disgusted, but not surprisedI am sure if we dig deep someone already came up with a plausible scheme. That's what is often the case when people say "there is no plan".
Edited by SeptimusHeap on Mar 21st 2019 at 7:38:29 PM
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanI think everyone knows who AOC is at this point in the conversation. There was a recent Twitter takedown of Laura Ingraham a few days ago regarding this very subject in fact, and AOC stating that 'AOC' was fine, but not 'Cortez' as her name is not, and never was, 'Cortez'.
"...in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."Something interesting that came up in my Reuters notifications:
"Turn in your smartphones! How Mueller kept a lid on Trump-Russia probe" - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-secrecy/turn-in-your-smartphones-how-mueller-kept-a-lid-on-trump-russia-probe-idUSKCN1R3195
And before before someone says suggests 'Cortez' thats a bad idea
Her name isn't Cortez. It's Ocasio-Cortez. That's how Hispanic surnames work.
I can't imagine living this way, and I don't think it's going to stop anytime soon. If anything it might get worse. That's legitimately terrifying.
Disgusted, not surprised. To 100% steal a phrase from M84.
The right hates her with an obsessive passion. The right is also responsible for a majority of political violence in the country, so much so that radical right-wing extremists were considered a terrorist threat before Trump ordered the FBI to stop looking into them.
And the right has such a Mafia mentality that a United States Congressman openly tried to blackmail Cohen into silence on Twitter before his hearing in the House. They aren't even hiding it anymore.
I'd be shocked if AOC wasn't getting hate mail and anonymous death threats on a daily basis. Hell, I wouldn't even be surprised if some of those anonymous death threats were coming from other Congressmen.
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And, heaven forbid something happened to her, you know the GOP will try to spin it in a way that blames her for what happened.
Remember, these idiots drive, fuck, and vote. Not always in that order.