AOC hasn't "retreated" from socialist politics. She's had to adapt and be pragmatic since getting elected to serve in federal office, unlike anyone in that so-called "liberation caucus". They sound like a bunch of backseat drivers to me.
One person can't just show up in congress and suddenly make socialist policies happen. That's gonna require a majority in both chambers to pass. Expecting AOC to do all that by herself and accusing her of selling out when it doesn't happen immediately, is asinine.
This is the problem on the left. We spend more time cannibalizing ourselves than we do actually working to get more socialists elected. The recent successes in the DSA have been in spite of the naysayers, not because of them.
Yes but most tankies seem to hate centrist neoliberal Dems worse than they hate maga republicans. And they consider DSA to be centrist neolibs like the rest if the democratic party.
They'd rather see a trump third term than a Dem or even DSA president.
Oh. Oh yeah, I have done that. Like for adding the date to a file name when I dump a terminal output to into a text file, or adding hit counts to a custom notification after running a scan on a cron job.
I just use the character for that. It's fine, can't win them all, but it's better than having it at the beginning of every command line for seemingly no reason
Except that at least half the country only eats that plasticky "american cheese" because they think anything else isn't patriotic.
All that other stuff: hot sauce, chips, etc., it's all just overly-processed, mass-produced, artificially-flavored crap that tries to overcompensate for the blandness of everything else that's a staple of "american" cuisine.
In other countries they actually blend spices and herbs and chilis and they use good ratios to make complex and harmonious flavors. That's not the same thing at all as putting ranch on your chicken nuggets.
And yes, I know there are immigrant communities with ethnic cuisine. But those are indicative of the cuisines of their homeland. America cannot take credit for that. Especially because there's at least a third of the country who won't eat it because they think it's too "foreign."
So providing counterexamples doesn't refute my statement because it wasn't absolute. I didn't say "all americans are like this" or that "you can't find flavorful food anywhere in america."
But the fact remains that a significant portion of the american population does avoid anything beyond white bread, american cheese, and all the most basic stuff they consider "american" or "normal" foods.
If you've never had the displeasure of knowing someone like that, good for you. You might live in a vibrant and progressive area. I haven't been so fortunate, and all my life I've been judged for enjoying fancy cheeses, herbs and spices, various types of cuisines from cultures around the world, etc. So don't tell me my experience isn't real.
We all saw the wave of social media activity in 2024 all centered around "Don't vote for Kamala because she isn't vocal enough against israel" while ignoring "Donald Drumpf is literally promising to make the genocide worse."
And now you want to say we're assigning too much intent? Like we're just supposed to pretend that didn't happen and we didn't see it?
We're not maga republicans here, our memories are not that short. Don't gaslight us.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I related a personal experience about when I learned there was a difference, but that doesn't mean I thought it was wrong.
Just a humorous way to laugh at myself while saying "the world is bigger than you think, and words can mean different things in different places."
AOC hasn't "retreated" from socialist politics. She's had to adapt and be pragmatic since getting elected to serve in federal office, unlike anyone in that so-called "liberation caucus". They sound like a bunch of backseat drivers to me.
One person can't just show up in congress and suddenly make socialist policies happen. That's gonna require a majority in both chambers to pass. Expecting AOC to do all that by herself and accusing her of selling out when it doesn't happen immediately, is asinine.
This is the problem on the left. We spend more time cannibalizing ourselves than we do actually working to get more socialists elected. The recent successes in the DSA have been in spite of the naysayers, not because of them.