Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

White_Unifier

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1. No politician in the United States has any interest in reducing the deficit or the debt.
2. I've not detected any strong feelings on trade in AOC. Presumably she'll go whatever way she feels the wind is blowing.

1. So she's no worse than the others on the borrow-and-spend front.

2. So at least she's not as bad as the died-in-the-wool protectionists.

So a somewhat above-average politician then.
 

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The GOP is sure scared of her. Imagine, if all those rich, powerful white guys were forced to pay European level taxes to support the poor. They'll go over her past with a fine tooth comb and Fox will wear away at her daily for years with some invented Benghazi/birther bullshit attack plan because of her dangerous views.

Maybe, President Pence will make her into a Handmaid during his brief mandate.
Seems to me the only people talking about AOC are trolls like you trying to score imaginary points and older established Democrats .
 

White_Unifier

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The GOP is sure scared of her. Imagine, if all those rich, powerful white guys were forced to pay European level taxes to support the poor. They'll go over her past with a fine tooth comb and Fox will wear away at her daily for years with some invented Benghazi/birther bullshit attack plan because of her dangerous views.
Maybe, President Pence will make her into a Handmaid during his brief mandate.

I agree that the rich have a moral obligation towards the poor. But guess what! The poor have a moral obligation towards themselves too. That's why some jurisdictions have developped strict self-exclusion policies from casinos, or stricter alcohol laws, etc. as a way to help the poor. Yes the rich may need to provide funds to help the poor to a degree, but we can't count on that alone to help the poor. Even the rich can afford to pay only so much. In the end, we need to help the poor exercise their own obligations too.

Even when we do give money to the poor, it should go mostly towards literacy, trades, or professional education or addiction therapy to help them get back on their feet, as a hand up, not a hand out. We shouldn't just be throwing money at the poor with no idea how they're going to spend that money.

Conservatives want to help the poor by teaching them how to fish, socialists just want to enable their bad habits by just throwing fish at them.
 

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I agree that the rich have a moral obligation towards the poor. But guess what! The poor have a moral obligation towards themselves too. That's why some jurisdictions have developped strict self-exclusion policies from casinos, or stricter alcohol laws, etc. as a way to help the poor. Yes the rich may need to provide funds to help the poor to a degree, but we can't count on that alone to help the poor. Even the rich can afford to pay only so much. In the end, we need to help the poor exercise their own obligations too.
Even when we do give money to the poor, it should go mostly towards literacy, trades, or professional education or addiction therapy to help them get back on their feet, as a hand up, not a hand out. We shouldn't just be throwing money at the poor with no idea how they're going to spend that money.
Conservatives want to help the poor by teaching them how to fish, socialists just want to enable their bad habits by just throwing fish at them.
well, I guess that you're not her.
 

EagleSmack

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Seems to me the only people talking about AOC are trolls like you trying to score imaginary points and older established Democrats .


They're White Knights. They have this White Savoir complex like many old white male liberals do in the U.S. They rush to her defense as soon as THEY feel she is in distress.
 

Twin_Moose

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They're White Knights. They have this White Savoir complex like many old white male liberals do in the U.S. They rush to her defense as soon as THEY feel she is in distress.

Isn't chauvinism suppose to be a no no for feminists? So wouldn't it be looked at as a slap in the face of a strong independent woman to have a White knight coming to her rescue Lol
 

EagleSmack

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Isn't chauvinism suppose to be a no no for feminists? So wouldn't it be looked at as a slap in the face of a strong independent woman to have a White knight coming to her rescue Lol


They cannot help themselves. They feel she needs to be protected, so like White Knights they rush to her rescue. They're obsessed with her.
 

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Curious Cdn

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And the first tired old White Knight rides to her rescue.
*snicker*
No doubt, a schmuck like you with your head buried so far up your asshole wouldn't ride to anyone's rescue.

No class ... definitely no honor.

"Marine", my hairy ass.