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Gahlo
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Lmui
Canada6223 Posts
On June 15 2022 04:16 WombaT wrote: AOC’s rationale here seems ‘slightly’ different from that previous source’s take *PS how do some of you wizards directly embed stuff from Twitter testing - I removed the stuff after the question mark '?' in the URL, and just dumped the link into the post https://twitter.com/RepAOC/status/1519687572905152512 | ||
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Silvanel
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@Lmui Yeah. Thats the sort of murky explanation I am not buying. Eat the Rich, just not the Russian oligarchs... | ||
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EnDeR_
Spain2956 Posts
On June 15 2022 17:43 Silvanel wrote: Like lol? You guys are dodging the question. She voted against the bill. It was wildely reported, thet fact that You do not trust this particualr site (which I googled BTW, because I needed a source) has nothing to do with fact, that she sided with Putin and his war, against bipartisan bill. @Lmui Yeah. Thats the sort of murky explanation I am not buying. Eat the Rich, just not the Russian oligarchs... It is certainly a weird bill to take a stand on, agree on that. I mean, any time you are voting with Magic The Gathering you really should check if you're doing the right thing. I think on the whole AOC is quite charismatic and the sort of representative we should have a lot more of, I mean, at least she's familiar with what regular people have to deal with. Wasn't there a rep that thought that flats in NY cost $100k? | ||
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NewSunshine
United States5938 Posts
Do I think MTG and the other Republicans are thinking on those lines? Probably not. But just because they find it useful to stoke pro-Putin sentiment doesn't mean that AOC and her peers do, too. FWIW, I don't even necessarily disagree with the seizing of Russian assets, as an attempt to do whatever possible to dissuade them from invading Ukraine. I just don't think it's such a clear cut issue that now AOC is a Putin shill. I don't think that's a solid take. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland27478 Posts
On June 15 2022 17:43 Silvanel wrote: Like lol? You guys are dodging the question. She voted against the bill. It was wildely reported, thet fact that You do not trust this particualr site (which I googled BTW, because I needed a source) has nothing to do with fact, that she sided with Putin and his war, against bipartisan bill. @Lmui Yeah. Thats the sort of murky explanation I am not buying. Eat the Rich, just not the Russian oligarchs... It’s almost exclusively the 1st and 2nd amendments most prevalent in invocation political discourse, there are other amendments. If AOC and the squad have made violations of the 4th amendment a pretty decent chunk of their platform, it would be incongruous to just drop that when it’s expedient to do so. That’s how inalienable rights stop becoming inalienable. We’ve already seen how this goes in the post 9/11 era where ‘emergency’ legislation to deal with terrorism were, by a huge margin used to prosecute good old regular criminals. These were oligarchs the West was perfectly happy to do business with in the three decades post the collapse of the Soviet Union, London isn’t disparagingly called ‘Little Moscow’ for no reason. I don’t think it was necessarily the wisest position to take given current political winds, I wouldn’t personally slam AOC for it given the aforementioned. I’m sure many will but hey. | ||
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JimmiC
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WombaT
Northern Ireland27478 Posts
On June 17 2022 06:58 JimmiC wrote: This is an all time dumb tweet. GOP congressman thought that CNN actually removed a statue to build a deks for Jan 6th coverage. I wonder if he thinks the dinosaurs in jurassic park are real? https://ca.news.yahoo.com/gop-congressman-deletes-unbelievably-dumb-192325245.html They’re not sending their best… | ||
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Djabanete
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On June 17 2022 07:50 plasmidghost wrote: Do I think Beto will win? At the moment, no, but that may very well change. The best way to sound like a senator speaking to the press is to ask yourself a question that nobody knows the answer to and then answer yourself ;-) | ||
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StasisField
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