Summary

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned that the Trump is deliberately overwhelming the public with chaotic news to induce passivity.

Citing Steve Bannon’s “flood the zone” strategy and historian Michiko Kakutani’s comparison of Trump to Mussolini and Hitler, she argued that Trump uses the internet to spread disinformation, much like past dictators used film and radio.

Urging people to stay engaged, she emphasized that collective resistance can slow harmful policies and that small acts of opposition make a difference.

  • Snowclone@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Homie, the news never reported even once that Trump openly started he wanted to reenact Operation Wetback. He explicitly referenced it multiple times. Not a peep from news media. Do you think they covered anything AOC did at that time? Also, your getting into the same kind of logic used to attack Trump opponents ‘‘Hillary has been in politics since the 80s why didn’t she destroy ISIS YET! Why didn’t she entirely fix the federal taxation system!!’’

    She didn’t because the first lady of Arkansas has just about zero political abilities to effect anything on a federal level, same with the president’s wife, and a senator from NY also. No power to dictate national policy on every subject, there actually are a lot of limitations of power in the legislator and for the Secretary of State. These aren’t free for all positions where you wake up and go ‘‘hay let’s make it illegal to burn trash nation wide’’ and you just get that law passed with no issues.

    AOC is a legislator. Not the president. Not a cabinet member, and not The Glorious Queen of America. She also isn’t in the leadership of the DNC, and she butts heads with them constantly, she’s easily the most vocal Democrat that comes out and pressures the party to actually put their money where their mouth is. She is literally the person that made Pelosi commit to relinquishing power to younger members of the party. You want to jump up her ass for not fixing everything? That’s not how any of this works.

    • AntiOutsideAktion
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      3 hours ago

      I am engaging with her only at the level on which she acts. Her purely symbolic and performative objections to the concentration camps on the border evaporated when her team got into power.

      Just like your objections to genocide magically appeared when your team lost it again.