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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Catching up.

AOC - Twitch - she recently did a livestream with yet another politician as a guest: MN Gov and VP candidate Tim Walz. They played a recent version of the Madden football simulator, though AOC conceded that she was very new at that one, and when she was growing up, her family was mainly interested in other sports, like baseball and basketball.

She also showed off some of her playing of Stardew Valley where one builds a farm.
 
lpetrich said:
Catching up.

AOC - Twitch - she recently did a livestream with yet another politician as a guest: MN Gov and VP candidate Tim Walz. They played a recent version of the Madden football simulator, though AOC conceded that she was very new at that one, and when she was growing up, her family was mainly interested in other sports, like baseball and basketball.

She also showed off some of her playing of Stardew Valley where one builds a farm.
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I saw some clips from that. Supposedly the goal of the event was to attract men to the Democrat party by having the two Democrat stars do a manly thing.

From what I saw, I wouldn't expect a major impact. If anything, it will just exacerbate the mass exodus.
 
I must catch up. :(

Last September, about AOC's distribution of backpacks for school students:
Team AOC | Strong communities talk to each other. Strong communities talk to each other. When we speak with parents at backpack distributions, it’s an opportunity to listen and engage on the issues that matter to everyday families. ... | Instagram

No mention of a message in them, but back in 2019, she did have a message: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | Yesterday we celebrated back-to-school by sharing backpacks and school supplies with families across the district. ... | Instagram
  • Be curious
  • Be kind
  • Be diligent
Covering three of the Big Five personality factors. To cover the other two, she might have included "be bold" and "be calm".

Last October,

Team AOC | 🎃👻 Happy Halloween from Team AOC! Today, we joined the Bronx’s Annual Halloween Parade ... | Instagram - she wore a Wednesday Addams costume.

Team AOC | Team AOC celebrated a Happy Halloween in The Bronx and Queens! 🎃 ... | Instagram - she wore a spacesuit costume, though without a helmet.

Last November,

Team AOC | This year, Team AOC donated over 1,000 turkeys to NY-14—more than DOUBLING the number donated last year! 🦃 ... | Instagram
 


And it's back, longest 12 hours of my life, just to glaze orange mussolini.
 
Derec said:
She really sounds like a ditz.

And what's with the spastic zooming in the second video?
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Is this your admission that she is both correct and managed to get it across in terms even a total noob like myself can grasp?
Tom
 
TomC said:
Is this your admission that she is both correct
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I can't speak bout what evidence she received in Congress or not. However, I do not think she is right about TikTok.
and managed to get it across in terms even a total noob like myself can grasp?
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So you are saying she did it deliberately? The ditz act is just an act?
 
Derec said:
Don2 (Don1 Revised) said:
Why not address the content rather than name calling?
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Her content was not remarkable, so I did not remark upon it.
And it was not name calling, I was addressing her delivery. The halting way she spoke for one.
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Such a delivery is consistent with someone collecting their thoughts during off the cuff remarks.
 
Don2 (Don1 Revised) said:
You called her a ditz and you still are not addressing the content.
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I said she sounded like a ditz. That's different.

What's to say regarding the topic? Sure, stronger privacy protections would be nice, but there is a huge difference between US companies having access to user data vs. the Chinese government, which is a geopolitical rival. That alone should explain why forced sale of TikTok received bipartisan support in Congress. The second video (the one with the crazy zoom) does not even have content, just name-calling.
 
Derec said:
Don2 (Don1 Revised) said:
You called her a ditz and you still are not addressing the content.
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I said she sounded like a ditz. That's different.
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It's a distinction without a difference since it is both namecalling and doesn't deal with the content of the argument.

Derec said:
What's to say regarding the topic? Sure, stronger privacy protections would be nice, but there is a huge difference between US companies having access to user data vs. the Chinese government, which is a geopolitical rival.
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That is a false dichotomy. The user data gets bought and sold and ends up in everyone's hands who has enormous power and wealth, not to mention most of it is already out there also being bought and sold. The primary difference of different parties having ownership is who maximizes their income stream.

In this case, the Broligarchy is out to make a hefty profit.

Derec said:
That alone should explain why forced sale of TikTok received bipartisan support in Congress.
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Often legislators do things because of political fear as opposed to either constitutionality or logic.
 
AOC loses key vote in Oversight Committee race to Gerry Connolly - Dec 16, 2024
House Democrats' Steering and Policy Committee voted to recommend Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) as ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, several sources familiar with the vote told Axios.

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What we're hearing: Connolly defeated Ocasio-Cortez 34 to 27 on Monday, according to multiple lawmakers present.
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Then
AOC Loses Vote to Be Top Democrat on Oversight Panel - The New York Times - Dec. 17, 2024
Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, 35, lost to Representative Gerry Connolly of Virginia, 74, an eight-term Democrat. Her defeat was a counterpoint to the generational change emerging elsewhere in the party, which handed top posts on other panels to younger lawmakers. The secret-ballot vote was 131 to 84, according to members.

Speaking to reporters after the vote, Mr. Connolly, who recently disclosed he was being treated for cancer of the esophagus, argued that the idea that there was generational change afoot within the Democratic Caucus was a “false narrative” and that he and his colleagues were “looking at capability; we’re not looking at age.”

But on other panels, younger lawmakers beat out veteran leaders on Tuesday, a departure from the norm for Democrats, who for decades have largely abided by an unwritten rule that seniority trumps everything when it comes to meting out power.
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Was AOC too much for some of the more conservative members of the Democratic caucus?

Given GC's illness, this might also be interpreted as a pity vote, a vote for him to have one very nice thing before he dies.
 
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