I’ll vote for her
this post was submitted on 14 May 2026
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“Nobody earns a billion dollars”.
Don’t tell me that doesn’t resonate with everyone.
Unfortunately, it doesn't.
But does it resonates with enough? The rest can go fuck themselves as badly as they have been fucking us.
Since the 2 comments here have negative votes, I'll go ahead and say: Good! You need some radical shit happening USA, and AOC is a good start.
Worst part is that for a rather large part of Europe, what she and Bernie want isn’t even that radical.
At least for Scandinavia, they’d be center-left.
Just shows how incredibly different we are politically
If we manage to get out of this democratically, it won't be with one huge sweeping swing all the way to what the rest of the world considers the left. Even something vaguely resembling the left from the perspective of an actually functional country would be an insane first step toward fixing this country.
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I heard the same thing about Obama
"Oh but she's bad because some reason, you're better of not voting and just lying belly up so fascists can ruin everything faster" , "the democrats are just the same as republicans, so we shouldn't even try anything", "I won't support genocide so I won't oppose even more genocide", "it doesn't matter anymore we can't do anything, it'll be better if we let the fascists win and wait until everything is in ruins"
Then people arguing against
That's about how these comment sections always go lmao
It's really interesting watching discussions about the trolley problem in abstract vs the problem in praxis. Because the thought experiment is about inaction (letting the runaway train crash into the group of people) on one hand and harm reduction (switching tracks) on the other.
The thing that I find fascinating is that with the thought experiment (basically) everyone says the answer is clear: switch tracks. But in the applied scenario of voting picking the lesser evil somehow stains your hands more than not voting.
It's the moral purism vs. harm reduction conflict. A moral purist will not accept any compromises because they value their personal moral values over everything else, while someone holding harm reduction stances will accept compromises (the lesser evil) even if it morally stains them, to get better actual results. This means a moral purist is okay with letting the greater evil win as long as their own moral purity stays intact
(and the paradox of moral purism is that they in reality go against their own ideals, by letting the greater evil win)
I'm not voting for AOC because I'm voting for AOB, the prototype
I’m holding out for AOEII.
with the DNC inability to even acnknowledge election autopsy for 2024, i dont have high hopes for her. mark kelly would be a better candidate, and nobody trusts NEWSOME at all, since hes so slimy even before platform neo-nazis on a talk show.
due to mysogyny she will have the same problem as hillary and kamala, men wont choose a woman ever, especially a POC.
Or if not, she'll have the same problem as Bernie, Hillary/Kamala/Establishment Dems will again deny the clear winner and field another candidate who is much worse and won't win. Did it again when they put an aging Biden in for the second time then took it back and forced Kamala through without a primary.
Don't worry, whether she's a woman or not, she'll be Bernied.
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