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AHHH! The beauty of Socialism unplugged!

The Reverend Bob

Fart Machine and Beastmaster
She isn't a socialist. She is a social capitalist who routinely thinks that the negative impact of big capitalism on society can be fixed by implementing more social programs i.e panem et circenses to divert public disapproval away from the government.

And I highly doubt that giving our representative a raise will stop them from wanting more money and taking bribes from lobbyist. She just wants more money because she is a greedy capitalist like all the rest of them.
 

tytlyf

Not Religious
OP, your first problem is your sources. Have you fact checked them? Don't fall trap to radical RW media. They're coming for ya!
 

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
Right wing mental process:

Socialism is evil.
Everyone is filty rich so increasing taxes on the top 1% is increasing taxes on everyone.
Socialism is evil.
Democratic socialism is socialism and thus evil
AOC is evil.
Socialism is evil.
AOC wants Congress to have a raise and she's evil so giving a raise to Congress after many many years of no raise is evil.
 

Nakosis

Non-Binary Physicalist
Premium Member
Miss Socialist AOC says we should be sharing equally and the rich have enough. Translated, "I WANT MORE MONEY AND I WANT TO TAX YOU MORE TO MAKE IT HAPPEN"

Socialism never works.

AOC Wants Congress to Get a Raise So They'll Stop Taking Bribes from Lobbyists - Big League Politics
US Congress members: A look at perks and pay

I don't think she puts a lot of critical thinking into the ideas that pop into her head. Why should she? It's probably what got her elected. Makes her an excellent democratic counter point for Trump.
 

SugarOcean

¡pɹᴉǝM ʎɐʇS
Miss Socialist AOC says we should be sharing equally and the rich have enough. Translated, "I WANT MORE MONEY AND I WANT TO TAX YOU MORE TO MAKE IT HAPPEN"

Socialism never works.

AOC Wants Congress to Get a Raise So They'll Stop Taking Bribes from Lobbyists - Big League Politics
US Congress members: A look at perks and pay
I've defined her name as an acronym. AOC = Abomination Of Congress.
I don't believe she's a Socialist nor a Capitalist of any kind. I think she's a Marxist.
I also think she's not that intelligent. I would use the M word but that would be cruel to the letter M.
She is so bad at public speaking that she's now hired a speech writer so that she's taken more seriously. However, there is no speech writer when she's live on C-SPAN .

She and her Socialist backers are selling the naive a bill of goods. National Socialism has never worked well for any nation in history.
 

Rival

Si m'ait Dieus
Staff member
Premium Member
Because it is raising its head cloaked in sheep's clothing
As a European I have a really hard time understanding why US people hate socialism. I much prefer a nationalised health service, rail service, electric board and prison system. I can't really think of a system much worse than trying to make profit from sick people or criminals, but there you go.
 

SugarOcean

¡pɹᴉǝM ʎɐʇS
It wasn't the one I looked at, it actually had the video interview.
I looked for something like that but didn't find anything. I'll keep looking. It's better to hear it from her own lips anyway. But at least the written article and her quotes do for now.
 

Terry Sampson

Well-Known Member
Unraveling one of the OP's sources:

(a) Big League Politics - Wikipedia -
  • Big League Politics is an American far-right media website founded by former Breitbart News employees. The site was announced in 2017 by one of its founders as an investigative outfit. In early 2018, Big League Politics was acquired by Mustard Seed Media which is owned by Reilly O'Neal and Noel Fritsch. On its about page, Big League Politics states "We are not conservative. We are not liberal". Its editor-in-chief is former Breitbart reporter Patrick Howley. The Wall Street Journal describes the website as "backed by Republican operatives".
  • The website has promoted conspiracy theories, such as the QAnon conspiracy theory and Murder of Seth Rich conspiracy theories. The New York Times described Big League Politics as "an obscure right-wing news site [...] which has promoted conspiracy theories and written favorably about white nationalist candidates."
(b) Oooo, ... neat! "In early 2018, Big League Poliics was acquired by Mustard Seed Media owned by Reilly O'ONeal and Noel Fritsch."

(c) Timothy Reilly O'Neal and Noel Fritsch. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/big-league-politics-patrick-howley_n_5bbe210de4b0876edaa4a1fd?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMgVlN89lunzvm1vmKfwOXAjKBo_MP_ErU432bF8wvjFftvvVeYGtTO4vVWnIWwR3lMQv22MOIG-ttTp-impT4Z7PG7GJ68HWD2zoFaimOjhcgOBK-EbDnecxq6a5vJePUZK1A9F_uE2dRKISOl81J2TlofXkiKAr8O8z88YqTFh "The site, which now has nearly 80,000 Twitter followers, is owned by Reilly O’Neal, a North Carolina political operative whose clients include failed Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, as well as Virginia Republican and Confederate monument defender Corey Stewart. Fritsch, a campaign consultant who has worked for many of the same candidates as O’Neal, doesn’t work for the site but appears in some of its biggest videos.

"But the website’s lodestar is Howley, a 28-year-old former Breitbart News and Daily Caller reporter.

Howley, a professed admirer of conspiracy peddler Alex Jones, has a long record of stunt journalism. As an assistant editor at The American Spectator, he infiltrated an Occupy Wall Street-linked group in Washington, D.C., during a 2011 protest and (unsuccessfully) led a charge of Occupy protesters into the National Air and Space Museum to protest a drone exhibit. In addition to promoting political candidates O’Neal champions, like Stewart or Paul Nehlen, a white nationalist Republican candidate for Congress in Wisconsin, Big League Politics embraces the kind of coverage that made Howley notorious."

(d) Roy Moore Consultants’ New Project: A Conspiracy-Theorizing Pro-Trump News Site "O’Neal declined to provide details about how BLP came into possession of the Moore campaign Twitter account. But he himself has business ties to the failed Alabama candidate. Moore’s campaign paid two of O’Neal’s other companies more than $730,000, according to Federal Election Commission records. It paid another $130,000 in total to GOP consultant Noel Fritsch, a firm Fritsch runs, and another firm that lists his home in D.C. as its mailing address.

Both Fritsch and O’Neal have collaborated on a number of political projects and, a source familiar with Big League Politics’ operations says both are now heavily involved with the website.

Fritsch did not respond to requests for comment. Neither did Howley."

(e) This New Right-Wing Site Falsely Blamed A UNC Professor For Heather Heyer's Death | HuffPost
"This New Right-Wing Site Falsely Blamed A UNC Professor For Heather Heyer’s Death
Patrick Howley’s Big League Politics is for people who find Breitbart too reasonable. And it’s just getting started.

(f) Me? LOL!!!
 

SugarOcean

¡pɹᴉǝM ʎɐʇS
Right wing mental process:

Socialism is evil.
Everyone is filty rich so increasing taxes on the top 1% is increasing taxes on everyone.
Socialism is evil.
Democratic socialism is socialism and thus evil
AOC is evil.
Socialism is evil.
AOC wants Congress to have a raise and she's evil so giving a raise to Congress after many many years of no raise is evil.
The Democrats in Congress oppose the pay raise initiative.
 
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