AOC launches bid for 'profound and consequential' role as top Dem on House Oversight panel : usa

[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 44 points 1 week ago

Fuck yeah. Do something!

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 week ago

#LET'S FUCKING GO-O-O-O!

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 31 points 1 week ago

I see people always hope for a Presidential role for her, but I honestly want her and people like her in these kinds of places instead. Far more power to change things for a longer time.

[-] takeda@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Given the recent election, I think Democrats needs extroverts, populists (true ones like AOC or Bernie, not fake ones like trump, that only promise but deliver for himself). It looks like people no longer want an establishment.

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 16 points 1 week ago

in the coming years

It's adorable she thinks the government apparatus will still exist after the fascist takeover.

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 31 points 1 week ago

Maybe not, but wouldn't it be worse to not try? I'm as pessimistic as they come but I don't think giving up is an option either.

[-] millifoo 7 points 1 week ago

I 100% agree. It'll suck to be her, but we need her to ask the questions and take notes. There will be more elections, and if/when Dems are back in power, it sure would be nice to have a record of the immoral, unethical, and illegal shit that the GOP did while in power.

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth -3 points 1 week ago

I don't tend to temper my online pessimism, if it's enough to discourage anyone it was going to happen with or without me.

[-] takeda@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Obeying in advance is a sure way it will happen.

https://youtu.be/QfQ9dwXFhbM

[-] takeda@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

It actually depends on us. If we accept it in advance it will indeed be over.

The book titled On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the 20th Century by Prof. Snyder is a must read for today's times.

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[-] Drusas@fedia.io 23 points 1 week ago

How horrible, somebody trying to do something positive.

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[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 16 points 1 week ago

Not denying, fighting against the reality. I dare say you haven't seen any videos of her in committees asking the pointed questions that are normally glossed over. You can certainly argue about effectiveness, but if no one tries to make a difference, it will absolutely go the direction it's going.

[-] millifoo 13 points 1 week ago

What do you suggest our represenatives do as an alternative? Give up? Say and do nothing for 4 years?

As painful and exasperating of a job it's going to be, we still need idealists like AOC to go and do their best, even while in the minority.

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

Your right! Give up, try nothing.

Jill Stein voter, perhaps?

[-] toast@retrolemmy.com 0 points 1 week ago

*You're

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[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

She's not a centrist, so she's not preemptively capitulating.

[-] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago

It does mess up their storytelling time during trumped up investigations that rely on unhinged witnesses and made up evidence. Plus it wastes more of their time so they can't do awful things quickly, always a good thing. Having to tolerate a non-submissive woman (moreso if she isn't lily white) speaking and existing in their spaces as an equal annoys misogynists too.

[-] veroxii@aussie.zone 7 points 1 week ago

You need someone who will at least try to get the truth in the public record. In case there ever is a reckoning one day.

[-] insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

You think she hasn't thought about how this might go? She's very smart and capable, I'm pretty sure she's thought this through.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

What a shit take

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