GOLIKEHELLMACHINE: just keep that in the back of your mind next time you encounter someone like this in the wild, they don’t matter, they don’t exist electorally, don’t fool yourself into thinking they’re worth arguing with

this is sort of important to note, i think, the kind of person who thinks AOC is too centrist is a genuine fucking weirdo, and while you might encounter dozens or hundreds or even thousands of them online, it’s a country of 330M people, they basically don’t exist

like, i am not going to even bash “leftists” here, any person who thinks AOC sold them out has politics and ideologies that are too fucking weird and nonsensical to even fairly categorize

just keep that in the back of your mind next time you encounter someone like this in the wild, they don’t matter, they don’t exist electorally, don’t fool yourself into thinking they’re worth arguing with

they also don't vote and if they did vote it'd be a coinflip if they'd vote for GOP or Democrats

Some may vote for the PSL or Workers World candidates, who get a tiny number of votes

Kshama Sawant served for 10 years on Seattle's City Council. I mean, obviously let's think proportionally but it's not that they're never a problem.

Sawant was doing electorialism which these people rail against.

Wait, you mean I shouldn't debate HoChiMinh420 about whether AOC is a liberal neolib moderate shitlib? I have to think about that for a second.

but have you considered that if you don’t engage with them you are silencing them? That if you ignore them you are actively ripping out any semblance of a soul they have? That by not engaging you are, in fact, censoring them, like it was in the USSR (which was actually good?) Lots to consider!

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