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    20 hours ago

    She plays the game but that doesn’t mean she’s secretly a Capitalist. We can debate the efficacy of her strategies, but I am glad she finally pushed the party on Israel’s genocide.

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        5 hours ago

        If that was her intention then she wouldn’t have stated Isreal should get no weapons, not even for “defense”. Unless maybe she’s trying to save the system from itself? Still seems like that shift is something beneficial for those who want the genocide to stop.

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          3 hours ago

          She did state Israel should get defensive weapons until that position became unholdable. Now she’s trying to keep Pelosi in power. She’s doing everything to prevent a shift to the left.

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            54 minutes ago

            you should call the majority report, they would love to have you explain how you came to this conclusion: 646-257-3920 , you will have a much larger audience then what’s here. I would love to see it.

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      9 hours ago

      If it weren’t for the players, there’d be no game. Also, considering human living conditions/death as a “game” emulates rent seeking crapitalism ideals.

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        49 minutes ago

        agreed, all of politics is not exactly “real”. Its a shared conceptual structure and a “game” we humans keep making up for ourselves to play. We can choose just not to play this game anymore and play by new rules. "The system"is not immortal and immutable, its just a conceptual construct we all agree exists, and is easy enough to follow such that our day runs predictably. If enough of us state that we are playing a new game instead, people everywhere will need to decide which game they want to play: the cruel shitty one that oppresses them or some new one.

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          8 hours ago

          Oh yes, the captive functioning of society is as bad as the optional “can’t do anything differently” dysfunction. 🙄

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            8 hours ago

            Even when you’re a captive tax payer you can do things differently. I think you mean to say she has power to do things more effectively? which brings us back to debating the efficacy of her tactics

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              8 hours ago

              Even when you’re a captive tax payer you can do things differently. Agree.

              I think you mean to say she has power to do things more effectively? I said what I said.

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                5 hours ago

                Apologies for offering my understanding of what you said, I really don’t understand your expectations here. That all politicians stop playing the game starting with AOC? And that will somehow bring down the two party system? But again, here we are talking about what is a better strategy which you insist is not the case.

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                  13 minutes ago

                  That all politicians stop playing the game starting with AOC?

                  If it is to be stopped, it has to stop with someone. The AOC of today is not the AOC of the first campaign, and that’s by design of the game. Not faulting get that out happened, but she’s been in the game long enough to know only billionaires and corpos are winning by these rules.

                  A drop => a trickle=> a stream=> a flood

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                  5 hours ago

                  That’s why Democrats today are right of Reagan.

                  No apologies needed, thanks anyway