AOC's "tax the rich" dress [split topic]

[JaDanketies]

feel really embarrassed for these young leftists who are slamming AOC for wearing a dress at a posh event tbh. The ideological crossover between Glinner and 14-year-olds with anime avatars is closer than you might think.

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[pigamus]

feel really embarrassed for these young leftists who are slamming AOC for wearing a dress at a posh event tbh. The ideological crossover between Glinner and 14-year-olds with anime avatars is closer than you might think.

I think they're slamming her for going in the first place. I think they've got a point - it's unfair, but she was always going to look like a massive hypocrite, so maybe it would have been better not to give them the free hit.

[GoblinAhFuckScary]

I think they're slamming her for going in the first place. I think they've got a point - it's unfair, but she was always going to look like a massive hypocrite, so maybe it would have been better not to give them the free hit.

yeah i agree. she should have known exactly what the optics were going to be like, so shouldn't have bothered

[Zetetic]

Probably got a decent dinner out of it.

[JaDanketies]

she is also literally wearing a dress that says 'tax the rich', which is kinda the message she wants to get out there

also I bet if all these complainers had the chance to go to a glitzy ball with Billie Eilish and Lil Nas X and all these other superstars, for free, while wearing a dress that said "tax the rich", they might find out that they are hypocrites

[GoblinAhFuckScary]

she is also literally wearing a dress that says 'tax the rich', which is kinda the message she wants to get out there

also I bet if all these complainers had the chance to go to a glitzy ball with Billie Eilish and Lil Nas X and all these other superstars, for free, while wearing a dress that said "tax the rich", they might find out that they are hypocrites

it's no big deal it's just a silly decision that she made. for what it's worth i'm certain that the stunt would receive less flak if it were a man doing it

idk if it's hypocrisy it's normal to feel negatively towards these crazy elitist institutions no matter what contrapoints says about 'envy'

jk rowling

[Mister Six]

I think they're slamming her for going in the first place. I think they've got a point - it's unfair, but she was always going to look like a massive hypocrite, so maybe it would have been better not to give them the free hit.

Nah, fuck 'em. The leftist purity teens hate her anyway for being a part of the machine and not voting absolutely in accordance with everything they believe, so they're lost to it all anyway. Getting that message in all the big papers, and keeping it high profile well into the Biden administration, is valuable.

[chveik]

it's no big deal it's just a silly decision that she made. for what it's worth i'm certain that the stunt would receive less flak if it were a man doing it

idk if it's hypocrisy it's normal to feel negatively towards these crazy elitist institutions no matter what contrapoints says about 'envy'

jk rowling

the fact that BLM protesters were beaten up outside the venue makes the whole thing quite grotesque, like some scene from a DeLillo novel

[Ferris]

I find the met gala inherently vomit-inducing. Chummy establishment shit.

Disappointed in AOC for going, but ok wear something halfway radical on the way in to reduce my disappointment. Doubt she gives a shit what I think anyway, and you can't deny it got some press coverage so whatever.

[chveik]

Nah, fuck 'em. The leftist purity teens hate her anyway for being a part of the machine and not voting absolutely in accordance with everything they believe, so they're lost to it all anyway. Getting that message in all the big papers, and keeping it high profile well into the Biden administration, is valuable.

lol

she's not the problem of course, the whole dem establishment is, the biggest problem of these leftist teens is their naivety really

[Mister Six]

lol

Compelling.

[chveik]

not much else i can do with this level of fuckwittery

[Mister Six]

Compelling.

[jobotic]

Plenty of people who weren't leftist teens weren't competely impressed by AOC's attendance.

What's wrong with leftist teens anyway? The leftist bit or the teen bit?

[Jumblegraws]

This AOC stuff is getting pretty off-topic

[Dr Rock]

Off-topic to the EXTREME

[jobotic]

Linehan started it

[Mister Six]

Plenty of people who weren't leftist teens weren't competely impressed by AOC's attendance.

What's wrong with leftist teens anyway? The leftist bit or the teen bit?

Sort of a combination of the two that leads to stridently held opinions and absolute dismissal of anyone who doesn't absolutely meet an individual's stringent criteria, rather than recognising that it's useful to have someone in Congress pushing for higher taxation for the rich even if she's not perfect in her voting record or likely to pick up an AK and seize the means of production.

[jamiefairlie]

Yeah but the teens part is dominant here. Right wing teens are as irritatingly dogmatic too, as was I as a teen.

[chveik]

pure drivel to imagine such half-arsed stunt is going to have an impact on Biden's policies or that it's going to provide a good narrative on the media. well i bet the libs are loving it so that defeats the purpose

[Poirots BigGarlickyCorpse]

pure drivel to imagine such half-arsed stunt is going to have an impact on Biden's policies or that it's going to provide a good narrative on the media. well i bet the libs are loving it so that defeats the purpose

go on chevik, say "virtue-signalling", you know you want to

[chveik]

go on chevik, say "virtue-signalling", you know you want to

hmm i don't really use this kind of terminally online talk like you do. i don't particularly care about her intent and i'm sure she means well but i doesn't mean much in this particular political constellation the more progressive dems are stuck in and i just can't see what type of positive effects this could bring. i dunno if she knew there was going to a be protest outside the event.

[jobotic]

A teen leftist speaks

https://twitter.com/cmkshama/status/1437795720979959809

I don't know what I think. Nothing wrong with trolling but can't help thinking that a socialist shouldn't be seen dead at these things.

[Cuellar]

Yeah? It's a fundraising event for a museum.[nb]costume museum but shut up[/nb]

Bet you purity teen leftists aren't feeling so smug now.

[JaDanketies]

split the thread, this is screwing up the dopamine hit when I see there's a Glinner fix in my Skinner box

[king_tubby]

What they said.

split the thread, this is screwing up the dopamine hit when I see there's a Glinner fix in my Skinner box

Aye, this.

[Barry Admin]

This AOC stuff is getting pretty off-topic

Yeah, it's okay, I'll split and move it to GB when I get a chance.

[jobotic]

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[checkoutgirl]

it's just a silly decision that she made

Why? Rich people don't get told the truth enough.

[GoblinAhFuckScary]

Why? Rich people don't get told the truth enough.

people that are rich are primarily invested in staying rich, so i'm not sure it's aimed at them. not sure who it's aimed it! just a bit nothing innit