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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (democratic socialist) wins NY primary

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So I realize we are 14 pages into this thread but what do you guys all actually think of this Ocasio-Cortez lady? She seems very uninformed on how to do much of the things she speaks about implementing which is always dangerous but maybe there is more to her than what it seems on the surface?
 
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/jzbxb...age-to-american-politics---extended-interview

Ocasio Cortez was on Trevor Noah's show. Here's a clip of her answering how she'd pay for her plan. From what I've read online, 2 trillion dollars wouldn't pay for it for one year let alone spread out over 10 years. I'm sure there are some of you who are way more informed on this than me, thoughts?

She also said she never received money from corporations for her 800k she raised for her campaign. “Many folks got elected with some corporate money and then they swore it off after. But I think I’m one of the first to get elected right out of the gate without any corporate PAC money, which gives me a very large degree of independence.”
However, she received thousands of dollars from corporations like JP Morgan and Chase and Elevated Partners. I hate how politicians lie so much (if this is true - I doubt almost every news I read to some degree.) I mean, it's the nature of the beast in a dog eat dog world, I guess.

I like her passion and it's refreshing seeing someone fresh, young, a woman, etc make it to where she is today, so props for her. I do see a lot of people on both the right and left question her though.
 
DasJazz said:
So I realize we are 14 pages into this thread but what do you guys all actually think of this Ocasio-Cortez lady? She seems very uninformed on how to do much of the things she speaks about implementing which is always dangerous but maybe there is more to her than what it seems on the surface?
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There are some serious unintended consequences to a federal jobs guarantee, many that harm the most vulnerable long term or weaken necessary institutions like education.

She's quite the uninformed, pandering blowhard on that alone. Makes Trump sound intelligent.
 
Siro said:
Well, I am in support of Trump's anti-NATO agenda. It's the only thing about him that I like. Let the Europeans take care of themselves. As for "this is just how humanity is" comment; the US is the only developed country that is continuously engaged in war. Arm and train the mujahideen in Afghanistan, then engage them in a decades long war. Destabilize Iraq in the name of democracy, then spend a couple of decades fighting the Islamists that filled the void. Over and over. It's absurd.

There are no serious military threats to the US. There's no amount of money that would make war with Russia anything less than a mass extinction event, and thus out of the question. There is no justification for spending a trillion dollar on a fighter jet that doesn't work. It is ****ing absurd.
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Uhhh there is to justification. It is really ****in cool. Like the love child of a Ferrari and a T-Rex that grew up to be a Jazz musician kind of cool. Srs I've seen that thing in person and it has no business flying. Sci-Fi to the max. So ****in cool
 
♪alt13 said:
Uhhh there is to justification. It is really ****in cool. Like the love child of a Ferrari and a T-Rex that grew up to be a Jazz musician kind of cool. Srs I've seen that thing in person and it has no business flying. Sci-Fi to the max. So ****in cool
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I'll be honest, I really like military tech, weapon systems especially. I want moar, but I also realize we don't need more. Besides, a focus on effectiveness at defending ourselves would generate better, much more cost effective solutions than the **** we have now. Like I said, we're set up to kick the whole planets *** all at once. No military has come anywhere near as close to being able to actually do that as we have, but we were more capable of doing that 15 years ago than we are today, and we'll be further from that goal 5 years from now and we'll never get as close again. Those are the facts. China and Russia are in a silent arms race with us. India, Brazil, Iran, and many smaller players are rooting for China and Russia, they are looking for a way they can counter us as well.

We've been arrogant. We might one day pay a price for that. We've been the bad winners of the cold war. Trump is the disgusting cherry on top.
 
One Brow said:
"As for whether a woman suffers more from prejudice than a black person, that's at least partly situation-dependent, like any type of privilege."
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Here's my problem with a statement like this one-- you can spin it in another direction (as right wing people often do) in order to obscure the impact of privilege.

Of course, there are swaths of micro (as opposed to macro) situations where socially-constructed stereotypes and folkways will slant 'positive' bias towards a group that might even be more marginalized (choosing who to hire based on perceived 'laziness', choosing athletes for your sports team, etc.). The macro is an attempt to integrate all of the situations of positve vs. negative biases, to attempt and provide a commentary on the lived life of that marginalized community in the United States. On the macro level, the life of a black man is at a larger disadvantage than one of a white woman -- this is my opinion.

On this macro level (but also applicable in the micro level), I said that "Barack Hussein Obama was more underprivileged than Hillary Clinton" for a political race, and that there's macro-level academic evidence behind it (in fact, there's probably political race evidence behind this too). I've posted some, you've attempted to discredit it. You tried posting one example of a sector favouring black men over women, I then pointed out how that was actually incorrect when you dig deeper. I have nothing more to say on the matter, i'm retiring from this conversation on this thread (let's go back to talking about AOC). Let the people decide what their stance is on this issue.
 
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