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Re:AOC considering hearing over RobinhoodApp decision to blo... by philosopher1234 on Thursday January 28, 2021 @12:56PM (#25945780)
AOC is such a firebrand. I love it. Not a lot of politicians who give me the sense that they're actually fighting for me.
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Re:AOC considering hearing over RobinhoodApp decision to blo... by kortilla on Thursday January 28, 2021 @01:20PM (#25946300)
How does that tweet make you think she is fighting for you and not just for publicity?
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Re:AOC considering hearing over RobinhoodApp decision to blo... by Larrikin on Thursday January 28, 2021 @01:26PM (#25946425)
Words have context around them
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Re:AOC considering hearing over RobinhoodApp decision to blo... by philosopher1234 on Thursday January 28, 2021 @04:54PM (#25949893)
Why would it make me think any different? She's right.
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Re:AOC considering hearing over RobinhoodApp decision to blo... by kortilla on Friday January 29, 2021 @12:57PM (#25960222)
Because she’s been there for quite some time now and achieved very little legislatively.

The extreme grandstanding for her Twitter followers got her boxed out by her own party. She’s now just the lady with the socialist hot take for the evening news without any real means to change anything.

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Re:AOC considering hearing over RobinhoodApp decision to blo... by Larrikin on Saturday January 30, 2021 @11:52PM (#25976090)
She's still a house representative, being known at all is a massive first step in such a large body.

She's also just survived her first election as an incumbent. Two years in the house as a freshman with a Senate and president that would block everything anyway is not a time scale where you can reasonably expect to have massive legislation passed.

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Re:AOC considering hearing over RobinhoodApp decision to blo... by koheripbal on Thursday January 28, 2021 @06:38PM (#25951122)
She reminds me of Trump in his early primary days.

Lots of zingers on Twitter - no experience - no compromise.

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Re:AOC considering hearing over RobinhoodApp decision to blo... by throwawayboise on Thursday January 28, 2021 @01:42PM (#25946759)
You just described 75M Trump voters...
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