Comment on Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves?

GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah, people that had to work during/after university are inherently idiots, and everyone knows that bartenders are morons that should never aspire to anything greater than cracking beers and making cocktails for actual smart people. /S

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    She obviously doesn’t know anything about governing. A degree in international relations and economics is totally useless to governing. And why would she have bothered with an internship with Senator Ted Kennedy when she was going into the House of Representatives‽ Total idiot

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    • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If you think everyone that has degrees is intelligent you clearly haven’t spent much time with many people who have degrees.

      Not to mention that degrees in international relations and economics are fluff degrees. May as well be an arts degree.

      I bet the Republican politicians you think are idiots have degrees.

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      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Fair enough, though her degree does counter the “just a bartender” narrative

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• NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Didn’t she defeat the Democratic incumbent to get on the ballot for her seat? Oh that’s right, she defeated the Democratic caucus chair, so hardly “picked by the DNC”.

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• edgesmash@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Asking questions when you don’t know a thing (AOC) is smarter than pretending you know the thing (the vast majority of old congresspeople, especially in the GOP).

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  • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    She’s not asking questions to learn though, she’s asking questions to try and catch people doing the wrong thing in these sessions. She then frequently gets made to look like an idiot because she’s trying to ask “gotcha” questions without realising that her questions make no sense and/or are based on her incorrect understanding.

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• Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You’re just wrong, she’s quite intelligent and if you can’t see that you have something else going on.

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  • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    snugfam.com/top-25-aoc-dumbest-quotes-that-went-v…

    This was literally the first result for “AOC dumb quotes”. There are hundreds of other results.

    She has repeatedly shown she is not an intelligent person. Most politicians aren’t. She was chosen by a Democrat PAC as a candidate to be pushed, she wasn’t an up and coming politician who got there on the back of her hard work and intelligence.

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    • Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Well i fully agree with her on like 22 of those and about 3 are forgiveable slips, but i guess if im a liberal it’s because I’m stupid

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      • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        If you fully agree with her on any of those then yeh it probably is.

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• Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “… average bartender…” ?

  I’m massively intrigued that you believe this construct exists. Where do you socialise; and are outsiders welcome? I’d like to meet a default bar tender, just to see what they’re like.

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  • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Where is your average bartender a dumb useless-degree-having woman who thinks she’s super intelligent? Try any bar around a university in any city.

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    • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Wahmen, hey? Shrug emoji. Eye roll emoji.

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  • natecox@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Bartending is, like, really hard. Average bartender must be on the upper end of the bell.

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    • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Making drinks is fairly easy, dealing with customers is the difficult bit…

      I assume you live somewhere where all further/university education, accommodation and sustenance is provided freely by the state. Lucky you.

      Most of the places I’ve lived you have to pay real actual money to further your formal education and if mommy and daddy can’t financially help their brave little soldier than that brave little soldier would need to get a job. Maybe something in the evening; or the weekend. So it don’t interfere with class time…

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      • natecox@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I genuinely don’t know what point you’re trying to rebut here.

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• TheDingNoiseInToolSongs@eviltoast.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Are people like the commentator bots or just really dense?

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