• FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 days ago

    Also, where’s the part about mysterious funding? I don’t think I caught that in the article

    Here:

    One of the Israeli venture capitalists, Joe Raby, oversaw admission to the Sunshine Bronx business incubator, which also provided Ocasio-Cortez space for a company she founded called Brook Avenue Press. This was a publishing company for children’s books, though it is not clear whether the business ever published a book.

    If you google the name of the company there’s a ton of articles from right wing rags scrutinizing the shady finances. I’d rather not link them, but I think at the very least the fact that this enterprise which was basically a front company operating under an Israeli venture capital firm is extremely suspect and obviously bears resemblance to something like a CIA front (in this case, probably not the CIA, but the DNC working as if it was the CIA).

    And I think you might be missing the point a little bit. Yes, of course she’s advocated for positive changes. And it’s not like working for Ted Kennedy instantly discredits you (that’s probably one of the weaker points raised by the article). The point is to show that she didn’t enter politics because she was a community organizer, she entered politics as a ladder climber and a creature of the Democratic Party. She was identified by the party as someone who moved a certain base and represented the right people, but that would fall in line; and she does! she didn’t have to defend Joe Biden like that, and she constantly punches left because her role is to represent the farthest left the establishment is comfortable with anyone going: further left than AOC and she turns into a cop and will beat you back in line, using her position and credibility to make everyone else believe only she understands how power works.

    • Clairvoidance@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      That company stuff is weird, especially how she’s apparently not just paying the tax debt on it. She also says she’s contested it but for some reason there’s no public cases whatsoever to look at.

      You do speak to something overall I can concede, when I’m retrospecting with the sentence that she punches left, I think I have to give you that she could’ve had a way way bigger progressive part of the tent if she wanted to, especially with the disregarding of Gaza.