A well educated AOC graduated with two degrees ......... quite a smart woman with that fire in the belly = YOU GO GIRL

[Lisa]

This is what the GOP used to support in 1956. Dwight D. Eisenhower was the last rational republican.

 

[aociswundumho]

The fact that the US has so many billionaires skews those numbers.

That's false:

The 15 most billionaire-dense countries

Some of the most fiscally bankrupt countries have a larger proportion of billionaires than some developed nations.

www.businessinsider.com

Your average person in Canada or Western Europe is better off than your average American using pretty much any metric you can name.

Here's three:

Free speech.

The ability to defend yourself and your family.

The ability to keep more of the money you earn.

 

[aociswundumho]

Those countries have a much higher standard of living than we do.

No, they don't. If I moved to any of them, my standard of living would go way down.

 

[Port & Starboard]

This is what the GOP used to support in 1956. Dwight D. Eisenhower was the last rational republican.

Like I said.......................touchy feely. But now I'll add in partisan blindness to one's own party of hypocrites.

 

[Port & Starboard]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm seems sensible ...........

Of course it would to anyone who believes the nonsense.

 

[Lisa]

That's false:

The 15 most billionaire-dense countries

Some of the most fiscally bankrupt countries have a larger proportion of billionaires than some developed nations.

www.businessinsider.com

Here's three:

Free speech.

Money is not speech.

The ability to defend yourself and your family.

How is that a problem?

The ability to keep more of the money you earn.

Wealth isn't a right and it never was.

Like I said.......................touchy feely. But now I'll add in partisan blindness to one's own party of hypocrites.

How is that touchy-feely or being partisan blind? Did you think about this before you posted it because it makes no sense at all?

 

[Questerr]

That's false:

The 15 most billionaire-dense countries

Some of the most fiscally bankrupt countries have a larger proportion of billionaires than some developed nations.

www.businessinsider.com

Here's three:

Free speech.

The ability to defend yourself and your family.

The ability to keep more of the money you earn.

Is the problem that you don’t know what “proportion” means?

Congratulations you listed three things that don’t really affect your average person. Your average person doesn’t engage in hate speech. Your average person doesn’t have anyone threatening their family. Your average person benefits more from government programs than is taken from them in taxes.

 

[Port & Starboard]

No, they don't. If I moved to any of them, my standard of living would go way down.

She got it from the internet and everyone knows that the internet doesn't lie.

 

[aociswundumho]

Money is not speech.

Perhaps, but in the US I don't have to worry about being arrested for a mean facebook post.

How is that a problem?

Because the world can be a dangerous place, and if you can't defend yourself, you die.

Wealth isn't a right and it never was.

So you don't believe in property rights?

 

[Questerr]

That's false:

The 15 most billionaire-dense countries

Some of the most fiscally bankrupt countries have a larger proportion of billionaires than some developed nations.

www.businessinsider.com

Here's three:

Free speech.

The ability to defend yourself and your family.

The ability to keep more of the money you earn.

It’s funny you think America is a place where workers can keep more of the money they earn considering it has some the most lax wage theft laws in the developed world. But you’re okay with the rich stealing from people.

 

[Questerr]

Perhaps, but in the US I don't have to worry about being arrested for a mean facebook post.



Because the world can be a dangerous place, and if you can't defend yourself, you die.



So you don't believe in property rights?

Is engaging in hate speech something you desire to do?

Children can’t defend themselves. Should we put a gun in every child’s hands?

 

[aociswundumho]

Is engaging in hate speech something you desire to do?

No, I agree with you. The state - which has murdered, worked to death, and starved to death, hundreds of millions of innocents should decide what people may say.

I have to admit, you are the purest leftist I've seen on this forum so far.

 

[Razoo]

Back to the topic at hand about a person who seems to have her feet to the ground whereas Fake Republicans have no idea where their feet are ..............

Where Did AOC Go to College?​

After attending public schools in New York as a kid, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went to Boston University, graduating with two degrees in 2011.

When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez burst onto the national political scene in 2018, many people inquired about her educational background, including former President Dona

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At a rally in Pennsylvania in 2020, Trump called the New York City congresswoman "A great student of the environment," going on to say "I don't think she ever took an environmental course in college. She did go to college, right?"

"I could say yes, but who cares?" Ocasio-Cortez tweeted in response, "Plenty of people without college degrees could run this country better than Trump ever has."

In fact, Ocasio-Cortez attended Boston University where she double majored in international relations and economics. She graduated cum laude with two bachelor of arts degrees in 2011.

Seven years later, the democratic socialist took those degrees to Congress, where she is an ardent supporter of aggressive climate policy, including the Green New Deal.
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AOC's College Degrees​

Ocasio-Cortez was born in New York City but moved with her family to the suburb of Yorktown when she was young so that she could attend stronger public schools. Growing up, she noticed the difference in educational opportunities available to her as compared to her cousins who still lived in the Bronx.

As a high school student in Yorktown, Ocasio-Cortez participated in a science research program for gifted students and took second place in the microbiology section of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in 2007.

Ocasio-Cortez reports that after high school, she took out tens of thousands of dollars in student loans in order to attend Boston University, where annual tuition now hovers around $60,000. Known as "Sandy" Ocasio-Cortez in those days, the future "AOC" appeared in a student-produced music video mash-up of the iconic library dance scene from "The Breakfast Club," set to Phoenix's "Lisztomania" and filmed on campus rooftops.

While enrolled at Boston University, AOC interned in the office of the late Senator Ted Kennedy. During the 2016 presidential election, she volunteered for Senator Bernie Sanders' campaign, organizing in her own South Bronx neighborhood.

Ocasio-Cortez launched her first congressional campaign in 2018, defeating incumbent Joe Crowley in a remarkable upset. She was sworn in as Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez in January 2019.

Quite an accomplished woman. Now Fake Republicans are degrading bars as in throwing bars under the bus. WTF? Carry on AOC thanks for dropping by.

 

[Questerr]

No, I agree with you. The state - which has murdered, worked to death, and starved to death, hundreds of millions of innocents should decide what people may say.

I have to admit, you are the purest leftist I've seen on this forum so far.

Indeed. Non-democratic states have committed terrible crimes. What we definitely should do is put all power in the world in the hands of unelected dictators with titles like “owner”, “CEO”, and “landlord”, because they will never misuse that power even though they are accountable to nothing but their own greed.

 

[Lisa]

Perhaps, but in the US I don't have to worry about being arrested for a mean facebook post.

Free speech has nothing to do with your wealth.

Because the world can be a dangerous place, and if you can't defend yourself, you die.

Economics is often the problem because when people are poor and desperate they commit crimes to survive.

So you don't believe in property rights?

Wealth is not the same as property. This is more libertarian nonsense. Taxes aren't theft.

 

[Razoo]

Free speech has nothing to do with your wealth.


Economics is often the problem because when people are poor and desperate they commit crimes to survive.


Wealth is not the same as property. This is more libertarian nonsense. Taxes aren't theft.

Pragmatic thoughts sit on a solid foundation ..........

 

[Lisa]

Pragmatic thoughts sit on a solid foundation ..........

And about 20 CrH. of political philosophy.

 

[Chillfolks]

Who cares? This is just spam.

The closer it gets to election night the more we should expect

 

[Liberal7360]

Just because she got a college degree doesn't mean she makes good decisions. She has some very far left ideas. By the way does she have any legislation that she produced that has pass the House. I believe not. So what is her purpose but to push radical ideology.

You might want to do some research on her.

I did. There is a very long list of 10 pages, totaling 946 pieces, of legislation she has either sponsored or cosponsored.

I didn't get through all of it but many of them have passed the house and some have become law.

A lot are still "introduced."

I would say she is working and doing her job. She isn't far left. Anyone who doesn't agree with you is far left so when you post that it's meaningless.

I'm sure it's a lot more than lauren boebert or mgt or other right wingers has sponsored or cosponsored.

https://www.congress.gov/memrber/alexandria-ocasio-cortez/O000172

 

[aociswundumho]

Indeed.

So you agree that the state should decide what people may say and what they may not say, correct?

Non-democratic states have committed terrible crimes.

So have democratic states. Do you disagree?

What we definitely should do is put all power in the world in the hands of unelected dictators with titles like “owner”, “CEO”, and “landlord”, because they will never misuse that power even though they are accountable to nothing but their own greed.

A landlord offers someone a place to live in exchange for rent. How does that harm anyone?

Meanwhile, one of your idols executed landlords by the millions.

Which is more dangerous, a leftist or a landlord?

 

[Questerr]

So you agree that the state should decide what people may say and what they may not say, correct?



So have democratic states. Do you disagree?



A landlord offers someone a place to live in exchange for rent. How does that harm anyone?

Meanwhile, one of your idols executed landlords by the millions.

Which is more dangerous, a leftist or a landlord?

I think society should have the power to restrict hate speech if that is what they democratically decide to do.

Highly democratic states have not committed such crimes, no.

What is the basis for the landlord’s claim that they own the property they are renting?

None of my idols are dictators. You celebrate them.

 

[uptower]

Just for comparison...

 

[holbritter]

The Right: “We’re no misogynists and it’s offensive to call us that.”

Also the Right: *this entire post*

One person posting stupidity doesn't represent 'The Right'

 

[Questerr]

One person posting stupidity doesn't represent 'The Right'

Weird that the Right isn’t condemning him though, isn’t it?

 

[Gaius46]

Wealth is not the same as property. This is more libertarian nonsense. Taxes aren't theft.

In the context of this discussion they mean the same thing.
There is a broad definition of wealth that means an abundance intangibles- like health, knowledge etc - but that is clearly outside the scope of this discussion.