Yeah, but the problem is that if people see the world as Nietzschean supermen and rabble, then their entire belief system is built around the idea that most people are simply incapable of contribution and ought to be used as foot stools.
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Maybe she does deserve to be a super hero.
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Actually, its not fixed. She still can’t run for the 2024 presidential election then either because her birthday is October 13, 1989. She will be 35 less than a month before that election. But she would need to begin campaigning at least 1 and a half to 2 years before that election and she would still be about 33. She would have to wait until 2028, assuming that the then current president isn’t a Democrat incumbent who would get the Democratic nomination for re-election almost automatically. In that case, it means she would have to wait until at least 2032 to run, and she’d be 43 in October of that year.
The ladder she is climbing is a political ladder, not an entrepreneurial ladder which would require her to earn her $175k per year (about $14.5k per month!) by being a producer and not a parasite. Remember - Politics: “Poli” a Latin word meaning many and “tics” meaning bloodsucking creatures. 
Yes, AOC has integrity. Integrity is loyalty to one’s convictions, values and ideas. It is the policy of acting in accordance with one’s values, of expressing, upholding and translating them into practical reality. She has done so. No argument there!
Unfortunately her convictions, values, and ideas that she expresses and up-holds and turns into practical reality is one of destruction: a war opposing prosperity and abundance. After about a month is office, she was instrumental at chasing Amazon out of NYC. A deal that would have brought 25,000 high paying jobs to NYC, a “green” housing development and a tech and art “incubator”, and billion of dollars in additional tax revenue to NY, not including other high tech firms that would have followed Amazon there in the years to come, and “float all boats” of the people living and working there that goes along with building a massive headquarters. Some examples: numerous wait staff & bartenders -of which she used to be-, mom & pop shops, pizza places, grocery stores, construction jobs, architects, commissions for real estate agents buying and selling homes and all kinds of businesses that would have benefited is all lost now and will not come into practical reality thanks to AOC and her “integrity”.
You think politician = parasite?
Dude, why are you even trying to play on this here happy mutant playground?
And all those words about why those who won the fight to reject Amazon’s effort to squat tax free in NY, and not one of them that acknowledges anything about what those who won the fight were fighting for. Your rhetorical skills are so weak.
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Not that I’m necessarily inclined to agree with the… interesting opinions of our new sub-trestle inhabitants, mind you…
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First, I’m not a “dude” and second, yes I do think that politicians, all of them, regardless of party, are parasites sucking off the public tit. Politicians borrow money, and tax money, waste it most of it, and all debts are passed to the people (and their children). They produce nothing of value, yet they make more money than most people with productive jobs. Virtually all politicians enter as paupers and leave as multi-millionaires.
I’m inclined to believe they work pretty hard while in D.C. (not exclusively physical labor, planning-writing-revising-etc must take its toll), but man…that’s one hell of a summer vacation.
ETA: What’s the reasoning, anyway? Is it a combination of summertime swampy-ness, and the need to spend time in their home district?
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All I know is all the policies, statutes and binding laws we all have to live by should not be shaped solely by the wealthiest (and therefore, the most powerful) people; that’s not real representation.
For all our founders’ good intent, they basically ended up establishing a democratic republic ‘by and for the people’ in name only.
(No idea why the break is so long.)
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No, virtually all politicians enter in as multi-millionaires a leave multi-millionaires.
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Sadly, her living the " 'Merican dream" has already proven to be the American nightmare for her supports and constituents after her successful destruction 25,000 Amazon jobs, even though they think its a “victory”. Reality will assert itself and they will realize the truth on how badly their futures have been screwed over by her. Many New Yorkers, including the Democratic mayor and governor, already have. New York faces a $2.3 billion shortfall in the state budget. New York City needs money to plug its budget shortfall too. But AOC and her supporters are actively chasing out the rich people who will happily pay all these taxes. Socialism wins, everyone loses. It is the new American dream apparently. 
You’ve never heard anyone call a woman “dude” before?
As for all politicians being worthless parasites, hey, someone’s gotta do that work. At least in any place that’s not a lawless Mad Max Land. They’re not automatically parsites. Even if many of them in the U.S. basically are in it for themselves, it doesn’t have to be that way.
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And inviting in a business with a multibillion-dollar tax credit plugs this hole…how? New York City is not lacking for white collar jobs. New York City is lacking in two (among many) things:
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a balance between the needs of neighborhoods and regular people vs. the interests of corporations and the wealthy
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corporations that pay their taxes
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Prove it. Prove it with numbers that aren’t Amazon’s, and prove that they would have been high-paying. And I will hold you to a high standard here, so don’t skimp. Show me a study. Otherwise, I don’t fucking care about your opinion.
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Oh gawd.
Neither she nor Bernie nor any other prominent Social Democrat is opposed to prosperity or abundance. This is the myth the ultra-wealthy feed to their minions to stir up anger and protect their own power.
There are plenty of millionaires in the social democracies of Europe, but at the same time the poor aren’t also struggling without access to health care or decent education. In short, more people are prospering there.
Amazon coming to NYC wasn’t 100% beneficial, and a lot of NYC residents didn’t want it there-- that’s how democracy works, the people get a say in their own neighborhood, or are you opposed to that?
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By futures, I’m going to assume the subtext is stock futures. Don’t worry, your stock is up 10.83 points at the time of this posting.
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It’s a common sentiment amongst defenders of late-stage capitalism. Here’s a quote from Peter Thiel:
For all these reasons, I still call myself “libertarian.” … But I must confess that over the last two decades, I have changed radically on the question of how to achieve these goals. Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible… The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics. Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron.
What amazes me is that people who (based on their obvious ignorance of economic and financial matters) have no chance of attaining a fraction of Thiel’s net worth in their lifetime also espouse this wrongheaded greedpig view.
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