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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lays out battle plan against 'shockingly dim' Trump White House (www.rawstory.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Summary

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez urged countering the Trump administration’s policies by resisting at every turn, arguing that its incompetence makes it vulnerable.

Her remarks followed chaos caused by a rescinded executive order that temporarily shut down Medicaid portals nationwide.

She encouraged activists to take offline action, citing ongoing mobilization efforts.

Her strategy focuses on making governance difficult for Trump, calling his administration “dangerous and cruel” but also “shockingly dim.”

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago

"It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too," she said. "Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters."

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I used to work for social services in Colorado. There was a Lady there that was fired without cause. She fought it, won in court, got her job back, and I'm pretty sure back pay. Beth, talking bout you, she said always fight, she has and it has always paid off.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I'd fight for the back pay, but if someone fired me without cause I wouldn't want to work for them anymore.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

In that position you're far more protected from retaliation than a "regular person" -- it's easier to prove with an established history and courts really don't like have their judgments undermined. You've also shown your employer trying to screw with you is expensive.

Go back and do your job to the letter. They're either going to be very wary of pissing you off, or they're going to do something stupid and you'll get another payout.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

If you get your job back you may be entitled to severance and potentially pension

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

A lot of times, the manager that caused all that trouble by firing you doesn't get to be a manager anymore.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I also think we ought to stop being consumers at a broad level. It's clear the rich don't actually trickle anything down and instead hoard it to invest. So, they won't spend to prop up the economy.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago (3 children)

For one, stop using Amazon. Cancel Prime. Use other search engines than Google. Don't use WhatsApp. Cancel and delete your Instagram, Facebook and Twitter if you haven't already. Don't buy Apple products.

For each of those services and products above, there is at least one alternative.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I would also delete reddit and TikTok if you haven't already! I don't know if there's a good replacement for short form videos but TikTok is censoring like crazy, plus all the other bad shit they do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Loops is coming soon, and it's federated!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Yay! Thank you, this is a nice nugget of news.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Unfortunately I can't upvote this more than once. Also, if only I could force people to follow this advice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Is there a reliable resource for good alternatives to these services? I've prepared my own, which I can share. But I know I'm missing a lot of options.

Edit: I found this page, which has some good ones. But it's far from complete from a social network perspective.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I've said it before, the Democrats need to take pieces out of the Republican playbook and stonewall the GOP at every opportunity. The problem is that they Democratic party is really a coalition, whereas the modern Republicans are a hierarchy, so getting everyone to lock shields and advance is damn near impossible. Especially since establishment "centrist" Dems are just Republicans from the 80s and unfortunately they're the ones calling the shots. None of the progressives are stupid enough to tip the boat over while rocking it, so we've ended up here. Again.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

For a long time, I thought the Democrats were fighting valiantly but just overwhelmed by the oligarchy and the Republicans. Then I saw that the Democrats keep losing fights they should win, and figured they must be weak and ineffectual. Then I kept seeing them backing off without putting up a fight at all, and decided they were gutless cowards. Finally I noticed that enough of them keep voting with Republicans to always make sure the Republicans more of less win almost every fight, and that they keep starting from a center position and bargaining to the right, and eventually it became impossible to ignore the only conclusion that fits the facts: The Democrats are not overmatched, they aren't weak, they aren't cowards... They are complicit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

I've said it over and over, the Dems need to be more Machiavelli and less Mr. Rogers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The problem is decades ago Democrats did not make changes to help the poor and lower middle classes fast enough and extreme enough to show that they were the party of the common worker and get a dominant position for multiple election cycles, allowing them to put in policies to stop inflation.

Do you want Jesus/religion and extreme poverty for the lower classes?

or Do you want abortion and mild poverty for the lower classes?

Moral wedge issues resulted in a lot of lost votes because for decades Democrats offered only minimal or marginal economic benefits for the lower classes. Their platform was so conservative they lost power completely over moral wedge issues and now can't get it back. Also, now the US is in so much debt that something like DOGE (which is covert austerity measures camouflaged as conservatism) is actually prudent and necessary.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

DOGE is not prudent or nessessary, its "we have tried nothing and were all out of ideas". There has not been a proper budget in decades, we do not give the IRS the resources to go after wealthy tax evaders and we keep giving tax breaks to those least in need of them...

Both parties have failed at gaining the political will to fix anything and now that the scales are tipped in the GOPs favor, they alone opt to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Alright, she was eligible to run this time. Can we get her in the white house before she turns 80?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

The Senate: "We can't hear you over conforming Trump's Secretary of State nomination unanimously!“

Said Secretary, Marco Rubio: immediately bans accurate passports for trans, nongender, and intersex people 🤦🤬

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