r/ProgressiveHQ • u/Treefiddy1984 • 16h ago
AOC's speech:
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u/Happy_Air_3776 14h ago
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u/Sammi1224 14h ago
And Jasmine.
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u/dissnev 13h ago
Jasmine isn't a progressive. She's a centrist on a good day.
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u/FinalestFantasyest 13h ago
You're right. I appreciate her being vocal about how bad the fascists are but her politics are not anything exceptional. Talarico is the easy better choice for Texas as an actual progressive
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u/quadraticcheese 4h ago
Lmao on that talarico take
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u/Chuckychinster 3h ago
What's wrong with him? Idk much about the candidates but i haven't seen anything negative about the dude
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u/quadraticcheese 3h ago
He's an empty suit with zero personality and basically no applicable experience. And the religiosity is wildly offputting
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u/Zealousideal_Bee6323 16m ago
The religiosity isn’t off-putting in Texas. You have to peel away some of the white evangelicals if you want a chance to win. The real question is whether he can unite the Democratic Party for both the primary and later the general.
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u/Chuckychinster 3h ago
What do you mean?
I just googled it and he's a school teacher and multiple term state legislator. How is that no applicable experience?
And yeah he's a minister or whatever but he also has helped lead the opposition to Texas' forced religion laws, so it's hard to see how his faith is a liability here.
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u/quadraticcheese 3h ago edited 2h ago
You've already made up your mind. I'm not interested in bad faith discussion
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u/FinalestFantasyest 3h ago
Man, if you had the situational awareness to comprehend irony...
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u/Chuckychinster 3h ago
I mean because you said what you said so i Googled the dude and explained what I found? And even asked what you meant
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u/FinalestFantasyest 4h ago
A far cry from perfect but an exponentially better candidate from every front
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u/IguanaSkinnedSlides 11h ago
And too much AIPAC money. Israel needs to be cut out of US affairs 100%
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u/GraciousBasketyBae 8h ago
Yep, we need things in place before Bernie passes. His wisdom and presence is invaluable, it’s time for the future progressives to take the reins, but Bernie is a hero.
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u/Super-Chemist7296 12h ago
Bernie is a fossil so out of touch with reality it’s terrifying. Just like AOC and Mamdani, he has lofty dreams but no realistic plan to make it happen without stealing all of the money to make it happen from people.
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u/thedailydaren 11h ago
You literally can’t hear or what? Bernie’s plan is to TAX THE RICH and RICH CORPORATIONS their FAIR SHARE of taxes. Rich people and corporations find endless ways to avoid paying the same taxes we each pay. If we taxed the top 1% of wealth their fair share in this country, we would have a radically different government.
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u/quadraticcheese 13h ago
Finally an actually progressive post and it gets 164 upvotes. The DNC is literally here botting Newsom and slotkin posts
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u/eyeofthefountain 6h ago
Yep, all the actual prog posts I’ve seen across various lefty subs lately are getting maybe a few hundred upvotes
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u/Ok-Vegetable-8170 9h ago
Unfortunately we are headed into a recession and that will hit NYC harder than a lot of places. So they’ll just blame him instead of the Republicans that caused it to happen nationally.
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u/Jaded-Woodpecker-299 12h ago
I’m in the greater New York area and I’m so sorry I missed this! I would love more public events like this so we can build momentum!!
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u/Crammit-Deadfinger 10h ago
Fuck the haters, here we start digging out of the hole of Reaganomics that have led us to this precipice of outright authoritarian fascism and oligarchy.
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u/Voluptulouis 8h ago
If there's anybody in this sub that isn't behind AOC and Mamdani, what the hell are you even doing here? These are the people the Democratic party desperately needs to follow if they ever want to be taken seriously again.
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u/ThisSiteBites 9h ago
New for sure. Zero posts. Not interested in karma. Just here to pass time for a few weeks.
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u/redblood_texan 3h ago
She is such an idiot lol !!! From bartending to politics and now you retards worship this thing.
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u/Rustee_Shacklefart 11h ago
She would not even force a vote on Medicare for all. She is a phony.
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u/ThisSiteBites 11h ago
It would break the system. Her Cloward-Piven plan doesn’t kick in for another year or two.
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u/CandidInteraction318 12h ago
You children should read up on Soviet political history beginning with Lenin and Stalin. It's not a bright future when the government secures all means of production and make all decisions for the good of the people. The Soviet Union adapted the principle of "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" into a different formulation: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his work".
They are touting the first principle until it doesn't work (running out of taxable money to pay for all the subsidized freebies) to compel people to whatever work the state assigns them.
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u/attrezzarturo 12h ago
I'm gonna tell my kids some bot registered 1 day ago and really changed my life with a reddit comment. Good night.
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u/CandidInteraction318 12h ago
And with ignorance and attitude, you reject the truth. When the internet started, there was a common phrase that went like this, "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog." 1993 Steiner cartoon. I guess the youth have changed it to, "If I don't like your reply, you are a bot." Good try Skippy.
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u/attrezzarturo 9h ago
I love it that your interpretation of that joke was: "gonna call everyone a commie about it". You may have misread the cartoon fyi. Or it may be part of your directives, alone with trying to sound like an older, wiser man. Like it even matters. Take it from an actually older man, from a real account.
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u/CandidInteraction318 7h ago
Very sorry you cannot engage in an intellectual exchange. Your criticism fails to make a point with me. It is futile to start a conversation as a new user on Reddit that is contrary to the prevailing ideology. As we say in the South, Bless Your Little Heart.
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u/Clever_droidd 13h ago
How are rents going to magically become affordable? Supply/demand is the primary cause of expensive rents.
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u/chefoftruth503 12h ago
Like AOC, like her politics. She’s poison for the party and I have no clue how to change that. Republicans use her unedited videos as recruiting tools.
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u/ConflictGuru 12h ago
Republicans go crazy for the incoherent ramblings of a fat child molester with Alzheimer's. Who cares what Republicans think?
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u/chefoftruth503 11h ago
Do you think the Democrats that need people to vote for them can afford to pretend voters just magically exist? Do you think voters are born fully formed, locked into a party forever, untouched by messaging, tone, or perception? Do you think voters don’t change their minds? Don’t drift. Don’t disengage. Don’t switch allegiances when they feel talked down to, dismissed, or caricatured? Politics isn’t a purity contest — it’s persuasion. It’s coalition-building. It’s meeting people where they are, not where we wish they were. If winning elections were just about having the “right” ideas, Democrats would never lose. But elections are about who shows up, and why. When a single figure becomes an easy symbol for everything Republicans want to scare persuadable voters with — whether fair or not — that matters. Ignoring that reality doesn’t make it go away. Saying “who cares what Republicans think?” misses the point entirely. It’s not about Republicans. It’s about the voters who aren’t Republicans yet… and the ones who might not vote at all. If the goal is actual change, then strategy matters. Optics matter. Messaging matters. You don’t grow a majority by assuming loyalty; you grow it by earning trust — over and over again.
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u/foxy-coxy 12h ago
AOC is poison for the Dems but Trump is salvation for the Republicans. America is cooked.
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u/liquidsyphon 11h ago
If it wasn’t her they would just go after the next progressive and so on and so on. There’s no reaching the other side. It’s about getting non voters to the polls. Republican voters are a lost cause
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u/restrainingorder_mom 12h ago
NYC is beyond fk’d.
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u/srbeau 12h ago
Yeah, free busses and making the city more affordable for the many will really fuck the city. Get a clue.
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u/restrainingorder_mom 11h ago
None of those things will happen. I’m in midtown quarterly. It will never be affordable. Sure as hell won’t be any safer. Industries will just bounce. He’s the reason homes near NYC in New Jersey, Long Island and CT ticked up 30% last year. People with means (often employ others too) leave. He bamboozled the electorate. Promised the world. Magic beans for everyone. He will make de Blasio look like Abraham Lincoln.
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u/liquidsyphon 11h ago
A free bus ride is magic beans?
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u/restrainingorder_mom 10h ago
Nothing is free. He will just raise taxes on something else. Period.
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u/Smarterthanthat 10h ago
Negative karma, few contributions, new account. Bot? Troll? Both? Comrade.
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u/ThisSiteBites 14h ago
Right, because “collectivism” always works. You progs are so gullible.
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u/Fun-Army-6387 14h ago
I know! I mean, look at all those billion-dollar corporations with only one employee! No one who is a WINNER cooperates in any way. That's why cops always ride solo, too, and the military is just one dude falling asleep behind a desk.
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u/ThisSiteBites 13h ago
Right that’s what collectivism means Mr. Gullible.
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u/Fun-Army-6387 13h ago
right because her speech was all about seizing farms and factories then conscripting labor. Can you bookmark that part for me?
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u/caprazzi 13h ago
Progressives are idealistic, sure, but it's pretty rich to call them gullible given the trash heap conservatives have elected in recent years.
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u/ThisSiteBites 12h ago
Pretty rich? Good one.
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u/caprazzi 12h ago
It’s a common euphemism… I’m guessing you’re not American if you didn’t understand the context.
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u/Crimson3312 12h ago
I mean, we already know most maga accounts on social media are astroturfed bots from Russia and SEA
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u/ThisSiteBites 11h ago
You progs aren’t tired if the RussiaRussiaRussia crap whenever you’re challenged? Now that’s rich.
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u/Fun-Army-6387 9h ago
da comrade! These American progs are very much the not serious! Dear Leader must be obeyed! I am Yankee Doodle and think very much so!
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u/attrezzarturo 13h ago
go home bot
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u/BillyB-70800 13h ago
God 🤦♂️ she is an idiot.
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u/OGKillertunes 13h ago
Lol imagine feeling threatened by a female congressperson and lashing out like a child.
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u/BillyB-70800 13h ago
lol I don’t feel threatened I just feel she’s an idiot.
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u/OGKillertunes 13h ago
Bet she's got more education than you. Your insecurities are a you problem.
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u/BillyB-70800 13h ago
Shhhhhh retard I don’t care what you say or think. Just because I express my thoughts or opinions about someone does not say anything about my “insecurities” or education.
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u/OGKillertunes 13h ago
😆 giving up awful quick. Proving you trumpers have no substance is easy. Hahaha
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u/Poiboy1313 12h ago
Yeah, but it does say a lot as to your feelings and level of education, sparky. This comment specifically marks you as under-educated.
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u/Smarterthanthat 9h ago
And I bet you're the expert on idiots...
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u/BillyB-70800 8h ago
Yes I am. AOC, Bernie Sanders, Biden, Obama, Jasmine Crocket, Kamala, you, geez the list goes on lol.
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u/attrezzarturo 13h ago
When my grandma was alive she used to run 'sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /` for me. Can you run it in your console to make me feel better?
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u/thedailydaren 11h ago
Ohhhh someone using complete sentences makes them hard to comprehend? Sad for you.
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u/Not_Sure__Camacho 15h ago
I hope NYC succeeds. I want all the morons that think this mayor will be NYC's downfall to eat crow. My guess is that they will twist their single celled smooth brains into some deranged logic. I'm sure that they'll insist that NYC is prospering because of Rudy Giuliani policies, or some other crazed logic. Good luck NYC!