A Bronx office of the US House member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was vandalized early on Monday, according to New York City police, who say they are investigating.
The vandalism occurred after Ocasio-Cortez on Friday voted against a defense spending bill amendment authored by the Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia that would have eliminated funding for the system protecting Israel from missiles.
Her vote on Greene’s amendment prompted the Democratic Socialists of America to issue a statement accusing Ocasio-Cortez of backing Israel’s “eliminationist campaign against the Palestinian people”.
It’s telling how quickly liberals leap to AOC’s defense while downplaying the atrocities she enables. They preach ‘principled’ human rights rhetoric, only to treat genocide as just another political bargaining chip. Moral bankruptcy has never been so transparent.
She’s been staunchly pro-Israel for so long too. This is from 2018:
yesterday they killed 30 waiting for food. kids are eating sand there. this country is actively commiting an ongoing genocide. This week they bombed lebanon and syria who don’t have iron dome and civilians died there. And guess why they kill civilians in every neighboring country and Iran and yemen and anywhere they want? Because AOC gave them half a $billion to keep doing so. And how do you even believe they will use this half billion for “defense” as if that was even an acceptable excuse, and not use it for salary rise and bonus for IOF soldiers who rape people to death and maim and starve kids to death?
Israel should be sanctioned. Wtf are you doing AOC? Aren’t you not a millionare yet? you want to stay in your job earning $150k/year to do what? We are begging this spinless millionare for a vote? to get a word out? Is this your hero and next leader? Holyfuck your standards disgust me, and the message that this vandlism delivered was fully justified.
Because AOC gave them half a $billion to keep doing so.
First, AOC voted against the bill. She voted against giving them any funding.
Second, even if she had voted in favor of the bill, she’s not the only member of Congress, so dumping sole blame on her wouldn’t even make sense if the false claims were true.
But yes, let’s eat our own over a political stunt by a racist conspiracy theorist (MTG). Those primaries won’t lose themselves!
Please read my comment until the end because I am addressing every thing you said.
First, AOC voted against the bill. She voted against giving them any funding.
Wrong. Watch this video and check the list of people who voted against it:
https://xcancel.com/JimmyJ4thewin/status/1946600934399754316#m
She did it before, then after some backlash she pretended to cry without tears, then did it again.
https://xcancel.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1946628558908002748#m
She owns her political career to Israeli government businessmen with strong ties to AIPAC. She and her family are also Jewish. Now you tell me what are the chances that she is not facing pressure by these people who reasonably have stronger influence on her policies and voting actions against Israel?
Again not her first time, and in the last 2 years many more videos of her showed her cold complicity and attitude toward Israel. So many videos on youtube of her supporters fighting with her to just speak up and everytime her responses are halfassed lies about how Kamala and Biden are working tirelessly for a ceasefire, only for the Biden adminstration to come the next day and expose that they never even tried to stop Palestine genocide and in fact did everything possible to fascilitate and make it happen.
Second, even if she had voted in favor of the bill, she’sd not the only member of Congress, so dumping sole blame on her wouldn’t even make sense if the false claims were true.
FOR THIS, I’m gonna have to let AOC HERSELF reply to you:
https://x.com/AOC/status/1799095276382085488
Read what she is so proud to pin on top of her own page! And when it comes to aiding aprthied and ongoing genocide, fuck AOC’s hypocrisy the bar does not get any lower on any other issue.
But yes, let’s eat our own over a political stunt by a racist conspiracy theorist (MTG). Those primndearies won’t lose themselves!
Omg… No bro! Let’s fucking elect another peace-loving democracy beacon of hope the socialist 1st-gen Kenyian immigrant decent American African brother Barack Hussain Obama, who … who would just end up supporting Israel aparthied and their war crimes and slaughter and besiging of palestinians, and supporting every dictatorship, and toppling every democracy in the middleast, and perpetuating US wars and imperalism killing 3 millions+ of brown people and Afghans!
How dumb are Americans to still fall for the same fucking trick after feeding you the same bowl of shit for 60+ years of Left Right Left Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden, Left, Right, Left of the same rotten politicians who smell the same? We’ve seen this before! FUCK WE ARE DONE
Please read my comment until the end because I am addressing every thing you said.
Not coherently or relevantly. “Please read all the nonsense.”
Wrong. Watch this video and check the list of people who voted against it:
I’m not clicking any link you provide. I don’t trust you. And I’m not clicking on X links because you have to sign in to see full content and I don’t support fascists like Musk.
You can check the voting history of the bill (not the amendment). She voted against the bill. If you assert otherwise, you’re admitting you’re incapable of searching the Internet for the vote and therefore aren’t worth discussing the topic with.
She owns her political career to Israeli government businessmen with strong ties to AIPAC. She and her family are also Jewish.
This is some yarn on the corkboard conspiracy theorism with a sprinkling of racism thrown in. You’re ignoring a lot of nuance and context. Religiously, she’s Catholic. Genetically, she’s only partially Jewish and primarily Latino/Puerto Rican. I might have German heritage but you’d be remiss to accuse me of siding with Trump because he also has German heritage. Shared DNA isn’t a smoking gun.
I’m going to skip the rest of this so you can wipe the froth from your lips and reread what you wrote. It’ll help if you take the Klan hood off first.
Barack Hussain Obama
Obama didn’t do enough of what I wanted and wasn’t a leftist, but the only people who I ever see use his middle name are conservatives dog whistling their racism.
How dumb are Americans to still fall for the same fucking trick
You seem really confused. There is no functionally left American option and there hasn’t been throughout the time you’re referencing. AOC is left leaning at most and not enough for my preferences. Obama and Biden were centrists and corporate Democrats. But you vote for the least worst option because otherwise you get 2016 and 2024 results and then you get genocide of undocumented immigrants here in the US.
You’re missing the point though. Vilifying AOC and lying about something she didn’t do (she literally, factually, actually, provably voted against the bill to fund Israel) isn’t going to do anything useful to push the US further left. Why are you functionally giving ammunition to conservatives to continue to remain in power and push further right? Are you an accelerationist or just don’t understand how politics works?
Also, when you ask how dumb Americans, are you not including yourself? If you’re not an American, it means you can’t vote or legally influence an election in a meaningful way, so you’re just wasting your time and mine. I hope it made you feel good. Happy to provide you with the chance for hollow senses of accomplishment and pride.
just add the word xcancel to these links to “not support musk”, and they’d still work, but I wanted to give her official page.
Also, when did she vote against? 2023Oct, present, 2024April present, 2025Jun-6 she voted present, 2025Jun-25 present, 2025July-7 present. At least I give you sources and links which you refuse to click. Do the same give me her voting history of when she opposed funding this genocide.
https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-voted-against-israel-funding-iron-dome-1833528
"The Democrats who voted against the funding were: Cori Bush of Missouri; André Carson of Indiana; Jesús García of Illinois; Raúl Grijalva of Arizona; Marie Newman of Illinois; Ilhan Omar of Minnesota; Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts; and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.
Tlaib voiced her opposition to the funding during a speech on the House floor ahead of the September 2021 vote."
Btw you are the one who is dismissive of her actions and history, and your reply to me was basically plugging your ears shouting “LALALA I Cannot Hear Cannot See…”
Last, you proved my point when I pointed to her Israel backing history and calling Obama “Barak Hussian…” , which is that they will sell you the same shit for million times. You’d think AOC or Obama are different from Clinton or Bush but they are all the same rotten dnc left, regardless of the image they try to sell you every time wether it was a fiesty socialist latino lady or a kenyian secret-muslim immigrant claimimg to care about people and human rights. They are all warmongering politicians who support US imperalism over the middleast in favor of Israel. You know Obama toppled Egypt’s first democratic elected in its history for an Israeli backed military dictatorship, right? You know how many civilians he killed with his drones in Iraq and Ahganistan? You know that the gulf monarcies under the support and commands of US created, funded, and militirized ISIS as soon as people were trying to free themselves from dictatorships? I’m not trying to change the subject from AOC, but that’s the same bowl of shit the left keep feeding the American people in favor of Israel with hundrends of billions in aid year after year. AOC is not different.
Do the same give me her voting history of when she opposed funding this genocide.
Literally the bill in question. If you aren’t familiar with the bill the amendment was for, you don’t know what we’re discussing.
and your reply to me was basically plugging your ears shouting “LALALA I Cannot Hear Cannot See…”
No, my reply is that you’re spewing racist conspiracy theories.
kenyian secret-muslim immigrant
Again with the racism and conspiracy theories. You’re not even trying to hide it. You clearly have no moral grounds to criticize other people.
this last reply proves your reading comprehension is too much for me. how tf do you not comprehend words and understand whatever the fuck you want.
even when I explained to you that they would bring you a bloodtthristy warmonging criminal who slaughteted 3+ millions of brown and muslim people in third world countries and toppled every democracy and supported every dicatorship in push for US imperlaism and exploitation of the middleeast in favor of Israel IN THE CLOTHES OF socalist kenyian secret-muslim immigrant, … and kept feeding you the same bowl of shit of leftist fiesty latino lady fighting for human rights, … your fucking stupid reading comprehension thought this was a racist statement.
you’re either intentionally stupid, or really actually too stupid for me to deliver any information to. eitherway goodbye
I didn’t know she was a DJ. I haven’t seen someone drop their base this hard in a while
*bass
You missed the joke unfortunately. :(
Okay I just got it now 😂
Read the room, AOC.
AOCIA
It’s sick how in the US, you have to kiss the Zionist ring, to have any chance of power.
So let me get this straight…
People are mad at AOC for voting against an amendment to a bill that was never going to pass, but ultimately voted no on the overall bill that gives Isreal more weapons?
And that’s pro genocide?
Would you support it if AOC wanted to send Interceptor missiles to Russia because the rest of the house was doing it?
I think you misunderstand, she voted NO to sending weapons. The article even says as much.
It doesn’t. Read the summary I posted.
Ocasio-Cortez voted “no” on the defense spending bill itself.
How many times are you going to repeat the same strawman? This is about the amendment.
Did she or did she not vote no on the bill? Did she vote to send weapons to Isreal or not?
No. Yes.
Did she or did she not vote no on the amendement? Did she vote to send weapons to Isreal or not?
She voted no on a bill that impacts the defensive capabilities of Israel, while doing nothing to help Gaza. That bill would have resulted in a net increase of civilian deaths.
Edit: reduction in iron dome stuff, the missile interceptors
I think American progressives need to focus on repairing their democracy before expecting it to reflect their values.
For a decade I’ve seen this pattern of progressives putting the carriage before the horse. You guys get lost in the issues and forget that you need to actually win the election for any positive change to materialize.
Lots of Do Nothing Cunts in the DNC… but this backlash against AOC is both misplaced and unproductive. You guys made this mistake with Harris and now your economy is likely permanently reduced.
If Harris had won at least you guys could have protested this issue without having the president sic ICE and active military on you.
Everyone is so ready to drop her based on vibes so quickly that it kinda shines a light on why progressives fail. They could do a million things you agree with, but as soon as they do one thing you don’t like they are immediately the devil. They are held up to such high standards that it’s basically impossible to do everything right. I’m not saying her decision was correct or that her reasoning is correct. What I’m saying is that she is still one of the only politicians actively going against the encroaching fascism and oligarchy.
Like, I get it. Every single time I see Israel getting more money it pisses me off on a deep level. But I’m not going to hate someone for one of their decisions in a swimming pool of the exact opposite. Trump could shoot someone in broad daylight and be in the Epstein files and still have a base yet we hold our side up to such high expectations that we’d alienate them if they made a faux pas during an interview.
Maybe stop expecting everyone to be perfect and exactly what you want them to be and lower your fucking expectations a bit. She’s still trying to fight for you while everyone else is doing exact the opposite.
Edit: Based upon the fact that most of y’all are saying that I’m defending genocide kinda proves my point. We should absolutely be angry at what’s going on over there and we should never defend people that support genocide. But at the same time you should maybe direct your anger towards something productive instead of lashing out at people over the internet. Join a protest, advocate for ending support to Israel, and keep bringing up the issue and make it stay relevant. But don’t think for a second that your anger will accomplish anything in a vacuum. This was literally one of her talking points 3 months ago and y’all have forgotten it in your anger. And maybe if you’re expecting people to just “be better” you should probably be prepared to be disappointed every once in a while without feeling the need to attack people.
I expect people to not support genocide.
That’s the bare minimum. That’s my red line.
I’m willing to compromise so far with liberals over every fucking thing, but genocide is the limit. Israel’s Iron Dome enables it’s genocide, voting for it makes her complicit.
And if you’re willing to compromise over genocide you are complicit too.
Justice will come.
Well, this was pretty much Kamala’s stance on the issue yet millions in the US had no problem voting for her, and those that did take a stand against her decided fascism in the US was a good compromise. I’m not saying she’s right and I’m just as pissed at her for her vote. I’m just saying that shortsightedness accomplishes next to nothing. The only thing being pissed off at AOC accomplishes is making the other side, and Israel itself, more powerful in the long run. And we are actively going after AOC specifically and not even holding all the other people that voted for it accountable.
You are a cycnic. You believe Kamala and AOC are as good as it gets and expecting anything better is a waste of time.
Last election Democrats tried defending genocide instead of pushing their politicians to do better. Look where that got you. Are you still refusing to learn from it? Stop trying to defend it already.
And we are actively going after AOC specifically and not even holding all the other people that voted for it accountable.
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/aoc-is-a-genocidal-con-artist
People who say you should criticize AOC less because there are way worse members of congress act like she’s just passively sitting there being a mediocre lawmaker. She’s not. She’s actively anchoring the leftmost edge of the Overton window of US politics to militarism, capitalism, colonialism, and genocide. She’s actively stopping American politics from moving any further left than the nightmare we see before us.
Leftists shouldn’t hate AOC less than the politicians to her right, they should hate her much more. It isn’t Mike Johnson’s responsibility to move the US government to the left, and it’s not Nancy Pelosi’s job. It’s hers. That’s what she was elected to do. That’s what she framed the goals of her entire political career as being. And she’s taking her stand firmly bracing against any leftward movement from America’s genocidal, warmongering, unjust, exploitative, tyrannical status quo.
Lot of folks are willing to draw the line at genocide.
And people should. But they would’ve got the money anyway so why are we specifically pissed off at her but not anyone else in the house? Seriously, give it a week and everyone will still be pissed at AOC specifically while everyone else that voted for it will be out of the public eye.
why are we specifically pissed off at her but not anyone else in the house? because she dons the progressive hat and takes it off according to her convenience, and people don’t like to be played upon.
And because the media are amplifying it.
So she’s like 90% of politicians? Don’t get me wrong, I get it. I’m definitely not as much of a fan of her after this just like everyone else, but I’ve seen people making death threats and calling her the worst things imaginable. To me this is starting to sound more and more like a parasocial type situation where they think that because she’s popular on social media that she’s their friend when in reality she’s just doing what politicians do. I mean, even though Bernie Sanders has been trying to advocate for Palestinians he also refuses to call it a genocide and still gets crazy support.
When you spend your career painting yourself as a saviour of leftism in government, then stab leftism along with the rest of the government, you will get more backlash.
It’s “wolf vs wolf in sheep’s clothing”.
Also Bernie is a Zionist pos as well. He (wrongfully) gets grace because he’s old and a lot of peoples first forrays into politics was 2016 and 2020 when he was blatantly robbed by the DNC.
i don’t think she acts like 90% of the politicians since at least republicans are indeed free to act exactly like the program of their party. conservatives and reactionaries don’t have to play double games because in a capitalist system they have free reins, whereas progressive and social-democrats have to remind capitalists all the time how reliable they are to them, and in return they get the donations and resources they need to get elected, remain in power by not being removed through political means or lawfare, and are not branded as pariahs, i.e., radical communists.
however, i do get the point when she receives death threats, and i think that is undefendable and i suspect that this has got something to do with her being a young woman. but i don’t believe this was the case here since she was being pressured, not having her life or of those associated with her threatened. what people are saying, even though with red paint and an angry sign, is that “if you still want our votes and be associated with our values, you’d better change your stance”. as for bernie, it might be because he’s still much more inside social democracy than AOC even though he’s still playing comfortable with his genocide stance, it might be because he’s a white male. my guess is 80% the first reason and 20% for the latter.
“it’s just one genocide come on! stop letting perfect be the enemy of good!!”
i’d rather not lower my expectations to the point where genocide is acceptable thank you
Except AOC actually voted against the funding bill. All this is about a meaningless political stunt of a doomed amendment put forth by a racist conspiracy theorist conservative (MTG).
AOC herself defended “”“defensive”“” weapns to Israel. She was against the amendment on those grounds.
Her and other progressives vote for “doomed” bills and amendments all the time, as do most politicians. They vote for them to signal their position and push those positions publicly as much as anything else.
Rashiba Tlaib voted for the amendment. AOC called her a nazi.
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“we must give the German Reich the best defensive capabilities else civilians might die! Germany has a right to defend itself! Do you want more civilian casualties?!”
Note that I said I wouldn’t fund the iron dome. I don’t think Israel should receive any funding from the US. But apparently nuance isn’t in vogue right now.
Keep stuffing that straw man.
How is it a strawman?
Would you support funding an iron dome for Russia against Ukraine?
The iron dome isn’t a defensive “weapon.” That’s a contradiction in terms.
A gun doesn’t stop being a weapon because you used it in self defence, idiot.
She specifically cited an interest in not having innocent people die.
By funding arms to Israel to protect it from consequences of committing a genocide and invading and bombing multiple neighbours, which then allows it to act with further impunity to keep doing what it’s doing.
She did not call Tlaib a Nazi. That’s a gross misrepresentation of the statement. Ask Tlaib if she thinks AOC was referring to her.
She straight up declared anyone who voted for it effectively a nazi. She called Tlaib and Omar nazis.
Would you support funding an iron dome for Russia against Ukraine?
I wouldn’t personally support funding anything in Russia or Israel.
A gun doesn’t stop being a weapon because you used it in self defence, idiot.
A gun is an offensive weapon. It’s not useful for self defense. You can’t shoot bullets out of the air easily. There’s no need for useless name-calling.
By funding arms to Israel
Except she voted against said funding by voting against the bill.
to protect it from consequences of committing a genocide
The iron dome existed before the current genocide. But you’re literally saying that civilians in Israel should die because the people in control of the government and military are committing genocide. That’s not justice. That’s advocating for murder as a form of revenge on a group when everyone in the group is not responsible for the preceding injustice. You’re applying the same logic as conservatives who pretend every Palestinian is a terrorist.
and invading and bombing multiple neighbours, which then allows it to act with further impunity to keep doing what it’s doing.
I’d be interested in defending Israel entirely. The conservatives in the majority in Congress will not allow that to happen. However AOC voted or even if she abstained, the results would not be any different.
She straight up declared anyone who voted for it effectively a nazi. She called Tlaib and Omar nazis.
She literally didn’t say that. If she did, you could quote her saying “Tlaib and Omar are Nazis.” You’re assigning that meaning to her words and then getting upset at your own interpretation.
I wouldn’t personally support funding anything in Russia or Israel.
Yet here you are defending funding the iron dome. Weird that.
A gun is an offensive weapon. It’s not useful for self defense. You can’t shoot bullets out of the air easily. There’s no need for useless name-calling.
A missile is an offensive weapon. What do you think the iron dome is? Idiot.
Except she voted against said funding by voting against the bill.
Yet she defended funding the iron dome, which is giving arms to Israel.
The iron dome existed before the current genocide.
Irrelevant to the point.
But you’re literally saying that civilians in Israel should die because the people in control of the government and military are committing genocide.
Irrelevant to the point. You’re saying Russian civilians should die by saying you wouldn’t fund anything in Russia. You also said the same about Israel, so you also support killing Israeli civilians according to you.
You’re saying German civilians should die because you refuse to provide Hitler with AA guns.
I’d be interested in defending Israel entirely. The conservatives in the majority in Congress will not allow that to happen. However AOC voted or even if she abstained, the results would not be any different.
??? nonsensical.
She literally didn’t say that. If she did, you could quote her saying “Tlaib and Omar are Nazis.” You’re assigning that meaning to her words and then getting upset at your own interpretation.
“If you believe neo-nazis are welcome and operating in good faith, you can have them!” She said about people voting in favour of the amendment. She called Ilhan and Tlaib nazis.
What vibes? AOC said she wants to send weapons to Israel using American taxpayer dollars so Israel can keep committing genocide. There is no mistaking her intentions.
Stop calling genocide supporters progressives. AOC is not a progressive. She is full establishment.
AOC said she wants to send weapons to Israel using American taxpayer dollars so Israel can keep committing genocide.
Isn’t that the exact opposite of what she said in your screenshot? Support for defensive equipment and against offensive weapons.
Let’s send defensive weapons to nazi germany during the holocaust.
“Defensive” as Israel invades and occupies multiple countries.
The distinction between defensive and offensive is meaningless.
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Don’t let facts get in the way
Alright, if that’s the case then you should hold everyone in the house and senate to the same standards because they are all doing this. You say it’s not based on vibes yet I bet you can’t even name half the people in the house that voted for it without looking it up. Why does she have higher standards than the rest of them?
I’m just saying you need to pick your battles. Whether you like it or not, AOC is still one of the best chances to end this when you look at the entirety of the US government. Why make an enemy at this stage?
Maybe she is the focus because her and her fanbase insist she is so great, like you are doing here, yet she constantly proves the opposite.
You don’t have to constantly warn that the blatant Zionist is a Zionist, they tell you themselves.
lower your expectations even lower guys, maybe then things will improve!
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They have the right to defend themselves.
No, Israel does not. Jacobin, 2021: As an Occupier, Israel Has No Right to “Self-Defense”
The Palestinians meanwhile have not only the right to self-defense but also offense against their occupiers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_right_of_armed_resistance
Would you support sending Flak cannons to Adolf Hitler so he can shoot British bombers out of the sky?
Nazi 👏 Germany👏 Has 👏 A 👏 Right 👏 To👏 Exist!
Your woke leftism would have them bombing the innocent people of Dresden! And for what?!
I bet you’re going to say we should nuke Japan, next, you monster!
i hear there is some aspiring socialist giant steamrolling right around the corner. nazis would be in a bit of trouble if things were to be circling back to the last century so neatly
have the right to defend themselves
so do palestinians
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What?
I avoid using sarcasm tags
Ah, sorry, I’m autistic and read things very literally. My bad for misunderstanding.
That is ok; it was easy to misunderstand and that is why I edited it over
Good!
