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 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?
A gun doesn’t stop being a weapon because you used it in self defence, idiot.
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 straight up declared anyone who voted for it effectively a nazi. She called Tlaib and Omar nazis.
I wouldn’t personally support funding anything in Russia or Israel.
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.
Except she voted against said funding by voting against the bill.
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.
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 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.
Yet here you are defending funding the iron dome. Weird that.
A missile is an offensive weapon. What do you think the iron dome is? Idiot.
Yet she defended funding the iron dome, which is giving arms to Israel.
Irrelevant to the point.
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.
??? nonsensical.
“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.
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And Israel could leave Palestine (and Lebanon, and Syria, and stop attacking Iran). You’re just a rank hypocrite who supports arming genocide
You are an absurdly obtuse and disingenuous person.
Iron Dome funding is sending arms to Israel. Iron Dome protects Israel as it invades its neighbours and commits a genocide. It’s that simple.
You are defending a vote against stripping iron dome funding, accusing others of being in favour of killing civilians whilst trying to claim you also don’t support funding Israel. You can’t have it both ways. You support killing of civilians with your own stupid fucking rhetoric, but you want to dance around the issue and pretend you aren’t doing what you are in fact doing.
You are genuinely a fucking moron. I said nothing about Dresden or dropping nukes. You are literally advocating for sending AA guns to Hitler by equating and reducing all forms of military response as being one and the same as mass murder of civilians to suggest it’s legitimate to support funding for the Iron Dome as “defensive”.