This is such a big mood. Speaking as a full-time graduate student in the metro DC area, I don’t blame her for waiting. The cost of living here is grotesque.
stfu, this bitch just another LARPing liberal
Like most models, Ocasio-Cortez did not buy the outfit shown here – she rented it for a photo shoot. Also, the clothes come from an environmentally-conscious fashion line, the designers of which are sensible to her political platform.
I see why you omitted these details – sexism is more catchy when you neglect the whole story
Also:
Period
G*d people really acting like a bartender with student debt showed up to a photoshoot with a $10,000 wardrobe in tow. That’s not how any of this works.
Millennials see the lack of full-time jobs and affordable housing as the two biggest challenges facing their generation, with almost half of those in precarious employment saying their work status causes depression or anxiety, according to a new survey of young people in Hamilton.
Only 44 per cent of millennials working in the area have found full-time, permanent jobs, the report said. The majority reported not having jobs that provide extended health benefits, pension plans, or employer-funded training, while 38 per cent said they expected to be worse off than their parents, the report said.
The study conducted by McMaster University and the Poverty and Employment Precarity in Southern Ontario (PEPSO) research group surveyed 1,189 employed millennials in Hamilton. While not a representative sample of the entire demographic, the report says its findings are a “reasonable picture of what it is like” for workers under the age of 35 in the broader region.
“You hear a lot of criticism of this generation, but I think they are one of the most ambitious exciting generations,” said researcher Jeffrey C. Martin, who co-authored the report with McMaster University professor Wayne Lewchuk. “But the cards haven’t been dealt well for them.”
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez got laughed at for bringing this up as a rebuttal to low unemployment in the US but it was clear af day to me she was referring to the situation facing Millennials and low income people.
I think the author is wrong about Mr. Miller. He was radicalized into an open racist before 2008 and he has the exact background of someone who would be a fascist ideologue no matter what generation or economic system he was born into. If he came to power in the Reagan administration he’d just be expressing it in a Southern Strategy “lock up the drug offenders” way instead of his current bent. If he came into power in the Eisenhower administration he’d push for Operation W*tback and be a staunch segregationist.
This is what I was talking about when I said that moving the Overton window even slightly left would expose conservatism for how horrific it is. Arguing against bureaucratic liberalism is easy, and it is easy to mold that conversation in a way that makes the conservative sound like the voice of the “everyman.” Arguing against providing healthcare and education to people is extremely difficult, and will basically force conservatives to admit that they dont actually care about people at all.
The GOP tax bill—the amount of money that was given to corporations and the rich would have paid for Medicare for all and healthcare for every man, woman, and child in this country for the next five years. So it’s there. And additionally, we added several hundred billion dollars additionally to our military spending, when the military didn’t even ask for it. They didn’t even want that additional spending, but we lopped it on there—and that could have financed public college tuition for years as well. So we actually have the money for these things.
It’s all about who has the courage to change the status quo and realign our priorities
We actually have the money for these things.
The US spends more on healthcare than the UK for less coverage. This isn’t utopian socialism or my usual demands for world peace and a pony. This is a fact. Your public and compulsory schemes cost more than ours and you don’t even get universal healthcare free at the point of delivery. You pay more and get less. This is a bad deal. You could pay less and get more. People mocking the idea and calling it communism or a money sink just can’t count.
AOC is making a broader point though that spending doesn’t matter when your economy is as massive as the US’s economy is and the “household” metaphor for a country’s budget is inaccurate.
The GOP tax bill—the amount of money that was given to corporations and the rich would have paid for Medicare for all and healthcare for every man, woman, and child in this country for the next five years. So it’s there. And additionally, we added several hundred billion dollars additionally to our military spending, when the military didn’t even ask for it. They didn’t even want that additional spending, but we lopped it on there—and that could have financed public college tuition for years as well. So we actually have the money for these things.
Republicans are spreading lies about her background, claiming she lied about where she was raised, that she’s actually rich and is just pretending to be working class. Clearly they are terrified of her. *eg*
How do people not understand that it’s possible to be working-class and live in a well-off area? It’s hard to do because of the COL but it’s possible.
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