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Topic	AOC addresses the criticisms over her Met Gala 'Tax the Rich' dress.
scar the 1 09/14/21 10:05:59 AM #50:	CyricZ posted... Okay but this gets into realms of "I did this", "I knew you'd do that", "I knew you knew I'd do that", "I knew you knew that I knew that you'd do that", etc. Ultimately this remains on brand for her style, sticks to her ideals, and speaks to those in money at a major show-off event for them. Claiming that it's playing right into the hands of the elites is making a lot of assumptions about the depth of this. No... it doesn't get into those realms at all. The establishment is happy to let her perform, because they know she's not a threat. With her reigned in in the party, they get plausible deniability, she gets nothing except for a personal career. It's like having Ricky Gervais "call out" the Hollywood people at the Golden Globe awards. He was so popular that they brought him back year after year, and weren't ever afraid of his jokes. Because that's all it was - performing as an adversary while making the industry seem woke by inviting someone who could "speak truth to power". It wasn't until the metoo movement broke that things started changing, and the likes of Weinstein spent millions on smear campaigns and PR rather than invite dissidents to his parties. If AOC thinks she's doing good promoting her cause with this dress stunt then she's either stupid, or the cause is not actually dismantling the established elite. She (as a socialist) is diametrically opposed to this elite. Playing their game of gala dress activism does not signal that she's opposed to them, it signals that she will take part in their status quo by proposing toothless, slightly progressive politics that will get ignored while the status quo remains unperturbed. If you think she's some kind of genius for sporting a Warrenite slogan on the back of her designer dress while she rubs elbows with her supposed enemies, then that's fine. You just won't convince me of it. --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent <cite>scar the 1 posted [p:958041990] in AOC addres... [t:79660591]...</cite> <quote>CyricZ posted... </cite> <quote>Okay but this gets into realms of "I did this", "I knew you'd do that", "I knew you knew I'd do that", "I knew you knew that I knew that you'd do that", etc. Ultimately this remains on brand for her style, sticks to her ideals, and speaks to those in money at a major show-off event for them. Claiming that it's playing right into the hands of the elites is making a lot of assumptions about the depth of this.</quote>No... it doesn't get into those realms at all. The establishment is happy to let her perform, because they know she's not a threat. With her reigned in in the party, they get plausible deniability, she gets nothing except for a personal career. It's like having Ricky Gervais "call out" the Hollywood people at the Golden Globe awards. He was so popular that they brought him back year after year, and weren't ever afraid of his jokes. Because that's all it was - performing as an adversary while making the industry seem woke by inviting someone who could "speak truth to power". It wasn't until the metoo movement broke that things started changing, and the likes of Weinstein spent millions on smear campaigns and PR rather than invite dissidents to his parties. If AOC thinks she's doing good promoting her cause with this dress stunt then she's either stupid, or the cause is not actually dismantling the established elite. She (as a socialist) is diametrically opposed to this elite. Playing their game of gala dress activism does not signal that she's opposed to them, it signals that she will take part in their status quo by proposing toothless, slightly progressive politics that will get ignored while the status quo remains unperturbed. If you think she's some kind of genius for sporting a Warrenite slogan on the back of her designer dress while she rubs elbows with her supposed enemies, then that's fine. You just won't convince me of it. --- Stop being so aggressively argumentative for no reason. - UnfairRepresent</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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