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Cake day: August 5th, 2025

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  • The thing is, the joke was at the expense of contemporary America at that point in time. These are all things the US does and has done over decades and decades post WW2.

    Only difference now is that Trump swung the pendulum to the far right of what was average everyday neoliberalism in the US with immense incompetence, making it more unquestionably obvious than ever.



  • It’s true; she did vote last year, and openly stated, that she for funding Israel’s defense, and received a lot of backlash and criticism for it. Thankfully she’s started to take the right response to the issue now, but it was super poorly handled at the time because she doubled down not realizing that’s about as good being open to funding the defense for Nazi Germany.

    I like AOC, and think she’s a great fit for the senate, but I often criticise her political instincts at this point in her career.