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Unfortunately people who misunderstood Amazon wasn't being gifted $3B includes the recently elected congressperson for the area: https://mobile.twitter.com/qtrr

Unfortunately people who misunderstood Amazon wasn't being gifted $3B includes the recently elected congressperson for the area: https://mobile.twitter.com/qtrresearch/status/1096181157316780037 https://mobile.twitter.com/qtrresearch/status/10961811573167... EDIT: Congressperson for an adjacent area, not for that area.

untog 8y ago
You see this a lot because conservatives have a hate-on for AOC, but she's not the congressperson for the area Amazon were building in. Queens has a lot of congressional districts. She also had very little to nothing to do with the decision, but again, you wouldn't know that from watching the conservative commentary.
- deminature 8y ago
  My mistake, I was under the impression she was the congressperson for the area. She was a prominent critic of the project, and factored into the failure to some extent. I also don't consider myself to be conservative, just disappointed in the grandstanding against the project.
- anth_anm 8y ago
  She's dumb and doesn't understand that giving away 3 billion to a company is good and also tax credits aren't giveaways because reasons. I'm smart and don't understand districting.
  - oh_sigh 8y ago
    Her district is like a mile away from the proposed Amazon office, she has the bully pulpit of the nation 1000x more than any other congressperson in the area does, she talked a lot about the Amazon plan, and celebrated helping destroy it. I don't think it's unreasonable to bring up her incorrect understanding of how tax credits work. > "We were subsidizing those jobs. The city was paying for those jobs. So frankly, if we're willing to give away away $3 billion for this deal, we could invest $3 billion in our district ourselves if we want to. We could hire out more teachers, we can fix our subways, we can put a lot of people to work for that money if we wanted to." https://www.nbcnews.com/video/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-reacts-to-amazon-nixing-long-island-city-campus-1442730051615 https://www.nbcnews.com/video/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-react...
  - uerobert 8y ago
    She's dumb because she thinks NYC now has 3 billions stacked somewhere that can now be used for other things like, the subway system, schools, teacher salaries, firefighters, farting cows, the unwilling to work, etc.

untog 8y ago

You see this a lot because conservatives have a hate-on for AOC, but she's not the congressperson for the area Amazon were building in. Queens has a lot of congressional districts. She also had very little to nothing to do with the decision, but again, you wouldn't know that from watching the conservative commentary.

deminature 8y ago
My mistake, I was under the impression she was the congressperson for the area. She was a prominent critic of the project, and factored into the failure to some extent. I also don't consider myself to be conservative, just disappointed in the grandstanding against the project.
anth_anm 8y ago
She's dumb and doesn't understand that giving away 3 billion to a company is good and also tax credits aren't giveaways because reasons. I'm smart and don't understand districting.
- oh_sigh 8y ago
  Her district is like a mile away from the proposed Amazon office, she has the bully pulpit of the nation 1000x more than any other congressperson in the area does, she talked a lot about the Amazon plan, and celebrated helping destroy it. I don't think it's unreasonable to bring up her incorrect understanding of how tax credits work. > "We were subsidizing those jobs. The city was paying for those jobs. So frankly, if we're willing to give away away $3 billion for this deal, we could invest $3 billion in our district ourselves if we want to. We could hire out more teachers, we can fix our subways, we can put a lot of people to work for that money if we wanted to." https://www.nbcnews.com/video/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-reacts-to-amazon-nixing-long-island-city-campus-1442730051615 https://www.nbcnews.com/video/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-react...
- uerobert 8y ago
  She's dumb because she thinks NYC now has 3 billions stacked somewhere that can now be used for other things like, the subway system, schools, teacher salaries, firefighters, farting cows, the unwilling to work, etc.