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That's kinda also the reverse as well. AOC ran a well-ran campaign to win her place at the table in congress. Republicans slamming her day-in and day-out made

That's kinda also the reverse as well. AOC ran a well-ran campaign to win her place at the table in congress. Republicans slamming her day-in and day-out made her a household name. Like, AOC should be, (with no disrespect) basically a nobody in politics, she is a 1.2 term representative. But republicans wanted a villain and boy did they make one. Beyond that, I kinda also think a critical bit in this is to understand that the headlines are not realistically a way to judge the actions of a politician because the politician is not the one actually writing them. Her job is to do her job and feed the marketing team the needed clips within. For the most part her daily life is reading memos and bills and voting. The PR team works like a marketing organization and they want to win in the same way AMD and Intel want to win, it's that simple. Hit the right notes while doing your job of working on the busywork of the job. It's mostly how Trump won 2016. Politics is marketing-based, not results-based.

actually_a_dog 5y ago
I think this shows that going viral works the other way, too. Virality plus the adage that "any publicity is good publicity" can make this kind of a stunt backfire when there's an election at stake.
slibhb 5y ago
> Republicans slamming her day-in and day-out made her a household name. No, she became a household name due to her ability to produce viral content (she's an influencer-politician) and the progressive media being in love with her. Some time after that, yes, the Republicans realized they'd rather run against AOC and "the squad" than Joe Biden so they did their best to pretend that was the case.
PragmaticPulp 5y ago
> Like, AOC should be, (with no disrespect) basically a nobody in politics, she is a 1.2 term representative. But republicans wanted a villain and boy did they make one It’s mutually beneficial for them both, in the same way that rappers spend so much time beefing with each other. Controversy drives popularity, especially when each side’s followers made up their minds long ago about which side they’re on.
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jeffbee 5y ago
AOC hasn't been in the arena long but she defeated one of those petrified 10-term bozos at the top of the party hierarchy, which is a notable event.
MisterBastahrd 5y ago
The thing that is weird about her is that she can be hyperbolic when making personal appearances but she's one of the few in Congress who take their jobs seriously when in committee. She's not as prepared as Katie Porter, but she usually does the work she's being asked to do by her constituents instead of simply grandstanding during working hours.
fenderbluesjr 5y ago
/r/murderedbyAOC is a subreddit with seemingly limitless content. I for one believe that slamming people is her shtick. She is blue team Trump
- mizzack 5y ago
  Half of the posts on that sub are neither from AOC nor "murders". Just another political spam subreddit outraging its way to the front page.
- esyir 5y ago
  I've said this a few times, cause I find it interesting. That subreddit is literally filled with one person's posts. It feels like a blatant pr/propaganda/the positive version of the former two campaign that constantly worms its way to the top of reddit.
jimbokun 5y ago
Here's the cited tweet: https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1408124343700369411 https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1408124343700369411 I don't think "slammed" is too harsh of a description. After her critique about the Senators drafting this bill all being white: > This is not to say that any/all bipartisan deals are bad but it’s to ask people to actually read what’s inside them instead of assume bipartisan=good But surely, as a member of Congress, she has access to the details of this deal, and can opine on it specifically? Instead of opining on bipartisan deals as an abstraction? Wouldn't her constituents rather know, specifically, if this deal will help them or not and whether she would vote for it, and why?

actually_a_dog 5y ago

I think this shows that going viral works the other way, too. Virality plus the adage that "any publicity is good publicity" can make this kind of a stunt backfire when there's an election at stake.

slibhb 5y ago

> Republicans slamming her day-in and day-out made her a household name. No, she became a household name due to her ability to produce viral content (she's an influencer-politician) and the progressive media being in love with her. Some time after that, yes, the Republicans realized they'd rather run against AOC and "the squad" than Joe Biden so they did their best to pretend that was the case.

PragmaticPulp 5y ago

> Like, AOC should be, (with no disrespect) basically a nobody in politics, she is a 1.2 term representative. But republicans wanted a villain and boy did they make one It’s mutually beneficial for them both, in the same way that rappers spend so much time beefing with each other. Controversy drives popularity, especially when each side’s followers made up their minds long ago about which side they’re on.

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jeffbee 5y ago

AOC hasn't been in the arena long but she defeated one of those petrified 10-term bozos at the top of the party hierarchy, which is a notable event.

MisterBastahrd 5y ago

The thing that is weird about her is that she can be hyperbolic when making personal appearances but she's one of the few in Congress who take their jobs seriously when in committee. She's not as prepared as Katie Porter, but she usually does the work she's being asked to do by her constituents instead of simply grandstanding during working hours.

fenderbluesjr 5y ago

/r/murderedbyAOC is a subreddit with seemingly limitless content. I for one believe that slamming people is her shtick. She is blue team Trump

mizzack 5y ago
Half of the posts on that sub are neither from AOC nor "murders". Just another political spam subreddit outraging its way to the front page.
esyir 5y ago
I've said this a few times, cause I find it interesting. That subreddit is literally filled with one person's posts. It feels like a blatant pr/propaganda/the positive version of the former two campaign that constantly worms its way to the top of reddit.

jimbokun 5y ago

Here's the cited tweet: https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1408124343700369411 https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1408124343700369411 I don't think "slammed" is too harsh of a description. After her critique about the Senators drafting this bill all being white: > This is not to say that any/all bipartisan deals are bad but it’s to ask people to actually read what’s inside them instead of assume bipartisan=good But surely, as a member of Congress, she has access to the details of this deal, and can opine on it specifically? Instead of opining on bipartisan deals as an abstraction? Wouldn't her constituents rather know, specifically, if this deal will help them or not and whether she would vote for it, and why?