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Met Gala 2021 (ft. Lil Nas X)
- Thread starter whatsinaname
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Yeah pretty much and...Deepwater gets the drill.
edit: I'm seeing a pattern here that is that AOC can't do wrong.
I totally agree that individually, it's really not big of a deal.
Like the course of American history would have remained largely unchanged if AOC decided to not go to the Met gala.
But I do believe that the fact that our politicians are so friendly with the ultra rich is a huge huge problem, one of the biggest problem with American politics.
And all we have really is outrage since corruption is mostly legal in the US.
Like for real, in most countries in the world it's not legal to give a politician a gift that's worth that much, no matter the reason or intent.
Her designer sells tennis balls for $45.
Politicians get invites to cultural events in their districts / wards / boroughs / constituencies in literally every western country. "Yes, Prime Minister" was cracking jokes about sir Humphries seats at the Opera 40 years ago.
Re the dress, most outfits worn by people showcasing designers at the Gala aren't given to them. They are loaned for the event, to showcase the designers work.
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AOC is friends with a designer, who is dating a rich guy, so the "left" needs better leaders? That's almost Mao or Stalin versions of communism, ie, blue collar, hard work is the only way, no one should have fun ever. Intellectualism = leisure = devil. But where did that lead those two countries?
You guys are being silly now.
AOC is a fine leader. That tweet is stupid and that person's account is batshit and shouldn't be linked to.
Smh, what are those shoes bro?apparently the secondary theme was "men who can definitely afford a tailor just choosing not to"
i just feel like if i were going to critique aoc for who she keeps company with i would probably not post tweets by an anti-vaxx illuminati conspiracy theorist who talks about it's good to be besties with ring wing folks because we're all on the same side? i'm just quirky like that i guess.
like it just feels a little weird to post tweets from someone who, by their own statement, will gleefully join hands with right wingers as long as they sufficiently dunk on this woman? like perhaps their motivations are not actually grounded in leftism?
like it just feels a little weird to post tweets from someone who, by their own statement, will gleefully join hands with right wingers as long as they sufficiently dunk on this woman? like perhaps their motivations are not actually grounded in leftism?
So let's talk about that, why showcase someone like her?
So check her store -
That used to be a mostly working class neighborhood that got gentrified pretty hard.
It's not even AOC's district.
Just some rich Canadian who sell overpriced crap to rich people. A gentrifier.
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Are those really the people our politicians should be prioritizing right now?
We just tossed millions of people out of unemployment while they were all on vacation, even just by looks this is gross.
Like I donno, individually those things are not the end of the world, but our politicians constantly hang around those rich people and I think it does baaaaaaaad things to our democracy.
If you're mad about some random Twitter account being posted, here, maybe this will help:
AOC's "Tax the Rich" dress was designed by Aurora James. James is currently dating American entrepreneur Benjamin Bronfman, who accompanied her to the event. Bronfman, worth reportedly $100m, is the son of billionaire executive Edward Bronfman Jr., and a member of the Lehman family, which founded Lehman Brothers, a huge investment firm which was, in part, responsible for the 2008 market crash.
I'll remove the tweet but the point is valid. This was an empty gesture by AOC and it deserves criticism. She wanted to raise taxes on the rich she coulda started with the people sitting at her table at the gala last night.
AOC's "Tax the Rich" dress was designed by Aurora James. James is currently dating American entrepreneur Benjamin Bronfman, who accompanied her to the event. Bronfman, worth reportedly $100m, is the son of billionaire executive Edward Bronfman Jr., and a member of the Lehman family, which founded Lehman Brothers, a huge investment firm which was, in part, responsible for the 2008 market crash.
I'll remove the tweet but the point is valid. This was an empty gesture by AOC and it deserves criticism. She wanted to raise taxes on the rich she coulda started with the people sitting at her table at the gala last night.
So you think she wouldn't have raised taxes on those people if she had a magic dictator wand? Not even sure what the point of that comment is.
She can tax people directly? Fuck, good to know. How about we really show her, and tax the shit out of all of her rich friends since she isn't getting it done?
I don't know what people want from AOC. Yes, she is at an event filled with rich people. That's why the dress makes a statement. She also works for the goverment, has a comfortable income and isn't organizing a grassroots overthrow of capitalism from a garage. Does that make you uncomfortable too? if not, there's no reason to grill her for this.
AOC has done more to hold the wealthy accountable than anyone in this thread, period. But keeping going off, I guess.
Not everything deserves freaking "criticism." This is such a reach to find someway to condemn her. Because that's all that seems to be the goal here, as we ALL know AOC does the work. But I guess it's never enough for some people and literally everything she does + everyone she's associated with needs to be squeaky clean while the rest of the guests are simply admired.
AOC has done more to hold the wealthy accountable than anyone in this thread, period. But keeping going off, I guess.
