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The position puts her at odds with some on the left, such as Rep. Ro Khanna, another potential 2028 contender, who said he wants to find “common ground” with people like Greene.

In a conversation Friday at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics moderated by David Axelrod, the onetime political strategist to President Barack Obama, a student asked Ocasio-Cortez whether she stood by past remarks that there were “legitimate white supremacist sympathizers at the core of the House of Representatives caucus” and, if so, why she worked with some of them.

Ocasio-Cortez did stand by them and said she wasn’t scared of reaching across the aisle, holding up her work with Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn. But she set a clear boundary.

“I personally do not trust someone like Marjorie Taylor Greene, a proven bigot and antisemite, on the issue of what is good for Gazans and Israelis,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “I don’t think it benefits our movement in that instance to align the left with white nationalists. I don’t think it serves us.”

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[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 58 minutes ago

Marjorie Taylor Greene is bat shit insane, or at least she doesn't mind acting like it. She is as untrustworthy as any lying reality denying MAGA idiot.

[-] FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 hours ago

I agree! Yet Another based take from AOC!

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

I don't trust inbreds.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 hours ago

Why not? I don’t think we’ve ever been burned by unskeptically welcoming conservatives into the progressive movement.

(/s, obviously)

[-] CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world 64 points 8 hours ago

No shit, Sherlock. I'm not mad at AOC for stating the obvious. I'm mad that she has to in the first place cos Democrats are fucking stupid. Not as stupid as Republicans, but still stupid.

[-] BeardededSquidward 7 points 6 hours ago

Their apologists just don't get it as well. Dems need to stop talking big and be big. Stop saying you're the resistance and not verbally flogging the people who vote Trump appointees or funding of ICE. They need to stop portraying themselves as a weak party against the Republicans.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 13 points 6 hours ago

Empty G is still full blown MAGA, she just recognizes that Trump is heading for the exit soon, and as in all Cults of Personality, there is no #2. She's angling to be the new MAGA leader, attracting those who have soured on Trump, as well as weak-willed Trad Dems, to give her an edge over those that only draw from MAGA.

Don't fall for it, she's still the same psychopath she's always been. Hating Trump is a low bar, she's going to have to do better than that.

[-] FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, well said

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

I don't think it's all that nefarious.

I think she was a true believer up until she started forcefully being exposed to all the info and having good reason to pay attention to it.

And it's not hard to figure out that it's all bullshit.

Regardless, she's still the "Jewish Space Lasers" person, and I don't see why Democrats would be tempted to trust her on anything.

Greene just doesn't care about holding her job enough to carry Trump's bullshit once she recognizes it as bullshit. That's why she's going to be out of politics like every other Republican who wouldn't carry Trump's bullshit and therefore are no longer in office.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 hour ago

Nah, she's STILL a true believer, she's just separated MAGA from Trump, which is something very few politicians have done publicly, and very, very few voters have done.

It's going to backfire. If MAGAs can't vote for Trump, they're going to want to vote for whoever Trump endorses, and it ain't gonna be her.

[-] valar@lemmy.ca 97 points 9 hours ago
[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Some moron on here yesterday said they trust Magic Taylor Green more.

[-] tburkhol@slrpnk.net 35 points 9 hours ago

I'd think it would be obvious as a general principle, and I'm kind of surprised that AOC's position is more strict: Don't trust MTG on Gaza or Israel.

[-] Zizzy 3 points 7 hours ago

Should just be in general for sure. But i feel like people dont realize that MTG is just against israel becausing she is a raging racist who thinks the jewish cabal is running the world with space lasers.

[-] slowmolaggins@thelemmy.club 3 points 6 hours ago

What's obvious to me is that our president is a pedophile and a x34 felon. Saying something is obvious, doesn't take away the possibilities. We live in a post-truth society where the idiot who screams the loudest has the most listeners.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 26 points 7 hours ago

MTG says whatever MTG thinks will benefit MTG the most. End of story. She has no morality at all other than what will conveniently serve herself first.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Yeah this doesn't really excuse AOC's poor positioning on Israel while a genocide was happening. This is a complete strawman on AOC's part and the hogs are just eating it up. And thats a problem because instead of working to improve her own political instincts on this issue, she's enlisting a terminally online army of sportsfans to white-knight for her.

The fact is AOC did bad on Israel and funding Israel while a genocide was happening. A blind dog like MTG finding a bone eventually has no bearing on AOC doing very poorly on these issues. And judging by the ratios in this thread, the hogs have spoken.

[-] Weydemeyer@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I interpreted AOC’s refusal to support Taylor-Greene’s proposal to cut funding to Israel as a personal grudge not based in what may ultimately do good, but rather refusing to give someone she despises on a personal level any sort of credit. I am saying this as a criticism, not an excuse.

I would support the devil himself it meant less funding for Israel. If you don’t want to give the right any victories on Israel, then push the left to be better! But tbh that doesn’t even really strike me as AOC’s real reasoning, I just think she really hates MTG.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

100% and my view of this threads is just the hogs eating it up.

AOC was wrong with her votes and her making this about MTG instead of about stopping genocide: its not gonna work.

[-] UnpledgedCatnapTipper@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

AOC voted against MTG's amendment, but then voted against the full bill. I really fail to see the issue voting against amending a bill that you're against in its entirety.

Edit: the amendment got a total of 6 votes in favor

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 36 minutes ago

Its just another signal of AOC's bad political instincts. Its not like Ilhan got this vote wrong. Al Green didn't get this vote wrong. And implicit in what AOC is saying here is that these other members of congress shouldn't have voted to support the resolution.

AOC just got the vote wrong and no amount of her shit around "I care about results" excuses her getting outplayed on this issue. And to me thats the bigger conversation, which is, how are AOC's instincts on issues? Does she end up on the right things first or does she, like you said, vote against an amendment to defund Israel, and eventually got it right.

Voting on a bill to defund Israel doesn't mean you are joining a make-out session with MTG. This is about getting things first time right, and AOC straight blew it here.

Some good dropsite coverage on it here: https://inv.nadeko.net/embed/X3RatYjFSj8?t=320

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 hours ago

MTG is already promoting horse paste for hanta virus.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 35 points 9 hours ago

The fact that she even had to say it to remind people is completely insane

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago

She hasn't changed. She joined MAGA for greedy and selfish reason, and she left for the same reasons. She will knife anyone left of her in the back the moment it becomes benificial.

[-] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I wouldn’t trust MTG with a squirt gun at a swimming pool. Yes we all make mistakes and say and do dump things. Yes she has turned her back on Donny and maga but I do believe the minute he dies she will try to recapture the maga movement and mold it in her favor. And when this fails she will just grift another hatful movement. Yes she is still speaking out about Epstein which I will give her credit for but other than that stfu bitch. When we get our country back or what’s left of it you will still go to prison for all the crimes, lies, and pain you caused people. We will at least make sure your last meal is tasty Marge.

[-] voxthefox 12 points 9 hours ago

Ducking Fuh.

[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 hours ago

You don’t have to trust MTG in order to work with her across the aisle to sign legislation putting an end to funding Israeli genocide. The two things can be true together.

This is an infuriatingly divisive lib take by AOC, and sadly further evidence she’s just not ready for a presidential run. I truly hope she reconsiders and goes after Chucklefuck’s senate seat instead, it would do way more good for the movement that way.

[-] KnitWit@lemmy.world 18 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

MTG is no longer in congress, so there is no reaching across the aisle to sign legislation. She quit literally the day her pension became vested.

[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 hours ago

MTG was in congress when she drafted a bill to reduce military aid to Israel, and AOC voted against it.

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

To other users reading this: This user tends to argue in bad faith and I'd advise tagging them accordingly, but I'll just clarify for the record:

AOC voted against that bill because it actually enabled offensive bombs to continue while gutting defensive Iron Dome measures. AOC has long been a proponent of defensive measures that protect civilian life, independent of national flags. However, given the latest number of loopholes that Israel has used, AOC has as of April 1st adjusted her position to refuse ALL military aid to Israel.

[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Cash is fungible. Israel doesn’t care what it’s earmarked for, giving them money further enables the genocide. The important thing is that the US attempt to apply leverage by reducing what we give them.

My positions on Israeli genocide and the shameful involvement of the US, due to our government being captured wholly by Israel, have been consistent throughout.

It’s funny you make this claim however. The bad faith argument was from AOC claiming that she had to vote no because of offensive weaponry, when in fact she did so because her esteemed colleagues told her to heel. After the vote, she changes her position. Interesting.

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

In fact she did so because her esteemed colleagues told her to heel. After the vote, she changes her position. Interesting.

Speculative.

[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

Perhaps. But just to put a fine point on this matter - I am glad that AOC came around to the correct position on whether we should continue funding the terrorist nation state of Israel, in that we absolutely should not. They are literally using this money to buy off our politicians so that they don’t work for us, instead they work for Israel. It’s wrong in every possible way.

I sincerely hope this is how AOC will vote regarding bankrolling Israel in the future, regardless of whether the authors of said bills have an R next to their name, or whether she perceives them to be a hypothetical future opponent in a presidential race.

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

It's honestly both striking and funny to me that someone who had denounced Harris under this same purity test now suddenly is saying the left should work with fascists because there is common ground.

lol wow. Just wow.

I guess that's single-issue tankies for you.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Harris under this same purity test now suddenly is saying the left should work with fascists because there is common ground.

Harris introduced legislation to defund Israel? When did I miss that?

[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 hours ago

Ok well MTG isn’t running for president, nor would I vote for her if she did because like AOC, I don’t trust her at all.

However, when she drafted a bill to reduce aid to Israel by 500mil, AOC voted against it. AOC claims she is about results, but then does her own purity tests like this which further enable genocide. It is damaging, divisive, and disingenuous of her to do so.

[-] UnpledgedCatnapTipper@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

AOC voted against the amendment that MTG proposed to a funding bill. AOC then voted against the full bill when it came up for a vote.

Edit: the amendment got a total of 6 votes in favor

[-] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 4 points 7 hours ago

Nobody should trust MTG

[-] BeardededSquidward 3 points 6 hours ago

You could put MTG at the deepest parts of the ocean and she still wouldn't be far enough for me to feel safe.

[-] bedwyr@piefed.ca 3 points 6 hours ago

Trust? Trust what? Agree with her when she says something we agree with? I disagree. And I also don't trust Cortez. But I don't have to, we aren't voting MTG into the presidency here, we are supporting or rejecting her defection to the good guys, because half the left are sheep that Israel plays like a fucking fiddle.

I'm talking about you all.

[-] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

MTG supported Israel right up until Trump ruined her reputation in the party. She wasn't remotely shy about her support either. Now she doesn't? I mean we can support her current disdain, but she's obviously not authentic in her stance.

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago

MTG supported Israel

Dunno why she supported them in the first place, what with them being the number one manufacturer of space lasers she was so scared of.

[-] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Because fascists, at least at the time, viewed support for other ethnostates as a means to an end for their own goals. Their opinion turned on a dime because it was no longer a popular and largely positive example of an ethnostate working, at least in the mind of Americans, who she wants to appeal to.

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[-] HexParte@lemmy.zip 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I look at what is happening with Greene and can’t help but think of this as something akin to cancel culture. While I align closer with AOC than MTG, I’m not sure distancing yourself from somebody like Greene - who has genuinely started changing their views despite her Bill Burr style rhetoric stating she’s not changing and has always thought like this - is helpful to your cause. I think it could do a few things like alienate potential partners, keep Greene from moving closer to you on the spectrum, etc. and none of them are particularly good.

I think all we can really do is welcome Greene over with open arms. Now, I’m tempered because I’m not sure she will shift any farther than where she is now, but I think alienating her is a good way to keep her as your enemy. And I don’t need more of those. Frankly, I applaud Green for this last year she’s spent in the ire of Trump. It take courage to speak out. And now that she is speaking out we want to alienate her? I don’t like that, even knowing that welcoming her over will come with a lot of strain.

Edit: I’m gonna stand by what I’m saying and say you are exactly who this message is for. No one is perfect, and I’m not saying she hasn’t done or isn’t doing some horrible stuff. That has nothing to do with what I said. What I said was that casting her aside just hurts all of us because we are alienating people who are trying to change. Think back to who you were as a teen or even ten years ago, did you like who you were? We’ve all done horrible shit. We aren’t magically better people. This is like telling an addict to get help, then when they do, we tell them we can’t have them on our lives because they used to do drugs.

[-] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

Show me anything Greene has done to benefit the people she’s harmed. Talk is cheap.

[-] musicalphysics@discuss.online 15 points 8 hours ago

MTG is currently going around telling people to take invermectin for the Hanta virus. MTG’s brief period of sanity is already well over.

[-] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 17 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Yeah, fuck that noise and fuck her too. You can go ahead and pat her on the back for doing the bare fucking minimum and nothing will change.

[-] iThinkDifferentThanU@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago

Yeah not much difference betweem the two of them huh? It's a fuckin act she is pulling. How the fuck you even remotely have anything close to mtg says you might need some personal reflection

[-] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 8 hours ago

This is unwavering forgiveness is how the lefts message gets diluted and shifts right.

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