The right's obsession with AOC

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(04-09-2019, 04:01 AM)hollodero Wrote: I don't know if it was disingenuous. I just found it quite clear what AOC's point was and saw your attempts to claim otherwise that weren't very convincing.
Her point was to relate income to the cost of everyday things (like a LaGuardia croissant, maybe not the best example, but ok). which is a fair comparison to make, whether one agrees with her conclusion or not (that one hour of hard work should buy a person two LaGuardia croissants). Ted Cruz, oh the humanity, claiming she wants "government-mandated free croissants for everyone #socialistlogic" was quite an unfair misrepresentation. To a point where I think to be on his side one has to prejudge her for being her a little.

And yeah I know you call Trump out too at times, but your measure stick seems to be way stricter in this case. I'd bet without proof that if Trump got slammed for something like that, you'd call it TDS and would have a point.



I figured it was to prove she meant something else as Dino claimed she meant. Like that she slammed LaGuardia croissants and hence hates free market prices and whatnot. Which, again, was not her point quite clearly.

I disagree with this take. I saw it as her making a point regarding how we value things in our economy. Many are willing to value a pastry at an airport at $7 but many are unwillingly to value anyone's hour of labor at $15. We don't question the $7 croissant. We all recognize that it's value is tied to the restricted nature of an airport and we accept it. I see her as challenging us to accept that everyone's hour of work should at least be worth $15.

I don't think the use of the croissant makes it's a particularly good comparison, but she clearly was not complaining about croissants being too expensive or asking for free croissants as the spineless senator from Texas suggested she was.