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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez responds to Scott Walker
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She did it better than me.
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Yosemito
(648 posts)Walker is the laughingstock of the Internet today. many economists are criticizing him for his stupid analogy.
RandySF
(59,341 posts)Responding to every tweet and comment could get distracting.
Yosemito
(648 posts)Do you want people on the Internet to think that her proposal is what its not? Also, prove that she replies to every comment.
RandySF
(59,341 posts)Shes jumping at every mention of her name.
Yosemito
(648 posts)If other tweets were your problem, why react to this one?
RandySF
(59,341 posts)Yosemito
(648 posts)After all, you claim that you like her response to Walker. It would make sense for you to recommend this thread, if you ask me.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)They should be stepping in to respond so she can be freed up to do other things instead of trying to answer every mean or untruthful thing anyone says about her.
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Yosemito
(648 posts)Thats false.
And she should fact check people out who are lying about her proposal. if they are prominent figures. If they lie 1000 times she should reply one thousand times.
By the way, her surrogates and aides dont have 1 million followers.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)since her followers already are with her, so responses to what's said about her don't need to be directed to them. That's just preaching to the choir.
But anyone responding to people like Walker - who also has a lot of followers - will have their response read by his followers, so it doesn't matter if they have fewer followers than she does. If enough of her followers, supporters and surrogates respond to people like him - you know, like some of them swarm all over anyone on DU they believe doesn't love her as much as they do - they'll make their point. And if she retweets it, she can make sure all of her followers see it.
But I suspect answering every slight is going to get old for her real fast, especially once she gets into the daily grind of representing her district, committee work, etc.
Yosemito
(648 posts)Stop defending Walkers lie.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)MrGrieves
(315 posts)It's fine if she can respond to everything that is said about her and be effective for her constituents. But Sometimes being a lightning rod isn't worth the bother.
Yosemito
(648 posts)If a Republican lies about a democrat and you dont call it a lie, instead of choosing a cute name for it, Im going to tell you defending the Republican.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)She's not running for President and if she doesn't fight her own battles reptilians like Walker will get away with it. She's showing that she's tough and unafraid of going toe to toe with old white male bullies. Democratic women need to follow her lead and push back hard against their stupid talking points and slurs.
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)Every one of her supporters is - or can be - a surrogate.
And are you actually saying that other Democratic women aren't as tough as she is and need to learn from her on how not to get rolled over? Seriously?
I'm sure she doesn't even believe that.
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)We disagree on this, but it's a matter of opinion.
hueymahl
(2,510 posts)Stop. You are making me laugh too much.
JCanete
(5,272 posts)well utilized time and effort.
hueymahl
(2,510 posts)Voltaire2
(13,200 posts)But you should let her know how she should manage her twitter presence. Im sue she would be fascinated.
JCanete
(5,272 posts)she's working with people who help to craft this message. The reason it isn't distracting, thank heavens, is because this is literally about policy. She's taking on challenges to policy in the public sphere, where they can live or die. If she generates public will, then politicians have to respond to that will one way or another. They don't get to hide.
Power 2 the People
(2,437 posts)hueymahl
(2,510 posts)aeromanKC
(3,328 posts)Good job kid for doing chores for your Grandma after earning $10 million when you're still only in the 5th grade!! Sure he could have hired an outside cleaning outfit, but nooooo, he did the chores himself. Kudos to you kid!!
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)I really dont think he understands it!!
Joe941
(2,848 posts)John Fante
(3,479 posts)She's doing just fine. Amazing, actually.
SKKY
(11,824 posts)...Why are you messing with a street-smart kid from The Bronx? You can't dude. You just can't. She'll eat your lunch.
disillusioned73
(2,872 posts)the Scott Walkers & their defenders.. I don't think they even realize that they are being thoroughly owned online on a regular basis.. and young voters, future voters are seeing it everyday - the comments & likes are just but a fraction of who is seeing/reading these, they are not buying the BS coming from conservativism anymore..