Obsessive Right-Winger Edition
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez danced as a teenager, it was caught on tape, and now some obsessed right-wingers are using that as evidence that she’s a fucking “commie.”
(Never mind that she’s openly called herself a Democratic Socialist in the past, it’s the dance video that really sells it.)
I’m not linking to the tweet. The video is literally fine. It shows that she was a human being at some point and not some Stephen-Miller-ass soulless lawyer monster by the time she turned 18. While I’m not about to throw my support behind the political class as a whole, I would say that it’s a net positive that Congress now counts among its ranks someone who knows what the concept of entertainment and leisure are.
But while I’m here and not tweeting: we’re coming up on election season. There is an alarming number of folks who ascribe apocalyptic portents to this upcoming election. There is even a cult that formed around something that came from one of the * chan message boards. Be careful out there. These folks aren’t fucking around, and we should take them — or at least their potential to act violently — seriously.