Ocasio-Cortez spent at least $4.2 million on Facebook ads in 2019-2020. Almost all these ads simply solicit further donations in a kind of fundraising ouroboros. Her criticism of Facebook could carry more moral weight (at no cost to her!) if she didn't give them so much money.https://twitter.com/JohnHendel/status/1349369497145241605 …
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But you know and have heard more about AOC in the national conversation than her neighboring districts - which gives her more power to get her policies into play, even as a junior representative - which, seems to me, means the buy is effective.
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Obviously, none of those neighbors were being incessantly and incendiarily targeted by a whole political party and the president, trying to define her before she has a chance—the way it happens to so many talented politicians, especially if they are women.
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Boycott what is essentially a monopoly—or remain pure on paper while being totally kneecapped by your adversaries and surrender without even fighting lest you be perceived as impure—are not the kind of advice that has ever served women, or any politicians, come to think of it.

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But she's a high profile target (literally) - she is the new HRC type boogeywoman. I see these media expenses as much about countering that narrative as anything else. Facebook is a monopoly & a cesspool - no one even knows the name of the reps in neighboring districts.
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