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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Nancy Pelosi is at the end of her career, not the beginning. No politician gets there by refusing to use the mandatory tools of the public sphere and no way to be an ambitious politician in the 21st century without lining up Zuckerberg's pockets. That's just reality.
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I don't think that AOC's use of FB is prima facie hypocritical, but after a couple of weeks following
@nandoodles I do think there's a fair chance this circular fundraising is to no avail and there IS a moral case for her to audit. The problem is we can't know if she already has - Show replies
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You don't know or need to assume anything about my perspective. But it still seems to me that
@aoc is stuck with FB because it is the least-bad fit for her strategy (for her causes and her own campaign); the fact that we're talking about her tells you something... -
I'm talking about her to drum up Pinboard subscriptions without having to pay Twitter for ads. I don't know why you're here.
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