She just gave a socialist critique of late-stage extractive capitalism that values profit over people's health, and then pivoted to tightening hex screws. It's just kind of amazing.
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So @AOC is on Instagram Live assembling furniture while speaking off the cuff about how she believes that she has a moral responsibility to fight for what's right, even if people call her an extremist. "People don't realize Martin Luther King was a democratic socialist."
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Now she's talking about Puerto Rico! "Say it with me: Puerto Rico is a colony of the United States." Giving the history of US-PR relations. "It went from being a colony of Spain to being a colony of the United States."
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Says the colonizer should not be the one to decide the colony's status. "It's not up to Congress to impose a political status on a US colony. It is up to the US citizens in that colony to pursue a process of binding self-determination."
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"OK, it says I need a screwdriver, which is a bad sign. I don't have a screwdriver." She's polling the viewers, asking them to comment
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This is one of the most fun livestreams I've ever seen, certainly the most educational, and also the bravest thing I have ever seen a politician do.
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"The reason Republicans hate me so much is because I confront them directly on their lack of moral grounding on so many issues." Says they do everything they can to protect a paradigm that values short-term profit over everything else.
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Seems like the live video is over now. But if you go to her Instagram page in the app, you can re-watch it!
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any archive or link to watch it?
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No, you can only watch it in the Instagram app I think.
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You shoulda seen her making black bean soup live, laying down similarly deep and thoughtful
#realtalk. Then the next day she posted the recipe!
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