[News] AOC Is A Genocidal Con Artist

Sun Jul 20 10:20:22 EDT 2025

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Jul 20, 2025

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The Democratic Party’s Instagram-friendly progressive darling Alexandria 
Ocasio-Cortez has voted with the overwhelming majority 
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House representatives against withholding $500 million in missile 
funding for Israel, despite previously saying 
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Israel is committing “a genocide of Palestinians” in Gaza with US support.

The only lawmakers voting to withhold the military aid were Democrats 
Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Summer Lee and Al Green, and Republicans 
Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Coming under fire from the left for the glaring contradiction of 
providing military assistance to a state that is perpetrating an active 
genocide, AOC issued a statement 
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her vote was about protecting civilians.

The statement reads as follows:

    “Marjorie Taylor Greene’s amendment does nothing to cut off
    offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of US munitions being used
    in Gaza. Of course I voted against it.

    “What it does do is cut off defensive Iron Dome capacities while
    allowing the actual bombs killing Palestinians to continue.

    “I have long stated that I do not believe that adding to the death
    count of innocent victims to this war is constructive to its end.
    That is a simple and clear difference of opinion that has long been
    established.

    “I remain focused on cutting the flow of US munitions that are being
    used to perpetuate the genocide in Gaza.”

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AOC’s statement is absolute crap. The Iron Dome is not used for 
defending, it’s used to facilitate constant attacks.

In an article for Jewish Currents titled “Iron Dome Is Not a Defensive 
System 
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Dylan Saba explains:

    “By almost entirely negating the ability of militant groups in Gaza
    to respond to Israel’s incursions, the purportedly defensive Iron
    Dome allows Israel to strike without fear of repercussion. And
    because the cost is so low when measured in Israeli casualties,
    Israel can wage perpetual war without suffering domestic political
    consequences, and is under negligible pressure to pursue diplomacy
    with the Palestinians. ‘In theory, a weapon like Iron Dome could be
    used only defensively. But in practice it doesn’t work that way,’
    analyst Nathan Thrall told /Jewish Currents./‘Iron Dome facilitates
    greater Israeli offensive measures, because it lowers the perceived
    cost to Israel of escalating or extending or initiating attacks.’ In
    other words, while the Iron Dome may prevent the deaths of Israeli
    non-combatants, it has made it /easier /for Israel to engage in
    deadly operations that take Palestinian lives.”

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The Iron Dome isn’t for protecting civilians, it’s for protecting the 
Israeli regime from deterrence. We see this in the comfort the regime 
displays in waging constant military violence on its neighbors knowing 
they can’t retaliate. That’s why Israel cut a ceasefire deal with Iran 
so fast.

Iran’s advanced missiles can’t be reliably stopped by the Iron Dome, so 
Iran was able to smash Israel and force it to cease its unprovoked 
aggressions. If Israel had had a missile defense system which could 
casually swat those missiles out of the sky at a high rate of success, 
Israel would still be bombing Iran today, and would continue doing so 
until Tehran looked like Gaza. Israel’s war-horny population would have 
supported this, because they’d have no skin in the game.

Saying you support funding Israel’s “defensive weapons” while opposing 
sending it “offensive weapons” is as nonsensical as saying you would 
never give a mass shooter guns and ammunition, but you would give him 
body armor to keep him safe from the police. You’re helping him commit 
mass murder just as much as you would be if you gave him guns and ammo. 
Kings didn’t arm their knights with shields and armor so that they could 
live long and fulfilling lives, they did it so the knights would live 
long enough to kill the people the kings wanted killed.

If you believe a state is committing genocide, there is no justifiable 
reason for you to support enhancing that state’s military capabilities 
and helping it defend itself from those who try to stop it. As others 
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pointed out 
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this is exactly the same as opposing Hitler’s Holocaust but supporting 
giving anti-aircraft flak cannons to Nazi Germany.

It’s a self-evidently ridiculous, warmongering, and ultimately genocidal 
position, disguised as progressive humanitarianism. It’s all the ugliest 
things about western liberals.

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People who say you should criticize AOC less because there are way worse 
members of congress act like she’s just passively sitting there being a 
mediocre lawmaker. She’s not. She’s actively anchoring the leftmost edge 
of the Overton window of US politics to militarism, capitalism, 
colonialism, and genocide. She’s actively stopping American politics 
from moving any further left than the nightmare we see before us.

Leftists shouldn’t hate AOC less than the politicians to her right, they 
should hate her much more. It isn’t Mike Johnson’s responsibility to 
move the US government to the left, and it’s not Nancy Pelosi’s job. 
It’s hers. That’s what she was elected to do. That’s what she framed the 
goals of her entire political career as being. And she’s taking her 
stand firmly bracing against any leftward movement from America’s 
genocidal, warmongering, unjust, exploitative, tyrannical status quo.

And that’s what she was actually put there to do. Her real job is to say 
“thus far and no further” to the leftmost end of the political spectrum 
of the world’s most powerful and destructive government. That’s the 
Democratic Party’s job in general, and it’s the job of media-savvy 
progressive Democrats in particular. They are there to provide as little 
resistance as possible when US politics are shoved toward more 
genocidal, militaristic, oligarchic, capitalist, imperialist abuses, and 
to provide as much inertia as possible to any movement in the opposite 
direction.

That’s why people who seek leftward movement in the US political machine 
see AOC as one of their main enemies. It’s for the exact same reason 
you’d see someone actively blocking the fire exit as your enemy when 
trying to escape from a burning building.

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