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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @Ocasio2018
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We pulled off an enormous upset, against all established power and big money, because of a few groups and people that had the political courage and moral vision to support us early.

I want to shine a light on not just HOW we did things, but WHO did them. ⬇️
1. Brand New Congress (@BrandNew535) & Justice Democrats (@justicedems) - 2 groups trying to get money out of politics.

They reached out to me way back in 2016 and believed I could run. They helped with all that stuff a normal person would need (what forms to fill out? etc)
2. The earliest activist groups that were brave enough to sit with me over a year ago, even if it risked their own opportunity:

- Bronx Progressives @bxprogressives
- Queens Barrios Unidos @QueensBarrios
- Movement for Black Lives @BLMGreaterNY

& more
3. The ONLY Member of Congress in the entire country to acknowledge my existence before my election was Congressman @RoKhanna.

He faced an immense amount of heat and pressure for doing so. We need to applaud his courage in doing so, and encourage more openness in our democracy.
4. The first journalists to cover my candidacy + treat me seriously a YEAR ago were all independent outlets.

- @TheYoungTurks was the first to interview me
- @villagevoice 1st wrote about me in print (s/o @RossBarkan)
- @WNYC (specifically @brigidbergin) 1st to dig into the race
5. My campaign identity was designed by tandem.nyc - good friends of mine I had met as regulars at the restaurant I helped open.

6. The Ocasio2018 campaign video pinned to my profile was produced by @means_tv, who messaged me on Twitter to make it happen
7. Our BALLER website and digital team.

Supporters put in long, long nights and endless hours coding our site, developing content, MAKING Ocasio2018 APPS, and analyzing data.

Couldn’t have done it without them.
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A few weeks ago, I joined youth activists in a specific demand for a Green New Deal Committee.

It had 3 simple elements:
1. No fossil fuel money on climate cmte
2. Offer solutions for impacted communities
3. Draft sample #GreenNewDeal

All 3 were rejected as “too controversial.”
In DC + even in our own party, it‘s apparently too controversial to ask that we keep oil+gas co’s away from enviro policy.

It’s too controversial to talk about the socioeconomics of Flint, WV, PR & the Bronx.

It’s too controversial to plan for disasters that are already here.
While I applaud the establishment of the Select Committee, without subpoena power or the reasonable requests stated, it will be in an even weaker position than the select climate committee of 10 years ago.

There is still time to strengthen it. For all our sake,I hope that we do.
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Before everyone jumps one me - yes, culture isn’t DNA.

But to be Puerto Rican is to be the descendant of:
African Moors + slaves,
Taino Indians,
Spanish colonizers,
Jewish refugees,
and likely others.

We are all of these things and something else all at once - we are Boricua.
Just because one concrete identity may not be how we think of ourselves today, nor how we were raised, it doesn’t mean we cannot or should not honor the ancestors + stories that got us here.

I was raised Catholic, & that identity is an amalgam too - especially in Latin America.
If anything, the stories of our ancestry give us windows of opportunity to lean into others, to seek them out, and see ourselves, our histories, and our futures, tightly knit with other communities in a way we perhaps never before thought possible.
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Unlike robber barons, I have no problem paying taxes & contributing to society. I’m a 1st gen kid that @ 29 w no kids will make more than my parents did.

I SHOULD pay more if it means giving the waitress-me a break. I’m GLAD my taxed income can mean better Bronx public schools.
Taxes should respect a person’s station in life, including working people + parents. It’s ludicrous that we tax Warren Buffet’s secretary more than we tax him - and he has said as much.

Sensible + conscientious people of all incomes want a fair society. amp.cnn.com/money/2013/03/…
Now what I DON’T want is for our public funds to be funding freebie helipads for Amazon + robber baron billionaires, all while NYCHA and public schools go underfunded & mom+pops get nowhere near that kind of a break.
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1816 - Congress grants a 20-year charter to the Bank of the United States, a private central bank for this country. [The Constitution had granted to Congress the "power to coin money and regulate the value thereof. "Thomas Jefferson had specifically warned the American people
against turning this power to create money over to a private group that was unelected and not accountable to the public: "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and
corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."]

1821 - Georg W. F. Hegel formulates what is called the Hegelian dialectic - the process by which
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1) Think logically , arrests ARE going to happen. Hillary , Obama et. al. , The Deep State , Globalist Cabal are ALL going to Prison , many face the Death Sentence.
-----Lots of chatter these last few days...

IS IT HAPPENING? WHERE ARE MY PERP WALKS?

WHAT IS TAKING SO LONG ?
2) Thing is, Watergate was small compared to this OP. Watergate took 22 months from the "break in" to a conviction of the "Plumbers" -- This is totally different. This is high-levels arrests, household names, probably a coupe dozen just for starters, and more following.
3) The signs that it is coming are everywhere. IT IS HAPPENING. This has been in planning for decades. My Proof:

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MY PERSONAL 10 PROOFS THAT "IT IS HAPPENING" (Arrests, etc)

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Cecil Rhodes, Globalist 1877

Why should we not form a secret society with but one object: the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole uncivilised world under British rule for the recovery of the United States for making the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire
This Is What The Globalists Are Still Trying To Do Through The UN Agenda 21

Rhodes envisaged joining the British House of Commons to the United States Congress, establishing an "Imperial Parliament" that would sit for five-year periods, alternating between London and Washington.
Cecil Rhodes died in 1902, his fortune was used to establish the Rhodes scholarship, which brings students from around the world to study at the University of Oxford in England, generally for two years.

Training Future Leaders

Bill Clinton - Rhode Scholar - Globalist

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Entrepreneurship Core Skills

-Personal Leadership
-Critical Thinking/Reasoning
-Creativity
-Sales
-Storytelling
-Discipline/Focus
-Adaptive Learning (Learning how to Learn)

Add in whatever technical skillsets, and you've got a future
1. Personal leadership

You lead yourself. You don't wait to be told what to do, you dont rely on narrative of what you are suppossed to do

Most people are followers,

Being entrepreneurial is being a Leader, to say it simply
2. Critical Thinking/Reasoning

Logic and critical thinking require DISCIPLINED thinking, they are the marks of someone who has trained their mind to be solution focused, deductive, and make cohesive connections

You dont get anything done without these
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OK, a thread about "civility" (politeness) and power. I meant to do this for years, bc people in my community kept asking me about social face (hi again, @tithenai!), but it was not the time. Now is the time.

This is an informational thread. I am a working sociolinguist.
The concept of social face, coined by Goffman, is important here.

Face is the positive social value a person claims when interacting with other people.

Face is related to respectability, pride, and sense of self-worth.
Face is related to social status and to identity.

What kind of face we can claim directly relates to who we are and what kind of social power we hold.

People surrounding you are CRUCIAL to maintaining or not maintaining the kind of power we want/expect to project.
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