Summary

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denied claims that she is secretly wealthy, stating she is worth less than $500,000 and doesn’t trade stocks or take corporate money.

Her financial disclosures show modest savings and student debt.

Some conservatives on X, despite opposing her politics, praised her perceived integrity.

Accusations of political corruption have surged online, partly fueled by Elon Musk.

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    1 day ago

    Ladies and gentlemen, this is the internet manifest:

    1- blame her for having millions due to kickbacks

    2- when she proves that her net worth is less than 500K make fun of her for having too little money

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      There’s many things that expose the Right Wing Grift.

      When AOC was first elected they mocked her for being a Bartender who “rose above her station”

      What more proof do you need that the American Dream is bullshit

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        When it’s a teacher - she reminds me of that mean lady who failed me

        When it’s a doctor - they’re pushing a vaxxer agenda

        When it’s an engineer - he’ll be a bad negotiator

        When it’s a scientist - we’ve gotta do what? No thanks.

        When it’s a lawyer - ah perfect they make everything better

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      I mean if you take the internet as a monolith, you’ll find contradictions every where. Some people will hate A because of B, some people will hate A because of C, but either way A is getting hate for both B and C.

      So either there are millions of people online with different opinions but the crowd looks the same, or there is one very, very busy troll who is running all the accounts.

      ~help I’m so tired they won’t give me a break to pee~

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        One busy troll? What makes you think it is just one person? Maybe if it was the 1990’s you might have had a single troll per social platform but we are way past that point. A real troll would even be considered high quality with so many bot accounts nowadays.

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        ~help I’m so tired they won’t give me a break to pee~

        Look at this loser here trying to take credit for the entire internet that I write every day. SMH. FWIW @meep_launcher is allowed to pee whenever they want, they just want sympathy. And they write almost nothing of the Troll Monolith, mostly just sitting back and drinking too much coffee while I do all the hard work with about sixteen different keyboards in front of me.

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      22 hours ago

      Because it’s ONE SIDED around here, just like Reddit… if a Republican said this EXACT same thing, they’d be crucified.