AOC Grills Mark Zuckerberg

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1. BA says:

   October 24, 2019 at 7:04 pm

   So she asks him questions. So he flails. So what? Will this change anything? This is just a spectacle.

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   • dianeravitch says:

     October 24, 2019 at 8:25 pm

     No, it is a Congressional hearing. What did you want? Everyone to kiss his feet?

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     • BA says:

       October 25, 2019 at 1:11 am

       No, I am simply turned off by childish choice of words (“grilled”; C-SPAN says that AOC “breaks” Zuck) and schadenfreude on the one hand, and by the lack of information about whether these questions will lead to Facebook to abide by some new (or old) rules of the game on another.

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   • LeftCoastTeacher says:

     October 24, 2019 at 8:46 pm

     What we want is Congress not to allow Zuckerberg to usurp control of our economy with the Libra. Sorry to point out the obvious, but that was what the hearing was about. It wasn’t for show.

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2. David Greene says:

   October 24, 2019 at 7:05 pm

   Check how Congressman Sean Casten 6th Illinois (former student of mine) grills Zuckerberg ( former elementary school classmate of my daughter). I loved it.

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3. Yvonne says:

   October 24, 2019 at 7:55 pm

   GO AOC.

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4. LeftCoastTeacher says:

   October 24, 2019 at 8:04 pm

   The video went viral, as happens every time AOC grills someone. People get excited to see a Congresswoman asking pointed questions instead of dancing around issues to try to please the media and their big money donors without rocking the boat, the S.S. Neoliberal Status Quo.

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5. Callisto says:

   October 24, 2019 at 9:23 pm

   He sold our election to Russians by allowing their disinformation to flood his platform (including the claim it was “just a few ads”). He created something to impress his girlfriend now it’s a data mining factory for political enemies and corporatists.

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   • BA says:

     October 25, 2019 at 1:05 am

     Do not try to explain the mind of a redneck with some measly Russian ads, which did not make a real dent. The same people who voted for Trump still vouch for him even after the Facebook, Russia, and Cambridge Analytica scandals.

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     • Linda says:

       October 28, 2019 at 9:03 am

       Not all remain with Trump. Polling at National Catholic Reporter shows change. Granted when the Superintendent of the Los Angeles Catholic Schools is a Fellow of the Gates-funded Pahara
       (a comfortable camp for Koch-ites), some right wing conservatives will remain certain voters for Trump/DeVos.

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6. bxny5752xyz says:

   October 25, 2019 at 1:14 am

   Where is the line drawn between a lie and someone else’s truly held opinion? AOC and the anti-Semitic squad happily spread lies about Israel and cover up Hamas terrorism. There are real problems in taking a forum of thought and enforcing your truth on others. I don’t want AOC or Mark Zuckerberg determining what is truth.

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   • BA says:

     October 25, 2019 at 1:19 am

     Links?

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   • Harlan Underhill says:

     October 25, 2019 at 1:46 am

     What? Anti Semitism among progressives and radicals? How can that be? Progressives siding with Hitler? And Stalin? Oh, I see. Socialists.

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   • dianeravitch says:

     October 25, 2019 at 7:58 am

     So you would be okay with Facebook political ads denouncing political candidates without a shred of evidence. Calling them racists or anti-Semites or Fascists or Communists or baby killers with no evidence. Accusing them of theft or murder or hate crimes. What a world.

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   • LeftCoastTeacher says:

     October 25, 2019 at 8:13 am

     “AOC and the anti-Semitic squad”? You mean the United States Congresswomen who just a few days ago endorsed a Jewish man for president?

     And am I to understand you don’t want news outlets to be factual?

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     • SomeDAM Poet says:

       October 25, 2019 at 8:20 am

       Yes, but he’s a gentile Jew. Everyone knows that.

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     • LeftCoastTeacher says:

       October 25, 2019 at 8:48 am

       Oops! Little spelling error there. You meant gentle Jew. There’s no such thing as a gentile Jew. Bernie’s a very gentle man, though, so you’re right about that.

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     • dianeravitch says:

       October 25, 2019 at 9:43 am

       I wondered what a “gentile Jew” was.

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     • SomeDAM Poet says:

       October 25, 2019 at 10:01 am

       DAM sarcasm never makes it through the WordPress censors

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     • LeftCoastTeacher says:

       October 25, 2019 at 8:04 pm

       Oh. Sorry I didn’t get the sarcasm, Poet. I tend to be a little on the hyper-sensitive side regarding the way mainstreamers paint Bernie and every other Jew who doesn’t support Netanyahu’s rightwing militancy as some sort of lost pagan cut off from the ‘real’ Jewish people. It sucks to have people try to back my religious beliefs into a corner. I should know you well enough by now to know you wouldn’t do that. I apologize for jumping to conclusions.

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7. SomeDAM Poet says:

   October 25, 2019 at 7:19 am

   I got excited when I saw the headline, but soon realized AOC was not barbecuing Zuckerbergers.

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   • dianeravitch says:

     October 25, 2019 at 7:51 am

     Ya know, SDP, it’s not easy writing headlines. So many.

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   • LeftCoastTeacher says:

     October 25, 2019 at 8:22 am

     Zuckerbergers taste like dirt, but lettuce not cheese too much and put each other into pickles.

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   • SomeDAM Poet says:

     October 25, 2019 at 8:31 am

     Barbecued Zuckerbergers

     Grilling Zuckerberger
     AOC is hip
     Nothing will deter her
     Zuckerberg will flip

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   • Máté Wierdl says:

     October 25, 2019 at 10:46 am

     Even with lots of taste bud numbing spices, no thank you, SDP. Well done or raw, makes no difference, the whole meal goes to the trash.

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8. Máté Wierdl says:

   October 25, 2019 at 10:43 am

   When I listen to AOC, my bloodpressure goes down to the healthiest level because she is asking the very questions I’d like to ask when I detect bs.

   She represents the power I’d like to have so that I could control these bsing billionaires. If our politicians were all like she is, we could just all sit back and deal with our own profession because we know, we are taken care of in the political arena.

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   • SomeDAM Poet says:

     October 25, 2019 at 11:06 am

     That’s precisely why they (leaders of both parties) either attack or attempt to dismiss her as inconsequential.

     She does not allow them — Republicans OR Democrats — to play their dishonest game.

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     • SomeDAM Poet says:

       October 25, 2019 at 11:21 am

       Able to lay up billionaires with a single round.

       Look, up in the sky…

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   • Linda says:

     October 28, 2019 at 9:10 am

     Justice Democrats are the real Democrats. AOC is an American hero like Bernie.

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9. Linda says:

   October 28, 2019 at 9:17 am

   Netanyahu is no more reflective of all American Jewish people than the Acton Institute is reflective of all evangelical, Catholic, and other Christian denominations.
   When they exercise political power that influences us all, their actions should be scrutinized and condemned if morally wrong.

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