Democratic contender for Congress indicted over Chicago ICE protests
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Progressive Palestinian American candidate Kat Abughazaleh, 26, decries ‘gross attempt at silencing dissent’
  • Pumpkin Escobar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    113·
    5 months ago

    Speed run getting elected as a Democrat this cycle, get arrested or indicted by the Trump regime.

    It’s the Michael Scott meme, “I’m going to vote for her even harder”

      • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
        52·
        5 months ago

        i follow her, she’s awesome and I really hope she wins.

        but it would be false to claim her youth and aesthetic don’t help her charisma.

        it does, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t serious or competent.

        Hope she wins, we need her and people like her.

        • Fredthefishlord
          1·
          4 months ago

          She should not win. My district is not lacking in leftists, and deserves someone who lives in and actually pays attention to the community.

          • Leomas@lemmy.world
            28·
            4 months ago

            She obviously pays attention to the community, she got thrown to the ground and got hit in the face doing so.

            • Fredthefishlord
              1·
              4 months ago

              Literally no. She cares about immigrants. She doesn’t care about the community specifically, at all. And doesn’t even care enough to live there. We don’t need to go from someone who responds to the community to someone who doesn’t even care to check the communities needs before doing unnecessary giveaways

              • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
                18·
                4 months ago

                That explains it, “She cares about immigrants”

                hello, are you aware that immigrants are part of the community? ones who are being kidnapped by the state? which she is fighting? maybe it is you who isn’t paying attention to the community.

                you outed yourself as a racist, by “community” do you mean white people only?

                • Fredthefishlord
                  1·
                  4 months ago

                  Community as in the actual future of the community itself, not just the larger socioeconomic underlying issues. Immigrants are part of the community, but they are not the only part of the community. She focuses on charity saviorism, without regard to actual distribution of need, which is not something good for a politician to have.

                • Fredthefishlord
                  1·
                  4 months ago

                  I don’t like her as a politician for 3 main reasons: performative giveaways, where she gives away what is already provided and pretends her being in charge will allow these things to be provided, which they already are. It shows she doesn’t really care about learning about her community, and instead just prefers to virtue signal.

                  She is running a campaign without living in the area, with majority of donations from outside the area. Influencer first politician second is a red flag, and especially considering she’s showed bo willingness to actually move into the area despite repeated claims she will shows she’s already lying, not a good sign.

                  And the third is that despite living in a leas leftist area with someone who deserves to be contested more/not already solidly leftish politics, she decided to run in the district she does not live in.

                  Going straight to higher office without attempting to gain practice or build up a “resume” in lower office is questionable as well, but less so than the rest.

                  there is no shortage of people as left as her running in the district to vote for, who do not have nearly as many red flags.

          • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
            14·
            4 months ago

            instead of raising money for ads, she is using it to feed the people in her district.

            if that isn’t something who pays attention to the community, I don’t know what you want

            • Fredthefishlord
              1·
              4 months ago

              No, she doesn’t pay attention. She did free give aways for things already fully provided to those in need. That’s not paying attention, not doing research.

      • Seth Taylor@lemmy.world
        38·
        4 months ago

        Kat made a post on Bluesky once where she showed a tweet by a Republican who was asking people to “stop posting photos of [Kat] when they attack her because she’s genuinely attractive and that makes the attack not land” or something along those lines. I wish I’d saved it. It was a solid self-burn.

        That Republican was basically afraid that Kat would steal male GOP votes simply by looking good lol

      • pjwestin@lemmy.world
        18·
        4 months ago

        I mean, it kinda does. The fact that she is young, attractive, and media savvy means that people will pay more attention to her (not saying that’s good, just that it’s how our society works). The more attention she gets, the more of a threat she is to the regime, which is why the they’re trying to prosecute her for getting assaulted by ICE.

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      8·
      4 months ago

      Yeah, this will hopefully end up being a huge boon to her campaign. It’s proof that she’s not just an empty talking head; She actually puts her words into action. People are sick and tired of out-of-touch nonagenarian lawmakers shitting in the pool right before they get out.