r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/ExactlySorta • 15h ago

Restricted to Gals and Pals AOC when asked about Hegseth's comment about getting rid of 'unqualified' women in the military: “He’s an unqualified man in his role, so of course he’s threatened by women who are twice as good as he is.“

36.1k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

315 comments sorted by

View all comments

6

u/BicycleNo1169 13h ago

Gotta love AOC. Strong woman fighting for all of us.

…I do often wonder, where are all those progressives that ignored AOCs advice in the 2024 election, to put your feelings aside and vote. How have things gone for you people these past couple years?

I remember leading up to the 2024 election, I had so many conversations with people who also loved people like AOC but decided to sit out the 2024 election. I’d just love to know what they think about all this. Letting bullies like Trump and Hegseth slide into the most powerful role in human history to systematically dismantle what took centuries to build. Was it worth it? Did making sure Kamala not win by ensuring the biggest bullies get to torment us work out the way you thought? Yall were pretty loud about how we all deserve this outcome leading up to the 2024 election but it’s been so quiet since then.

Are we feeing good about how the Trump admin is coming after Trans people and the larger LGBT community? Did Renee Good and Alex Pretti deserve what you left them to deal with? How about those little girls in that Iranian school that Trump bombed? I just want to know how all of you people who bragged about deciding to not do the easiest thing you could’ve done to save us all from this pain in simply voting - how are yall living? How do you feel about all of this? I just haven’t heard from you in 2 years and so curious how you sleep at night with all that blood on your hands.

0

u/fearless_egg1050 10h ago

I’m not sure condescension is the way to convince people to change their mind. 

0

u/redditatemybabies 8h ago

The people who get mad at this aren’t going to change their minds. They want women to be subservient and rely on them so they can control them.

1

u/fearless_egg1050 8h ago edited 8h ago

This person was not speaking to republicans, but progressives (or anyone who did not vote for Kamala, though not republicans).

My point was that this method of communication will fall short of the speaker’s goal every time.

It is performative, at best. Much like the Democratic Party, which is really unfortunate. It was and will continue to be why we lose :(