The tu quoque is saying that Palestinians/Iranians are poised to genocide Israelis. This is reactionary garbage without precedent or evidence, Israeli hasbara propaganda that you are echoing point-for-point. The genocide in Gaza is the most flagrant and clear example since 1994, if not since 1945. Little else this century even comes close. Giving defensive weapons to Israel is like giving anti-aircraft weapons to Nazi Germany’s Eastern Front. That is what AOC, along with 400+ representatives in the imperial center, voted to do. It’s meaningless to say that “she made no pro-genocide arguments” when she made a very clear pro-genocide vote. There is no purely diplomatic solution without violence, and only a few delusional people in the Global North fail to understand that.

Your awareness of the world is a fabrication of the State department. If you were honest in talking about Russian genocidal actions, you would have mentioned Chechnya, not Ukraine. Mentioning the Uighurs (who have been targets of surveillance and mass incarceration to a lesser degree than African Americans, not genocided) and leaving out the more dramatic case of the Rohingya is clown shit. Do you pay any attention to news on Earth beyond what the CIA rubber-stamps?

You have an amnesic reading of politics. AOC herself got the same criticism for supporting Sunrise’s sit-ins of Nancy Pelosi’s office. What did the establishment Democrat respond with? Each part of your line of reasoning. The DCCC has been fighting the progressive wing categorically harder than it fights Republicans, from 2016 to 2020 to this year’s mayoral elections.

Seizing momentum means nothing if that momentum doesn’t convert into anything. If you seek to change the Democrats from within without pitching a fundamentally oppositional fight, the party will prevail over the individual. There’s a reason why they call it the Iron Law of Institutions.

I don’t think you “share my view” or “agree with me” on having a different stance than AOC. You don’t distance yourself from someone by defending all of their positions. You’ve admitted to being a compromising tailist. There’s no use talking about “democratic socialists in the House” when you use it as a label with no rigorous definition. On the other hand, the Democratic Socialists of America, a party I’m a member of, has clearly denounced all aid to Israel and distanced itself from AOC, with a supermajority in favor of strict BDS. Arguing against this makes you a right-wing, anti-progress, conservative Democrat. Have fun retreating back to your comfortable political non-position and being on the wrong side of history.

I’m not even certain you’re not a bot, latching onto keywords and outputting a canned response that ignores central points and doesn’t follow the course of argument.