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Democrats and Republicans have been feuding for days over which side is weirder, with J.D. Vance’s comments on childless cat ladies and progressives’ support for trans ideology at the centre of the debate.
Being obsessed with repressing women is goofy.
Trying to watch what LGBTQ+ people do all the time is abnormal.
Punishing people who don’t have biological offspring is creepy.
It’s an incel platform, dude.
It’s SUPER weird.
And people need to know. https://t.co/vgDeM9e7pU— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 29, 2024
Now Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez has entered the fray with a tweet suggesting Donald Trump’s running mate is incel-adjacent. “Punishing people who don’t have biological offspring is creepy. It’s an incel platform, dude. It’s SUPER weird”, she wrote today. “Incel”, of course, refers to the “involuntarily celibate”, an online demographic of single men who resent their inability to find romantic partners. Vance, a married father of three, doesn’t immediately match this profile.
Perhaps not knowing what “incel” means makes AOC the type of normie politician the American people long for. Could the war over “weird” make US politics a bit more normal?
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