Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, video games, and the new online town square

Weekend <em>Donkey Kong 64</em> marathon serves as a gathering place for much more.

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[coolstorybro]

Indeed, that seems to be the extent of your repeated comparisons between the two politicians: superficiality. They're both new to politics, they both won in upsets, and they're both popular on Twitter. Okay. Can you draw any similarities on things that are (1) specific and (2) important?

Regardless, comparing them (Trump/Cortez) is interesting since they are both popular on Twitter.

I'm not familiar with this usage of the word "interesting".

It’s like when a real estate agent chooses to use the word cozy. It’s simultaneously reductive in both the culinary and philosophical senses.

 

[coolstorybro]

It really is about time we had some members of congress who know what a Twitch stream is.

Yeah, fck it, might as well give it a shot. Couldn’t really be worse at this point.