I wouldn’t have put it that way, but it is good seeing the Ymar style catch on : )

I wouldn’t assume that this disclosure is Facebook’s doing. That’s possible but more likely that someone in the group did it. If there really were thousands of members it wouldn’t be surprising if one either accidentally or deliberately let it out. All it would take is a screen shot or two. Possibly done by someone who joined it with that intention.

I assume that Facebook will release information about or from “Closed groups” if the politics of such Closed groups are not in keeping with progressive expectations.

This is propaganda at it best and it works. If you repeat a lie often and loudly enough, it becomes accepted as truth. Unfortunately, as R. A. Heinlein wrote, “The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility, and vice versa.”

I wouldn’t consider anything on Facebook private or secure. You (your data) is the product that Facebook sells.

If the real AOC had any compassion at all, she would invite Mini AOC to do a livestream with her in a sign of support for a little girl who doesn’t deserve to live in fear because she poked fun at a congresswoman. (Then again, Congresswoman Frederica Wilson thinks she can write anti-mocking legislation and put parody creators in jail, so I won’t hold my breath.)

Threatening a child is pretty far gone down the road of social fascism.

But, presuming that there wasn’t a lot of voter fraud involved, people had to have voted for her, and for her re-election as well.

So, its really the fault of those who voted for her, and continue her in office.
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Geoffrey remarked on the “my representative is okay, it’s the other ones who are lousy” phenomenon, but I think there is another factor in operation as well: although our party system gives the illusion that we are voting for individuals, in many cases it functions more like a parliamentary system, where electors in a district vote for the Party Name on the Ballot, or even for a particular party without knowing who will be appointed as their representative.

When the American Party with dominance in a district puts up candidates, gets them elected a couple of times, knows their votes can be controlled, and finally moves them into leadership (aka super-graft-worthy) positions, they will not let a little thing like imbecility and incompetence lead them to remove that person from Congress and allow another (untried & now-junior) candidate to replace them.

The party is getting value from their representatives; they don’t really care if the voters do.

Somebody had teenage kids in 1989. Ha ha ha.