Except if you know the amendment will fail and you know the amendment is a stunt by a racist conspiracy theorist, you can't be expected to take it seriously.
But again, what's the endgame for this criticism? She resigns and someone more centrist or corporate or right leaning takes her place? She feels bad and remembers next time to virtue signal meaningless gestures instead of attempting to achieve plausible goals?
At issue here is the first vote only.
The first vote was meaningless. It was a political stunt amendment by a racist conspiracy theorist. And a single vote for or against the amendment has no chance of affecting whether Israel got funds for more genocide.
This yearly military budget bill always gets passed, without exception, which AOC knows. She knew that, in the end, the bill would get passed despite her nay vote.
It's really weird that you're able to see this inevitability, yet you're not able to also see the inevitable failure of the amendment MTG put forth. This is exactly why all this foaming at the mouth over a doomed amendment vote is so misdirected! It had no practical, functional, or realistic bearing on anything in reality other than for MTG to tell her conspiracy theorist followers that she opposes Jewish people getting more space lasers or however she wants to spin it.
That being the case, why did she vote against removing military aid to Israel?
She explained her reasoning. Why are you asking what she intended when she already explained why? I don't agree with the reasoning, but it was still a meaningless act.
You're complaining she put expired ingredients in a meal that she threw out and never served anyone. Meanwhile Trump is dodging Epstein list revelations, ICE is brutalizing and human trafficking (and genociding) immigrants, but at least we have someone to attack and feel morally superior to who literally didn't fund Israel as was falsely claimed.
Yes, I'm aware what they were quoting. It doesn't hold any meaning. It was a non sequitur.
Definitely don't feel like you have to have done something "significant" already. A bunch of people don't figure out what they want to do until their 30s or 40s or even later. Your brain won't even finish developing for several more years. A big favor you can do for yourself is not have high expectations for what's going to happen. Set a reasonable goal for yourself such as "discover five new things that interest you over the next five years."
Try out some new activities that might be fun. Try to notice patterns of what types of things you enjoy. Do you enjoy being creative? Test out different mediums. Write, draw, learn to play an instrument, see what you like.
Talk to people who already do the stuff you might want to do. Ask them how they got started. Sometimes they can even help you get started. I had a guy give me a free soldering kit when I was in my early 20s because he was making cool stuff and I expressed an interest in the same.
I was depressed in my teenage years and I'm on the spectrum. I didn't have the benefit of knowing I was on the spectrum, so you've got a leg up on understanding yourself more than I did. Not everybody on the spectrum experiences the same patterns, but my flavor lets me deep dive into topics of interest and learn a lot of specialized knowledge with hyper focus when I find something I'm really interested in. The beauty is there are likely hundreds of these topics to find interesting and pursue.
I started with a lot of digital stuff on computers like digital photography and graphic design and modding game content because it was cheaper and easier than buying and accruing a lot of physical materials for a new hobby.
If you're looking for new friends or relationships, you can often meet interesting people while pursuing a hobby. Having something in common is a good starting point and provides easy topics of conversation. Don't put too much pressure on yourself about it though.
I don't like to exercise, so I've learned to trick myself into getting exercise unintentionally while doing something else that I do find interesting, such as going on walks to explore a neighborhood or playing a video game that involves physical activity like Dance Dance Revolution. If it's too hot outside, find a large indoor area like a mall to walk around in. Maybe listen to podcasts or audiobooks while walking. There are a ton of free audiobooks available online, such as Llibrivox recordings.
You did. Are you not tracking the thread?
Except you literally posted a statement that she doesn't support genocide. You're contradicting your own narrative.
Comparing AOC to Kamala is a nice touch. That lack of nuance will definitely push the electorate to the left in the primaries.
Yes, the political stunt of an amendment that had no chance of passing, the one proposed by MTG of all people. Voting for or against an amendment to a bill that you also vote against is irrelevant. The bill provides funding to Israel. She voted against the bill. She voted against the funding.
The vote in question was for an amendment and was a meaningless one that was never going to pass and get added to the bill.
The vote she showed is the bill that actually funded Israel and she voted against it. You are disingenuously claiming that a meaningless vote on a doomed amendment for a bill she wasn't going to vote in favor of is the same thing as voting in favor of the bill.
She disagreed with other people about ingredients for a meal she refuses to eat and you're pretending the ingredients argument disagreement was the same as eating the meal.
The headline is misleading. She voted against the bill.
The idea of knowing what you want to do with your life is overrated. A lot of people do a lot of different things and often don't know what they're going to do until the inspiration hits them. In the meantime, do things you like. Don't make any big decisions without thinking about the implications. Try out new hobbies and activities and see if any of them feel like something you want to do more. Oftentimes one interest will drive you to a similar one.
Get a job if you need the basic stuff people need to survive. Preferably not a job that demands too much social masking if that sort of thing causes you anxiety. That may be hard to come by depending on your skill set though. You can look at people whose jobs you find interesting and ask them what they did to get there. But it may also just be a matter of finding a job you can tolerate so you're able to do the things you enjoy when you're not working.
That's what ranked choice voting can get you.