AoC Gets a $312 Haircut and Attempts to defend her socialism loving self indulging in elite capitalism

[Bitek]

That was never the point. The district she represents and her former occupation certainly are.

So she can only adequately represent her district if she gets her hair done at Walmart?

Should she also advise that to the people and professional beauticians of her district?

 

[Starbuck1975]

So in your mind national figures and/or celebrities should be getting their services done at Walmart and Costco? You know, to show solidarity with the working class?

Most of the leaders of socialism certainly did. Sanders is known for his humble suits. Warren for presenting as a college professor. Auto union leaders who did well for themselves would never drive their foreign built cars to the factory

Have you ever discussed the big box services with an actual skilled tradesmen? What's their opinion?

Like most working class families, they use them when advantageous, but they certainly aren’t shopping at Whole Foods, assuming they even have access to one.

Regardless, I never supported this line of attack on her. My entrance into this thread was a comment on how she responded to it, which triggered her fanboys, and here we are.

 

[pmv]

Most of the leaders of socialism certainly did. Sanders is known for his humble suits. Warren for presenting as a college professor. Auto union leaders who did well for themselves would never drive their foreign built cars to the factory

Like most working class families, they use them when advantageous, but they certainly aren’t shopping at Whole Foods, assuming they even have access to one.

it's a matter of degree, and whether an elevated lifestyle can be seen to influence a politician's attitudes and policies.

There certainly _are_ rich liberals who have a lifestyle that appears to directly relate to their far-from-radical politics, and who appear out-of-touch. AOC does not appear to be one of them. She clearly wishes to do something to reduce inequality of wealth. Ergo there's no hypocrisy about spending the salary she has. The problem arises when a politician gets rich and suddenly starts to think inequality isn't so bad after all.

And a $300 haircut is not a sign of immense wealth, just a professional-level salary (we have politicians who live in castles and get their moats cleaned on expenses... get back to me when AOC buys a castle)

edit - actually even buying a castle wouldn't cut it - it has to have been in your family since the 11th century. Hence Alan Clark's sneer at Heseltine that he was 'a man who had to buy his own furniture'.

 

[Victorian Gray]

Well he would have fired them all first and replaced them all with unskilled, minimum wage workers hired by a big box. You know, because hiring them means elitism.

Since their industries are now undercut and underpriced due to low skilled, low wage competitors, and no woke consumer would hire their overpriced and decadent services, they will have no choice to lump it and make a go at politics if they care to eat.

You're on a roll.

 

[Victorian Gray]

Most of the leaders of socialism certainly did. Sanders is known for his humble suits. Warren for presenting as a college professor. Auto union leaders who did well for themselves would never drive their foreign built cars to the factory

Like most working class families, they use them when advantageous, but they certainly aren’t shopping at Whole Foods, assuming they even have access to one.

Regardless, I never supported this line of attack on her. My entrance into this thread was a comment on how she responded to it, which triggered her fanboys, and here we are.

It's all tasty, tasty snipe.

 

[jmagg]

Talk the talk, walk the walk.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

@Starbuck1975 should ANY Politician spend $300 for any beauty service or should only AOC avoid pricey beauty treatments or should only certain Politicians avoid pricey beauty treatments?

 

[ch33zw1z]

It's all tasty, tasty snipe.

He conviently has forgotten the conservatives attacking both Sanders and Warren for being in the 1%, oops.

 

[ch33zw1z]

@Starbuck1975 should ANY Politician spend $300 for any beauty service or should only AOC avoid pricey beauty treatments or should only certain Politicians avoid pricey beauty treatments?

She should bend to the behavioral control tactics of conservatives. They've only had a few thousand years to practice them

 

[ch33zw1z]

Talk the talk, walk the walk.

She should start with a good plated toliet. That will win conservatives hearts.

 

[DarthKyrie]

@Starbuck1975 should ANY Politician spend $300 for any beauty service or should only AOC avoid pricey beauty treatments or should only certain Politicians avoid pricey beauty treatments?

If they have a (D- Enter State Name Here) after their name they should only ever get their hair cut at SuperCuts. Those places that charge $300 for 3 or 4 hours of work are for the Reich.

 

[Starbuck1975]

@Starbuck1975 should ANY Politician spend $300 for any beauty service or should only AOC avoid pricey beauty treatments or should only certain Politicians avoid pricey beauty treatments?

Politicians can spend money however they like, and their constituents can decide what is appropriate and relatable. If someone calls out said politician for their spending habits, I expect something better than the Kardashian defense.

When they go low, we go vain!

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Politicians can spend money however they like, and their constituents can decide what is appropriate and relatable. If someone calls out said politician for their spending habits, I expect something better than the Kardashian defense.

When they go low, we go vain!

Okay so per the Women in or around her district the $260 treatment ($313 with tip and assumed taxes) is a pretty average price to pay.

Did AOC spend too much on a haircut? NYC women reveal what they pay at the salon

How much is too much to blow on a new ‘do?

nypost.com

Here, seven New Yorkers open up to The Post about the price of maintaining their tresses.

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Name: Nicolin Collingridge
Age: 31
Neighborhood: Greenpoint

Collingridge, a public relations supervisor, spends $280 (including tip) for a cut and color at High Horse Salon in Williamsburg, where she goes “every three or four months” to maintain her blond highlights. For her, the price is worth it. “Blondes have more fun, always,” she says.

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Name: Nneka Landrum
Age: 46
Neighborhood: Astoria

Landrum has been going to Midtown-based stylist Juliet Fisher for a weekly deep-conditioning treatment, plus a cut and color every six weeks, for the past 15 years. The marketing professional looked up Fisher after seeing a photo shoot she styled in Essence Magazine. Landrum says she spends $100 for her weekly treatment, plus $200 every six or so weeks for a cut and color, not including tip, and says it’s a steal. “There are stylists charging $700 or $800 for a cut.”

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Name: Brielle Saggese
Age: 22
Neighborhood: Yorkville

“I’m probably the most low-maintenance New Yorker when it comes to hair,” says Saggese, a fashion-trend forecaster. “I usually have it cut by a friend. I cut my own bangs and I color it out of a $12 L’Oreal box when my roots start annoying me.” Adds the Indiana transplant, who uses kitchen scissors to shear her tresses: “I grew up in the Midwest and its DIY culture, and I don’t like to make a lot of fuss.”

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Name: Sandra Maw
Age: 22
Neighborhood: Hell’s Kitchen

“I only got my haircut in New York once,” says Maw, who works in tech, and usually gets snipped in her hometown of Phuket, Thailand. The professional trim happened after a hair catastrophe. “I was traveling in Ecuador and got a $6 haircut, but it looked like a $4 one. It looked like a long mullet,” she says. “So I went to West Vibe Salon in Hell’s Kitchen and paid $90 plus tip” to fix it up, she says.

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Name: Marissa Brookes
Age: 40
Neighborhood: Washington Heights

“One time when my hair was shorter, I went into the city for a temporary weave, and it cost $500,” says Brookes, a visual merchandiser. Now, she sticks to her hairdresser in Queens, where she goes twice a year for a trim at about $60 a pop. “I go to my hairdresser’s home because she closed her salon. But when you find a good hairdresser — you want to stick with them.”

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Name: Ashley Cadet
Age: 30
Neighborhood: Weehawken, NJ

“I’ve been going through my natural hair journey, and doing a few different protective styles,” says the insurance underwriter, who changes up her style every month. “Now I have crocheted braids. I buy the hair and do it myself at home. This took me four hours, because I had to braid it and individually crochet each in,” says Cadet, who bought three packs of hair for $5.99 each at a hair store in Brooklyn. “You have to be frugal about it. If I went to a hairdresser it would be $150, but since I learned how to do it myself with YouTube, it’s cheaper, although it takes longer.” Cadet will occasionally spend $400 for a weave from her favorite hairdresser, adding, “it costs an arm and a leg but I don’t care because he’s awesome.”

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Name: Teresa Lovly
Age: 18
Neighborhood: Flushing, Queens

“I paid about $400 for these extensions from [salon] Bella Me. They are virgin hair, whatever that really means,” says Lovly, a business student at Guttman Community College. “I bought these for my prom last year, and I felt like looking extra today so I put them in,” she says. Otherwise, she trims her own hair between twice-yearly cuts, which cost $50 at her favorite Bayside salon. As for color: “I did a balayage [a color treatment in which dye is painted on] for around $300, and I like to lighten it. I was thinking about touching up my highlights for wintertime.”

 

[Starbuck1975]

Okay so per the Women in or around her district the $260 treatment ($313 with tip and assumed taxes) is a pretty average price to pay.

Did AOC spend too much on a haircut? NYC women reveal what they pay at the salon

How much is too much to blow on a new ‘do?

nypost.com

AOC is facing a primary challenger and an immigrant GOP contender. Both are making vanity and celebrity the focus of their challenge to AOC. It’s a legitimate criticism of her.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

AOC is facing a primary challenger and an immigrant GOP contender. Both are making vanity and celebrity the focus of their challenge to AOC. It’s a legitimate criticism of her.

Sure you mean a political opponent doesn’t agree with her haircut/color. That’s a legit source.
I have no horse in this race, I find AOC interesting but that is all.
I know I could present you evidence all day about the cost of hair treatments in NYC but you’ll never agree or back off and constantly move the football so why bother.
I was going to post something from your previous source Angie’s list that appeared to have many women saying somewhere around $125 to $175 for a cut & color but I decided it’s pointless to present that yo you.

 

[ch33zw1z]

AOC is facing a primary challenger and an immigrant GOP contender. Both are making vanity and celebrity the focus of their challenge to AOC. It’s a legitimate criticism of her.

Gee, consecutives made her a celebrity and attack her "vanity", so it's a "legitimate" criticism, just like the rest of those criticisms, lol. Even when presented with evidence that shows women on the whole accept these prices as part of being a prefessional woman in today's world, conservatives still muster up the stupidity to keep on keeping on.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Sure you mean a political opponent doesn’t agree with her haircut/color. That’s a legit source.
I have no horse in this race, I find AOC interesting but that is all.
I know I could present you evidence all day about the cost of hair treatments in NYC but you’ll never agree or back off and constantly move the football so why bother.
I was going to post something from your previous source Angie’s list that appeared to have many women saying somewhere around $125 to $175 for a cut & color but I decided it’s pointless to present that yo you.

It is pointless, he won't care, just like any other thread where he goes balls deep.

I wonder what all those blue collar workers think about someone tipping 25% on a $250 dollar bill. *Crickets*

 

[cytg111]

It’s a legitimate criticism of her.

Not in any iteration of the multiverse it’s not.
This is “mustard in a burger” bull crap. Get a grip.

 

[brycejones]

AOC is facing a primary challenger and an immigrant GOP contender. Both are making vanity and celebrity the focus of their challenge to AOC. It’s a legitimate criticism of her.

Yeah, no. If she didn't try to present herself in a professional manner she would be skewered for disrespecting the office. She does present herself in a professional manner and gets skewered for "vanity" whatever the fuck that is. Attacking her for vanity and the "celebrity" that is really been forced on her by the likes of Fox breathlessly reporting on what she says or does means neither challenger has shit to run against her in her district on the policy front.

 

[jmagg]

She should start with a good plated toliet. That will win conservatives hearts.

Gold plate toilet is a great example of reched excess, exactly what aoc is railing again so, why not lead by example.

 

[brycejones]

Gold plate toilet is a great example of reched excess, exactly what aoc is railing again so, why not lead by example.

How is she not?

 

[Starbuck1975]

Sure you mean a political opponent doesn’t agree with her haircut/color. That’s a legit source.
I have no horse in this race, I find AOC interesting but that is all.
I know I could present you evidence all day about the cost of hair treatments in NYC but you’ll never agree or back off and constantly move the football so why bother.
I was going to post something from your previous source Angie’s list that appeared to have many women saying somewhere around $125 to $175 for a cut & color but I decided it’s pointless to present that yo you.

Why wouldn’t you present it? The median income in AOC’s district is $58,331. It’s a historical inmigrant and working class area comprised of Queens and the Bronx. I doubt many of you know much about the area.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Why wouldn’t you present it? The median income in AOC’s district is $58,331. It’s a historical inmigrant and working class area comprised of Queens and the Bronx. I doubt many of you know much about the area.

Far too much cut & paste work to filter out men’s replies.
I did notice something interesting that’s sort of like salaries & pointy elbows on AT. The men on that site reported unbelievably low hair cut costs, as in $4 or $6 or $11 with tip. Sorry guys I just don’t believe you.

 

[Starbuck1975]

Yeah, no. If she didn't try to present herself in a professional manner she would be skewered for disrespecting the office. She does present herself in a professional manner and gets skewered for "vanity" whatever the fuck that is. Attacking her for vanity and the "celebrity" that is really been forced on her by the likes of Fox breathlessly reporting on what she says or does means neither challenger has shit to run against her in her district on the policy front.

You’re right. Her challengers will most likely go after job creation, as her district is primarily tradespeople and laborers who do not have the privilege of a college education, but would benefit from economic investment in the region.

 

[Starbuck1975]

Far too much cut & paste work to filter out men’s replies.
I did notice something interesting that’s sort of like salaries & pointy elbows on AT. The men on that site reported unbelievably low hair cut costs, as in $4 or $6 or $11 with tip. Sorry guys I just don’t believe you.

That’s not uncommon in a working class neighborhood in NYC. The guy I used to go to charged $5 a cut. His shop was always full of retirees and veterans. It was a shrine to the people of the neighborhood.