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AOC Played Among Us With Ilhan Omar, Pokimane, DrLupo, And Others On Twitch, And It Was Great

Pokimane, Hasan Piker, and other popular streamers join the congresswoman in flushing out Among Us impostors.

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Update: As planned, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez streamed Among Us on Twitch Tuesday evening with popular streamers Pokimane, HasanAbi, Dr Lupo, and others joining in. Another US representative, Ilhan Omar, took part in the livestream event as well. The event was a huge success, attracting more than 430,000 concurrent viewers at its peak.

In her first round, AOC was the Imposter and she got caught. She got a little sneakier over time, successfully making it later into a match. She even had to slay Pokimane, despite her reservations. You can watch the full stream below, or check out some of the best moments from the stream.

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Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to play Among Us on Twitch to help get people to vote—currently, her plan is to stream tonight, October 20, though no specific time has been announced. The New York Representative hasn't played Among Us before either, but streamers are already champing at the bit to get her on their stream. After her initial tweet, she sent out a follow-up asking for recommendations on who to play with.

The call for fellow players and streamers was met with several eager and high-profile volunteers, including Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar (who also has a Twitch channel now), streamer and political commentator Hasan Piker, streamer Pokimane, and more. Ocasio-Cortez expressed an interest in using the live stream to encourage more people to vote, which is definitely a good strategy—200,000 people are watching streamers play Among Us on Twitch right now, and that number will only grow as the day goes on. Early voting is happening right now, too.

Among Us has garnered increased popularity with players of late, despite having been released on PC almost two years ago. It puts up to 10 players together on a spaceship or similar closed area, where they're divided into two factions: crewmembers and imposters. The job of the crewmembers is to fix ship systems by interacting with a number of locations around the map, solving small puzzles. Imposters--who look just like crewmembers--are working against the rest of the group for their own agendas, and even have a limited ability to kill the crewmembers. So the real game is about the crewmembers trying to identify and eliminate the imposters before the imposters kill them all. Players can report dead bodies and call votes to try to weed out the imposters, but the imposters can lie to try to throw the other players off their trails and hide their identities.

Shortly after announcing her interest in playing Among Us with streamers on Twitch, Ocasio-Cortez announced she was setting up her channel. She later confirmed that she is "hoping" to stream Among Us tonight, October 20, but didn't provide a more specific time. If you're interested in tuning in, you can follow her on her new Twitch channel.

The United States has been setting records for voter turnout in 2020. More than 29 million people had voted by October 19, up from the 6 million that voted by this point in the 2016 election. It never hurts to get more people to vote, though, and Among Us is just the game to spread the word with. It's been getting more and more popular over the past few months. It broke more than 4 billion views on YouTube in September and has hundreds of thousands of players on Steam at any given time. It helps that you can murder Toad in the murder mystery simulator (with special character mods), too.

Other groups have started to take advantage of games to get the vote out. More Than A Vote, a voting rights group, is releasing content about the importance of voting on 2KTV, the in-game NBA 2K show. We're bound to see more as the election date grows closer.

Representative Ocasio-Cortez made waves in the game industry earlier this year when she tried to stop the US military from recruiting through platforms like Twitch. The measure she proposed was voted down in August. We don't know when she'll be hopping on Twitch to finish tasks, but we'll update you once we do know.

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so brave and beautiful.....

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@solidsolo: she's a fucking communist destroying the country

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@sha_gi: lmao nope. It's people like you who have already done the damage. Why not let the adults fix it now?

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@tanzel: People like you? The people damaging this country are the leftist on the street looting, rioting, and assaulting people. Just today someone shot at Trump supporters, a couple of weeks ago someone killed a Trump supporter, and how many more building are leftist going to burn? Leftist sent threating letters to burn down their homes. Who do you think is censoring news? The left on Facebook and Twitter. How about the ridiculous allegations of calling everyone racist. It has grown old.

The left are the biggest hypocrites. Biden has accusations of rape but nobody cares, every goes nuts with Biden's allegations that hold more truth or the hypocritical payments by Russia toward Hunter Biden and his dad threatening a prosecutor who was investigating the company his son worked for. I could go on and on.

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@Mkeegs79: Waaaaaaaaaaaahhhh Boo hoo!!!!

And the left actually doesn't really like Biden either.

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@sha_gi: just throwing out a random race card in a thread in which nothing race related has been said? That's a sad and small minded stretch there.

Go play with your toys

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She’s an idiot who doesn’t understand or care about America.

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@Sevenizz: How the hell is a previously banned troll, admitted shill, and ban evader allowed to post 6000 times?

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@Sevenizz: and you just showed how little you actually understand America. Good job.

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@Sevenizz: Scared and stupid her opponents are.

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@Sevenizz: She has a double major in economics and global studies and is the youngest person to ever join congress at the age of 29. This is what you can an idiot? Stay in school kid ffs.

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@bigbeanie: Yet she is dumb enough to run Amazon out of New York which cost them jobs and hilariously and stupidly thought it saved New York tax money. It really shows me she didn't learn a damn thing in school. Having a double major doesn't automatically make you smart.

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@bigbeanie: So? She’s still an idiot and a terrible person. The way she talks to or about people who disagree with her, her lack of understanding how taxes and immigration work, and costing her community tens of thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars. I’m surprised she still has a job. But some simpletons will vote for a name they recognize over someone qualified.

My comments stand...hard.

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@bigbeanie:

You haven’t had the misfortune of hearing her open her mouth before have you? An example; She once accused Republicans of having to change the law to keep FDR out of office when the 22nd Amendment wasn’t even drafted until 1947, 2 years after his death. We won’t even talk about the fact that she’s supposed to have an economics degree yet doesn’t even understand how tax subsidies work. She’s about as smart as a bag of rocks. The only reason she’s in Congress is because she primaried the incumbent in a safe seat. A plastic bag full of wet dog crap could’ve won her seat with a D sticker on it.

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@CrouchingWeasel: Then why did Joe Crowley, a top party boss and a major Speaker of the House hopeful, lose it? And primarying an incumbent, especially as powerful as Crowley is much more difficult than winning a swing seat in a general election. AOC did something that Barack Obama failed to do actually.

Why does she have her opponents scared and stupid? Why are they so stupid that they are pouring millions of dollars into not only her primary challenger who she destroyed 75-18, but her Republican opponent in a D+29 district?

And as for gaffes about history and other things, do I need to go through almost every major politician in this country and many Presidents? Look at both Presidential candidates. And as for FDR and the 22nd Amendment, she was half right. It wasn't drafted until 1947 but it was discussed well before that.

And really, try to debate her, she will destroy you. And her idiot GOP challenger now wants to debate her on Twitch, shows how knowledgeable he is on things...lol

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People are afraid of Ocrazio? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. She’s about as “scary” as a baby koala on the teat. Her problem is that she’s a brain dead got who’s more concerned with using politics to feed her lust for fame rather than serving Americans as she swore to do. She cost New Yorkers thousands of jobs & billions in tax revenue because she’s so pathologically stupid that she doesn’t understand that tax incentives aren’t actual money that can be spent on other things despite her allegedly having an economics degree. She’s as smart as a bag of rocks & your fetishistic, white-knight lust for her won’t change the fact that she’s a mental midget who’s accomplished nothing in 2 years other than make herself famous for being the dumbest person in Congress next to Schifty Pencil Neck & Nasty Pelosi. Please keep trying to defend her, it’s absolutely hilarious.

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@texasgoldrush: I watched her debate the head of ICE and she looked like a complete idiot. Didn’t understand the concept of entering a country illegally.

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@doodoflife: No, she didn't, but you can't tell living in right wing world.

AOC was right, the ICE director was wrong actually.

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@texasgoldrush: He was wrong about what? She looked like a fool. He set her straight and she didn't even have a response. She tried to paint him as heartless and she just looked a witch with his response.

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@texasgoldrush: and what exactly was she right about and what exactly was he wrong about?

She literally didn’t know the laws of our country or that entering the country illegally is in fact....illegal.

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@doodoflife: But thats not the subject of her questioning there, it was about where you can seek asylum, which does not have to be the port of entry, which makes AOC right in that moment.

Was it her best moment in committee? No, she failed to press there, but she was right on that law. And the ICE directors justification of separating families in border crossing instances by comparing it to DUI is idiotic.

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@texasgoldrush: ICE director said the legal method is the port of entry. His comparison was to outline that this is where standard procedure is exactly applicable in all criminal situations. Seems you missed both of those.

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Neither liberals nor conservatives should be supporting AOC. She constantly spreads misinformation and does not understand the law. Just look up any of her talks. She targets emotionally vulnerable people constantly.

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@Sound_Demon: You mean like Trump?

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@VANGUARD003: What kind of emotionally vulnerable people support trump?

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@Sound_Demon: you mean like the "we must eat the babies" girl at her town hall? Lol, that's about as crazy as they come.

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I guess she gave up on her idea that we are all going to die in twelve years and that our border is like a concentration camp. Seems fitting that she would play a game that is centered around lying. Typical political trash

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AOC is a communist actively destroying the country

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Does anyone, literally care, for what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to do? Please gamespot, don't be a bridge to make public figures to become more popular, focus on reviewing games. Thanks.

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@inmycontrol: Gamespot trying to be like the sports industry, i.e. NBA and such...

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Great.. : a loser playing a game that only became popular because of some payed off streamers. I hate this world and what it's done to my hobby I once enjoyed.

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@Wartotehlock: You do get that some people actually support her, right?

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@VANGUARD003 said:

@Wartotehlock: You do get that some people actually support her, right?

They entitled to be wrong. And not sure why you said this; I never said people didn't?

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@Wartotehlock: Oh, my bad. I actually misread your comment. I thought you said she was only coming on with streamers because she paid them off. My mistake.

Also, in that case, I've never played Among Us, but I HAVE played Werewolves and Villagers, and if you've got a good group of people, it is FUN. I don't think people need to be paid off to play, though perhaps they were. It's a winning concept.

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@VANGUARD003: I just don't like fakes. Of course the streamers who brought this game to the light were paid to look at their game. Lets face it, with so many streamer followers being kids; they could make anything take off. Among Us is not a new concept, it only took off because what I mentioned before. But whatever; maybe this will make the genre more fun because I admit the idea seems great I just know many of the other games don't have the player count.

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@Wartotehlock: I understand what you're saying.

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@Wartotehlock: Boohoo 4 u

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AOC's opponents are either: scared, stupid, or both.

Her opponents are so stupid they actually put millions and millions of dollars into congressional challengers with absolutely no chance of winning in a heavily Democratic district where she was VERY popular, nevermind the challengers being very weak candidates that match up poorly against an elite level campaigner and political talent which AOC is.

And AOC has her opponents running scared as well, they are truly scared of her and it shows. She is easily the most talented political figure (who does not have a last name of Obama) in the nation. She literally does almost everything well in the realm of politics right now.

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@texasgoldrush: if you like free stuff and not having money to pay for it, then I can see the appeal. She'll be especially popular 10 years into her policies when rapid inflation takes effect and we'll ALL be as poor as Venezuela...that sounds fun. Fortunately, at least in the interim, there are still sane people to stop her from destroying our country. So much talent, that one...

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@Gatorjosh14: Trump already added to the deficit with his billionaire tax cuts for one. If you think that tax cut is for you then you're sorely mistaken.

Republicans aren't as fiscally responsible as they'd like you to believe.

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@matr0ska: apparently you don't understand how economies work. Try playing Sim City or Cities: Skylines and raise your taxes and see how much money you'll make. At first you make quite a bit, but then all your high income civilians leave which is economics 101 and then you're making less money than you did before.

Trump is not a true Republican. The establishment, both Republican and Democrat, had become 2 sides of the same coin. It's both Bush and Obama's policies that have brought us Trillions of dollars into debt, not Trump. It's actually the Billionaires who create jobs and grow the economy, as well as entrepreneurs. Anyone can do the same, through a great idea and hard work, you can become a Billionaire too (something I don't desire to be personally). Trump is what we need right now, he's tearing down the Republican and Democrat stronghold on our nation that is leading us into Globalistic tyranny. This is why they hate him, not because he's destroying America, but because he's destroying (or at the very least setting back) the Elite's plans for America. Look at how insanely deceitful and one sided the media has become.... 1984 much?

If you find yourself on the same ideological side as the media and college professors, then you're part of the problem and may not even realize it until it's too late. People like AOC are either willfully or unintentionally naive, policies like the Green New Deal are not effective and cost way too much because they want the government to be the Nanny State. That's not how free and open societies work. If we want to go Green, then private industry needs to innovate and bring it about, not the government. I'm all for reasonable regulations, but for small government that does not overreach. If you like China, then you'll love AOC's vision of America...

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@texasgoldrush: It's not fear. She is dangerous.

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@texasgoldrush: What??? Give me one good example of how she made America better from a very objective perspective

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@sony1979: Her coronoavirus response in her district, unlike other politicians, she took action and provided serious aid to her district. Thats one example.

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@texasgoldrush: Anybody can say 'wear masks', and by aid, do you mean telling people it is okay to loot?

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@troopertrooper: Way to prove my point.

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@texasgoldrush: you have no point. It’s just your opinion based on no facts. Nice try though.

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Shes a real life imposter so that checks out. Shes gonna be really good at the game.

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