MAGA would rather die of exposure and starvation rather than express kindness and compassion to people that are different from them, as we will soon see.
More equality works better. The more hierarchy the worse things work. The conversation is always framed as human rights being opposed to efficiency and effectiveness and striking a balance. But the reality is that human rights and equality is more efficient and effective.
Hillary felt obliged to say something in the debate when asked to compliment Trump. Maybe she was trying to anger him by calling his kids nice. What she did, though, was obscure that Trump hated his own kids. Now, we’ve devolved to empowering Musk who considers his trans kid as dead & blames woke.
Actually, you aren't the first. In all honesty, I'm at a loss for how we can change things now. Our democracy works in pretty much 2 year cycles and it will be hard to undo this fuck up before 2026.
I think we need to be careful to not create a paradox of all that "woke" contradicitons, when advocating for tolerance and inclusivity, fail to tolerate opposing views.
the really frustrating thing is: This was ALWAYS the deal. Like, back to its earliest days, the promise of Liberalism was "We'll let ppl PROVE whether their competent rather than assuming based on their social position, and THAT will give us a stronger economy".
Related: it shouldn't be a surprise that a whole party made out of Failsons and Nepobabies has decided Liberalism is Bad and we should establish Medieval Nepotism as our core governing principle.
I think people who don’t want “woke” or “DEI” don’t understand what they mean.
They have been brainwashed by Trump and the Republicans into believing they are something bad.
Many think it is like Affirmative Action where a company would have to hire x-number of minorities. I've tried until I'm blue in the face to explain but they don't get it. They don't WANT to understand that's not it all at. That is IS about bringing in the best, but not limiting to white non-disable
Absolutely. "Woke" turns out to mean not liberal silliness but belief in a functioning democracy that promotes stability and peace ie not in a trump coma as he trashes our international reputation while destroying our economy.
Lmao what we've seen is that we have enough people around with a Heath Ledger Joker type sociopathy that this is a legitimate thing..."it's not about the money, it's about sending a message"
Genuinely, though, we have to find a way to punish every hateful, self serving spreader of ridiculous agit-prop toward marginalized communities at the behest of financial gain. It's a long shot, but I hope this crash hits them hardest.
It's amazing how many people were okay with lighting our country's future on fire because they feel weird about using updated language. What a bunch of petty little wussies. Imagine the tantrums if they had to do something that is actually difficult and requires real sacrifice.
If only these people had found the strength within themselves to sit tf down on their couches and do absolutely nothing about their weirdly tender wussy feelings, enjoy their damned football monster boat rallies or whatever. Sadly, not.
Well they might find out what real sacrifice is. Most of the bottom 85% do not live with lifelong sustainable wealth, but struggle most of their lives to maybe get to have 20-30 years of comfortable retirement time before death finally strikes them.
the average American retires with $46,000 of the 1.4 million they need to live comfortably.... so the poorest half of the country either works until they die or struggle mightily to keep body and soul together
I wanted an 80% progressive tax on any wealth above what these rich assholes needed to maintain their obligations for their very comfortable lives. Shit, all I want is a UBI system in income for $1500 a month in wage assistance for everyone else. Determining earnings cut off threshold is debatable.
I don't even think there was any real pressure for anyone to express their pronouns or gender identity. They just hated that other people were doing it.
Speaking of that, how is it that Timothy and Paul speak of it being unseemly for women to speak in church when the Risen Christ first revealed himself to Mary Magdelene?
I think Paul and Timothy were giving a nod to social customs of the day, though it could have been a self fulfilling prophecy that since the ladies were not educated, therefore they couldn't bring up the scriptures as well as the gentlemen could. Neither of them asserted that this was God's will.
If it were up to me, I would allow for cautious departure from the specific church disciplinary practices of the day once the reason for them is clear. Paul, elsewhere, indicated that he didn't want love to be blown out of the water. This danger could appear if people didn't have some etiquette.
Not wanting to get overwhelmed with the particularly focused spiritual energy of certain cults of the day seems another possibility to me, by the way. It would be kind of like being willing to go to church with political conservatives, but not with MAGA nuts.
Trump says other countries are “calling us” to negotiate because of his tariffs—but there’s nothing these countries want to negotiate. The U.S. didn’t have massive tariffs on them before. What Trump is saying “I created a crisis, and now countries are calling me to talk about the crisis I caused.”
Except it still wasn't actually functioning... It was a thin veneer of "this works for th rich & you can totally be too"
On a Jurassic Park pile of shit that was just global war & exploitation of the masses.
We're not settling for the "way things were"
We must have more than th neoliberal illusion
My offer to America: I receive removal of this entire cabal of anti-democracy fascists; You receive a return to normalcy, a stable, then booming equality, constitutional rights, intelligent, thoughtful representation and 2 tickets to an entertainment event of your choice…😉
Just to be fair, it wouldn't even have to go into a bio/resume/CV of anyone who didn't want it, and we can assume the old defaults for any Miss/Mrs./Ms. or Mr. without that. No forms that beep at you if you leave it out.
The org that has lost anti-DEI proposals in shareholder votes at Costco, Apple, Deere and Disney says:
“National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP) is the original and premier opponent of the woke takeover of American corporate life and defender of true capitalism.”
Business realizes that goverment telling what kind of DEI or non-DEI you can have is excessive overreach. Now if any of them would put that into a lawsuit against the Orange Diaper king that would force people to consider the issue. An issue the media has failed to outline very well.
Well, there should be a minimum DEI of "Don't discriminate against people unfairly on the basis of traits they cannot control and which do not affect their ability to complete the work"
And obviously there should be an effort for company culture to be as non-discriminatory as the company policies, but that's harder for the government to enforce fairly.
Woke is derived from African-American English used since the 1930s, or earlier, to refer to awareness of RACIAL PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION. Woke has been kidnapped. I don't want your pronouns all over the place. Put 'em in your bio if you must, but keep them out of standard English and politics.
But they are standard English... Every word ever, in every language was "made up". Woke hasn't been kidnapped, it's been expanded to include more marginalized groups.
Wikipedia has: "Woke is an adjective derived from African-American English used since the 1930s or earlier to refer to awareness of racial prejudice and discrimination, often in the construction stay woke."
Isn't he a far right supportor of MAGA? Could have sworn I've seen videos on YouTube and Twitter that he has made with disinformation and false information. He looks like the one that was booted off of Twitter for the disinformation spreading and then Elon allowed him back on.
MAGA doesn’t want the economy back because they cannot succeed in that economy. They want something that gives them an unfair advantage so their half-witted children stand a chance against smart people.
I purposely shopped there more in the past BECAUSE they supported certain communities and they have great product designers, a huge plus. It cost me more to shop there vs their competitors but their (fake)wokeness won me over.
Cancelling DEI, laying off thousands, prices going up.
They JUST launched an interchangable multi-racial Barbie line you can personalize... and then the Ownership decides to completely betray their Own BRAND IMAGE.
Functional government? Let's be real. The Biden admin perpetuated grossly dysfunctional government. Too many examples to list. Here's one: why did Intel get so much money from the CHIPS Act while cutting their workforce by 15% despite promises that the act would add so many jobs?
A different kind of terrible. Significantly worse.
Difficult to sum up. For example, cutting off tuberculosis medications suddenly & causing needless death is horrible. Defending big pharma patents on TB medications, forcing dependency on US handouts, also horrible.
I learned about it on here because a guy that worked at a bookstore repeated this sentiment and mostly got dogged. I found out later it was more than just him.
NaNaWriMo: categorical condemnation” of artificial intelligence has “classist and ableist undertones.”
Woke knows how to get shit done. Woke knows how guarantees and contracts work. Woke knows the business cycle. Woke is profitable! Woke is kind especially when you're not an asshole.
Woke, has proven to consistently come up with compromise solutions that work well for everyone. Woke is the cradle of creativity! One should not burden it!
Someone explained it to me perfectly the other day. America has decided to destroy the entire system of government because it didn't like trans people and black women. Pretty much sums it up
Will our president be under 100? Will science be included, or are there 50 sexes? Do the alphabet people get more letters? Does Harris get to keep prosecuting thousands of innocent people with false evidence she knew about, that a judge had to dismiss all cases because of her criminal actions?
Why is nobody reporting the most obvious reasoning for the absurdist tariffs being rolled out as they were was to immediately stop all discussions of "signalgate" by fiat of chaos!
Again Trump trumps our well informed media.
Sadly, it seems the dumbest POTUS ever is still outwitting the presspool.
Seriously, we got rid of DEI and planes fell out of the sky like the very next day. Within a week, fucking chaos in the economy and all our friends think we're trash. That woke was load-bearing.
Give me that woke money and that woke thing of "not assuming white men are intelligent cuz hot damn, conservatives ones will crash your economy for funsies!"
Ultra woke. I want it to be an eternal woke winter with all the most amazing and kind snowflakes you can find. When the most vulnerable are taken care of the rest of us can be: trickle up, not down.
Look, I'm not gonna say "woke" has magical powers (though maybe I should because the people who need to hear it are very dumb and very superstitious), but the fact of the matter is simply that the people who lose their minds over things being "woke" are the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet who...
...should be kept so far from the levers of power that they shouldn't even be entrusted with an ant farm or an old PC not connected to the internet with Sim City 2000 installed on it because they'll find a way to fuck those things up so badly it has globe-spanning real-world consequences.
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And what did you do with them?
What have you achieved in the last 4 months,
that has earned a right to an opinion about anything?
Return woke to
Save America!
https://youtu.be/t0ruK6IQLWc?si=-A87i8ae2mRYgmBM
Oh yeah, my ballot... I already signed this deal so many times, wtf world?! wtf?? 😭
It's tainted.
We need to be firm, & I think we need also to encourage these folks instead & not vilify everyone https://www.inc.com/peter-cohan/these-trump-voters-say-they-feel-deceived/91159274
Those are actually great things in our lives. In a nutshell, it's about educating and caring.
Too many people out there don't want either and that just boggles me. Why purposely do that?
They have been brainwashed by Trump and the Republicans into believing they are something bad.
100% tax rate on wealth that is significant enough to buy the votes of politicians.
*looks back on the seething rage of masses of people asked to do the bear minimum to help fellow citizens during the covid pandemic*
Should have let the democracy dawgs sleep 🐶
On a Jurassic Park pile of shit that was just global war & exploitation of the masses.
We're not settling for the "way things were"
We must have more than th neoliberal illusion
This country should have chosen to be better for everyone. Instead they chose to self-serve and now it’s great for no-one.
Fair?
Let’s look forward instead.
I’ve found that ignorance isn’t bliss it’s just cowardice dressed as stupidity.
“National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP) is the original and premier opponent of the woke takeover of American corporate life and defender of true capitalism.”
But that mostly falls under inclusion.
MAGA needs to suffer for being stupid assholes...
*All- Might, thats your cue! *
Trump is purging the military of top brass that might pose a threat to his dictatorship.
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2025/04/07/breaking-news/u-s-admiral-at-nato-fired-in-expanding-national-security-purge/
I purposely shopped there more in the past BECAUSE they supported certain communities and they have great product designers, a huge plus. It cost me more to shop there vs their competitors but their (fake)wokeness won me over.
Unwoke kills businesses IMO 🤣
Cancelling DEI, laying off thousands, prices going up.
They JUST launched an interchangable multi-racial Barbie line you can personalize... and then the Ownership decides to completely betray their Own BRAND IMAGE.
Barnie is now Anti-Woke under Mattel.
Difficult to sum up. For example, cutting off tuberculosis medications suddenly & causing needless death is horrible. Defending big pharma patents on TB medications, forcing dependency on US handouts, also horrible.
...and guess what...the show was cancelled...
...but we brought it back for another season even though we know it sucks a**
But we love the spectacle
So...Amerikkka...you deserve this...& also
Can we hit a middle ground between claiming that attacking AI is ableist and deporting brown people to skeevy El Salvadorian prisons?
NaNaWriMo: categorical condemnation” of artificial intelligence has “classist and ableist undertones.”
https://www.wired.com/story/nanowrimo-organizers-classist-and-ableist-to-condemn-ai/
Oh yeah! 🎶
We gotta hit them with full blown socialism and see if we can land on the ERA and reparations.
Who knew we needed that 🙄
Again Trump trumps our well informed media.
Sadly, it seems the dumbest POTUS ever is still outwitting the presspool.
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or smoked or poked or…
Don't do that. Be woke and proud.
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