Trump’s officials are quietly concerned about his “blatant criminal behavior.” What took them so long?
It is time to stop examining the chaos and time to do something about it.
I have a source inside the Trump regime who feels, in their own words, “a little disillusioned.” This person says they signed on to the Trump team because of “DEI going too far” and because “woke culture was dividing the country,” but is now concerned about the “blatant criminal behavior” of Donald Trump. Really? His last administration didn’t show you that? Well, OK.
This source first approached me by saying, “I can provide you bonafides to show you I’m serious.” That impressed me because I didn’t think many people inside the Trump regime knew what bonafides were, let alone how to be serious.
This source’s concerns about Trump are indeed legitimate, and deserve to be heard. “Not all of us are buying everything he says,” this person told me. “We understand the problem, but we see no solution. You guys in the press, with very few exceptions, are not trustworthy. Congress can’t be trusted and the judiciary so far hasn’t been able to stop him.”
Bullshit. “Woke culture” is also filled with evangelism, moralizing, and authoritarian assertion. You guys just want different people beaten with sticks by the pigs.
DEI and “woke culture” made me feel seen as a person with a disability and a facial paralysis. 100 years ago I would have been an orphan and hidden away. Not long before that I would have been “sacrificed” as an evil baby.
Did corporations cash in on that? Yes they did because that’s all corporations are supposed to do is make money and bleed the consumer.
If you are anti-woke and anti-DEI then you’re really saying you want to include everyone who looks like you and relegate those who don’t to obscurity either by way of deportation, exile, slavery, or death. It’s exactly like what every country perpetuating genocide has done in history.
What is your solution to my problem of again not feeling like I can go out in public because of this administration’s policies. What about to the LGBTQIA people who are afraid that their marriage will be nulled or are also afraid to go out in public?
Are you ok with fixing people different from you back to isolation, declining mental health, and attempts to take their life because of getting rid of DEI?
I live my life, look out for my neighbors, don’t litter, and don’t talk to cops. You’re all naive enough to think your opinion holds value 20 feet outside your radius.
🎶 Everything I don’t like is woke propaganda 🎶
“Woke” is literally just not being a piece of shit. Everyone who whines about it is self-reporting.
The median American seems to disagree with this assertion based on recent election results.
Which could be because they read at a 6th grade level.
But, regardless, scolding and ostracization and negative reinforcement are not effective ways to educate children. They seemingly are also not effective ways to educate adults who possess the intelligence of children
Bullshit. Makes up an argument based solely on my feelings and not remotely in any fact
Let’s see you debate that
Experience. You all want police enforcing your sense of morality. All about freedom until your feelings get hurt.
No, you just get 100% of your political knowledhe from the Conservative Propaganda Machine.
All Woke means is “Live and Let Live.” What is the problem with some people choosing different paths for their lives? You go your way, they go theirs. As long as you don’t mess with their journey, nobody will mess with yours. See how that works?
Woke means “I noticed that society and it’s systems treat certain groups of people much worse than others. We should fix that.”
Which, yeah, means “live it and let live” but in a way that implies a call to action, lest you be a willing participant in oppression.
Enforced by police batons
It looks like you get your definition of the word from Fox News, that’s not news, just thought you should know, carry on
Social accountability (meaning being called out on social media, being fired from a job, or being boycotted) for unapologetically spewing hate speech or sexual harassment and whatever else “wokism” is against… is not the same as inflicting violence on people. Your failure to understand the difference between accountability and violent authoritarianism says a lot about your character.
These are not effective means of achieving social progress because they result in incredible reactionary counter movements. As is evidenced by the success of Trump/Republicans/Fox weaponizing woke as an attack.
The median American hates scolds and prudes (despite, hypocritically, largely being a scold and prude themselves.)
If the goal is to achieve social progress through popular support and democracy, then these tactics of scolding and ostracization are counter productive. Other methods must be used
If the goal is to achieve social progress through more revolutionary means, then Lenin offers a roadmap. But American liberals are still seemingly opposed to that.
In any event, it seems clear given our current political realities that the “woke” tactics of the past decade have been a tremendous counter productive failure that has contributed to our present fascist regime. Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences; the consequences of 2010s social justice online scolding is the Trump regime and the collapse of American liberal democracy
The problem with Lenin’s failed roadmap (and Marx’s, for that matter) was that neither considered the intrinsic corruption and selfishness of humanity. The “dictatorship of the proletariat” is not supposed to be an actual dictatorship, but a kind of democratic power where a minority of wealthy capitalists can’t simply use their wealth and power to supersede the will of the people. Hence why neoliberal capitalists are so happy to misuse the term “tyranny of the majority” in regards to direct democracy. Instead, following communist revolutions, a new ruling class emerged, composed of selfish, self-centered bandits. Not “The People” writ large, but a small controlling class of party members. That was never supposed to happen, and even Lenin tried to warn of this in his final days. There was also the matter of international isolation… where powerful, wealthy imperialist countries cut them off as a risk to their own rulers authority.
My point is… there is no roadmap. The American experiment failed, and for exactly the reasons founders like John Adams, George Washington, John Hamilton, et al warned about. Incidentally, the same reason Lenin’s experiment failed as Stalinism took it over… power was allowed to be concentrated into the hands of a small ruling class or singular political party. I don’t have a solution. I wish I did. There is just no way for any major movement to survive individual human ambition, greed, and selfishness. It will always be tainted and that taint will always eventually metastasize. Unless we already have a stateless, classless society where everyone shares a cultural and moral system where greed, selfishness, and preying on others for personal gain is immediately and staunched stamped out, the system cannot be sustainable… and that means there is no path to such a system at a national scale.
Such a system would need to start small and be protected from without. It would need to grow organically over multiple generations and be accepted broadly by it’s own merits. And how likely do you think that is given the realities I just discussed? The rich and powerful would never let such an experiment survive. Just look at current culture. If you don’t buy into neoliberalism aggressively and religiously, you get called “communist” and “marxist” and “woke” and any number of emotionally-loaded pejoratives.
So… no roadmap. Not yet.
Nah, that’s all fair game.
A perfect example of how terms like “woke” are indefinable.
No, it isn’t. You want something to really worry about? Communism. You should dread communism. For real. Go to bed every night praying that there isn’t a communist revolution in the US.
Lol what the fuck is going on in these comments? Do you not know where you are? This is like the dumbest place to post such obvious bullshit about leftist ideology.
I don’t care. I’m fucking tired from an intellectual point of view with people using political terms randomly. Unless the pope starts talking about seizing the means of production, he ain’t Marxist, he ain’t communist, he’s just another fucking priest covering up for pedophiles and telling poor people to turn the other cheek. Fuck him and fuck his ilk.
Now go articulate to yourself what you think communism is and what you think is so scary about it, then maybe consider reading the source material.
Retribution is so scary about it. Unless you own the means of production or think you’re going to miss capitalism, you don’t have much to worry about.
I’m an anarchist, and guess what? We already have anarchism. My ideology just keeps winning. Stop doing capitalism, and you’re doing anarchism, even if it’s just deciding who does the dishes. Truly abandoning society isn’t pretty, and it’s scary… if you’re a giant pussy.
What? That’s not what anarchism is…