• LazaroFilm
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    1 year ago

    I still don’t underatand how woke is perceived as bad. To me, out of any context woke means you’re waking up, leaving the dream behind and facing reality. Like in the Matrix (except IRL the red pill keeps you in the dream). I just can’t understand how they managed to turn woke negatively. What’s the alternative sleepy? Aren’t the the same people who say wake up sheeple?

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      It’s not about the etymology of the word, it’s about how people use it on Twitter. Twitter pits obnoxious assholes against each other and gives their pissing contests an audience. These people pick vaguely defined words to rally around and against, and define them in whatever way is most convenient to them in the moment.

      Aren’t the the same people who say wake up sheeple?

      Yes, but they have a different set of conspiracies that a different set of authorities are supposedly persecuting them with that everyone who doesn’t uncritically accept can be dismissed as unaware and stupid outsiders. Totally different thing.

    • @ghostdoggtv
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      41 year ago

      When the red pill shit failed they picked up the B side of that A/B test and started railing against knowing the true nature of reality

    • @A_Very_Big_Fan
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      31 year ago

      You’re talking about the party that rails against any and all forms of sympathy. Of course they think it’s bad

    • @Starkstruck
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      21 year ago

      It literally used to mean that, but fascists couldn’t have that so they twisted it into something unrecognizable.

  • @[email protected]
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    161 year ago

    I’m completely ignoring the framing of a society created by my ideological enemies and instead supporting unionization, and eventually full communism.

    • @charliespider
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      -71 year ago

      and eventually full communism.

      You realize that ALWAYS turns into authoritarian dictatorship right?

      Right?

        • @Zehzin
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          31 year ago

          I will never read theory, stop trying to make me read theory. Class consciousness is born from VIBES

        • @charliespider
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          -11 year ago

          LOLZ! More like: READ HISTORY

          How many people did Stalin and Mao kill?

          • @TokenBoomer
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            11 year ago

            Are you afraid theory is gonna make you a totalitarian dictator? Or are the books going to kill people with paper cuts? Words and ideas don’t kill. Individuals make that choice. A wise person would want to know the philosophy that made Stalin and Mao the people they were. Not dismiss it out of ignorance.

          • @Eldritch
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            11 year ago

            Millions. There are communists other than leninists however you know. Who don’t have a record of killing people. Lenin’s Communism was a warped system turned on it’s head. Had Marx been alive. He likely would have been one of Lenin’s biggest critics.

            Actual communists tend to be generally anti-state and anti-authoritarin.

      • @AngryCommieKender
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        21 year ago

        Only if you put a single person at the top. If you understand theory, an elected council is much more difficult to corrupt than a single person is.

        • @Eldritch
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          21 year ago

          Well that or outlaw other parties. And actively put down anyone who disents or has different ideas by military force. Seizing the means of production from the workers who actually use those means. Under the guise of the state and the bureaucrats etc that run it being the ”people”.

          Just some of the many affronts Lenin and company committed against communism. But a true Democratic council of equals would absolutely be the least corruptible structure. You’re 100% right.

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        1 year ago

        I guess it’s technically true that the closest real world example of what OP described, anarchosyndicalist Catalonia, became an authoritarian dictatorship… After fascist Spain did a big murder on everyone (I believe there’s a wall with ugly horses and a lightbulb detailing the whole affair).

        But other than that, kind of a weird thing to claim.

        • @negativeyoda
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          11 year ago

          China, soviet Russia, North Korea …

          Capitalism sucks, full stop but all you “Stalin did nothing wrong” types are weird. Being a pedant doesn’t help unless your aim isn’t to actually make a point, but just to be an annoying troll

          • @Zehzin
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            1 year ago

            You know you’re talking to the big communism understander when they deadass accuse you of Stalin apologia in a reply about Anarchist Spain.

            ???

      • @SupraMario
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        01 year ago

        They don’t, they’re the basement types who just want to be in charge, while they cull anyone who they perceive as enemies. This isn’t woke, it’s authoritarians hating that someone else has power while they lack it.

  • @eatthecake
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    51 year ago

    Woke mind virus is just a medicalised way of saying tbought crime.

    • GrayoxOP
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      21 year ago

      Its doing more than implying, its quite literally Karl Marx holding a Hammer and Sickle lmao. Any Socialism worth a damn will eventually lead to Communism which is what our society WILL eventually evolve into if we don’t go extinct first.