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No, she can fuck off.
The oligarchy is killing us, and spinning language won’t change that. Meanwhile, ‘woke’ just means ‘social empathy’, which is ironically the solution to many of the problems the oligarchy is causing (and they’re not shy about this – Musk recently said empathy is bad).
We need more ‘woke’, not less. And being butthurt that the fascists are using ‘woke’ as a slur against us is childish and easy to ignore if you’re not too simple to get it.
Fuck this. I’m woke and proud of it. We all should be.
Woke means understanding we live in an oligarchy in my mind. MAGA calls people sheep while complaining about them being woke in the same breath. They don't even understand the language they use.
They don't have ideas. They just use words as pretexts for bullying and oppression. They worship force.
Woke is not weakness!
It's funny, because the "Wake up, Sheeple!" line used to be what conservatives screamed at liberals for failing to understand their latest Ayn Rand inspired diatribe.
Then liberals adopted the "Wake up!" phrasing to describe structural racism, the enormous socio-economic cost of the Military Industrial Complex, and the inherent class warfare of privatization schemes. That caused "Woke" to fall out of fashion with the right.
Now it's totally lost any context. "Woke" just means being visually queer coded or insufficiently religious. Its barely more than a slur.
specifically it was used by AA people in the start, now it has been co-opted by the right wingers and perverted, much like they did with "punisher"
Fine. Then come up with a plan to educate conservatives. Because this thing where the state legislates new norms (e.g. bio men in bio women's sports) is NOT making sense to them. They are freaking out because they don't understand it. And we can't just make laws to make them accept it.
From their perspective they are losing their country. We can laugh and call them backwards, but that won't help. There HAS to be a plan that is better than, f-you wake up.
We don't need fucking conservatives to win anything in this country. I'm sick of cowards acting like they just won by 10%. They barely won this election, barely won control of the house, and the main issue in the election for independents wasn't trans people or minorities, it was the economy.
The economy sucks for ordinary people because the ultra rich have been raiding it since COVID. And everyone, even conservatives, know that's true. Americans hate these big corporations. Slotkin and her allies know that, and that's why they're trying to distract from it.
It's disgusting how ready some of you are to throw your own neighbors under the bus so you can try to win over a couple fascist votes... Who will never vote for you. You will never win them over. They aren't going to believe that you suddenly hate gay people and minorities. You will just look like a dishonest weakling to them, and they'll be right.
We will win the next election by targeting independents with an economic message. If you want to lose then go ahead and make it about "woke" like a complete coward.
"The hell is a dang oligarch?"
"Means hillary can tell you what to do"
Why the fuck is everyone pretending they're too stupid to know what an oligarch is? Just a couple years ago they said it all the time in reference to Russia
They'll pretend they're stupid so they can continue on with believing they're not horrible people, but they know
Fuck conservatives. They don't need to be educated, they need to be beaten. There are more people left of center than right, we just need to prove we're actually going to fight for them. All of them. Not 80% and then we'll start to strategize on how many "urban" voters we can lose to pick up white suburbanite conservatives.
You cannot educate someone who refuses to learn, especially those who reject reason and knowledge. They support fascists because they worship force. They will continue laying waste to everything around them until their murderous shitshow is comprehensively defeated. Throwing sweet reason at them won't achieve that.
That's why I get impatient with those who suggest that the way forward is to tinker with the voting system, or to amend the Constitution some more, or to educate the populace. The fascists are at war with us right now. We need to pick our collective ass up off the ground and resist by any means necessary and stop pretending that the system is going to save us, or (like the DNC) that Trump will eventually piss off enough people that the Democrats can win another election, despite all the rigging and voter suppression.
This is an existential situation, the building's on fire, now's not the time to be talking about redecorating.
Just to drive this point home for the quiet listeners at the back of the house, I’ve had very long conversations with conservatives (I’m in a red area) who actually get more distrustful the more you relate to them. I’ve been told to my face that nobody cared that much about other people, and I was clearly only pretending to in order to make them listen to me. That it was obvious, because nobody cares that much. That empathy can only be manipulative, and is never real.
It took me years to understand this isn’t a contradiction, but that since they can’t imagine caring that much, I must be fake.
My whole outlook changed once I realised that. It’s insane, but many people literally can’t envision caring, and they think you’re fake and just want recognition for doing so.
Several of these surveys take on a different meaning once you realise there are fundamentally different perspectives like this.
e: and this is one of the biggest divides with conservatives. Simple word choice will not bridge this gap.
That’s a big problem that switching from ‘oligarch’ to ‘king’ won’t solve. Using different words is a very simplistic answer, when what we’re fighting here is not a language barrier but a wide cultural one.
The real issue is complex and multifaceted: conservatives have been highly propagandised through increasingly insulated media bubbles to the point that now there’s very little that can penetrate them, and switching up a few words will not get them to listen. They’ve been taught to be distrustful of facts and reality, and to believe that compassion is weakness.
I don’t know how to fix this, but watering down our language will not help. That’s been tried many times, and it always backfires.
And from personal experience, even if you find common ground and get them to recognize something is bad, they'll sit back down in front of Fox News and revert to the norm before any of it matters. I had a "law and order, national security" type conservative acquaintance who right after the Trump classified documents story broke said Trump should go to prison for it (he also had to add that Hillary Clinton should go too). I'm certain he voted for Trump this time around. And he's had nary a peep about the multiple war plans chats. They aren't gettable if you just find the right issue or use the right words. If they're going to change it's going to happen on their own and over a long time.
There has to be a relentless flow of propaganda to keep them spun up. We need to shut that down.
I'm not sure about this. People with money spent a lot to tell everyone that these things are problems. If we spent the same amount of money to say the opposite, opinions would differ.
...well they are backwards, they're only about one-third of the electorate, and they will never ever vote fascist-light; meanwhile there's another unrepresented third of the electorate just waiting for anyone to offer them something worth voting FOR...