Woke: Deep or Dumb? 

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I won't even bother to link to debunking of Masterworks here. You knew it was a scam when you took the money.

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This is that Scottish forest buy-a-title thing all over again, isn't it?

So NFTs...

No, it won't .

On fleek

People that shout "woke" don't watch intelligent thought provoking content.

@@mickael486 This video is heavily left-biased and not conducing to intelligent discussion

@@mickael486 they don't but they sure show up to bash it and attack it regardless

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No, the electron transport chain is you Woke-snowflake-groomer-communist-Trotskyite!!

Of the Zell.

Yup, him sitting next to a bucket of ice, writing a cheque. Then he uses the ice to make himself a drink.

This is funny and sad

What a surprise ! American fast food joints in France, we can't call Mc Do a restaurant, that's insulting for the profession, employ young people who know jack shit and don't care about a thing. Neither their working conditions/rights NOR their obligations and elementary rules of hygiene. The owners pay a fortune for infractions left and right, but keep on keeping on. the worst thing is, past 9.30 PM, in some places, they're already short on supplies and can't deliver the product. Either way, most customers just take it like doormats. Which makes Kebabs and wraps a success. 😁

If you designed an economic system to strip the dignity and wealth from a society that once had a thriving middle class, then our system would likely be the optimal solution.

@@benjaminkowal7310 yep. had a striking discussion with my cousin before he went to an economic War school in Chicago. told him that invested people may want a return. "yes, the investors", he replied. Not quite my idea, but I understood that somehow we were speaking the same language and could not comprehend one another. The irony is, after some years of the same old same old capitalist BS, he turned into a Buddhist monk. Pure overdose !😂 Got out of his monastery a few years later with a nice German girl "looking for enlighment".Through our mish-mash of languages (my German is for shit), we understand each others much more..

I remember starting to work for in MC Donald as a vacation job, and being told I couldn't eat the burgers that were being renewed. I could buy those likewarm burgers at a discount or throw them away . I was so pissed off about that I quit the next day. Now this was 30 years ago, so maybe things have changed by now. Overtime I learned that many food chains & mega stores have this policy to throw away unsold products rather then giving it away to employees . They reason that ' if you give something away, it loses value '. When people need to pay for something other people get 'for free ' , they also want it for free, etc. It's both logical and insane .

And beta cuck. Tell them it's the big brother of "woke" so it's a more effective persuasive

Many people say that I’m GOATed with the sauce, many people. It’s true! The thousands and thousands of people who come to my rallies, they’re all my little pogchamps. They know we’re going to Make America Lit Again.

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No, that would upset soybean farmers, and they have money 😂

We'll have to wait until the younger generations finish taking over our government, first. Though, it would be funny to hear the older politicians say that.🤣

And isn't that what's really important? :D

I don't understand. What do you mean?

@@jmrabinez9254 In the video he talked about a campaign by Motorola that said that by paying more for a phone would help end aids in Africa.

😂😂well well well, "Aids in Africa"

It's so great to chase the good causes!

Me too. They just force feed the messages in their movies.

That's perfectly fine because you are (presumably) mad at the soulless company and not the diversity itself. I feel like that's the main issue in arguments about diversity in media. A lot of people blame the characters for existing rather than the writers or producers for being hacks.

@@tyreonbooker5304 I pretty much agree. I mean, we all have met some absolute goobers on the "left" who demand some ridiculous things. Just the other day I saw a video where a person was lambasting John Gwyne's Shadow of the Gods because it only had white people in it when it's centered around Nordic culture and mythology. So while I do think there are some frustrating people out there that think every single piece of media or art should look like downtown LA I think they are just a loud minority. While Disney and other corporations are the main problem by using diversity as a marketing gimic to stir up free publicity and pat themselves on the back.

@@tyreonbooker5304this. This right here.

​@@tyreonbooker5304Even if a diverse character is perfectly written, you still have people whining about how they're shoehorned into the TV show/movie/game. Just the sight of a minority in media triggers some people now. Lol

Gotta remember that one. So on fleek

Part of the war.

This'd be funnier if this wasn't a central plank in the Republican party platform. Seriously, half our country is more interested in denying people rights because they think they're yucky than maintaining our infrastructure or any number of things that sane adults would understand are not partisan issues.

The vaguely-defined-dread war?

@@frankm.2850 The Republican Party has always been like this. Since the 60s, the Republican Party has been subtly insane, now they are out and out about their insanity

we dodged a bullet on that one

The fact that Fruit Gushers were different colors shows that they stand for diversity.

Bo Burnham showcases socially aware brands and their stances for radical change in his role as a brand consultant. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fkKu09BwFgc.html

😂 I’ve said it about Chick-Fil-A, and I’ll say it about Gusher’s-companies are concepts, NOT people, so it’s silly to say they are for or against anything. The people behind them can do those things, though being a client of those companies can indirectly move money and influence to efforts that you may or may not want it to go.

I'm still waiting to see which side of the fence Dunkaroos lands on.

I think the problem with wokeness is that it robs us of individuality. I don't want to hear from a black millionaire that a white low income worker is more privileged than him, because the black millionaire's father was discriminated against, while the white low income worker's ancestors had power. This sort of thinking creates tribalism, and tribalism always creates more tribalism. We are so far into this nonsense, that here in Germany Syrians and Turks play this game as well. A well integrated Turk is an "uncle Tom" for other Turks. This absolute nonsense. Germans and Turks were allied in ww1, we never had any colonization/slavery history with them, and yet: They're playing the same cards as Afro-Americans. You can't make this up. This is peak wokeness for me.

Psychology cannot solve socio-economic problems. Of course it can explain authoritarianism, how we become authoritarian. But psychology is incapable of understanding social movements and, above all, changing the balance of power. I bet many CEOs give money to Greenpeace while discussing how to increase productivity without paying workers more... Some even may work in fossil fuels. They are loving, open-minded, fairly balanced, in short, far from being sociopaths or narcissists.

In many ways though it has also broken up the social conservative base that capitalism has relied on for a long time. The once unified "right" is very visibly splitting apart between fascists and corporatists.

In other words, humans are incapable of thinking rationally no matter what their “values” are.

That is a very large thesis to cram into a comment section.

Definitely this

and what wokeness has become keeps people too distracted and divided to come together to do anything significant about the fucked up spiral. People just want to act like pissing each other off and getting offended, or walking around with their fist in the air, waving a flag is accomplishing something.

they keep you stupid by keeping you busy

@@dustyhurd424 cop out

@Dusty Hurd I mean, a bunch of people organizing in public to demonstrate their opinions is the foundation of public grievance, it does accomplish something. I feel like you’re mistaking authentic political trends and organization for Corporation’s attempts at co-opting of ‘wokeness’. Authentic wokeness never went away, it just exists alongside a sterile “pop culture” version.

I disagree. Alot of the same people who like corporate activism also agree that most workers should organize and wholy support unions. I mean democrats and leftist as a whole push more legislation supporting unions and worker organizing.

@@RedFezLad I'll grant you that they agree with it. But the performative gestures don't really equate to tangible support beyond, maybe, how they were already going to vote and donate during election seasons.

It is more complicated. Because the only one that has real impacts in standing up to governments trying to claw back social policies like abortion and LGBTQ rights are the corporations. There have been multiple businesses pushing back against these draconian laws Republicans are pushing forward, even some corporations putting money in to shelter people who need abortions. Of course this isn't always the case and what the video says has merit, but with the current political situation, you have to take the lesser of two evils sometimes. Do you want human rights?

Do people feel satiated by corporation activism? I feel like most people (I hope) see through the facade.

@@chad8767 It for sure is case-by-case - no denying there's been some good that's come from corporate activism, just worth being aware of possible ulterior motives

Personally I go the Spike Lee route "Wake Up"

I just stick with the original meaning from my community (black) not the new one tbh

I’ve never used it but only time I’ve ever been called woke was by a black man. This was years ago before this new meaning took hold.

Same, knew all my life what it meant to be "Woke" to us black folks but never ever used it in a sentence. Then all of a sudden it just took over discussion and got twisted into something else by those outside of our collective.

@abrashio Again I'd just go the Spike Lee route "Wake up"

Im guessing theres plenty of black americans who feel the same way about blm and the june thing u got over there as well.

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Social Justice is bullshit. There is only Justice. Pure and Simple. Nobody is special.

And it’s on purpose. Because seriously, only people who have very bad intentions would want to turn the term « social justice » into a negative expression. The exact same thing happened with « woke »

The reason Republicans replaced social justice with woke but mainstream society never stopped using social justice positively is the same reason most Americans think being woke is a good thing. Republicans lose every culture war they fight in about five years. It's why they need the Supreme Court instead.

this happens a lot with words the right wing of politics finds being used against them. The same with groomer. It used to refer to people like priests, politicians, billionaires and such who used their money, power or social clout to SA young people. Now they are trying to twist it into meaning any queer person existing

Be mindful economic and democratic issues tie into social ones. They're not completely separate from another, much like the chicken and egg.

Post and comment are spot on

@@XioriannaEBDjinn im not saying they are seperate but when people start feeling left behind by their government and the economy is when people start becoming susceptible to the demagoguery that leads to the social issues

They’re also issues that don’t m impact politician’s wallets or power negatively.

That is the Plan. Divide and conquer

So how woke is too woke?

​@@rskl8083when it bleeds into every aspect of everyday living. Where everything is a perceived grievance.

@@John-rn1nm Exactly!

A good mantra to live by. Wish more people had followed this logic last year during the rail strike - it was presented as "either we bust up the strike and force the union to back down, or Christmas is ruined and the economy is crashed". They ignored the much more reasonable option: force the _companies_ to accept the union's demands.

Understood, sir! So... Which is it then? Pepsi or Coca Cola? ;)

The two sides are globalists/elites vs nationalists/citizens but instead people believe it's left vs right or black vs white. Meanwhile, Trump is the only one who isn't controlled by the uniparty and wasn't supposed to be part of the globalist agenda but people think he's the bad guy because of talking heads reading off teleprompters.

@@nyirmogikandur6050 Groselha it is

@@nyirmogikandur6050 Pepper. DOCTOR Pepper to you.

"changed by the PEOPLE, by VOTING, by DEMOCRACY " good joke. democracy with capitalism is a good joke “Laws! We know what they are, and what they are worth! Spider webs for the rich and powerful, steel chains for the weak and poor, fishing nets in the hands of the government.” - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

I think we can celebrate the result of this one particular instance of a corporation using its inflated power to stop something that would've been very bad for a lot of people (5% of 336,607,917 people is still a lot of people) while still recognizing that no corporation should ever have that kind of power in the first place. Although, if we're really gonna be honest here, DeSantis should've never reached the position of power he has either.

agreed. It shows how much power corporations have

It's not my fault that the GOP is so far gone, that I, a socialist, who can't stand giant soulless corporations, has to side with Disney on this. Then again, this isn't an all or nothing situation. Disney can be right in this very specific instance for standing up for their LGBTQ+ employees, and they can still be wrong when it comes to almost everything else.

@@Totoofwarful found the Communist. Hail Stalin.

The New York Times in the '50's had an article explaining why white kids were suddenly using the term woke. So nope.

That's "enlightened", and it too is Older than They Think

And also more recently on places like 4cham and other venerable bastions of the internet. I mean how many times has someone told you something like "wake up, sheeple!". Being asleep(not seeing, dreaming, living in temporary illusion, being unconscious) versus being awake(seeing, being in the now, the real, being conscious), is an age old trope. One that is prevalent I'm many cultures and languages throughout the ages. So it's a little more complicated than saying it just sprouted from black American culture and then we assimilated it.

@@Shinkajo Enlightenment = waking/not-dreaming is old, the term "woke" as in socially-aware, politically-active is Black America circa 1920s/30s IIRC

@@mandisaw yeah that's absolutely true. My point is that it's such a basic and obvious concept that it's been repeating in history for ages. Like I'm not American, my first language is not English, but the concept of "waking up" and staying "woke" was a thing I'm my country in the late 19th century, because we weren't independent then and it referred to gaining national consciousness. We have to be aware that not everything is USA centric. But yes, the most recent popular iteration of "woke" owes a lot to black American culture. But because it's a very universal concept, that's why it has had such a prevalent global impact and staying power. I live in Europe in a non English-speaking country and the term "woke" is very prevalent, at least in the vernacular because it's a concise term that characterizes a certain type of people and certain types of policy and ideology. Like I move around in mostly left-leaning circles, who all use "woke" to one extent or other. There is always at least a little irony involved, but it is a very useful term to characterise certain trends.

Another term is corporate activism. This company makes me sick 😂

@@wrestlinganime4life288 It is a company. What really makes me sick is retarded activist pretending that pushing these bullshit corporate activism will solve "minorities" real problems.

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I get the argument but I don’t think it holds much value. Yes, the companies are pretending to care to boost profits, but why should that matter? This is still encouraging diversity to the kids who watch these movies. Good things can be done with greedy intentions.

No one is chastised for not being woke. You have to do something like being an anti intellectual or a bigot. Lmfao

@@Sang-Je I have been discriminated on bases of my gender, sexuality and nationality. This happened because the company I worked for aimed to improve its ‘diversity ratings’ on paper and its image on LinkedIN. I have been refused for a department change due to “not wearing skirt”, I was told in a manager training I would have been a good leader if only I would have been “adding more to overall diversity of the leadership” and was refused the promotion after successfully completing it. I was refused to be promoted by top management on LinkedIn because “We prefer to promote ‘more diverse employees” and lastly I was refused a project because they wanted to associate it with someone who posted job related promotions together with photos with his boyfriend on LinkedIn (who was also quickly promoted due to the fact). A bigot or an anti-intellectual you say? I for one got my wife’s name trough marriage just because she did not like my original name. I have been part of a ‘pride club’ in the company in question and supported their events directly. I speak 4 different languages. I lived, studied and graduated (Master’s) in a muslim country (where a I worked and studied in two different languages at the same time both foreign to me). I am an active member of a political party that is the most liberal on my country’s political scene for which I also held an office… I now actually work abroad. So yeah, you can be easily discriminated on bases of so called “wokeness” by a soulless corporation based on your gender or what have you, while it actually has nothing to do with how “woke” you are or claim to be.

​@@Sang-JeI disagree, ever heard a gang of terrorists yelling, silence is violence?

@marknalberta lmfao yes meaning if u let people be bigots or racist then your silence is almost just as bad. You might as well victimize them as also, That's what that means.

@@Sang-Je they said anyone who is not anti-racist is racist

Yup, they basically took the term flipped its meaning and turned it into a slur.

And it comes from everyone

Revolutionaries decided wokeness was a call to action against tyranny, liberals decided wokeness was applauding a call to action against tyranny, and conservatives... well, they took that personally. "Woke" is as much a slur among the conservative right as miscegenator or bleeding heart. Which is to say, if you think it's an actual slur just because Nazis call you one, no version of the word ever would have included you anyway... 😂😂

@@MrBazBake Ok

@@RoninX33 Buddy... A guy says, "Puppies are cute" then 100 years later a group starts passing anti-puppy legislation every opportunity they can and shouting, "This puppy-centric ideology needs to stop!!!" Except 70% of Americans polled and even 50% of cat people are exhausted because they also agree that puppies are kind of cute. Then someone arrives and declares, "This puppy debate has been corrupted by a misuse of the word puppy to mean the opposite of a puppy and we now need a new word for puppy that everyone can agree on." To the rest of the world, this is not a serious person.

I love having videos online that I can share with people that make my point in a succinct, well edited way. Also makes me feel less a one when my lefty friends get all up in arms about rainbow, and ironically the right wing friends are saying the same thing? Like they are both upset about it, why don't they just hold hands lmao. stay woke.

EXACTLY!!!! It was an inside joke for decades abt hoteps and the govt screwing us

Exactly!

Good point. Like they said in the beginning of this video, black slang often juxtaposes itself at some point but we as a collective always remember it's root meaning. Once white people got ahold of it however, they either intentionally or unintentionally misunderstood the juxtaposed meaning and ran with their incorrect interpretation of the phrase.

A ray of hope through a dark cloud.

I guess When they say "woke" school they probably mean the gender study,clinics nd shit

wow.

Tbf ultra Liberals want to teach kids how to swallow grown up's cum properly so I'd say that's pretty high up on priorities to end immediately. Do you agree?

He might’ve meant schools focus on being “woke”, whatever that means, while ignoring the actual issues you listed. Sort of like Apple supporting pride month while kids are in cobalt mines over seas for their phones.

​@@mrmap4875 somehow I think guns are still worse, call me crazy.

Honestly always annoyed to see people taking masterworks sponsorships

@@justcallmenoah5743 why, did they do something?

@@eldrickemc4602 they have repeatedly failed to act as a hedge against inflation, and they have extremely restrictive rules about how long you have to stay invested that are never acknowledged in ads. I find the ads to be very dishonest. It's a risky investment, just like any investment it's you betting that the value of something will increase over time, and you have no possible way to predict if a painting will appreciate in value.

@@justcallmenoah5743 On top of that the actual value is incredibly hard to measure, and harder to realize. For it to be a successful "investment" someone has to actually buy the painting for more than you invested in it, and it's not clear that really ever happens on masterworks outside of a few special cases. It's basically gambling. Which is bad, because it's sold as "safe investing"..

@@JD-ub5ic exactly, as much as all investment can be characterized as gambling, this is really really risky gambling. And seeing these guys advertise for them implies that they either don't properly vet their advertisers, or worse that they don't care if their audience loses their money.

They got you fighting a culture war to keep you distracted from the class war. more cultural diversity is not a priority when people cant afford to their rent

I get you, I have a disability and get called to a lot of job interviews "because they want inclusion." But I never get the jobs and they're always saying disabled people aren't qualifies. The few times I've known who they actually went for, I was way more qualified and some of them actually lost their jobs because they couldn't do it.

​@@availanila That sounds like a complaint to the EEOC & your State Dept of Labor

@@mandisaw it is, but a different organization for my country. The problem with such things is that they're hard to prove and even then rarely successfully corrected for. For me, it's usually an odd parameter but in place testing "my skill level" put in place that I'll invariably fail despite experience abd training in the required skill set, and no one else would've usually done this test.

People are complex. Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man was written 70+ yrs ago, but includes a nuanced critique of [white] liberalism, and the way it emphasizes individual/shallow change, while sidestepping the more uncomfortable, deep-seated social & economic issues that have plagued America since its inception. Been a long time since we read it in HS, but you still see echoes today. People can be in support of same-sex marriage and green energy, but don't support trans-rights or public transit. Or they'll go hard-left on national policies, but obsess over crime & "good" school districts at the local level. That dissonance was what the original "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" play/movie was meant to explore. Comes up too in political-satire comedies like "I'm Gonna Git you Sucka" and "Undercover Brother".

I totally agree. The division that both sides are sowing over race, identity etc are at the end of the day quite irrelevant things. What we should be focusing on is how the entire working class is being robbed. Arbitrary divisions based on social issues only take energy away from where we should actually direct our focus. Blind hatred is never good for anyone except those who get to watch from the top.

And yet one party is more supportive of unions and equal rights for all while holding those in power accountable. Saying the two are the same isn't just misleading, it's a lie.

@@Alverant Economically speaking they really are not very far from each other. The main differences are, as mentioned previously, social. Both are right wing liberals who seek to more or less maintain the status quo. The democrats talk about expanding social support and making healthcare more affordable but minimal steps are actually ever taken towards those goals. Republicans claim that they will create jobs in less advantaged communities but rarely deliver. In terms of minority rights, it absolutely is important to vote for the democrats. However you should still remember that the two parties are both pro-status quo. They do not seek to change the rotten systems that keep society from progressing. They do not seek to take serious steps to stop climate change - as they are both right wing parties, money is more important to them than equity and durability.

"expand rights" Problem is that the far right instead work towards taking the rights away of people they don't like, while the only "right" they seem to be interested in protecting is the one to have 40 AR'15's rifles at your home so that you can use them in the most responsible ways possible and definitely not intimidating people with them or shooting people because they breathe close to your yard.

@@Alverant where did say they were the same?

Considering that I have never heard of whatever you're talking about, I'm guessing none of those people are authorities on the meanings of words.

​@@evhwolfgang2003 You are right but maybe it's a bit more complicated. Bethany Mandel wrote a book called "Stolen youth: how radicals are erasing innocence and indoctrinating a generation" a book about wokeism been bad. You would imagine a person writing a book about it would be an authority on the subject. Apparently not, since she couldn't define woke on Brianna Joy Gray show. So you are right, she is not an authority on the subject even though she is passing as one.

I’m sorry for your loss

My son is gay and I absolutely don't have a problem with that... but if he drank pepsi... i don't know how i would react to that...

Sounds like you just don't like white people.

We never stopped using woke.

It is currently the '20s.

@@xczechr and some people are 100 years late.

Walmart? I don't understand. And who moved on, do people not wear cornrows or watch basketball anymore? I'm confused.

@@Shinkajo I agree that you don’t understand. It’s ok. Enjoy your weekend.

No I think you missed it. The modern use of the word work is purposefully tainted by the MAGA media machine to erase the meaning. And it worked. They were calling Brie Larson woke. Then they started calling entire movies and tv shows that woke, when they had nothing to do with Black oppression. They took this powerful word from the Black people and thy stomped the life out of it. Tactically, they disarmed the Blacks. That's what happened, and it was done on purpose.

'Woke' is 'Narcissism' in Psychology. Primarily 'Covert Narcissism' (the 'Woke Mind Virus'). Empathetic people will naturally despise people with 'evil' Cluster B personality disorders. And Covert Narcissists are some of the most toxic and manipulative. Woke is essentially "bending the knee to Narcissist Cultures and People". And this is one of the biggest No-No's in Psychology. For example, the Left-leaning black community is the most narcissistic according to all data and surveys. And much of that is due to the Left's coddling ('Going Woke'). Coddling and bad parenting both lead to Narcissism. Narcissist Personality Disorder is a serious problem in black culture, Islamic culture, Transgender culture, etc. And the one thing you don't do, is massage the Narcissist's Ego. Which is what the Left are doing. Particularly as Narcissism is the primary cause of crime (not 'Poverty'), and many other human social problems. NB: Actors are one of the societal Narcissist groups. They will naturally be attracted to Woke Narcissism, and the 'Narcissist Supply' of virtue signalling (attention and praise for the Ego). #WokeNarcissism

It also seems to be the new dogwhistle for Black people, women, & any kind of anti-racism or anti-sexism legal/political action. A lot of folks in comment sections and videos seem to use "woke" as a catch-all slur.

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It’s just some word that means people without empathy are uncomfortable.

co-opted by corporations and spit upon by most, no, it's sad. I AM WOKE !!! Also Black Americans should know that some Western Europeans have change their ways long ago. why do you think jazzmen came here ??? Still today, don't go east...they're freaking xenophobs. Being black and american is a bit much.

No, you are American. 5th generation Irish, go Ireland and say that and look closely at the annoyance on their faces as they tell you you are not Iriish.

@@samsoncooper1again, why do you think not having any pride in your heritage is a good thing? Try saying this to a fifth generation Mexican and see how well it goes.

Good call.

"they were called ''commies'' and the argument was considered done" This is iirc called a thought-terminating cliché - it's just a magic buzzword that ends the discussion and to your braindead supporters sounds like a "win".

Unfortunately, this phenomenon cuts both ways on the political sixteen and public discourse is reduced to name calling and virtue signaling with all the nuance you expect from 144-character "dissertations " The irony is that neither side is really strengthened by pitting their arguments against the most robust version of their adversary so you end up with anemic and meaningless discourse.

At the same time, a world that’s not designed to handle well over 8 billion people too many that has sprouted in less than a century (1.9 billion people in 1920).

Being empathic in nature gets you killed. So no it's not benefiting human evolution.

"I disagree" - social darwinistic neolibs and their obsequious toadies

American Capitalism is good at appropriating dissident / radical ideology / symbols and disarming them through compdification processes.

I've literally seen it happen many times on the internet through the course of about 10 years. Mostly it happens on the left, and I'm probably a bit biased because I don't hang out in right wing spaces. The machine itself can chew through and spit out even the most ardent supporter as soon as they become inconvenient to the machine, or there is something greater to be gained by doing so. At that level there is no honour, principals, ideologies, morals, ethics or even sides. Just the turning off the gears.

That episode is something I bring up almost any time I want to explain what recuperation means in the context of politics. Honestly astounding how well it manages to showcase that phenomenon despite it not really intentionally setting out to do that. How power can take something, even something that very explicitly criticizes it, and somehow find a way to repackage it into a toothless product that they can sell for themselves, letting people who might be riled up by the message simply spin their wheels without actually doing anything. (just now hitting me that, I've been using the "spinning one's wheels" metaphor for ages, but it actually literally applies in this episode)

Nice comparison. The only way it would be more accurate would have been if someone completely different replaced the protagonist before he became a part of the system.

What does fifteen million merits have to do with wokeness, I’m confused

Wtf.... Butterfly just came on on a TV in front of me and I haven't even gotten to that part in the video....

@@yourfriendlyinternetmeatshield well, it's either because the matrix has you, or because you bought one of those smart TVs, one of those.

Butterfly is a masterpiece on par with Eiffel 65's Blue.

@@nishidohellhillsruler6731 actually i was in a public space with no control of the tv... with head phones. So I guess the Matrix has me. Where is my white fucking rabbit!?!

Pushback in the form of economic demands is already happening as we see with all the strikes.

​@@cryptbeast3222Nothing more woke than a strike in solidarity. Disney can fly a red flag next.

As long as victim narrative (from non-victims) works in the west, strategies like this will not fade away.

Apologies for the terrible dictation