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You dropped these:
The fact that they even have double digit vote share is a sign that actual merit is low on the list of criteria in politics.
Don't forget (covered by "the rest of the military") but still needs to be called out:
You forgot veterans. 😜
You forgot the ex Australian prime Minister too
And most of Europe. Look, it’s not a comprehensive list, okay?
I know it's weird that I'm hung up on that one, but:
Context/Source for "literally not being mean to people"
I know, I know "democracy" should be more than enough (and it is) but I still want to know
“Woke” is basically “not being a raging dick to people”. They can’t ever define it because basically any real definition of the term makes them look incredibly bad.
oh yeah, makes sense.
I've had my bad experiences in the past with people you'd typically call "woke", namely I've had a person tell me that I couldn't use the german word "Digga" because it sounded too close to "nigga". (I am not making this up.)
But I am very well aware that this isn't what the MAGA crowd means when they call someone "woke" and that there are militants in every group (looking at you, c/vegan). So yeah, your explanation makes sense. Thanks for explaining :)
There’s obviously such a thing as taking it too far, but yeah “anything I don’t like is woke” is more their play.
Wait, what happened with Gillette? How the fuck do you pick a fight with a company that literally sells razor blades and not expect to get cut?
It was a while ago back in 2019, but…
https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-46874617
It is fucking wild to me that, that's all it took to create backlash. That is so incredibly tame.
Like I said, they’re literally violently opposed to “not being assholes to strangers”.