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Wrecking ball: Trump’s war on ‘woke’ marks US society’s plunge into ‘dark times’
(www.theguardian.com)
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People their whole lives have heard "Wake up!" They started saying "I'm woke already" instead of picking up their head, looking around, and judging if the situation was actually a copacetic one, or if some cockamamie shit was going on... "Wake up!" Does not mean "women are by default better in some way" if anything statistically speaking they are physically worse, they degrade faster, are weaker, and most fail to balance a checkbook let alone understand the words "righty tightly, left loosely" long enough to change a tire, "Wake up!" Means there are women out there that are excellent, better than the men around them and they have been ignored for mediocre men, it means the life you have accepted is garbage just like the rest of us, we pay more into the economy, we are society, not these morons up high making their stock market do as they please, taking in trillions, then turning around and begging for a hand out before they have to sell a vacation property to meet their interest requirement. You know what the real people do when they don't have enough money? They borrow, do without, and partake in the gig economy for any loose change they can get... While the wealthy get bailout after bailout from yours and my hard earned money. While paying less and less in taxes, honestly how many are paying more in taxes than they have received bailouts? How successful would Tesla be without tax credits, how successful would gas powered cars be without tax credits for gas production and selling... Its not a pretty sight the real world once you really dig into the nuts and bolts and start trying to understand how the systems work, basically it's designed to keep you under someone's thumb permanently, they are even trying to cancel gen x - millenniums retirements so they don't have a brain drain until the workers die at their post. The true free citizens terrifies them, and it's obvious. They keep us too poor to be comfortable, and too over worked to complain about being poor then do whatever the hell they please with us, our children, our planet, and anything we hold dear.