The next time you hear conservatives use any of the following terms, ask for a definition. "Woke" "DEI" "Critical race theory" "Socialism" They won't have any. They just want to stoke culture wars to divert attention from economic looting and oligarchy.
Yes, they claim that the fact we pay ten times the amount for much less healthcare than other nations is “other people’s money”. I can breathe easier now, always thought it was coming from my pockets.
And what about the Deep State elites that Trump promised to unveil by releasing the Epstein files? It's looking more & more like Trump is the Deep State. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
Reasons for opinions? That's a rational world you're asking for...Steven Pinker...is he right?
Add Marxist, plenty of that being thrown around on Fox without knowing what it means
I know a ton of democrats and none of them are “leftists”. The crude but effective propaganda works well with the easily manipulated maga mouth breathers. They all know trump is a child rapist though. Everyone knows.
I’ve asked a “conservative/Christian” MAGA what woke meant to them, after listening to them rant about “woke” people. They said empathetic/sympathetic towards others. They know what it means. They just grew up to be hateful, sociopaths and view that as some horrible weakness.
I always wondered if these so called Christians actually know what their Lord and Savior stood for or if their Bible teaches something else.
Maybe they do, but they make excuses for their unchristian beliefs and twist scripture to fit their moral failures.
They believe in Supply Side Jesus, who preached that we must look out for ourselves and screw the other guy. The alternative Sermon on the Mount talks about how profits are sacred, and we should consider the lilies of the field are lazy welfare queens.
Is it? I thought it was seeing and understanding the systems of power put in place to keep everyone that isn't a straight white male down
Read "the patriarchy"
This is true. Trump doesn’t even know and press never asked for real explanations in campaign either.
I'm a life-long Democrat and feminist who is called a bigot and a Nazi by the left because I advocate for women-only spaces and sports. It's a position I never thought I'd find myself in, but here we are.
WE need a massive televised national meeting against Trump every week to report on his wrongdoings
They wouldn't know the definitions, and they wouldn't care. Intuitive understanding is enough for them. By asking for definition, one simply labels oneself an enemy. Quoting a Platonov's character: "If you were one of us, you'd know. As you aren't, you won't know in a lifetime".
Or ask a moron wearing a maga hat the same question and then ask them where they think their idiot check comes from
Definitions! Unfortunately not simply a problem for our homegrown Nazis, but a common problem with pretty much all of us. Of course, were not the ones trying to destroy everything worthwhile, like rabid toddlers.
No, they have their own definitions. They think the first 3 are preferring a person's race, gender, or sexual preferences to their qualifications. They think socialism is taking from producers and giving to moochers. In all cases, they believe that the people who deserve something arent getting it.
I think it's important to talk about how those terms have all been weaponized, because its intentional. Even otherwise decent people dont know what these words actually mean, but they believe that they are related to injustice. Some of these people can be reached on some issues.
And the Epstein files.
Add another to the list .. "Liberal". Conservatives can't define it, but they know they hate it.
I’m happy to identify as such.
You are always on point, Robert Reich!
It’s more than though. I think of the power behind the compromise, the propaganda…algorithms that have been able to undermine our existence as decent empathetic human beings. The people that have brought that to the masses and targeted those who never learned how to use the internet are evil.
Parrots.
They want to play “we’re victims of liberal oppression” What a bunch of weak people
Add : communism
they can't. & most dont get CRT is primarily taught at the university level, particularly in law schools & graduate programs focused on political science & ethnic studies. 🙄
Also the Epstein files.
Ironically they’ve sold socialism to us by screaming ‘that’s socialism!!!’ everytime we ask why medical treatment equals massive debt and if we can’t have universal healthcare.
What are your thoughts on oligarchs "fighting" oligarchy?
If I do this to my mom she'll get angry, start crying, then tell me I'm going to hell (she's also EXTREMELY religious). 😑
"some lib-tard$@#! which we hates."
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I’m an Australian Socialist, Americans have been calling me one as an insult for at least 10 yrs. When I tell them I am, what is a Socialist, never once in that 10 yrs has an American answered. Silence. End of conversation. USA the most ignorant indoctrinated people on the planet.
Guilty as charged.
☝️ @billmaher1.bsky.social 🇺🇸
I get called socialist all the time by them, for suggesting that we should do at the national level what Alaska has done for the past 40 years, which is provide universal basic income - an idea that was also supported by both Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek which were *checks notes* CAPITALISTS.
Really? Hayek and Friedman were for UBI?
Yep.
No offence, but that just links to yourself re-stating the claim re F n M? I didn't find any sources either?
Click their names.
Thanks :)
Even their DOGE bro Musk says UBI is inevitable…
I’d rather be a socialist with a soul than a conservative.
They're not even conservative anymore. Just call them MAGA.
I still find that term to be a little bit of a sugar coating. I call them Nazis.
They're not even worth being called that. They're "Nazi-lite"s. They've got the policies of the nazis, but they're incredibly incompetent.
Fuck this shit!
No one can live off $1000/yr. That’s an oil credit not an income. Yes it’s good they give it, but it’s not anything close to “basic income”
It's a floor. I've had one for the past 10 years at that level. Yes, it's a basic income. Basic income is not meant to cover everything you want. It's meant to provide a floor below which no one can fall. All other income adds to it. It's also per person. For a couple living together, that's $2k/mo.
Universal basic income is meant to cover basic needs. No one in America can get basic needs covered on $1000/yr. That’s an oil credit. You could’ve googled but you really gonna stand there and say anything over $1000/yr is meant to cover ‘wants?’ Gtfo 😂😂😂
He said $2k/month for a couple
Read the thread.
Theresa May, one of the few who openly identifies as Woke, actually took some time to explain why she has always been woke and what it means.
Exactly. I have asked several people to look up definition of “woke” and to explain to me what specifically in that definition they objected to. I got crickets 🦗 🦗 each time.
I would add, “eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse”‼️ 😡
The fact socialism is seeing as something scary shows the level of far right in wich USA is sunken.
If you have to explain, you are losing the argument. Which means the Left needs to use less ambiguous language.
Would probably also help if we appealed to a sense of cooperation, shared responsibilities, and that we want the tide to rise with all ships instead of demonizing for privilege. They can't and won't see it if they're accused of benefiting from it while lots are still struggling themselves.
That's why we need to use our own words- those are THEIR words now. They use them as hammers & those words should be avoided. Trump is a BULLY. Americans KNOW what BULLIES ARE.
Perfect!👍👏
I have found, in many cases anyhow, it's like "Obamacare:" they hate it unless you break down what it is composed of.
They’re just parroting Faux News talking points.
The term for this is "snarl word".
DEI and socialism I can define but I never use the other two terms. I live in BC ruled by the socialist NDP I voted for them once in my 60 years of life provincially. Here is some of my Conservative opinions I think abortion in most cases is homicide and balanced budgets are a good goal.
Fuck culture war. It’s all about class war. Uniting labor against the rich exploitative 1 percent is the real battle, and rich creeps like Trump, Elon, Bezos and Zuck will do anything to keep the downtrodden from uniting against them all.
It’s even better not to ask for a definition because that allows them to dictate discourse. Never give fascists the chance to define or control discourse. Just because 99 of them won’t know what to say doesn’t mean the 100th doesn’t have something prepared
Don't ask. If they say it in front of you, throat punch them. Saves you from being lied to.
Yup
I want a pollster to ask this question (straight faced) to voters in the South. What would Democrats do that would hurt you if they had federal control? (this might help clarify which propaganda is the most powerful)
I would add in "Communism". They don't know what any of those are, and if forced to give the definitions, they'd give the same definition for all of them.
They don't have one because those represent human qualities, compassion, look out for your family and neighbors, and accept people like they are. 😍
Also, I want someone other than Ghislaine Maxwell to determine what "concerning" is with regard to the Trump/Epstein conspiracy. Nothing concerning? From a convicted sex abuser and trafficker of minors?
Too many of them get pissed off when they asked to explain their positions! It’s really disheartening. They either can’t argue their positions, or are intellectually, dishonest, and willfully ignorant when they do.
What we really need is- A Big comprehensive piece of legislation to overt urn every piece in trump's BBB Healthcare tariffs taxes Social Security Jobs Ai Tech Transportation Energy Do you have the plan ?
I see more posts about creating a Christian culture governed by men, about only a few bad apple slave owners were problems, about the only purpose of women is to be vessels for producing children…etc etc. When only white “Christian” men have power, wonder how people will feel about what we call DEI
I'd just like to hear Republicans define racism & then go on the record that they're against it. Not because I'd believe them, I just want to watch their face as they try to say it.
Woke is the funniest one. When you explain to them that it means "being aware that you are being manipulated and abused by rich, white men". "So, a rich white man told you that it was bad to be woke? I wonder why."
Hell, they have issues with defining "democracy" and "republic", not to mention "child".
They're just trigger words. They could have said cats, Christmas, and books.
No, that's not it. They think they are above you, thus they call you names to demean you. They are MORONS.
I’ve found this to to true. When someone is yelling faggot to my face I ask them “Why do you hate me?” Their answer usually is “because” or “we don’t like your kind” yet when pressed on the real reason ‘why’ they have no true answer. Hate is easy for humans.
Exactly!
They aren’t effective as a projection screen if they’re defined. People can agree if they don’t know what they’re agreeing to.
CRT apparently got voted out.
The problem is that they don't care that they don't know. They know how they feel and what they feel is rage. Rage that has been honed and aimed by the GOP for decades for use against the Dems, Libs, and Progressives. Everything is our fault they just can't say exactly how.
And from Epstein Files!
I beg of you, please stop calling them conservatives. This regime doesn’t evince any true conservative values. I’ve always been an independent progressive voter but could see the conservative POV. Those who support this regime are straight up fascists; not the same at all as a conservative.
All true, and by the time they realized they were taken for a ride it will be too late. Guess what assholes, that time is the present. Your red states are going to suffer, you have the lowest wages, the weakest infrastructure and the dumbest voters...
So true. Also “Deep State.”
It’s an excuse for hate.
And #Epstein...
Yes, they are just buzzwords that mean nothing to them.
And they don't know the meaning to any of these words.
bsky.app/profile/kyle... Apparently blocking grants for domestic violence programs because it employs “gender ideology” is fine for the Trump administration. I wonder if the gender ideology being employed is that the program supported women were the victims of intimate partner violence?
Trump admin wants to cut funding for DV programs. The man who raped Ivana when it was still legal to rape your wife. July 5, 1993: marital rape became a crime in all 50 states, under at least one section of the sexual offense codes. Here are the states with loopholes, making it not always illegal.
#Republicans -magas KNEW they had zero to offer Americans. But they knew they had money to offer the Billionaires. In Elon-té & Thiel case they both shopliftd theirs from the computers of the Govt Depts DOGE & Elon ransacked Many ppl say Elon-té sold Our American info to Thiel to use in PAlantir.
Someone called me *woke* with a slight sneer that only a southern woman can pull off. I, another south. woman, understood. I asked her what "woke" meant-she stumbled around, gave up & asked me. I replied "Woke means having empathy for others." She mouthed the word as if she'd never heard it.
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Well, some might STILL try to present some kind of definition -- it will just be a stupid one, not based on reality. 🧯
Bubba can only keep track of so many boogeymen at a time
Time for a class war!
Been doing that for ages. I've never received a response.
The last time one of my relatives used the term woke, I asked them to describe what that meant to them and they literally could not come up with anything that didn't make them sound like a bigot or snowflake.
“Marxism” bsky.app/profile/nanc...
Let me get this straight… NOT Discriminating = Marxism?
Or they will have a definition that is wrong, one they got from right-wing media or the church. Sample: Liberalism is Fascism (get a dictionary)
I've heard a right-wing acquaintance use the term "communist" as an intended slur. It's obvious that he has no idea what it means. This could be fun.
They don't need to define these words or phrases. Republicans know their supporters hear "nonwhite" and "communist" people taking away their white nationalist/ Christian nationalist country. These are dog whistle warnings to preserve racial/religious purity.
Appreciate you calling this out, Robert. Right-wingers shouldn’t get A free pass to slander some of the best things about the left. Especially the things that represent our better angels.
Culture wars is a euphemism for white supremacy. We won't't defeat it if we won't say its name.
DeSantis woke woke woke refused to define it everytime.
The MSM facilitated the branding. The MSM has been a valuable partner in the fascist movement--an indispensable partner. Boycott these major outlets into oblivion. There's little of value to be gleaned by subscribing to the NYT, WAPO, LAT, Fox, ABC, CBS, Sinclair Broadcasting, etc. All complicit.
I always ask for the diff betw communist, socialist and marxist
The definition is “something I hate.”
Diversion and deception.
Another insightful post!
They know that they don't have to define anything to their brainwashed people.
And molest children
I have stopped asking them to wake up. Now I simply yell Ketchup!
It's succeeding. America is fast becoming fascist plutocracy.
You're now the Govt of billionaires by billionaires for billionaires
It's shocking how many billionaires are in Trump's Cabinet.
What's worse is the poor MAGA people believe that the billionaires GAF about them...🤔
Willful ignorance of the low-income / no-income mAgat base I keep beating this drum: When more than 56%of a country's adult population can't read beyond a 6th grade level, and many (most?) are a member of a cult-style church, they not only can't employ critical thinking, they are told NOT to think
I'd add they're told what to think.
Absolutely When you can't read well and don't have the desire to change that fact, I believe you look for people - esp Fox & their church - to tell you what to think If you can't read well, if you don't stay curious & challenge what you're taught thru research & debate, you become an easy mark
They are buzz words that have no meaning to them or their constituents. They’re only trigger words.
Won’t pointing that out just make them angrier and more vindictive?
These are all trigger words that they’ve erased any meaning from other than the words are bad, what the “others” want and are against the cause (also something they can’t clearly articulate).
I get called a woke liberal often by my mother in law. I take it as a compliment. I’m happy I’m not a racist magat.
I’m the bleeding heart liberal. Fox News has totally destroyed my parents. It sucks when your whole family chooses this ideology to believe in.
This is where you need a new trick remote that you can set to switch channels every 10 seconds to some other channel...
You can probably go down to somebody who has a materials printing machine and have them make you up a cool looking badge that says woke liberal on it...
MAGA uses those terms as personal insults - as if we should be ashamed of caring for each other, for believing we are part of a global community, for believing in world peace, for living in harmony and for believing we are all equal under one nation. I will never be ashamed of being woke.
After one of their hitler youth went on Jubilee and proudly admitted to being a fascist, I’m done tip-toeing around MAGA’s scaremongering. The left needs to stop letting MAGA define what socialism, progressivism, DEI, social-emotional learning, etc are, and just embrace these with their whole chest.
Yeah, they'll just bluster and give "definitions" that're nonsense. Those are just buzzwords they use to dismiss racism and justify their own bigotry.
Woke = Not a c*nt.
It’s in the Russian playbook to destroy western societies
Try “patriarchy” also. They think it’s a fiction, a liberal bogey made up as a malign & subversive stratagem to steal their god-given gun rights away. Etc.
there are principles we can watch out for bsky.app/profile/redl...
I wish reporters would do those follow up questions
Woke - "Woke is an adjective derived from African-American English used since the 1930s or earlier to refer to awareness of racial prejudice and discrimination, often in the construction stay woke. The term... ...gained further popularity in the 2010s with the hashtag #staywoke."
they freak out when you bring up class war & mention that the wealthy are waging one on the rest of the country
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AND THE PEDOS!
Yes, and that was easy, wasn’t it?
Welcome to the "Culture War" sponsored by #CPAC Culture for idiots !!
the next time you hear someone describe themselves as a conservative, ask them what exactly is it theyre conserving and exactly how it is under threat right now. hint: expect a whole lotta lies and bullshit to be spewed your way
Yep, they want us fighting each other instead of all of us fighting them. #FightPatriarchy #FightFascism #FightTheocracy #FightOligarchy
They’ve never had a definition
I want their definition of "conservative". They do not appear to be concerned with conserving anything.
They want to conserve, at a minimum but also grow, their own power and wealth.
My grandpas were Conservative. They would be rolling over in their graves if they could see this rebel, lawless, classless and pathologically dishonest bankrupt ideology that is led by the maestros of douchebaggery. Money the God, and status and fame next. Fake Patriotism is disgusting.
Products of Fox News & Facebook
The press is too afraid to ask honest questions.
the smart ones will have a definition that they can say, but it's going to be some mealy mouthed, pretzel logic bullshit. Then the only way to engage them is to wade into the muck, and that has its own risks.
"Define woman," they'll say in response.
They won’t have any that makes any sense anyway. They’ll probably regurgitate some ridiculous answer, and then strut all cocky as though they are the smartest person in the room.
Tell them the opposite of woke is asleep, then ask them if they are sleep walking.
They’re also all incredibly fucking stupid.
I’ve already done that for two years. I’m tired their bullshit. I don’t engage anymore.
Using & Exploiting Illiteracy.
Republicans just love think they are using insulting terms because the "other side uses them". Its been going on since Nixon. Probably before him. The Hateful buzzwords the GOP hopes sticks as hateful and to be feared.
They don’t. It’s absolutely true. They’re like a bunch of parrots repeating words they hear. At least the parrots can use them In the right context
Socialism has been made a naughty buzz word by the elite who are now destroying democracy. Socialism is we the people as society.
Oh Sure, you're one of those reedin and riting folks. Next you'll want me to look something up. And not even on Facebook, or Xhitter.
It's called Hate.
They've been doing this for 150 years. The only one that has temporarily fallen out of favor is "anarchism." Wait. It'll be back.
Pretty sure they renamed that one ‘libertarianism’.
Um. Sure, Jan. Sure. Those are different things, but you do you.
I know you’re being facetious in your reply but those two things seem to broadly overlap, to me. What am I missing?
Libertarianism is originally a synonym for libertarian socialism and anarchism and was first used by the anarchist Joseph Déjacque in the 19th century. It was co-opted by the right in the United States in the 20th century. It still retains its original meaning in many European countries.
Would it not rather be called « libertarism » in Europe? At least in French there’s a clear distinction between « libertarien » (ultra capitalists anarchists) and « libertaire » (collectivist arnarchists)
Interesting!
Not facetious at all. Libertarianism and anarchism are distinct political movements. Anarchism was a popular movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An American anarchist assassinated President McKinley in 1901. Libertarianism grew up later mostly in the US because we love selfishness.
Libertarianism grew mostly out of the 'writings' of Ayn Rand, another Russian Jewish emigre to the US. She came here in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution, hated Communism and stressed that self-interest is the highest good. Fuck everyone else. She was a horrible person and a terrible writer.
Rand denied that smoking caused lung cancer. Got lung cancer from smoking. Then sucked up all the government benefits she could. She was a selfish, amoral Idiot, science denier and total hypocrite.
And a terrible writer. None of her books are novels, they're more like novel length screeds.
I read The Fountainhead many years ago. Astonishingly terrible book.
To be more clear, Anarchism was a movement of the radical left in opposition to capitalism. Figures like Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman were prominent in the US. Both were Jews from Russia who were deported in 1919 during the red scare that followed World War I.
I was the one being facetious "Libertarians are just lazy Anarchists" got stuck in my head at some point, based on the idiot reduction of "Anarchists want to tear down governments to create freedom for all, while Libertarians refuse to participate as it suits them and call it Freedom"
Oooooh!!! Ok. That's a good one, I hadn't heard that before.
Absolutely. Parrots repeating words they have had drilled into their feeble little minds.
BECAUSE THEY ARE LOW LIFE LITTLE PSEUDO CHRISTIAN LYING CUNTS!
Oh, it’s just racism in disguise. Thats the definition.
I do, they never answer, but they do shut up.
#TruthWarriors we need to resist with all we have no more of this Obama no drama or "we go high" or thoughts & prayers or (Biden: "I dissent!" (big whup)), etc. do you want a democracy? do you even want a life? America ... it just don't show!
And sympathize with pedos while abducting brown citizens to rendition to foreign gulags for the crime of speaking Spanish (the second official language of the country). We're far beyond culture wars, this is a precursor to a domestic ethnic cleansing.
Trump is far more socialist, attempting to control private industry. I hear he is now trying to nationalize patents?
How do we re-establish the value of being a gentleman, or a "gentle man", as opposed to the macho BS the right believes in? A real gentle man respects women, treats them as equals, and understands that they have strengths beyond simple muscles and bravado.
It's like when you howl at a Husky it will howl as well, not knowing what it's doing, just thinking it should go along with its Alpha.
Show me a man who gets rich by being a politician, and I’ll show you a crook.
These are the tactics world over used by conservatives they really want to bring us all back to white supremacy. All of these words were used by #PierrePoilievre as leader of the regressive Conservative Party in #canada he is clearly a white supremacist
It's all part of the IDU playbook. Look at who is a member. It's the far right wing party in 60 countries. They all use the same rhetoric.
I used to do this all the time... They got nothin'... That's part of why I moved off the other platforms. To add: Even if they don't support "economic looting and oligarchy"... To which they also got nothin'... But hey, if they're already voting against their own interests, what should I expect???
They invented Them.
Just tell them that woke is simply compassion at the biblical level. Watch their brains go poof!
Sometimes they actually come with a good definition. Desantis’ General Counsel Ryan. Newman said about woke: “it would be the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them.” www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...
Don’t forget. Sexx crrimes and, oh yeah, crimes against humanity.
They’ll just respond with “define a woman.” I can’t with these people.
The rare times one actually will define it I’m just left thinking “how is that a bad thing?”
This is so true. I have done this with “socialism” with a relative who was batting around the term and they could not accurately define it at all.
They totally don't know what it is, but they are against it
Hell, these folks don't even know what a tariff is
exactly right! Ask Trump on a live interview and challenge him to define WOKE along with the others
We don't have a problem in the US or Europe, they convinced us that their ideals were the family, the homeland, the true religion (whatever it may be),it's not true, their ideals are domination and power, in the US, in Europe, in China, in Russia, the only possibility is to do a reset and disappear.
No tenemos un problema en eeuu o en europa, nos convencieron de que sus ideales eran la familia, la patria, la religion verdadera(la que sea), pero no es cierto sus ideal es la dominacion y el poder , en eeuu en europa en china en rusia, la unica posilidad es hacer un reset y desaparecer
It works. I asked a MAGA coworker what "woke" meant. He was shocked. Then he struggled to say, "You know, woke! Like, uh, woke things."
😁🤔👍👍
"Things I don't like, and I won't tell you what they are." (Narrator: He won't say what they are because they are mainly racist things)
“Why don’t you tell me”? 😅
And let’s make it very clear that they are looting blue states money. We are the donors, they are stealing from us. While withholding aid and funding for us. If death doesn’t get to him soon, secession might be the only way. United Blue States.
Precisely
