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1. 😷 Jan Wildeboer (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2022 12:13:24 JST 😷 Jan Wildeboer

   Everybody is free to call me "woke" for standing up for fundamental human rights for every human being. That's your absolute freedom. I am also free to block, ignore, mute or completely refuse to interact with you. Simple. Peace.

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   • DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2022 13:19:37 JST DCent

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     • Alexandre Oliva
     The term "woke" has been co-opted by corporates into signalling virtue, in the same way that corporates gas-lit people into thinking Occupy had no real purpose. What I have found is that most grassroots movements get co-opted or twisted by corporate forces.
     
     Almost never today do corporates just yield to public pressure. I think the inflation today reflects this. Inflating the money supply has typically been seen as a 'last resort' because it is an form of taxation-by-stealth that if not delivered equitably distorts the economy, or worse, prevents corrections in the economy. It's simply a dangerous thing to do, yet it serves corporates and those close to the money, who are able to remain artificially relevant and powerful.
     
     I'm not going to say this inflation is solely a reflection of public pressure, it's a combination of supply chain issues, and a reflection of some currencies having less, er... currency.
     
     As a people, I think we should address those collectively, but it becomes difficult when the tools we have, including many technologies we employ, have fundamental flaws. That includes the media, that has refined distraction and irrational fear.
     
     Its why I think that without genuine vision or purpose, I see things getting worse before they get better.
     
     #woke #occupy #corporatism #inflation #taxation #technology
   • Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2022 13:19:38 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     • EdenDestroyer
     I'm afraid I haven't seen that word used to refer to such people, but from what you say, I can't tell whether you're speaking of enlightened, unionized workers, or about sheeple wage slaves being weaponized by their masters against each other. IIUC the latter is the one that fits better "normal working class people", but you seem to suggest that 'woke' would apply to the former as well (instead?)
     not a native speaker here, rather someone who's often made incorrect assumptions about the meaning of words I've only seen in specific contexts online, who's often been surprised when finding out the guess was wrong, and who's now expects to find out about more of those ;-/ so please bear with me, and, as far as I'm concerned, feel free to have however many breaks you can ;-)
   • EdenDestroyer (edendestroyer@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2022 13:19:45 JST EdenDestroyer

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     • Alexandre Oliva

     @lxo and that is why we call normal working class people “woke” too all the time, correct? Give me a break

   • Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2022 13:19:47 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     • EdenDestroyer
     interesting. I thought 'woke' meant the corporate-driven, coopted, weaponized version of the fight for human rights, that ends up as a fight against human rights
   • EdenDestroyer (edendestroyer@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2022 13:19:48 JST EdenDestroyer

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     @jwildeboer "woke" is just another bad faith, straw man argument where someone instantly assumes and hence concludes that anyone who claims to care for a certain cause is doing so to "look awakened, special, smart, good person". It is done to decredit and deligitmize most social movements by the ones standing against those movements by gas lighting people observing the movements.