once something is determined woke by the grift, it can only be the focus as long as it is the right level of popular for anyone to listen to the scam. something to beloved or obscure won’t achieve the desired outrage

Fair enough. I wasn’t including the unionization efforts because I thought that was after Andre’s time, but it was a couple years before his retirement

Hulk Hogan was close personal friends with someone that raped Andre the Giant’s best friend. Also keyfabe got Andre needing to say the thing because that’s how the business works. But also its easier to make your keyfabe hatred of someone believable when you actually factually hate that person. Which in this case Andre the Giant did

Look at this sexy woman. Look at this cool refreshing air conditioner she’s next to. Isn’t she sexy? Isn’t it nice stepping in from the heat to stand next to an air conditioner? So anyway. Associate coca cola with all the feelings you’re feeling

They said

Me and some friends used to all share one but then the fucking DRM kicked in and I had to get my own.

I’ve enloudened it

I wonder how her kid she wrote the books for feels about her these days. Sadly, I’m sure since he ultimately grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth he thinks his mother loves him unconditionally and is sticking up for what she believes in, just like she taught him to do. What’s more sad though is the thought of him having friends his age—our age—my age who have woken up to the klaxon sirens of her hatred and criticize the mother who taught him all this. Again. I’m sure the reality is that the wealth he’s inheriting keeps him insulated from making friends who are harmed by all this, or are even aware of this harm, but I can imagine a world where he feels conflicted about that his mother has provided everything someone could want, and also knowing she’s horrible. I can’t imagine what it would be like to be in that situation.

Now for speculation time. I anticipate he will never speak out one way or the other

Teddy did. That’s why his face is included

Out of the loop… I was able to parse that this is a trans thing relating to de-detesticlification, but I couldn’t figure out bofaectomy

Yeah cards on the table, in a white dude, too. Frankly I find it hard to fathom looking at my more marginalized brethren and not listening. Maybe I’m more open to listen as a bisexual man, so I’ve tasted a little bit what it feels like to be othered in our society. I know it really happens because it has happened to me. But still. You have to deny the humanity of your siblings to not realize that what black, brown, and woman people say about their oppression is real.

100%. They’ve eaten the propaganda and haven’t learned to listen. And when confronted with the truth there’s only two options: grow and develop (that’s what a lot of people these days did) or double down on the lies. There’s nothing worse in this worldview than admitting to being wrong because that’s a form of weakness. Admitting to being wrong is worse than being wrong. So somewhere inside them, they push down the truth because doing so would be worse than admitting they were mistaken

Certain white people can’t fathom submitting a false confession to avoid worse consequences because those white people grew up with privilege and preference from the system. They think good always triumphs over evil and right always wins over wrong. And this is true in the long term (or at least so I believe) but the key to understanding this is that the long term in this case isn’t understandable in human scale. Its in the scale of the human species. Right winning over wrong requires continuous and continued pressure to make it happen because we’re not there yet

They shut down in 2022 citing a lack of resources to keep things going

This stance is called doomerism. I’m not a fan. I sympathize with where you’re coming from, but I won’t co-sign mass suicide. Let’s instead take direct action and start doing things that slows down the machine of capital. Let’s illegally occupy airport tarmacs. Let’s protest genocides even when presidential nominees call us pro-terrorism. A little bit, if they’re gonna say we’re pro-terrorism, let’s consider the possibility of doing some terrorism. We’re gonna get blamed for it either way. Let’s realize the LA riots were a political uprising. Let’s also realize just how effective the LA riots were, and how much more effective they coulda been if everyone got in on the action

Former advocacy group that was looking to combat PragerU misinformation

Our government doesn’t work is our issue. Minimum wage where I am is $7.25 USD, which is equivalent to $11.12 AUD

It was 2am where I was. I of course had to leave to sleep lol

Some places… Most its the same 7.25 its been since the 90s when George HW was president

You don’t have to look far to find America’s modern day colonial interests. You find them in the coal fields of Appalachia, the farm lands of the midwest, the factories where urban poor work, and the prison labor that maintains our infrastructure. Yeah. We enjoy a higher quality of life than the middle eastern countries where our military contractors don’t even try to hide their hatred for the working class, but we’re still the feudal serfs serving our lords. Like. Tell me. What would happen if every CEO didn’t come into work tomorrow? Everyone’s businesses would run just fine. What would happen if every laborer didn’t come into work? Society completely shuts down and the police come to beat us down.

What does that tell you about the relative value of both groups work output? And who gets paid? The CEOs. Why? Because they’re stealing from us. And like… We should go on general strike. I mean. Really break shit. What’s even the point of all this? What function does the government serve. They’re rearranging deck chairs while the world burns down. There’s a real and present threat that all of us will die in 5 years. And still their main focus is on a whole bunch of nonsense that is completely unrelated to anything we need to keep going. Why the fuck are we subsidizing oil? What the fuck are we giving Israel weapons for? Is the goal just to kill as much of West Asia as possible so there’s fewer resources for the rest of the mouths we need to feed?

I have a former roommate that her reason for not voting is that she doesn’t think it effects her. She thinks she can live an apolitical life because she just doesn’t want to deal with it. Meanwhile she can’t afford anything because our state makes it really hard to get food stamps

I feel that. I spend multiple hours a day staring at my screen thinking “this whole thing is a scam, right?”