Has the world gone woke or mad

[ezzra]

This world gone mad and absurd long time ago, you have just noticed it now...

[phetphet]

Don't worry. China is waiting and ready to step into the void left by all the woke countries. 

[GammaGlobulin]

Yes:  Mad and Woke

 

Can you blame them?

 

Slavery is a terrible thing.

And, America has been paying the price for its sin of slavery, during the past two-hundred years.

 

I think that probably Lyndon Johnson knew much about slavery, and how slavery can tear apart any country.

Johnson was from Texas, after all.

 

But, it's all about STEAM CONTROL, as Tom Wolfe said.

You gotta know how to control the steam.

 

And, sometimes you just can't control the steam, and then, you see things like the Watts riots...

 

 

 

It's all about Steam Control.

 

It's all about what Lead Belly was singing about....

 

It's all about: Jumpin' Down and Pickin' Cotton

 

Slavery is not only wrong.

But, past sins will always come back to haunt.

 

 

 

There will always come the day when you can no longer control the steam.

And, maybe, now is the day.

 

[georgegeorgia]

27 minutes ago, Walker88 said:

Perhaps "mad" is more appropriately used for the 291 repub candidates on the ballot who are election deniers, or the repubs who think an appropriate Christmas Card is a photo of the entire family---dad, mom and the kiddies---all sporting AR-15 rifles, or the hypocrite repubs who bark about 'her emails' (a couple of lowly classified CONFIDENTIAL, later declassified), when they excuse the fact 45 stole hundreds of TS/SCI and HCS classified documents and kept them in his club---then lied about returning the stolen property.

 

The woke on the left are silly, but they are an extremely small minority of the side, whereas election deniers, fascists, democracy haters, QAnons and Incels are a majority of the right. The right, I would be willing to bet, is also the home to the highest percent of obese people. Nothing manly about a male looking 8 months pregnant or with spare tires that would fit an Airbus A380. The data shows that Red States are also the biggest parasites (get much more from the Federal Govt than their citizens pay in taxes), have the highest percentage of citizens on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI is the largest 'employer' in KY, TN and WV), and also the highest percentage of opioid addiction.

 

Oh, and the biggest whiny little b!tch in the entire world is 45, who is always crying about 'UNFAIR' and other things.

 

45 is also the biggest loser of the night, as many of the candidates he endorsed lost.

In a woke world there is no judgement.

[Lacessit]

3 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

Must you rant all the time against Trump?

He's a guy who has polarized America like no other President before him. Played golf while a pandemic raged through the USA, so he could invoice the taxpayer for billeting his Secret Service on his properties. Crooked as a three dollar bill, one gets dizzy reading the number of investigations that are ongoing. Including the small matter of fomenting an insurrection because he did not like being beaten by 7 million votes. Would probably gut Ukraine if he got back in, wants to be like Putin.

Who wouldn't rant? IMO anyone who still supports him, or even more ridiculously gives to his campaign fund, is as mad as a cut snake. Or has the IQ of an amoeba.

How much have you contributed?

 

[georgegeorgia]

Talking to a guy at work at work about this who has a German background he says he will never be proud of Germany as he is forced to be ashamed because what a past generation did .

 

As for tv shows that are now banned I miss most of them,even hallo hallo is banned, 

 

Whilst I detest the racism in the past I think it's ridiculous young middle-aged white men are going on their knees in front of people  to apologise for past things 

 

 

Edited November 9, 2022 by georgegeorgia

[Sparktrader]

3 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

He's a guy who has polarized America like no other President before him. Played golf while a pandemic raged through the USA, so he could invoice the taxpayer for billeting his Secret Service on his properties. Crooked as a three dollar bill, one gets dizzy reading the number of investigations that are ongoing. Including the small matter of fomenting an insurrection because he did not like being beaten by 7 million votes. Would probably gut Ukraine if he got back in, wants to be like Putin.

Who wouldn't rant? IMO anyone who still supports him, or even more ridiculously gives to his campaign fund, is as mad as a cut snake. Or has the IQ of an amoeba.

How much have you contributed?

 

Putin invaded Ukraine cause Biden is so weak. Never happens under Trump.

[Fat is a type of crazy]

24 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

Yes, thats where it gets dodgy.

A good sign Republicans haven't done well is when the election fraud stuff comes out.

3 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

Putin invaded Ukraine cause Biden is so weak. Never happens under Trump.

If you are correct it looks like, not for the first or last time, Putin got it wrong. 

Edited November 9, 2022 by Fat is a type of crazy

[Sparktrader]

Just now, Fat is a type of crazy said:

A good sign Republicans haven't done well is when the election fraud stuff comes out.

If you are correct it looks like, not for the first or last time. Putin got it wrong. 

Putin is sick.

[Hanaguma]

11 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

He's a guy who has polarized America like no other President before him. Played golf while a pandemic raged through the USA, so he could invoice the taxpayer for billeting his Secret Service on his properties. Crooked as a three dollar bill, one gets dizzy reading the number of investigations that are ongoing. Including the small matter of fomenting an insurrection because he did not like being beaten by 7 million votes. Would probably gut Ukraine if he got back in, wants to be like Putin.

Who wouldn't rant? IMO anyone who still supports him, or even more ridiculously gives to his campaign fund, is as mad as a cut snake. Or has the IQ of an amoeba.

How much have you contributed?

 

I think we have a working definition of "woke"... just look up!

 

Someone who obsesses about former politicians and lets them live rent free in their head. Keeps a ready made, memorized list of grievances and complaints at the ready, eager to insert them into any discussion, no matter how irrelevant.

[seedy]

1 hour ago, mikebike said:

Define "woke" for us all. So many peeps use it in different ways, it is difficult to comment without a mutually agreed upon definition.

 

[seedy]

53 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I blame it all on giving women the vote.

Pregnant, Barefoot, in the Kitchen ?

555

[GammaGlobulin]

I don't know about you guys...however...

 

I just feel glad that the time is nigh!

 

The time is now upon us when we can finally lay down our white man's burden.

 

Such a very heavy burden that we have carried...

 

The white man's burden has almost broken our backs.

[GammaGlobulin]

6 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

I think we have a working definition of "woke"... just look up!

 

Someone who obsesses about former politicians and lets them live rent free in their head. Keeps a ready made, memorized list of grievances and complaints at the ready, eager to insert them into any discussion, no matter how irrelevant.

This is not the correct definition of woke, of course.

 

Why not do a bit of research?

[seedy]

4 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

The white man's burden has almost broken our backs.

I never did any of those things, and refuse to apologize, make reparations to, or feel sorry for what happened 200 years ago.

How far back do you want to go - should Genghis Khan's Mongol people apologize for what was done ?

The world has to stop living in the past, resurrecting every harm done to one person by another.

 

[Hanaguma]

5 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

This is not the correct definition of woke, of course.

 

Why not do a bit of research?

Merriam-Webster added the word to its dictionary in 2017, defining it as, "aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)." 

But the meaning of woke evolved again with the rise of "cancel culture" -- as the two terms saw increased use, they became intertwined in the public consciousness. Often, someone gets canceled after they say something insensitive – something not woke. So in addition to meaning aware and progressive, many people now interpret woke to be a way to describe people who would rather silence their critics than listen to them.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/us/what-does-woke-mean

 

Fair enough?

[Lacessit]

17 minutes ago, Hanaguma said:

I think we have a working definition of "woke"... just look up!

 

Someone who obsesses about former politicians and lets them live rent free in their head. Keeps a ready made, memorized list of grievances and complaints at the ready, eager to insert them into any discussion, no matter how irrelevant.

Your use of the adjective "former" is an illustration of the lack of awareness you possess with regard to the real peril America and the free world is in, and I'm not even American.

[Hanaguma]

9 minutes ago, seedy said:

I never did any of those things, and refuse to apologize, make reparations to, or feel sorry for what happened 200 years ago.

How far back do you want to go - should Genghis Khan's Mongol people apologize for what was done ?

The world has to stop living in the past, resurrecting every harm done to one person by another.

 

Then you also have to apologize for lifting billions of people out of poverty, providing clean water and so on.  Damn those capitalists for improving life expectancy and hygiene!

[GammaGlobulin]

1 minute ago, seedy said:

I never did any of those things, and refuse to apologize, make reparations to, or feel sorry for what happened 200 years ago.

How far back do you want to go - should Genghis Khan's Mongol people apologize for what was done ?

The world has to stop living in the past, resurrecting every harm done to one person by another.

 

You miss the fundamental crux of the matter. 

 

We will pay the price, and we have been paying the price, for the sins of our fathers. 

 

Or, do you think that hanging fruit on a poplar tree cannot affect generations to come? 

 

Get real. 

[talahtnut]

Yes, mad indeed, only the mind of a monomaniac like Bill Gates

could reduce humanity to his CO2=PSEC formula, including population,

and say “one of these numbers is gonna need to get pretty near to zero.”

[LomSak27]

45 minutes ago, Sparktrader said:

Putin invaded Ukraine cause Biden is so weak. Never happens under Trump.

Exactly! Trump would have given Putin the Ukraine. Along with a dozen roses and kisses on Prince Vlads keister. 

[talahtnut]

Just like Ripleys Believe it or Not....

Arizona: Democrat-run Elections Descend Into Turmoil

as Voting Machines Mysteriously Malfunction.

Lunacy of the unexpected results.

[connda]

2 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

Not sure if the World is going "woke" or mad ????

They are synonyms.

[Orinoco]

WOKE, is just maybe a  massive typo.

One of the negative things about the internet is, village idiots united, all across the western world and invented WOKE.

[GammaGlobulin]

13 minutes ago, talahtnut said:

Just like Ripleys Believe it or Not....

Arizona: Democrat-run Elections Descend Into Turmoil

as Voting Machines Mysteriously Malfunction.

Lunacy of the unexpected results.

What are the issues that get you so stirred up? 

 

Are you voting for anything meaningful? 

 

Or, are you just voting for the right to drink Coke rather than Pepsi? 

[BritManToo]

1 hour ago, GammaGlobulin said:

You miss the fundamental crux of the matter. 

 

We will pay the price, and we have been paying the price, for the sins of our fathers. 

 

Or, do you think that hanging fruit on a poplar tree cannot affect generations to come? 

 

Get real. 

The descendents of slaves in the USA should thank white folk they don't have to live in Africa.

Edited November 9, 2022 by BritManToo

[farmerjo]

1941 has a lot to answer for.

 

 

[seedy]

4 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Get real. 

So ... it is 'Real' to feel guilty for what someone else did in the past ?

If you wish to believe that - go right ahead.

When mankind first appeared, and person #3 was born, then it was 2 against 1.

The world Was - Is Now - and Forever Shall be "Survival of the Fittest"

In the Capitolocracy we now live in, "He Who has the Gold Makes the Rules"

They are the 'Most Fit' ... for now

 

[Mac Mickmanus]

4 hours ago, LomSak27 said:

Exactly! Trump would have given Putin the Ukraine. Along with a dozen roses and kisses on Prince Vlads keister. 

Well, Trump didn't do that, did he . 

[proton]

I see Candace Owens reported on a Norwegian able bodied bloke who identifies as, not only a woman, but a disabled one from the waist down. He wheels himself/ herself around in a wheelchair. Lot of wokeness borders on mental illness