Has the world gone woke or mad

[Mac Mickmanus]

6 minutes ago, proton said:

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

Here 

 

 

[proton]

That's him, her, it, they, us ????

[Sparktrader]

5 hours ago, Lacessit said:

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.

Democracy is evil?

[1FinickyOne]

7 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

Just watched the Republicans getting thrashed in America with successful socialist candidate promising to release prisoners to the community so they get counselling????

He got elected John Fetterman beating the republican 

You need more facts - the republican in this instance is an elitist who made his money as a TV celeb touting snake oil cures that don't work... he doesn't even live in the state he was running in... 

 

you need to change the channel and get your facts straight... 

[LomSak27]

1 hour ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Well, Trump didn't do that, did he . 

Trump wasn't president when Putin invaded Ukraine. A fact Prince Vlad rues every day new HIMARS systems arrive in the Ukraine.

 

 

Edited November 9, 2022 by LomSak27

[Mac Mickmanus]

4 minutes ago, LomSak27 said:

Trump wasn't president when Putin invaded Ukraine. 

 

Yes, I know .

My point being that if Trump were to give Ukraine to Putin, Putin would have taken in whilst Trump was POTUS

[LaosLover]

I sent $500 to Black Lives Matter to facilitate non-violence training in churches. 

 

Good idea, bad idea, or just generically, conveniently non-specific woke idea?

 

They sent me a tee shirt. My old souther cracker Mother In Law wears it.

[Mac Mickmanus]

18 minutes ago, LaosLover said:

I sent $500 to Black Lives Matter to facilitate non-violence training in churches. 

 

Good idea, bad idea, or just generically, conveniently non-specific woke idea?

 

They sent me a tee shirt. My old souther cracker Mother In Law wears it.

Does that allow to you spend a few  nights in the $6 Million mansion that bought in California with the donation money ? 

[LaosLover]

We're part of a large meditation community in North Carolina and one of our more prominent teachers in it is African American -Ruth King is the name if anyone is interested in meditation as a form of racial healing and viewing her website.

 

Ruth needed a little gas and motel money to do her good work. Fine by us.

 

If any Trump people ever want to do a non-violence workshop, Ruth will show up for that too, and yeah, I'd be happy to write a separate check.

[Mac Mickmanus]

46 minutes ago, LaosLover said:

 

 

They sent me a tee shirt. My old souther cracker Mother In Law wears it.

That is a racial slur and racist abuse , not really acceptable these days 

[talahtnut]

8 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

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? 

I have not voted for any buttock of the same enemy since 1973.

Things always get worse when voting ends.

[thaibeachlovers]

11 hours ago, Baron Samedi said:

The world isn't mad or woke.

It is absurd.

 

 

Disagree. It's woke, mad and absurd.

 

BTW it's not the entire world, just the western world.

A certain Asian leader must get videos of western insanity to amuse himself and his group with while waiting for the western world to destroy itself and they can take it over.

[thaibeachlovers]

4 hours ago, Sparktrader said:

Democracy is evil?

I don't think I've lived in a real "democracy" my entire life.

 

Edited November 9, 2022 by thaibeachlovers

[thaibeachlovers]

5 hours ago, seedy said:

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

 

Unfortunately they don't need to be the most physically fit, as they can buy all the physically fit people they need to protect themselves from the troublesome masses they look down on.

 

I feel no guilt for anything anyone did in the past. Woke people like to impose the modern world on previous generations which is a nonsense. They flagellate themselves over something that happened hundreds of years ago, and think everyone should think like them. I wish a woke person would have a go at me, but they are rather conspicuous by their absence where I live.

[thaibeachlovers]

5 hours ago, proton said:

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

I wonder if he qualifies for a benefit by doing so? If he does, not so deluded after all.

[thaibeachlovers]

12 hours ago, huangnon said:

It's just another 'divide and rule' tactic employed by our "elites" to further atomize society.

The technology and methods used have obviously improved a lot since Roman times, but its still the same tactic.

Indeed it is.

The Roman rulers used bread and circuses to keep the masses from revolting, but actually tearing people apart for entertainment isn't allowed anymore, so they had to come up with something more subtle.

Social media is an absolute gift to the unknown men in corporate towers.

[thaibeachlovers]

11 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

It's time that the not so extreme people wake up and give people better, not extreme, alternatives. I am sure lots of people would like to vote for smart and sane people who have the best interest of the people and the country in mind. But where are these smart and sane candidates? And how many sane people are willing to compete in this crazy "game"?

IMO to "compete" in politics as it is now one has to be crazy. The media destroy anyone the owners of said media don't like. Even the chosen ones can be destroyed if they don't obey the dictat.

Sane people, IMO, just won't go there.

[thaibeachlovers]

11 hours 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.

Matthew 7:3-5. New International Version ... “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?

[thaibeachlovers]

11 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

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 

 

I've never seen such, but if anyone tried that around here they'd be mocked relentlessly. We haven't all become sad mummy's boys.

[thaibeachlovers]

11 hours 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.

Someone asked for a definition of "woke"; perhaps sad and boring would suffice for a start.

[georgegeorgia]

The woke movement in Australia seem to be very different from America 

The Australian woke socialists are Anti Christian but pro Muslim.

Hate  middle aged white men 

Pro gay & pro transgender 

Believe their should be no prisons 

 

[thaibeachlovers]

11 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

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.

You don't speak for me. Not all white people are descended from nations that had slaves or colonized the world.

I have nothing in my forefather's history to be ashamed of.

[talahtnut]

Racism is a most evil word used by elites to impart

division and conflict to the masses where critical thinking

is banned.

[Fat is a type of crazy]

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I don't think I've lived in a real "democracy" my entire life.

 

So you don't think New Zealand or the UK are democracies? I think that is an excuse to throw out the baby with the bathwater - it's not perfect so I'll call it a "democracy" and deny it is a thing - and a good thing.

Everyone is corrupt and bad and elections aren't fair so I'll give a pass to non democratic authoritarian leaders - at least they admit what they are. Straight out of the authoritarian playbook.

Next thing you are defending the indefensible but who cares because they are all bad. Fight to fix democracy not accept authoritarian overlords. 

[Fat is a type of crazy]

1 hour ago, georgegeorgia said:

The woke movement in Australia seem to be very different from America 

The Australian woke socialists are Anti Christian but pro Muslim.

Hate  middle aged white men 

Pro gay & pro transgender 

Believe their should be no prisons 

 

In defence of Australia.

Pro muslim? Maybe just not anti muslim. The one thing I'll concede it is hard to have a debate about immigration without someone pulling out the racist card but only by the small minority.

Pro gay? I see no problem with that - do you think they are faking it or should hide?

Transgender? If they do their thing who cares. There's a fair debate about medical treatment etc that is had in Australia and it has recently become easier to debate this. See Media Watch recently where they took the ABC to task on this. 

 Who hates middle aged men - we are more likely to be invisible.

Who believes there should not be prisons? No one.

Some stuff is the young being young - no need to be concerned in my opinion. 

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

[thaibeachlovers]

21 minutes ago, Fat is a type of crazy said:

So you don't think New Zealand or the UK are democracies? I think that is an excuse to throw out the baby with the bathwater - it's not perfect so I'll call it a "democracy" and deny it is a thing - and a good thing.

Everyone is corrupt and bad and elections aren't fair so I'll give a pass to non democratic authoritarian leaders - at least they admit what they are. Straight out of the authoritarian playbook.

Next thing you are defending the indefensible but who cares because they are all bad. Fight to fix democracy not accept authoritarian overlords. 

No, I don't, and you are saying I believe in things I don't. Perhaps you can confine yourself to what I actually said and not make stuff up.

Best country I ever lived in was Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew, which had elections but was basically a one party state.

[LaosLover]

8 hours ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

That is a racial slur and racist abuse , not really acceptable these days 

The crackers are an ethnic group in N. Florida, famous for their lovely houses. My Mother In Law is indeed a cracker. Oddly, Cracker cuisine is devoid of salt.

[KhunLA]

16 minutes ago, LaosLover said:

The crackers are an ethnic group in N. Florida, famous for their lovely houses. My Mother In Law is indeed a cracker. Oddly, Cracker cuisine is devoid of salt.

Or ...

"Since the huge influx of new residents into Florida in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, from the northern parts of the United States and from Mexico and Latin America, the term Florida cracker is used informally by some Floridians to indicate that their families have lived in the state for many generations."

 

Now imagine an old generational Floridian

'black' family, calling themselves 'crackers' ... ????

 

Got to think outside the cracker box.  I'm a 'Ritz' man myself, though would rather be a rich man.

Edited November 10, 2022 by KhunLA

[BritManToo]

5 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

The woke movement in Australia seem to be very different from America 

The Australian woke socialists are Anti Christian but pro Muslim.

Hate  middle aged white men 

Pro gay & pro transgender 

Believe their should be no prisons 

 

This is the definition I found ..............

 

Like every other totalitarian movement, what some call liberalism and others more recently often describe as Cultural Marxism has developed an ideology which its adherents use to justify the imposition of tyranny on the society they seek to overtake. The ideology of America’s contemporary totalitarian left can be called wokeism.

 

The four intellectual pillars of wokeism are:

1. Anti-white racism disguised under the euphemism social justice.

2. Rejection of traditional morality, which is primarily carried out by the promotion of sexually deviant lifestyles such as homosexuality and transgender. In a truly surreal inversion of reality, they paint traditional morality as immoral by charging it with being homophobic, transphobic, and similar terms.

3. Environmentalism based on the notion that it is desirable and possible to arrest climate change.

4. Intense hostility toward Christian religion, which they negatively paint as patriarchal, intolerant, and oppressive.

 

Would also point out 'Cultural Marxism' has almost no connection with 'Marxism'

The wokes would have hated the great man Karl Marx who was a heterosexual middle aged white male who considered women to be the property of men.

Edited November 10, 2022 by BritManToo

[creative1000]

@georgegeorgia 
The Youtube algorithm will show you videos that will make you upset, because they have enough of your data now, they know how to maximize your watching minutes each day in order to maximize advertising revenue. 

You can count on someone who is the complete opposite of you being shown the opposite videos, and them equally reacting in the same way as you did just now.

Who wins? Well, youtube and advertisers.

BTW: Its been proven that videos that make you happy keep viewers watching less. Videos that make negative emotions keep viewers watching more. This is all to maximize youtube / advertiser revenue

Edited November 10, 2022 by creative1000