#woke revolution

[mightyflamethrower]

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

New Rule: A Woke Revolution | Real Time with Bill Maher

And finally. New Rule: If you're part of today's Woke Revolution, you need to study the part of revolutions where they spin out of control because the revolutionaries get so drunk on their own purifying elixir, they imagine they can reinvent the very nature of human beings.

Communists thought selfishness - selfishness - could be cast out of human nature. Russian revolutionaries spoke of the New Soviet Man who wasn't motivated by self-interest, but instead wanted to be part of a collective. No, turns out he wanted to be on a yacht in a Gucci tracksuit holding a vodka and a prostitute. Not standing in line all day for a potato.

The problem with Communism, and with some very recent ideologies here at home, is that they think you can change reality by screaming at it. That you can bend human nature by holding your breath. But that's the difference between reality and your mommy.

Lincoln once said that you can "repeal all past history, but you still cannot repeal human nature." But he's canceled now, so fuck him.

Yesterday I asked ChatGPT, are there any similarities between today's Woke Revolution and Chairman Mao's cultural revolution of the 1960s, and it wrote back, how long do you have?

Because again, in China, we saw how a revolutionary thought he could do a page one rewrite of humans. Mao ordered his citizens to throw off "the four olds": old thinking, old culture, old customs, and old habits. So um, your whole life went in the garbage overnight, no biggie.

And those who resisted were attacked by an army of purifiers called the "Red Guard" who went around the country putting dunce caps on people - yeah - who didn't take to being a new kind of mortal being. A lot of pointing and shaming went on. Oh, and about a million dead. And the only way to survive was to plead insanity for the crime of being insufficiently radical, then apologize and thank the state for the chance to see what a piece of shit you are. And of course, submit to re-education. Or, as we call it here in America, freshman orientation.

Listen to this story. There's a law professor at the University of Illinois Chicago named Jason Kilbourne whose crime was that on one of his exams, he used a hypothetical case where a black female worker sued her employer for race and gender discrimination, alleging that managers had called her two slur words. The type of real world case these students might one day confront, and knowing the extreme sensitivity of today's students, he didn't write the two taboo words on the test, just the first letter of each. He was teaching his students how to fight racism in the place where it matters most, the criminal justice system.

But because he merely alluded to those words - again in the service of a good cause - he was banned from campus, placed on indefinite leave, and made to wear the dunce cap. No, not really the dunce cap part. But our American version of that: eight weeks of sensitivity training. Weekly 90-minute sessions with a diversity trainer, and having to write five "self-reflection" papers. A grown ass man. A liberal law professor.

If you can't see the similarities between that and this, the person who needs re-education is you.

Yes, we do have our own Red Guard here but they do their rampaging on Twitter.

Here's a cute example from a couple of years ago. The banjo player from Mumford and Sons tweeted that he liked a book. A book that apparently had not been approved by the revolution. So of course, he had to delete the Tweet then take time away from the band - oh my God you mean this could have affected Mumford and Sons - and then the cringing apology: "I have come to better understand the pain caused by the book I endorsed." Pain? From a book? Unless he hit the drummer over the head with it? What happened to “I can read whatever the fuck I want”? Don't worry, I'm a musician, it won't happen again.

There was once a very different musician named John Lennon who wrote a song called "Revolution," and people who didn't really listen to it thought it was a rah-rah call for revolution. No, it was the opposite. The lyrics are:

“You say you want a revolution. Well, you know, we all want to change the world. But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao You ain't gonna make it with anybody anyhow."

There's a guy who understood how good intentions can turn into the insane arrogance of thinking your Revolution is so awesome, and your generation is so mind-bendingly improved that you have bequeathed the world with a new kind of human. You're welcome.

With Communists, that human was no longer selfish. In America today, that human is no longer born male or female. And obesity is not something that affects health. You can be healthy at any size. Really, we voted on it.

A formerly serious magazine last year published with a straight face, an article called "Separating Sports by Sex Doesn't Make Sense." Yes it does. Because again, we haven't reinvented homo sapiens since Crystal Pepsi came out.

I've spent three decades on TV mocking Republicans who said climate change was just a theory, and now I got to deal with people who say, you know what else is just a theory? Biology.

==

The mistake is thinking this isn’t by design.

[thearbourist]

New Rule - "I can read whatever the f*ck I want" - Bill Maher

[solar-sunnyside-up]

They told us the apocalypse would be a full panic at once, news organizations calling the end of society, cars abandoned in the streets, fire and looting and then endless stillness. All so we would not recognize it as it happens all around us every day. It is a much slower decay then they can let on, otherwise we'd recognize it. They told us revolution would look like burning flags and violence in the streets, that it would require us to our number them, that it would need to be maticiouslous planned or else it would fail. They did this so we wouldn't recognize it as it happens in the streets everyday. It's in illegal urban hens, and in neighbors coming together to fix their streets despite the cities lack of care of them, it's in garden swaps and farmers markets. It's in self made safe spaces for youth and down traughten, its in small acts of kindness bleeding its way though time. Revolution is in these mundane moments that pass by everyday, and they do not want you to recognize it as such. Because then we might go forward with demanding better instead of being paralized in the moment, that change is at our doorstep either way and because then revolution might be easier then we thought it was.

[hamletthedane]

I vaguely remembered that I’d woken up last night at 2am and scrambled desperately for my phone to Wikipedia-search something I just HAD to know, then immediately fell back to sleep.

But for the life of me, I could not remember what I had searched. Curious, I opened my phone’s browser to see this:

You know that feeling: it’s 2am and you really really need to immediately read the biography of Maximilien Robespierre. We’ve all been there.

[majaurukalo]

A peaceful but effective protest that I’d love to see is people — disabled and non-disabled — refusing to go to places that are inaccessible.

Soon those places would start to lose customers/clients and maybe start being accessible.

No one would participate to this protest but I’d like to see it happen. I guess I’ll just use my imagination.

[timetojointheclub]

I think there’s a very interesting idea in the fact that in DBH when the androids “wake up” and become deviant they’re basically like babies. Babies in the fact that they probably don’t know how to deal with their (probably) overwhelming emotions.

The interesting part is what about the androids that had just woken up in a war? An android born in war will only know war(forgive my dramatics), so I’d love for another POV of an android that had been woken up in the midst of the android revolution.

After the revolution be it the pacifist route or the more aggressive one, how would they know how to live?

[pebblezone]

I can and will make a sequel to this

[rk707-elle]

[risingroadsstudios]

stop fighting each other and start fighting the government together ⚒️

currently carving this into a lino block

[arctic-hands]

I've had more than one anarchist I associate with be surprised to learn I'm actually not an anarchist. But like. I'm a huge proponent of the Welfare State, and you kind of need a state for that

[mightyflamethrower]

Woke is a religion, not an empirically based revolution. It requires blind faith and ideological zealotry that ignores data, smears apostates as blasphemers, and is fueled by a climate of fear as it uses public shaming, cancel culture, doxing, shadow banning, ostracism, and career destruction to bulldoze ahead.

That it is now mowing down its originators may not matter much, even if for the short term the current boomeranging should be teaching leftists that their ideology is unworkable and ultimately destructive of civilization. History, after all, is replete with misguided zealots who even to the very first shot of their own firing squads still believed in the catastrophic cultural and political upheavals they had unleashed on others.

Partly woke continues, then, because its privileged creators still cling to the belief, “What I create for others, certainly will not apply to me and mine.” And when it does, as it is beginning to now, they stay long in denial and continue their woke advocacy because they still hope their progressive piety and fides will someday earn them heaven on earth.

Victor Davis Hanson

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

An SDS radical once wrote, "The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." In other words, the cause - whether inner city blacks or women - is never the real cause, but only an occasion to advance the real cause which is the accumulation of power to make the revolution. -- David Horowitz

https://alphahistory.com/chineserevolution/red-guards/

The Cultural Revolution was driven by the Red Guards, a mass movement encouraged and directed by Mao Zedong. They became Mao’s power base as he reinstalled himself as leader of both party and nation while purging the party of his critics and competitors. Comprised mostly of fanatical students, the Red Guards (Hongweibing) began to take shape in June 1966, following the national publication of a student protest in Beijing University. Within weeks they had mobilised into a political militia, their numbers exceeding 10 million. Motivated by Mao’s slogans “It is right to rebel” and “Bombard the headquarters”, the Red Guards attacked anyone and anything they considered a threat to Mao or his socialist vision. Nobody was safe: not bureaucrats or administrators, not party chiefs, not provincial politicians, not even president Liu Shaoqi. For a year these militant students created what Mao himself called a “great chaos under heaven”. When the Red Guards became even more radical and violent in 1967, it was Mao himself who authorised military action to suppress them.

Sound familiar?

Believe them when they tell you what they're up to.

[aizenat]

So Donald Trump is trying to get Netanyahu to not go forward with a ceasefire because he doesn’t want Kamala getting good press from it, and these kids are protesting outside the dnc. This man is actively trying to get more Palestinians killed but sure rally against the candidate trying to at least stop the ongoing violence and killings over there. She’s so evil and genocidal.

[davidson-eric]

BE ALERT!!! 👇👇👇💯💯

Imagine a future where the central bank holds all the power and control over our financial transactions.

This is the reality that could come with the introduction of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). Unlike traditional forms of money, a CBDC would give the central bank absolute authority over the rules and regulations that dictate its use. This means that the government would have unprecedented control over our financial activity, which could have dire consequences for our freedom.

One of the biggest concerns with a CBDC is its potential threat to privacy. With the ability to track every transaction and gather vast amounts of data, the government would have endless opportunities to monitor and control citizen's financial activity. This level of surveillance could be used to target political opponents and suppress dissent. The mere thought of a government having such power should raise alarm bells for anyone who values their freedom and privacy.

Furthermore, a CBDC could be easily weaponized against those who oppose the government’s agenda. By controlling access to funds and monitoring transactions, the government could effectively silence dissenting voices and stifle any opposition. This would create a chilling effect on free speech and undermine the very foundations of FREEDOM

It is crucial that we carefully consider the implications it could have on our freedom and privacy. The power that a central bank would wield with a CBDC is unprecedented, and we must ensure that safeguards are in place to protect our rights and liberties. The future of CBDC should not come at the expense of our fundamental freedoms. Congress should prohibit the Fed and Treasury from issuing such. CBDCs have no place in the American economy.

Move your funds into the Quantum Ledger Account and be safe from government agendist. We can be reached via email (check bio for email) or a DM away.

# EyesOpenAmerica

[odinsblog]

The revolution will not be televised, and it absolutely positively will not be led by some privileged yt Putin loving libertarian bloviating their juvenile shitty ass takes on “communism,” who unironically (but self-servingly!) believes that racism is somehow a secondary problem to classism