Just for the record, Right Wingers are prominent among those who support Luigi. When Right Wing commentators with an audience tried this “it’s all the Leftists stuff” they got significant pushback from their audiences, saying “No, it’s US too.”
But let’s look a little closer at Luigi:
Earlier this year, Mangione shared a [post] on his X account of another user praising Musk for his “commitment to long-term civilization success.”
It referenced a post by [Musk] from March this year where he claimed he was “in a battle to the death with the anti-civilizational woke mind virus.”
One of the most recent posts on Mangione’s X’s profile was a repost of a [video] of Thiel, the right-wing billionaire who [introduced] JD Vance to Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in 2021.
Other posts Mangione shared lamented “wokeism” in society, and he also responded to one post that claimed God had been replaced by people “worshipping at the DEI shrine, using made-up pronouns like religious mantras and firing professors for saying men can’t get pregnant.”
Let’s see. Think Musk is a hero. Like Peter Thiel. Complains about wokeism and DEI. I’m not sure, but it sounds kind of like, oh, I don’t know, YOU.
Really, you sound like an automaton … push a button and a slogan comes out.
Yes, some DEI programs are being discontinued or modified in the current atmosphere of threat, but the arguments for doing so don’t arise from a new, deeper understanding of the problem, but rather come from a whiny fear that someone else might benefit instead of me. There is no proposed fix to make the system more fair and ensure the best getting picked.
This whole “woke mind virus” thing is bizarre. Why is being awake a bad thing? Seems upside down. And why a virus? Makes it sound like something one can’t control rather than a choice one makes.
As for the vote, the margin was almost historically tiny so I would be careful about counting chickens, particularly if promises aren’t kept … as seems likely.
That kind of statistic has gotten tricky. What defines “blue”? Registration of individual? State historically? What and how dependable a measure is it?
Yeah, I think our democracy is already in trouble. Difficulty voting? Check. Foreign interference? Check. Extreme income inequality? Check. Plutocracy? Check. On the cusp of dictatorship? Ummm… we’ll see.
Many of you guys are stuck in a leftist doom loop echo chamber upvoting each other. You are infected with the woke mind virus.
I am just dropping truth bombs.
Stop marching for Hamas terrorists. Stop pushing chemical castration of kids. Stop fighting for more illegal immigration. Stop saying Americans are racist.
It is Christmas morn, and this carole has long been one of my favorites:
Christians, awake, salute the happy morn,
whereon the Saviour of the world was born;
rise to adore the mystery of love,
which hosts of angels chanted from above:
with them the joyful tidings first begun
of God incarnate and the Virgin’s Son.
Arguing against this or that and for that or this is often useful and good. I have serious disagreements with many who push their own explicit “DEI program”, especially those who do so from atop real privilege, but deprecation of being awake (woke), is simply pervese.
That “anti-wokism” has become the main, intentionally divisive“argument” of divi20 and others leads to a sad incoherence.
It is typical of this automaton rhetoric, that issues are portrayed with colored language which makes the issue seem more simply extreme than the actual reality.
E.g., the reality of the situation in Israel is that it is extremely complex. Yes, Israel is behaving in a way to the Palestinians which might justify the word genocide, which is bad, but it is also true that Hamas is sworn to eliminate Israel and refuses to stop hostilities. It is also the case that Israel performs an important role in the complexities of the Middle East such that things like cutting off arms shipments could have undesirable consequences. And, Netanyahu is not exactly a partner of choice. It is not surprising that someone might grab on one piece of that complexity and think that was the most important.
No one is advocating castration of kids. What is advocated is helping a child to have their body aligned with the sex they feel. Many of the treatments are and have been used to deal with problems where there is no alignment issue. The problem here is that people who object to this sort of thing … which doesn’t impact them in the slightest … think that one can pull down a person’s pants, see what is there, and thus can specify everything that person can think or feel, without recognizing the immense variation in those thoughts and feelings.
No one is advocating for more illegal immigration. That is just made up. There are variations in how nasty we should be and about possible controls.
Are you claiming that no Americans are racist? What a peculiar lack of perspective!
Or the advocates are hidden, which as a Californian I have long seen (California Agriculture is the richest in the nation and its wealth has always depended on degraded labor) — as the prime advocates for illegal immigration publicly decry it, are big donors to those shrieking about it, while profiting from it and assiduously (monetary free speech!) preventing the only enforcement that would work — punishing employers for employing those in the USA illegally, the method used successfully in all the rest of the developed world.
Hey, that is an even stronger bogeyman than, uhm, boogeymen! No one is pushing any such thing. Anyone who has known and cared for a child suffering from a mismatch of the sexual characteristics of their “self” and their “body” knows how bogus such fear mongering is. One of my godsons is exactly such, as he barely survived his childhood within the agonizing freakishness of his female body.
The ones with a problem deserve compassion and help. Few have a genuine issue but many kids are just confused during formative years.
Americans don’t want men in women’s bathrooms or competing in women’s sports. You cannot wear a button saying “feeling like a woman this morning”. This is absurd.
Calling Trump voters and fellow Americans as garbage, fascists and racists is dumb and self defeating.
One of the problems … in several ways … is the assumption that male is male and female is female like they were cookie cutter shapes. But, this is far from true. Even at the grossest chromosome level, the whole world is not just XX and XY, but there are variations like XYY and XXY. Plus, there are a ton of smaller variations which we are only beginning to identify. And, that doesn’t even count the mental variations.
At the same time, on the biological level one produces only one of two types of gametes (the carriers of genetic information). That is the basic difference between “sex” and “gender”.