@mchill saidEveryone is alert to, and concerned about social injustice and discrimination... everyone. There are no exceptions. People see and understand what these things are. How you react is what makes the difference. The reaction. The response.... now that is what makes the difference between the smart and foolish.
Woke is a defined as: Alert to and concerned about social injustice and discrimination.
Woke is also derogatory umbrella term American conservatives throw at liberals during political discussions when they find they've lost a debate or can't think of a valid counterpoint of their own.
@mchill saidSorry, everyone has the same opportunities as the next guy. Set aside those who are destitute, and those who have no plans to succeed and be somebody. There is one among us posters that is happy at 20 hours a week, and I think a lawyer who worked to become a lawyer, who makes big bucks. ($500/hr easy.)
I must know what is meant by social injustice.
Social injustice definitions:
1. Conditions adversely affecting health due to denial of equal opportunities.
2. Unjust actions resulting from unequal treatment and access to opportunities.
Can't you look this up yourself?
So, I hereby show same opportunities, take them or leave them. There are exceptions, of course, those who never DID have opportunity, due to poor choices. A woman that I see at food kitchen each Saturday is unmarried, 2 children. Let herself get pregnant I give her $250 each Saturday,. Will she invest, or spend? Do you invest , or spend? With good planning, I invest.
This is America. It is not perfect. If you think NLands is better, you can get there for $430.00: A lot of free stuff. Hey, you gotta start somewhere, your housekeeper ( who has 2jobs like I did…..I was poor, man. But we should not get personal) can start by telling her kids to be successful …………..OR hang out.
Gotta ask….today, 2025…..what program should we get on so everyone is equal? If we cannot be equal, what is the next choice?
I am always asking…..what do you libs want? WOKE won’t do it, the majority of us voted it down. So what do you ‘want to happen’?
Be the first lib with a straight cogent serious understandable answer. Or, get Sue to answer.
@AverageJoe1 saidNow that your little speech is over, would you care to answer my question:
Sorry, everyone has the same opportunities as the next guy. Set aside those who are destitute, and those who have no plans to succeed and be somebody. There is one among us posters that is happy at 20 hours a week, and I think a lawyer who worked to become a lawyer, who makes big bucks. ($500/hr easy.)
So, I hereby show same opportunities, take them or leave them. T ...[text shortened]... ?
Be the first lib with a straight cogent serious understandable answer. Or, get Sue to answer.
Can't you look this up yourself?
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@AverageJoe1 saidYou ultrarightwingnuts must think you really are on a roll since your deity has won. Problem is repubs are not as unified as you hope they would be and a lot of them don't like the idea of Musk superglued to Trumps ass.
Sorry, everyone has the same opportunities as the next guy. Set aside those who are destitute, and those who have no plans to succeed and be somebody. There is one among us posters that is happy at 20 hours a week, and I think a lawyer who worked to become a lawyer, who makes big bucks. ($500/hr easy.)
So, I hereby show same opportunities, take them or leave them. T ...[text shortened]... ?
Be the first lib with a straight cogent serious understandable answer. Or, get Sue to answer.
So it is not going to be a free ride for you god Trump.
BTW, Trump is a lame duck, good old lame Donald Duck.
Unless he actually pulls off the dictator thing.
I don't think he will be able to pull off all the stupid stunts he wants to, arrest 10 million or more brown skins, he will be lucky to get 50,000 before backlash starts bigtime.
Those folks are doing jobs that good old boy Americans don't want to do or if they did, they would want 30 bucks an hour to pick cotton or whatever.
So the more Trump arrests the more crops go unpicked and rotting on the vine just like last time he pulled that stupid stunt.
Trump could care less about actual policy that helps the common man, he will ONLY be pursuing his OTHER stupid so called policy, another tax reduction bribe like before where it was supposed to be used to build manufacturing here but all the CEO's did was stock buy backs, which didn't hire a single worker or build one outhouse in a new plant.
And Trump had to come up with the money the tax bribe lost so he just borrowed it and then all of a sudden the national debt was 7 trillion more than when he got to be POTUS last time. Same EXACT thing will happen this time.
Then there is the Tariff, I heard him say Tariff was his favorite word.
He doesn't give a rats ass that it will be US US citizens who pay for that tariff because he has so half cocked idea to kill the IRS and use Tariffs to replace the money lost if nobody does IRS any more.
REAL SMART CRAP here.
@AverageJoe1 saidStop claiming that a majority voted for Trump.
I am always asking…..what do you libs want? WOKE won’t do it, the majority of us voted it down.
It was less than 50%.
So much for your mandate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority
Majority
A majority is more than half of a total.
https://robertsrules.com/frequently-asked-questions/
4. In determining the result of a vote, what constitutes a majority?
The word “majority” in this context means, simply, more than half. The use of any other definition, such as 50 percent plus one, is apt to cause problems. Suppose in voting on a motion 17 votes are cast, 9 in favor and 8 opposed. Fifty percent of the votes cast is 8½ so that 50 percent plus one would be 9½. Under such an erroneous definition of a majority, one might say that the motion was not adopted because it did not receive 50 percent plus one of the votes cast, although it was, quite clearly, passed by a majority vote.
You're welcome.
@sonhouse saidWe get your thinking Not so sure about your requirement that we be ‘unified’. Is it possible to be unified and independent at the same time?. I prefer independence myself. I also think that Trump is at least working his ass off, better than Sleepy or a cackling C@mella being our guiding lights, or NO lights. At least Trump is a light, shines bright.
You ultrarightwingnuts must think you really are on a roll since your deity has won. Problem is repubs are not as unified as you hope they would be and a lot of them don't like the idea of Musk superglued to Trumps ass.
So it is not going to be a free ride for you god Trump.
BTW, Trump is a lame duck, good old lame Donald Duck.
Unless he actually pulls off the dictator ...[text shortened]... he IRS and use Tariffs to replace the money lost if nobody does IRS any more.
REAL SMART CRAP here.
Man, you have Trump failing on every one of his policies. Since there is nothing we can do except lip service, how do we prepare? Uhh, maybe don’t put your solution in writing!!
@Suzianne saidAm I sposed to click somwhere here?
Stop claiming that a majority voted for Trump.
It was less than 50%.
So much for your mandate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority
Majority
A majority is more than half of a total.
https://robertsrules.com/frequently-asked-questions/
4. In determining the result of a vote, what constitutes a majority?
The word “majority” in this context means, sim ...[text shortened]... e of the votes cast, although it was, quite clearly, passed by a majority vote.
You're welcome.
@AverageJoe1 saidTrump has 3 "policies". Tax cut, tariff and deporting 10 million people. The rest is attack anyone he sees as enemy or even just journalists who dared to criticize him. And the way the republican party is so divided in itself and the fact Trump is a lame duck unless he does turn himself into a dictator there will be not much done except fuuking the average American with cuts to medicare, SS, chip and the like. And unless he actually turns himself into a dictator he will find himself on the losing end of the stick come the next 2 year cycle of elections. There will be very little in the way of bills to actually help common folk like Biden did, like the infrastructure bill or the Chips bill or inflation reduction or getting the price of insulin down to 35 bucks.
We get your thinking Not so sure about your requirement that we be ‘unified’. Is it possible to be unified and independent at the same time?. I prefer independence myself. I also think that Trump is at least working his ass off, better than Sleepy or a cackling C@mella being our guiding lights, or NO lights. At least Trump is a light, shines bright.
Man, you hav ...[text shortened]... ng we can do except lip service, how do we prepare? Uhh, maybe don’t put your solution in writing!!
Those kind of bills will be totally out of reach for Trump. So it will be just another repeat of the last time with even less empathy.
@Suzianne saidNo, I had said the majority of those who voted voted for Trump. My statement hardly includes the 200M that did not vote, you silly goose. Did you skew my comment?
Stop claiming that a majority voted for Trump.
It was less than 50%.
So much for your mandate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority
Majority
A majority is more than half of a total.
https://robertsrules.com/frequently-asked-questions/
4. In determining the result of a vote, what constitutes a majority?
The word “majority” in this context means, sim ...[text shortened]... e of the votes cast, although it was, quite clearly, passed by a majority vote.
You're welcome.
@sonhouse saidYou never back up your assertions with facts.
Trump has 3 "policies". Tax cut, tariff and deporting 10 million people. The rest is attack anyone he sees as enemy or even just journalists who dared to criticize him. And the way the republican party is so divided in itself and the fact Trump is a lame duck unless he does turn himself into a dictator there will be not much done except fuuking the average American with cuts ...[text shortened]... y out of reach for Trump. So it will be just another repeat of the last time with even less empathy.
E.g. Take your touting the Inflation reduction act. Even Biden says it did not work. Here is a link..
https://energycommerce.house.gov/posts/one-year-later-even-president-biden-admits-the-inflation-reduction-act-failed-to-lower-costs-for-americans
So this falsehood renders your entire post an empty bag.
While I have you, would you rather your president have the complexion of a mummy, or his complexion be that of Trump? Biden looks like, and is effectively a mummy.
Take that!
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@AverageJoe1 saidLike I said, I make a statement about the corruption of Trump and right on cue, you followed my predicted playbook, OH YEAH, but what about Biden.
You never back up your assertions with facts.
E.g. Take your touting the Inflation reduction act. Even Biden says it did not work. Here is a link..
https://energycommerce.house.gov/posts/one-year-later-even-president-biden-admits-the-inflation-reduction-act-failed-to-lower-costs-for-americans
So this falsehood renders your entire post an empty bag.
While I ha ...[text shortened]... or his complexion be that of Trump? Biden looks like, and is effectively a mummy.
Take that!
And COMPLEXION? Are you fuuking serious? Orange paste applied poorly I might add, makes him look great?
That is your defense? FUUK policy, he has to LOOK the part, has to have great optics.
Hey, we don't believe you are, were or ever will be a lawyer, why don't you put up a picture of your diplomas and such? Your responses are more like an eighth grader.
I didn't HAVE to put up links to show the agenda of Trump, he has spouted those things dozens of time on TV and you know THAT full well. Those three I listed IS his agenda, the rest is just revenge attacks.
If I am wrong, put up YOUR links showing the wonderfulness of Trump.
@sonhouse saidWe w stipulate that I ain’t a lawyer. Curious why that is germane to your discussions
Like I said, I make a statement about the corruption of Trump and right on cue, you followed my predicted playbook, OH YEAH, but what about Biden.
And COMPLEXION? Are you fuuking serious? Orange paste applied poorly I might add, makes him look great?
That is your defense? FUUK policy, he has to LOOK the part, has to have great optics.
Hey, we don't believe you are, were ...[text shortened]... rest is just revenge attacks.
If I am wrong, put up YOUR links showing the wonderfulness of Trump.
@AverageJoe1 saidWhen you look at the posts by #1, a lawyer, his posts are succinct and factual with links.
We w stipulate that I ain’t a lawyer. Curious why that is germane to your discussions
You just give opinions for the most part.
You clearly refuse to engage in what I talk about, one example, the stolen TS and ABOVE TS docs stored in an unsecured location where spies have had known attempts thwarted to gain access so they KNOW about that unsecured location but you don't seen to give a rats ass about national security, instead, go Trump declassified them which is utter BS because the declassification process involves a lot more steps and a lot more people than POTUS.
But you are fine with Trump actually reading one of them to an Aussie billionaire who repeated the tale to 40 other people, the one talking about how close an American sub can get to a Russian sub undetected.
You just poo poo the whole thing, no big deal when in fact it IS a big deal. It is MORE than a big deal, it involves our entire national security apparatus like names that could be revealed like moles or spies of ours in other countries where if found out they could be executed by whatever government is involved but you don't think that far ahead of consequences.
That seems to be your post Trump in your brain MO, NONE of that matters because Trump knows what he is doing.
That is your POV and you never deviate from that.
I have worked around the world, worked at the Pentagon, had a top secret clearance myself in the Air Force and saw some of the apparatus of clearances and you have had NONE of that kind of experience so it is easy to see how you can just casually dismiss all those document charges laid on Trump.
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@Sprogladog saidWith admittedly a little help from AI, I'll go with this:
Please define your understanding of the word 'Woke' as if you were a dictionary.
"A heightened awareness of social and political issues, particularly those related to systemic injustice, inequality, and discrimination, often accompanied by advocacy for addressing these issues. While rooted in the pursuit of social justice and inclusion, the application of 'woke' principles can sometimes lead to tensions with other values, such as freedom of speech, differing perspectives, or equitable treatment for all. Efforts to prioritize historically marginalized groups may, at times, come at the expense of individuals who are not part of these groups, raising questions about balance and fairness in broader societal contexts."
That's as objective as I can be.