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22d ago
I stick with my previous hypothesis that the woke movement its own period of dealing with failed prophecies and that's why it's currently declining. The impulse behind woke was that everyone wanted it except for a few backward people on the internet. But look at what happened in 2022 ~ 2023:
- March 2022: The interim report of the Cass Review is published lending scientific credibility to argument against "trans kids"
- August 2022: the woke Saints Row reboot bombs
- 2022 in general: a lot of democratic cities have to quietly walk back the "defund the police" messaging they had pushed
- November 2022: Twitter is sold to Musk, an outcome the wokes had cheered on for months, they suddenly realize it is actually a bad outcome for them and immeditely predict Twitter will collapse within weeks, which didn't happen
- February 2023: Forspoken is realesed and bombs, nobody defends it, Antman and the Wasp bombs, the "pandemic" cope can not be used
- April 2023: Bud Light makes a co-promotional campaign with Dylan Mulvaney which kickstarts a boycott which depresses its stock price for months
- November 2023: The Marvels bombs, nobody defends it.
- November 2023: SF cleans up the streets for Xi Jin Ping simultaneously showing both how poorly the city had been kept and how easily this could be reversed
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22d ago
I think this is all bullshit at this point. On average to make a credit card purchase I have to enter the credit card number, the CCV, open the bank app on the smartphone and enter the PIN. Depending how you count it's either 3 factor authentication or 4 factor authentication.
Once you have a system like this in place you can just say "no" to chargebacks, there is no constitutional rights to chargebacks on pornography. I don't know how things are in other countries but I strongly suspect that the "we have a lot of chargebacks" has been a fake excuse for around 20 years.
I'm pretty sure I brought up that woke was naturally antisemitic before october 7th either here or on the subreddit and was told "nah it'll never happen". The thing is, there have been a lot of firmly antisemtic people on the extreme right for a long time, which made woke people take the opposite side reflexively, that made it seem like the safer bet.
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