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Many things are habbening at once, here are for some more random culture war (and culture war by other means) news for the second part of the week.
Middle Eastern habbenings are already sufficiently covered elsewhere, things are going interesting even outside this part of the world.
1/Cancel culture files
Canceling machine is still running in overdrive mode, and it is coming for Cesar Chavez.
It turned out that "Moses of his people" routinely raped underage girls including another famous activist Dolores Huerta.
This is bad. Imagine if it came out that MLK raped Rosa Parks. That bad.
Many streets, schools, libraries, parks etc. are to be renamed soon.
It is already beginning.
2/Dukes, princes and kings of hazard files
Gambling is getting normalized and spreads all over the world.
Not only betting on sports for plebes, but betting on world habbenings for sophisticated situation monitorers.
In Washington DC, Polymarket just opened the world's first bar dedicated to monitoring the situation.
This sort of gambling, in addition to ruining people's finances and lives, adds another element of chaos to already spicy world's situations. With few clicks, anyone in even middling military/govt positions can personally greatly profit from insider info.
And if you are in high, decision making position ... another source of income opens, faster and more lucrative than old timey corruption and theft.
No suprise that tensions are running high.
3/US gun politics files
Illinois wants track all ammo and mandate microstamping of serial numbers to all ammunition.
Even if they could make it work, there is so much ammo already manufactured, you could say. This is no way to protect Black lives from gun violence!
This is the point. You cannot get the evil white gun hoarders for their guns (yet), but you can send them to prison for unserialized ammo.
4/Democracy files
In suprising news, Kim Jong-un wins North Korea’s parliamentary elections with 99.93% of the vote.
This was not something anyone could predict.
In 2023, Kim oversaw his party's WORST election results in 60 years, winning just 99.63% of votes.
But "to give up" is not in Kim Jong-un's dictionary.
He persisted.
He fought and regained trust of the people. May this tale of true grit and determination inspire all of us.
5/Woke culture files
You’re not hallucinating the great weirding of America
TL;DR: Wokeness is not dead yet. It might be wobbling at the top, but it is marching triumphantly across America.
Dinergoth is the aesthetic of ruined suburbia and dying small towns.
They are the mainstream now, they are not weird anymore. You are the weirdo.
6/Space invader files
Third recorded interstellar object at 16th March crossed the orbit of Jupiter and is now on the way out of Solar system.
So far, three interstellar objects were detected.
Number Two looked and behaved like ordinary snowy mudball, numbers One and Three were, in comparison to Solar system objects, very strange.
Either we live on rather busy interstellar highway, or interstellar objects are not at all like Solar system ones.
Alien starship monitoring community breathed in relief (and disappointment).
Close encounter with Jupiter was the opportunity for space battleship to rev up her engines and use Jupiter's gravity for course correction straight to Earth.
Previously, we had doubt about object origin. Now, we are certain that crew of 3I/Atlas is made of highly intelligent beings who saw nothing worth conquering on this monkey planet.
7/Cryptid files
The famous Patterson–Gimlin film was, for 59 years, known as the best evidence for existence of Bigfoot/Sasquatch.
Now, new documentary shows it all as "incredible hoax". Not only straight confession of Patterson's son Clint, but another 16mm film reel showing Bigfoot costume.
More links and sources here.
But, at the end, it doesn't matter.
Real or not, Bigfoot lives in our hearts. For forever.
When I talk about "wokeness", I'm referring to a worldview and set of tactics as described in, for example, Freddie deBoer's canonical article on the topic:
I am not referring to the existence of male people who wear women's clothes, or people who live in small towns who dress in a peculiar fashion and listen to Bladee.
I think when most people express a sentiment like "wokeness is dead", they mean that the ideas and tactics associated with the woke memeplex have much less cachet and influence than they did at their peak (2014-2022). I don't think they mean "no one wears cross-sex clothes anymore". A minority of people have been wearing cross-sex clothing for centuries before the word "woke" was even coined. So I truthfully don't understand the connection between the statements "wokeness isn't dead – here are a bunch of people who dress oddly". They seem completely uncorrelated to me. I'd even hazard a guess that plenty of these so-called "dinergoths" are not meaningfully "woke" in an ideological sense.
You are motte and baily-ing "Woke".
Much like when Charlie Kirk said "DEI", every comedian started foaming at the mouth, their pen setting their pad aflame, dude playing burning piano on the beach meme, "Those DEIs need to use different drinking fountains, DEIs in paris, DEI DEI DEI DEI DEI DEI DEI, I'm 200% DEI" before jizzing themselves unconscious.
Much like DEI means DEI but it also means Naggers but with a different vowel, Woke means the set of principles and tactics outlined above, but also anything that makes a someone with Chud aesthetic principles feel a little uncomfortable. "This person is not presenting gender in a way I like so my tummy hurt, therefore woke" type shit.
Much like the woke fucked up getting to call people they don't like racist and the Zionist lobby is currently fucking up getting to call people they don't like antisemites, Woke is either fully fucked or in the terminal stage of fucked.
Pretty soon all that fire and brimstone is gonna turn into your grandpa getting all het up about men wearing belts to church instead of braces; what barberism.
I don't know why but three leading much likes for three by three analogous statements pleases my brainstem.
Well, I explicitly said "When I talk about "wokeness...". I'm aware that other people use the word in a different way, sometimes in a manner indistinguishable from how their parents would derisively call things "liberal". But I think my usage is closer to the standard usage than that one.
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As someone pointed out elsewhere "dinergoth" is not a term they coined themselves so is a bit of an awkward fit (though again: Freddie's point). The self-chosen term is probably usually queer in a generic sense rather than Truly Activist sense, which sometimes overlaps with woke but isn't interchangeable.
In my extremely limited experience of people that might fit the archetype to the extent it even is an archetype, it's more like 2020's version of emo or scene, it's an aesthetic with a few shared hobbies and fairly minimal ideological components.
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No, you don't undesrtand. The problem of wokeness facing our society is so deeply entrenched as to be essentially impervious to resolution or amelioration. You surely cannot believe that wokeness has been meaningfully improved or ameliorated. In a sense, almost everyone you encounter in contemporary society has adopted woke narratives in some way.
Not sure if satire or serious...
Why would you take that to be satire?
At face value, it seems correct.
Well, because he uses the exact same language in the higher level post, lol.
Yes, thought that the direct connection made the satire obvious.
Not satire enough to not be seriously true.
Hence the (largely rhetorical) question. Imagine that Futurama meme on top.
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