Way to advertise what side she’s really on.
And this is why we need more decent folk around the country like AOC to run for any and all offices.
The only reason the party has the woke reputation is that empty lip service is really all they had left. People like this need to get a fucking clue. If people want to vote for republicans, they will never ever ever get confused and accidentally vote for democrats just because you mirrored their policies from 12-20 years ago.
Hey stupid you’re doing it wrong. Going even more to the right isn’t going to change jack shit. Listen to the people who are already willing to vote for Democrat if only the Democrat wasn’t an idiot.
Controlled opposition
I have no regrets leaving
She ate the onion, I have never seen the word “Woke” used in a conversation without it being extremist politics or a comedy routine.
At least she’s honest about throwing in with fascism.
The rest of the Democratic party is pissing on our leg and telling us it’s raining.
Hooray another sack of shit politician attempting to derail from real issues
Ratchet effect at work
Slotkin says she wants to take the focus off of Oligarchy and Putin’s smile just gets a few inches wider.
Yeah if she wasn’t CIA I’d perhaps understand her perspective of wanting to focus on just attacking Trump as the King
But… this issue is so beyond Trump that focusing it on him will just make people go back to normal when he’s gone - which is not okay
Funny that she’s used the word “oligarchs” plenty for Putin’s bunch, but now thinks it’s too “coastal” when applied to American oligarchs. She’s never been concerned about people getting it before, but the moment it might describe America she’s very concerned. Not that they’ll misunderstand it, but that they will.
Makes me wonder how many more senators in the democratic party have similar opinions. my estimate is at least %70
Most dems are Nazis too. Tell us something we don’t know.
Nope, Elissa fails to realize US income distribution is a huge problem in the USA and the oligarchs are controlling it.
*fails to admit
Just another clueless asshole.
No, she can fuck off.
The oligarchy is killing us, and spinning language won’t change that. Meanwhile, ‘woke’ just means ‘social empathy’, which is ironically the solution to many of the problems the oligarchy is causing (and they’re not shy about this – Musk recently said empathy is bad).
We need more ‘woke’, not less. And being butthurt that the fascists are using ‘woke’ as a slur against us is childish and easy to ignore if you’re not too simple to get it.
Fuck this. I’m woke and proud of it. We all should be.
Woke means understanding we live in an oligarchy in my mind. MAGA calls people sheep while complaining about them being woke in the same breath. They don’t even understand the language they use.
Woke is not weakness!
It’s funny, because the “Wake up, Sheeple!” line used to be what conservatives screamed at liberals for failing to understand their latest Ayn Rand inspired diatribe.
Then liberals adopted the “Wake up!” phrasing to describe structural racism, the enormous socio-economic cost of the Military Industrial Complex, and the inherent class warfare of privatization schemes. That caused “Woke” to fall out of fashion with the right.
Now it’s totally lost any context. “Woke” just means being visually queer coded or insufficiently religious. Its barely more than a slur.
Fine. Then come up with a plan to educate conservatives. Because this thing where the state legislates new norms (e.g. bio men in bio women’s sports) is NOT making sense to them. They are freaking out because they don’t understand it. And we can’t just make laws to make them accept it.
From their perspective they are losing their country. We can laugh and call them backwards, but that won’t help. There HAS to be a plan that is better than, f-you wake up.
Fuck conservatives. They don’t need to be educated, they need to be beaten. There are more people left of center than right, we just need to prove we’re actually going to fight for them. All of them. Not 80% and then we’ll start to strategize on how many “urban” voters we can lose to pick up white suburbanite conservatives.
That’s a big problem that switching from ‘oligarch’ to ‘king’ won’t solve. Using different words is a very simplistic answer, when what we’re fighting here is not a language barrier but a wide cultural one.
The real issue is complex and multifaceted: conservatives have been highly propagandised through increasingly insulated media bubbles to the point that now there’s very little that can penetrate them, and switching up a few words will not get them to listen. They’ve been taught to be distrustful of facts and reality, and to believe that compassion is weakness.
I don’t know how to fix this, but watering down our language will not help. That’s been tried many times, and it always backfires.
I’m not sure about this. People with money spent a lot to tell everyone that these things are problems. If we spent the same amount of money to say the opposite, opinions would differ.
