quick linguistic history lesson. the term “woke” originates from african american communities to describe being “awake and aware” of the current sociopolitical climate. this term has been used since at least the 1930s. it wasnt until 2014 during the ferguson protests that the term entered the wider vernacular. mainly as a result of black twitter. and as is common with many things coined by the black community. it was repeated and commercialized to death to the point where now most people only using it mockingly. including people on the left. the point is. “woke” is not a bad word. the alt right wants it to be one.

Woke was also appropriated by afrosupremacists and through that channel, historical revisionists, conspiracy theorists and cranks, such as Farrakhan and the people that took a page out of the Nazi's book of rewriting human history to mythologize black people, and make black people the most superior, world sweet potato distributing, sail-the-ocean-before-boats people that taught all civilizations mathematics and science before mysteriously disappearing with no true evidence to prove all our math and science came from black Africans. Many of which are also antivaxers, have a curious hatred of Jews (whom they believe were their most prolific enslavers and the engineers of America's creation) and consume and regurgitate many Russian propaganda points for their "woke" perspectives and views on the United States and its crimes rewritten to apply to the black perspective, and it is in no way "alt-right" to view these perspectives as utter garbage.

You cannot divorce the term "woke" from who also uses it and call the antivaxing, antisemite, afrosupremacists valid. This bullshit is why anyone using cartoons from memes was arbitrarily put on the other end of a line in the sand and stigmatized, told, "if you post cartoon frogs, we will associate you with the worst possible statistical examples of everybody else that might use frog icons and anime profile pictures."

Woke also did not just innocently mean, "awake and aware." It also came to represent this pseudo-spiritualist idea that black people have a magical sort of deeper awareness, consciousness, validity as people and mystical acumen that the "soulless whites," do not possess in any facet of life, not just metaphorically to describe how one demographic cannot wholly understand or comprehend the existence of another. Because you know, they're real people, perhaps even the most actual people of all time! Not like us soulless, heartless, barely cognoscente honkeys.

If we're going to pick and choose our terms without the disgusting stigmas attached to them by the sort of people that use them, then there are a lot of words and combinations of words that get a bad rap by the kinds of people that use them.

To say besmirching 'woke' is alt-right, specifically, is to engage in trying to scrub the unfortunate history off of a term, and thus, rewrite history. We are no more destigmatizing the term woke than we're going to forcefully remove bigotry from a term like, "race realist." The people that unironically use terms like this don't deserve these terms being credible.

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Why is it that the people who are blaming Trump for not bringing down the cost of eggs were the same ones blaming the high cost on the greed of corporations a few months ago?

Because they're willfully stupid and conveniently ignore the fact that the FDA ordered the destruction of some 100 million chickens over possible bird flu concerns.

1. That's 100 million chickens over the course of the entire epidemic, so from two years ago.

2. The US alone slaughters 9.5 billion chickens per year, or 26 million per day, so there's literally absolutely no way that killing 100 million chickens over the course of 2 years would raise the price of eggs by any noticable amount at all.

2. It's literally the law and has been for decades that if bird flu is detected in a flock, the entire flock must be killed, because bird flu is so contagious and deadly among chickens that it's the only way to keep it from being spread from infected flocks to other flocks. If we didn't execute this policy then nearly all the chickens in the US would be dead within a few years.

You are legitimately mentally retarded.

The chickens used for meat are different from egg laying chickens.

Of the 9.5 billion chickens slaughtered, 9.3 billion were broiler chickens for meat. (Link) It’s also worth noting that while 9.3 billion broiler chickens are slaughtered every year they are only about 8-12 weeks old at slaughter. There’s an estimated 1.5 billion broilers in the US at any given time, so the ratio of egg layers to total population is larger than you would expect.

There’s only about 300 million egg laying chickens in the US. That smaller population is more vulnerable to culling because of disease. It also takes longer to build that population back up because egg laying chickens take about 6 months to reach maturity and begin producing eggs.

Chickens can produce approximately 300 eggs per year. If you kill 1000 egg laying chickens, for that 6 months you will lose almost 150,000 eggs.

Over 100 million were killed because of disease. Even if we assume only 1 million of the total culled were egg laying. That would result in 12.5 million fewer cartons of eggs on grocery store shelves in the 6 months it takes for new chickens to mature.

So maybe do some research before running your mouth.

Eh that was an easy mistake for me to make.

Regardless, culling infected chicken populations is objectively necessary, and blaming the increase in the price of eggs on it like it was somehow a mistake to do so is just downright stupid.

And besides, the state of the poultry and egg industry before Trump took office doesn't prevent trump from doing anything about it.

It's valid to criticize trump for not attempting to do much about the cost of living.

In his first month he's done plenty of things, but hasn't focused much on the issue that literally got him elected.

Culling infected chickens isn’t necessarily the wrong thing to do. However Trump can’t do much about a 6 month lag time between culling a flock and new chickens maturing. He also can’t just sign an executive order to end bird flu. You also can’t, on the one hand say we need to cull chickens, and then turn around and say “where’s all the eggs?”

Somethings simply take time regardless of who’s in office, it’s not fair to blame Trump for eggs one week after Inauguration Day, especially if you haven’t said anything about the outgoing administration.

It’s very easy for the president to sign executive orders to end USAID or DEI because it’s a simple policy change. Almost everything Trump has done in his second term so far has been policy and administrative changes.

And before you say nothing is being done about it, the new head of the USDA immediately started meeting with farmers and was looking to invest a billion dollars into the problem. But again she wasn’t confirmed until a few weeks after Trump took office.

Last February the US spend over 30 billion more than it did last February. DOGE doesn't work. You got scammed.

Yeah, that was because on December 21, 2024 the legislature passed a spending bill that was then signed into law by Biden that funded the government until March 14, 2025.

That money was already spent, and the spending was approved by the Biden administration.

Thanks for jumping back onto a post about eggs to be needlessly incorrect about DOGE. Have a nice day!

They got schooled on the egg situation and felt embarrassed so they quickly tried to shift the focus onto something else to feel less stupid, but unfortunately they are just as wrong about that claim too.

>Eh that was an easy mistake for me to make. I love how you spoke so authoritatively, and even insulted someone over it, but now you're blaming your mistakes on someone else. > and blaming the increase in the price of eggs on it like it was somehow a mistake to do so is just downright stupid. Pointing out cause and effect and responsibility is not the same as saying it was wrong. >In his first month he's done plenty of things, but hasn't focused much on the issue that literally got him elected. OP was about how people who didn't admit that eggs and the price of groceries were even real issues before the election...turned around and used those issues to browbeat Trump supporters the second he was in office. Which you have not, at any point, actually acknowledged. Not even to say they were wrong. You focused entirely on the supporting point, and not the main one. I think I know why. AAG>They got schooled on the egg situation and felt embarrassed so they quickly tried to shift the focus onto something else to feel less stupid, but unfortunately they are just as wrong about that claim too. It's almost as if they're just here to score points for their Political Team, by any means necessary.

Imo, atla has a bittersweet ending

Aang is sitting alone and wearing the air nomads clothes, his culture clothes, a necklace similar to GYATSO's necklace. I can't even imagine the emptiness and sadness he was feeling here

There are no airbenders in the crowd

All nation gathered..... except the air nomads.

No one else in the crowd wearing orange or yellow.

Aang won the war, but his people are still gone.

Yes, he has the Gaang, he has Katara, he has Momo and Appa. But he's still the last airbender.

This is so heartbreaking.

Then Korra Book 3 happens...

Going to be honest; I at least enjoyed they tried to rekindle the culture with Tenzin and Pema.

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It was right there on the sign.

The horror here is failure to respect clear and accurate signage.

I know I’m not the first person to say this but fandom’s seeming need to shove any character dynamic into some kind of familial role (siblings, father-son, mother-daughter etc) increasingly feels just as stifling and dismissive of platonic love as making every relationship romantic does.

I dunno man do you view all of your close friends as siblings cause I sure don’t. and I definitely don’t think of them as parents

like "found family" is called that because it is a group of people that you love as fiercely and unconditionally as society dictates you should love your family. not because everyone can literally fit neatly into the role of mother-father-children.

if I were to be really cynical l'd say an underlying reason behind this is just to make sure no one ships a ship that you dislike. if you can loud enough about them being "siblings" for it to become fanon, then shipping them romantically becomes icky and weird and "basically pseudo incest" even if there's nothing in the source material to back those feelings up

Well there's that, but there are also those people that really, really hate that biological, familial bonds are a thing people put into their calculus, and believe only relationships forged by choice should be legitimate. And in fact, I'm saying they believe biology should be irrelevant to taboo to consider valid.

So they go out of their way to minimize and marginalize the biological roots of mother/father/siblings as possible and instead try to argue it's the relationship that makes one a family member, not the blood. Usually under the pretense of, "Oh look! They think you can't have family that isn't related by blood! They hate adopted kids and think 'they're not your real family'!"

Here’s a great way to fuck with people who wear clothes/say shit like stop killing babies.

Agree with them. Tell them that you agree. The children being shot in schools are just babies and we need to protect them at all costs and restrict automatic weapons.

Then watch them get upset and freak out. And then walk away with your iced coffee and purple hair.

It's pretty obvious you've never actually tried that because pro-lifers don't freak out or get upset when people say things like that to us.

We would actually agree with you that school children need to be protected as well and we might get a good chuckle after hearing you suggest "restricting automatic weapons" because we know you don't realize you just suggested the solution to school shootings is restricting machine guns, which are already very heavily restricted and not the type of gun typically used in mass shootings. So yeah we might find it funny you don't really know what you're talking about but we wouldn't freak out.

And then after that we would again agree that school children need protected as well and would encourage you to support something that would actually help protect them. And remind you that it's possible to protect children from being killed in school and protect babies from being killed by abortion at the same time and it's not necessary to pick one over the other.

Then we'll let you walk away with your iced coffee and purple hair and let you process everything you just learned :)

Agreed let's let teachers who already have a concealed weapon bring it to school concealed so they can prevent a tragedy.

They actually are doing something far more sinister.

They're trying to use language that manufactures context, so you can't even engage in the conversation without agreeing that semi-automatics are synonymous with automatics. That they're "war-weapons," far too extreme for the common man and thus should already be banned. So when they say 'protect children from assault weapons,' they're invoking that umbrella where they put semi-autos that can hold more than 10 rounds in the same category as already banned weapons, to insist they should ban them the rest of the way.

Which is just as ridiculous as putting marijuana in the same category as heroin or fentanyl, because it's a drug. They know it's reaching, tortured logic that tries to use the existence of something as the implicit reason why it's acceptable to oppress it, and they don't care. They want firearms filed down and disarmed as much as they possibly can be, they want firearms owners punished or prohibited, or so many hoops to jump through to acquire or keep firearms and extremely easy to accidentally lose the rights or access, that it just isn't worth it to pursue having them.

They will argue that any shrew of an ex should have the right to call the cops and be like, "OH, I FEAR FOR MY SAFETY, THEY'RE A DERANGED AND DANGEROUS INDIVIDUAL," and with Red Flag laws, without due process or conviction, conficate those weapons and make them disappear, stonewalled behind bureaucracy and time gates and paperwork to get their constitutional right and property back. In the same breath that they bemoan vilificiation of those that get abortions as murderers being like something out of Handmaiden's Tale.

David Hogg stages “die in” at Publix, gets funding pulled for PP and LGBTQ organizations too lmao

They pulled all of their political donations because this attention whore doesn’t know when to shut up and fade back into obscurity 😂

And he got pissy because people just ignored his little public tantrum. He is everything bad about self-obsessed political activists.

You know, it might be time to remember that Hogg’s history of activism is paved with failures like this.

activism involved knowing what other people want and how your actions incentivize them? sounds like fascist capitalism fascist bootlicker chud fascist talk to me!

take me to snurch (snail church)

happy 10 years to snurch

oh do not do this to me

Hey, it's my birthday month.

I'll be one year older, none the smarter and I'm just as broke as I usually am, lmao.

I won't be e-begging for cash, but you can make me very happy by gifting me a game or two on Steam or GOG, or browsing my Amazon wishlist.

Just an idea.

I really like 4X games, Diablo-likes and games where I can mindlessly watch little people do automatic actions like Rimworld.

Or something I can play with a controller.

Here's the links, don't feel pressured, have fun, I guess:

https://steamcommunity.com/id/Goronian/

https://www.gog.com/u/Goronian

https://www.amazon.de/hz/wishlist/ls/1PJPPZ56SU416?ref_=wl_share

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If we lived in an imagined idyllic age of days gone by, Sony would be running TV ads featuring a guy with frosted tips in a sports car saying shit like "switch 2? Try switching 2 Playstation instead" and he'd drive off and you see his car is full of beautiful women and twinks (it's woke) but they'd never do that these days

"oh why are the boys there why is it woke" I'm projecting cherry-picked pieces of modernity I personally find palatable onto my imagined idyllic past that's what makes it imagined and idyllic dipshit

You could make this 90s by having them as ambiguous groupies without specifically saying they be fuckin'.

because If You Know You Know, and the grownups Knew who was fuckin' whom among David Bowie and Billy Idol and Freddy Mercury. An ambiguous hair band in the back says a lot without saying anything actionable or liable.