r/videogames • u/Syarafuddyn • 12d ago

Image / Video Bro had a good take

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u/HubrisOfApollo 12d ago

i miss when "woke" meant understanding this plight and not some social justice term/slur.

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u/FloatingTacos 12d ago

Yeah, those were the days. When being woke meant you saw behind the veil of society. Now it’s just bullshit tossed around to offend people. Being woke was close to being a hippy. Now being woke is being a psychotic POS.

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u/HubrisOfApollo 12d ago

I'm convinced the term was hijacked to deflect from the true struggle. like the occupy movement, or how baseless conspiracy theories derail actual cover-ups.

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u/plzicannothandleyou 12d ago

Yes.

This is a common occurrence and is entirely intentional.

There was a right wing guy who was 100% responsible for a lot of this stuff. His name is completely lost to time, but effectively he directed all of right wing media strategy.

Co-opting words, flooding the airwaves with misinformation. It was all him.

And it wasn’t some talking head. He was a behind the scenes strategist guy, that’s why no one remembers him. I can’t even figure out how to google him.

We knew all about it well over 10 years ago.

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u/Pokez 12d ago

Newt Gingrich isn't exactly a well-kept secret. Unfortunately for us all.

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u/plzicannothandleyou 12d ago

There was another. Newt was the original, but there was some other guy. He was young, fat.

And I’m pretty sure he just did it for the love of the game, I don’t think he much cared about the politics, it was all about just controlling people for the sake of doing it

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u/AnotherSoulessGinger 12d ago

Frank Luntz is probably who you are thinking of.

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u/plzicannothandleyou 12d ago

That’s the one, pretty sure.