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mnaz
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Woke

Post by mnaz » August 12th, 2025, 12:19 am

I like waking up.
It means I'm alive.
Wake! Wake! Wake!
Not woke! Past tense.
Woke bad, bad, bad!
What a difference one
one letter makes, I'm told.

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Re: Woke

Post by saw » August 14th, 2025, 10:19 am

"Woke " is obviously a buzz word..... cooked up in a think tank to be regurgitated by people that never read a book..it's a MAGA shortcut for the lazy intolerant hordes that follow Trump's non-stop lies...

there are many it seems many that reject, Live and Let Live, which has been uttered for centuries to express a philosphy of peaceful coexistence......Trump and his simpleton disciples believe only
They are Right, and intend to force their philosphy on the masses....and anti wokeness will lead them to the promised land
If you do not change your direction
you may end up where you are heading

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Re: Woke

Post by sasha » August 14th, 2025, 1:12 pm

it's right up there with "fake news", "liberal", & "rigged" in my Top 10 list of misappropriated words & terms of the post-Covid era
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"If one could deduce the nature of the Creator from a study of creation, it would appear that He has an inordinate fondness for beetles." -- evolutionary biologist J B S Haldane, (1892-1964)

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Re: Woke

Post by winddance » August 15th, 2025, 10:53 am

please let me woke up from this bad dream
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
e e cummings

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Re: Woke

Post by saw » August 15th, 2025, 1:11 pm

Hunter S.Thompson once quipped," The brutality of politics would probably be intolerable without drugs"

might have something there...choose your poison
If you do not change your direction
you may end up where you are heading

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Re: Woke

Post by stilltrucking » August 15th, 2025, 8:00 pm

saw wrote:
Trump and his simpleton disciples believe only
They are Right,
Is that really what they believe?
I used to wonder what they believe?
"I used to stand and wonder, now I only stand...it came to me one rainy August morning like a flash,. We might all wa/oke up tomorrow in a pile of smoke and ash"—Peggy Wilson a waitressd at Sambo's in Atascadero
sorry for the digression, thank you so much for writing . you have no idea how much you help me cope.

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Re: Woke

Post by mnaz » August 16th, 2025, 4:41 pm

It's all divide and conquer politics at this point. I'll just leave it at that.

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