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Reese, why are you passing out brochures? Its not a brochure its a manifesto.
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Did they get those letters pressed on at the kiosk in the mall next to the guy selling cell phones and the Orange Julius stand?- Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do
*manzier- 2025 Alamo Bowl - USC vs. TCU
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- Citrus Bowl, Dec 31st - Texas vs Michigan.
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No. “Woke” means to be vigilant and aware of racial prejudice and systemic injustice. It was about critical thinking and used that way for 70+ years. Quite a few people have criticized my increasing condescension towards people on this board, and I have taken their feedback to heart. So rather than patronizing you myself I asked ChatGPT 5 to explain this for you: How did woke go from meaning vigilance and awareness of systemic injustice to what it means today? The short answer is: political struggle, media amplification, and semantic drift. The longer story shows how a word tied to Black political consciousness was broadened, commercialized, and then weaponized. 1. Original meaning: “stay woke” “Woke” comes from African American Vernacular English (AAVE). As early as the 1930s–40s, it meant being awake to danger, especially racial injustice. By the mid-20th century it clearly meant awareness of systemic racism—police brutality, discriminatory laws, economic exclusion. “Stay woke” = stay alert, don’t be fooled It implied critical thinking, not ideology It was inward-facing: advice within a community, not a label for others This usage resurged during Black Lives Matter (2013–2016) as a shorthand for social awareness. 2. Expansion and dilution (mid-2010s) As “woke” entered mainstream culture, two things happened: A. It broadened beyond race It came to mean awareness of many injustices: gender, sexuality, climate, colonialism, disability, etc. This wasn’t inherently negative—but the word now covered: deeply thoughtful critique shallow signaling sincere activism performative gestures One word was doing too much work. B. Corporate and cultural co-option Brands, universities, and institutions adopted “woke” language: marketing campaigns HR trainings symbolic gestures without structural change This created “woke-as-style” rather than “woke-as-analysis.” Once something becomes a brand, it becomes a target. 3. Backlash and weaponization (late-2010s → now) Conservative media and politicians recognized something important: “Woke” was vague, emotionally charged, and already contested. So they redefined it from the outside. Instead of meaning awareness of injustice, it was reframed as: authoritarian moralism hypersensitivity identity obsession censorship and punishment elitist scolding Crucially, this reframing collapsed distinctions: good-faith reform efforts clumsy institutional policies fringe activist behavior All became “woke.” It became a negative umbrella term—useful precisely because it’s imprecise. 4. Why the new meaning stuck A few forces made the shift durable: Media incentives: outrage travels faster than nuance Bad actors: some activists did embrace puritanism, purity tests, and coercion Institutional failures: top-down policies imposed without consent bred resentment Language asymmetry: defenders had to explain; critics just had to sneer Over time, “woke” stopped functioning as a self-description and became almost entirely pejorative. Even many progressives now avoid the word. 5. Where that leaves us Today, “woke” usually means: A bundle of perceived excesses associated with contemporary progressive politics That’s very different from: Being alert to injustice and power. So the word didn’t just “change.” It was pulled apart by conflict. The original meaning still exists—but mostly without the word. In one sentence: “Woke” went from a warning within a marginalized community to a mass-market identity, and finally to a political insult, because once a term becomes powerful, vague, and visible, someone will turn it into a weapon. If you want, I can also: compare “woke” to earlier words that met the same fate (e.g., politically correct) map how different groups use the word simultaneously in incompatible ways or trace how this plays out differently in the US vs Europe- Non-Texas weather. The all-encompassing thread
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We went Mamani for a birthday dinner this week. I know there was a lot of pearl clutching when it got its star after being open only a few weeks and with only a 2 week Michelin review time window. The reasoning was that the French chef was well known from Joel Rubuchon in Las Vegas and they could immediately tell that he brought it. My verdict is that the star is deserved. Wow! What a meal. It was perfect. The service was personal (called us by names on the reservation, every single person who approached the table acknowledged the birthday in a low key way, a personal note on the table, ...) and professional and flawless. The cocktails were superb. The wine list may be the best in Dallas. And each dish was truly excellent. It was impossible for us to pick our favorites, although the Paris-Brest dessert was memorable because I had seen the bakers try to make that dessert on British Bake Off and never thought I would actually have one. It's a big and expensive night out, but put it on your special occasion list. Suggestion: there are some tables in the lobby area, including two that are close to and face the kitchen. Get one of those. They are not in the fancy formal dining room. The cold air when the door opens will hit you. You are essentially in the lobby, but it is all worth it to watch the brigade in kitchen and hear the French chefs call out orders and the responses. The chef came over to check on us a couple of times. It was quite a show if you like that sort of thing.- Slow Horses
Also I usually hate Roddy but he was great. His "I am death" line killed me and the scenes where he's been put in the cell at Mi5 were hilarious.- Is this the end of shitty bowl games?
Should have to win minimum 7 games to make a bowl. Reduce bowl games to 26 which is 10 fewer than current amount. That includes 37 total bowl/cpf games.- Is this the end of shitty bowl games?
“For all the Tostitos” in the old Fiesta Bowl lives rent free in my mind lean into the schtick- Citrus Bowl, Dec 31st - Texas vs Michigan.
addition by subtraction.- 2025 Cotton Bowl - Ohio State vs. Miami
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Not quite a Triple Lindy, but close.- NBA 2025-2026 Season Thread
- Русский корабль - иди нахуй
I was reading this author named Barry Eisler, whose crime fiction I have been guardedly enjoying. https://barryeisler.substack.com/ He seems to be appropriately liberal, was a CIA agent for a while. Raises a few good points here and there. But he's a bit of a look and a disestablshmentarian. But in one of his screeds, he did declare NATO expansion to be a legitimate and sufficient provocation to Russia, analogizing it to Russian behavior during the Missile Crisis. Therefore, I had to consider that "talking point" rather seriously for the first time. All of that assumes that dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact eliminated all threat to the tiny countries of Europe that have twice been subject to a continent-wide war in roughly the last century. It assumes that a non-communist Russia is no kind of threat. That might possibly have been true briefly at the end of the Soviet era, but was never realistic, as events of the last decade have shown. Putin is all-Soviet, all the time, minus the Comintern and Politburo. Russia remains opposed to "the West," rather than being a part of it. Its western neighbors behave accordingly. It's not like NATO really represents an arms buildup or aggression, it's a defensive pact.- Citrus Bowl, Dec 31st - Texas vs Michigan.
Uh okay. Half our defense is missing, we are down a DB coach and our LB coach is calling the defense. I want to win, but it is a glorified scrimmage. The goal is to make it out healthy. No major injuries- Citrus Bowl, Dec 31st - Texas vs Michigan.
On the other hand, the meltdown on this board if he doesn't will be glorious.- Dumbass Shit We See On Facebook
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