Needed: Counterpart to 'Woke'

[pood]

Wack.

 

[thebeave]

Yes, woke is a joke, and by using the word one joins the ranks of Trump, DeSantis, Greene, et al. Using woke to disparage someone by extension signals your disgust with protests for social justice and -- god forbid -- identity politics. But look how much the Repubs communicate with the word, and how much common identity is asserted.
The anti-MAGA side needs its own woke to describe The Way of Trump. It needs to be a short, pithy word, plucked from common usage. I'm for four-letter length, and for an aptness that hits the ear on the first take. It should also be chosen for its irritability level for the side you're labeling. 'Woke' has the ring of sarcasm coming from the MAGAts. "You're so very woke and aware, aren't you? How adorable." It also helps to choose a word that the other side has been using, even if it has not been a prominent word. ("Stay woke" was a phrase of black solidarity that may date back 90 years or so.) Perhaps a word Trump uses on the rally circuit.

Any ideas?

I nominate SHIT.

Being annoyed with stupid woke shit is hardly just the domain of Trump, DeSantis, Marjorie Taylor Greene, etc. There is a wide swath of the population who are fed up with it. We call them NORMAL people. Take Bill Maher for example. He is both virulently anti-woke and anti-Trump:

Good point. So when people are shiting on Star Wars for having a female lead, or Captain Marvel, Dr. Strange 2, The Marvrls, etc... it is okay because Bill Maher is anti-woke.

These anti-woke people still can never define what wokeness is. But I do know they consider showing the slightest bit of empathy to others to be "woke", which tells me all I need to know about them. Oh and, Bill Maher isn't a "normal person". He's a rich guy who has a TV show.

Citation, por favor on your empathy comment.

One can be rich, have a TV show and still be a "normal person" with regard to personal opinions. You are throwing an awful lot of people under the bus by claiming otherwise.

 

[Bomb#20]

Yes, woke is a joke, and by using the word one joins the ranks of Trump, DeSantis, Greene, et al. Using woke to disparage someone by extension signals your disgust with protests for social justice and -- god forbid -- identity politics. But look how much the Repubs communicate with the word, and how much common identity is asserted.

The anti-MAGA side needs its own woke to describe The Way of Trump. It needs to be a short, pithy word, plucked from common usage. I'm for four-letter length, and for an aptness that hits the ear on the first take. It should also be chosen for its irritability level for the side you're labeling. 'Woke' has the ring of sarcasm coming from the MAGAts. "You're so very woke and aware, aren't you? How adorable." It also helps to choose a word that the other side has been using, even if it has not been a prominent word. ("Stay woke" was a phrase of black solidarity that may date back 90 years or so.) Perhaps a word Trump uses on the rally circuit.

Any ideas?

What a bizarrely unselfaware request. We already have the exact word for this purpose, ticking all your boxes. It's four letters. We already use it on them as a sarcastic label to disparage them and signal our disgust with them. We use it for the same reason "woke" is used: it's a word the other side have been using for their ingroup as a way to pat themselves on the back for being superior life-forms. It's a word they chose because Trump chose it. And it's a word you already know and use -- it's the word you used to tell us who you were talking about that you wanted a word for!

He aint’ woke, he’s MAGA.

This ^^^^.

 

[ideologyhunter]

MAGA aint mean enough for me. I want to reach the Trumpian level of disparagement.
Also...THEY came up with MAGA. They don't get to choose their slang identifier.

 

[Bomb#20]

Plus it is woke to be anti-fascist, but I guess if you're anti-woke you're pro-fascist then.

And it is woke to be anti-racist and anti-misogynist, so I guess you're pro both of those too if you're anti-woke.

In other news, God is Love, so if you're pro-atheism you're anti-love.

Plus, Putin is anti-Nazi, so I guess if you're anti-Putin you're pro-Nazi then.

 

[Bomb#20]

MAGA aint mean enough for me. I want to reach the Trumpian level of disparagement.

Well, then you're just going to have to choose what to sacrifice from your requirement list. The obvious one to give up is four letters. You called them MAGAts -- that's plenty mean. If you go with any of the other proposals you're going to lose the sarcasm factor -- they don't call themselves "joke", "weak" and so forth, so when you use those it's just an insult, not ridicule.

 

[ideologyhunter]

God forbid that anyone should insult anyone else, for purely political purposes.

 

[Politesse]

They get pretty upset about "Karen".

 

[RVonse]

Yes, woke is a joke, and by using the word one joins the ranks of Trump, DeSantis, Greene, et al. Using woke to disparage someone by extension signals your disgust with protests for social justice and -- god forbid -- identity politics. But look how much the Repubs communicate with the word, and how much common identity is asserted.

The anti-MAGA side needs its own woke to describe The Way of Trump. It needs to be a short, pithy word, plucked from common usage. I'm for four-letter length, and for an aptness that hits the ear on the first take. It should also be chosen for its irritability level for the side you're labeling. 'Woke' has the ring of sarcasm coming from the MAGAts. "You're so very woke and aware, aren't you? How adorable." It also helps to choose a word that the other side has been using, even if it has not been a prominent word. ("Stay woke" was a phrase of black solidarity that may date back 90 years or so.) Perhaps a word Trump uses on the rally circuit.

Any ideas?

What a bizarrely unselfaware request. We already have the exact word for this purpose, ticking all your boxes. It's four letters. We already use it on them as a sarcastic label to disparage them and signal our disgust with them. We use it for the same reason "woke" is used: it's a word the other side have been using for their ingroup as a way to pat themselves on the back for being superior life-forms. It's a word they chose because Trump chose it. And it's a word you already know and use -- it's the word you used to tell us who you were talking about that you wanted a word for!

He aint’ woke, he’s MAGA.

This ^^^^.

MAGA stands for make America Great Again. What is so wrong with that? It once was a normal goal for an American to desire their country be great. Because if you don't think the country you live in should be great then pray tell us just why you think your country should suck? And if your goal is for the country you live in to suck, just what would you change to make it suck? More wokeness perhaps?

If the left desires their recognition "woke" viewed in positive light they should be promoting MAGA as being positive as well.

But unfortunately that is not how humans behave.

 

[GenesisNemesis]

Plus it is woke to be anti-fascist, but I guess if you're anti-woke you're pro-fascist then.

And it is woke to be anti-racist and anti-misogynist, so I guess you're pro both of those too if you're anti-woke.

In other news, God is Love, so if you're pro-atheism you're anti-love.

Plus, Putin is anti-Nazi, so I guess if you're anti-Putin you're pro-Nazi then.

Already mentioned how it's woke to be anti-fascist. So... no.

 

[RVonse]

Yes, woke is a joke, and by using the word one joins the ranks of Trump, DeSantis, Greene, et al. Using woke to disparage someone by extension signals your disgust with protests for social justice and -- god forbid -- identity politics. But look how much the Repubs communicate with the word, and how much common identity is asserted.
The anti-MAGA side needs its own woke to describe The Way of Trump. It needs to be a short, pithy word, plucked from common usage. I'm for four-letter length, and for an aptness that hits the ear on the first take. It should also be chosen for its irritability level for the side you're labeling. 'Woke' has the ring of sarcasm coming from the MAGAts. "You're so very woke and aware, aren't you? How adorable." It also helps to choose a word that the other side has been using, even if it has not been a prominent word. ("Stay woke" was a phrase of black solidarity that may date back 90 years or so.) Perhaps a word Trump uses on the rally circuit.

Any ideas?

I nominate SHIT.

Hilary already beat you to this when she called half the country deplorable. Deplorable is not quite the short sounding bite you were asking for I guess but it does accurately describes how you feel about anyone who differs from your opinions.

 

[pood]

Yes, woke is a joke, and by using the word one joins the ranks of Trump, DeSantis, Greene, et al. Using woke to disparage someone by extension signals your disgust with protests for social justice and -- god forbid -- identity politics. But look how much the Repubs communicate with the word, and how much common identity is asserted.

The anti-MAGA side needs its own woke to describe The Way of Trump. It needs to be a short, pithy word, plucked from common usage. I'm for four-letter length, and for an aptness that hits the ear on the first take. It should also be chosen for its irritability level for the side you're labeling. 'Woke' has the ring of sarcasm coming from the MAGAts. "You're so very woke and aware, aren't you? How adorable." It also helps to choose a word that the other side has been using, even if it has not been a prominent word. ("Stay woke" was a phrase of black solidarity that may date back 90 years or so.) Perhaps a word Trump uses on the rally circuit.

Any ideas?

What a bizarrely unselfaware request. We already have the exact word for this purpose, ticking all your boxes. It's four letters. We already use it on them as a sarcastic label to disparage them and signal our disgust with them. We use it for the same reason "woke" is used: it's a word the other side have been using for their ingroup as a way to pat themselves on the back for being superior life-forms. It's a word they chose because Trump chose it. And it's a word you already know and use -- it's the word you used to tell us who you were talking about that you wanted a word for!

He aint’ woke, he’s MAGA.

This ^^^^.

MAGA stands for make America Great Again. What is so wrong with that? It once was a normal goal for an American to desire their country be great. Because if you don't think the country you live in should be great then pray tell us just why you think your country should suck? And if your goal is for the country you live in to suck, just what would you change to make it suck? More wokeness perhaps?

If the left desires their recognition "woke" viewed in positive light they should be promoting MAGA as being positive as well.

But unfortunately that is not how humans behave.

LOL, that is what it STANDS for, but not what it IS. Have you ever heard of Orwell? War is Peace, Slavery is Freedom? MASA, Make America Suck Again, would be much more line with the truth.

Are you seriously telling us that just because someone says MAGA, he really means it?

 

[pood]

Here, I just coined one — IAG. I Am God. Bow down before me, please.

 

[Elixir]

Are you seriously telling us that just because someone says MAGA, he really means it?

Well yeah. It expresses the MAGAt's honest desire to return America to a prior state of what they consider greatness.
IOW, it's shorthand for "bring back slavery".

 

[pood]

MAWA, Make America White Again.

 

[Bomb#20]

God forbid that anyone should insult anyone else, for purely political purposes.

Dude! You're the one who said what you wanted was "its own woke", with "the ring of sarcasm". Insult them all you please. You have my blessing. Just don't kid yourself that nominating a word from George Carlin's seven puts you in the same league with "woke".

Also...THEY came up with MAGA. They don't get to choose their slang identifier.

The left-wingers came up with "woke". (Okay, they culturally appropriated it, but let's not quibble.)

 

[pood]

God forbid that anyone should insult anyone else, for purely political purposes.

Dude! You're the one who said what you wanted was "its own woke", with "the ring of sarcasm". Insult them all you please. You have my blessing. Just don't kid yourself that nominating a word from George Carlin's seven puts you in the same league with "woke".

Also...THEY came up with MAGA. They don't get to choose their slang identifier.

The left-wingers came up with "woke". (Okay, they culturally appropriated it, but let's not quibble.)

A tiny number of people came up with woke, which over time gained some currency. And all it really means is the perfectly reasonable idea that that we should be aware of and respect the historical experience of people who are of different races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientation, etc. Before “woke” came along the right-wing tards were in a lather about “PC.” And what it all really gets down to is the fact that MAGGOTS (seven letters) can’t stand the idea that hetero cisgendered white men aren’t carved out a special place of privilege any more.

 

[GenesisNemesis]

By the way, Putin is against anti-fascists in case it wasn't completely obvious.

 

[Elixir]

The left-wingers came up with "woke". (Okay, they culturally appropriated it, but let's not quibble.)

No, let's quibble. There's absolutely nothing original about woke.
At least MAGA is a de novo creation, spawned of inspirational vision!
The fact that said vision is a dystopian nightmare is entirely beside the point.

 

[ideologyhunter]

MAGA stands for make America Great Again. What is so wrong with that? It once was a normal goal for an American to desire their country be great. Because if you don't think the country you live in should be great then pray tell us just why you think your country should suck? And if your goal is for the country you live in to suck, just what would you change to make it suck? More wokeness perhaps?

Well, that's rich. MAGA stands now for what it stood for 8 years ago: belligerence, calls for violence, insulting and obscene language about its opponents (hence the karma in labeling them as whatever infuriates them the most), xenophobic scare-mongering, homophobic scare-mongering, zany conspiracy theories about Democrats drinking baby blood, running child prostitution rings, etc., etc., etc. It is the last refuge of spineless Repub pols who, for a brief window in '15 and '16, and an even briefer one in '21, told the truth about this revolting movement and its leader. They are a stain on our history and traditions.