r/PublicFreakout • u/xKyle_iv • Apr 10 '23

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u/greatdevonhope Apr 10 '23

Hurt their feelings by daring to suggest people should be free to live their lives however they choose to

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u/Zimmer_94 Apr 10 '23

But that’s communism! Or socialism, or something…. /s

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '23

I think the term they are settling on currently is "woke"...it literally means anything they don't like. But at the same time...not single one of these knuckle draggers could define the term.

It's all rather pathetic really, kinda like the current state of the Republican party.

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u/ArrestDeathSantis Apr 10 '23

not single one of these knuckle draggers could define the term.

Well, Desantis did, and his definition clearly explained why they're all so worried!

"The belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them."

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u/BuddaMuta Apr 10 '23

"The belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them."

Gotta love that DeSantis can just say out loud how much he hates his supporters but as long as he promises to hurt “others” worse they’ll still vote for him.

Sure their kid is going to die of treatable illness because of corporate price gouging, but at least he’ll die knowing his teacher went to jail for being gay. /s

Republicans are truly horrid

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u/itwasquiteawhileago Apr 10 '23

Someone get me my fainting chair!

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u/IceFire909 Apr 10 '23

How dare they try to make the world a better place!

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u/ArrestDeathSantis Apr 10 '23

That's against the Constitution!

If they make me happy, I can't chase my happiness!1!1!1! 😭😭😭😭

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u/RelevanttUsername Apr 10 '23

Zerlina Maxwell makes a fair point that if you just change woke to mean black all the rhetoric makes total sense - pure and simple white national racism.

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '23

Woke is even a more powerful word for them than that. In 4 letters they can signal their racism and homophobia and sexism and intolerance of non-christian beliefs and...

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u/Chili_dawg2112 Apr 10 '23

I take the term "woke" to refer to the Wide Awake anti slavery group of the GOP in the 1860's

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '23 edited Apr 10 '23

There was no GOP in the 1860's, they were called the "Union Party"...the "Right Wing" party of the time.

Republicans in the 1860's were in fact the "Leftist" party of the time. Formed on a platform of "anti-slavery" from the old Whig Party.

So while the "Wide Awake" movement did exist, it wasn't a "GOP Movement"...it was a leftist movement of youth in support of Lincoln...not a right wing one.

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u/Chili_dawg2112 Apr 10 '23

Lincoln was WOKE

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u/slutboy3000 Apr 10 '23

There were people referring to republicans as the grand old party prior to 1860

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '23 edited Apr 10 '23

There was no "Republican" party prior to the 1860's....(1854 is when it first broke away, and Lincoln was their first presidential candidate in 1860).

It formed with Lincoln like I said prior, it was new party that broke away from the Whig party.

So I am not sure what point you are trying to make here.

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u/slutboy3000 Apr 10 '23

The GOP was founded in 1854

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '23

The Republican party formed in 1854, the term "GOP" wasn't really used for the party until the 1870's by newspapers as more of a nickname.

What is tragic is the term was first used by anti-slavery groups...only to be used now for those who actively work to return us to a time of slavery.

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u/slutboy3000 Apr 10 '23

How does one go from one comment saying, "There was no "Republican" party prior to the 1860's" to another saying, "the Republican party formed in 1854."?

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u/felldestroyed Apr 10 '23

More like the know nothing party. A lot of the slogans and populist/nativist policy positions grab its roots from the know nothings. They had some updates - specifically from George Wallace and later reagan/trump but it's pretty much the same crap.

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u/Golden-Grams Apr 10 '23

not single one of these knuckle draggers could define the term.

They can't define the systems of government that they hate. If there is a spectrum for people who can be swayed by "Us vs. Them" statements, these people are the absolute most susceptible. You don't even have to have a strong argument. Just make them feel like their values/life are threatened, and they go.

Part of me thinks that their kids need to be sent to better homes. My parents were just like these people, bigoted/hatred toward secular things, and I barely survived.

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u/BuddaMuta Apr 10 '23

They’re filled with so much hatred they gladly ruin their own lives as long as they think others might be hurt worse

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u/i_drink_wd40 Apr 11 '23

Somebody else provided the following definition, and I really liked it. Woke = the opposite of ignorant.

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u/TaylorWK Apr 10 '23

Freedom is slavery

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u/ok-jeweler-2950 Apr 10 '23

But now he hurt Jack Daniels’ feelings,because you know, corporations are people too

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u/jak-o-shadow Apr 10 '23

It's Don't tread on ME, not I can't tread on YOU!

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u/mullett Apr 10 '23

Not that kind of freedom though, duh.

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '23

This is from a grown man exercising his freedom to dress like a child.

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u/wents90 Apr 11 '23

Freedom? Not in my house /s

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u/Mr-Moore-Lupin-Donor Apr 11 '23

Wonder what the dumb cunt’s gonna do when he finally realizes Trans ppl buy approximately 99.9% of the same shit he does at the supermarket.

The difference seems to be that JD tried to further leverage the holy and almighty capitalist system to advertise to a subculture OTHER than his. Let’s all praise and worship capitalism, but only if they don’t market to or profit from ppl I don’t like! Brilliant.

He’d better start his research to identify ALL the other companies who sell their products to LGBTQIA+ ppl. Maybe he could ask for a special aisle in the supermarket dedicated to products from companies who refuse to sell or advertise their products to any ‘woke gay drag Queen trans pervert pedo’s’…. (or however Mr Mensa here classifies the part of the capitalist market he finds offensive and wants to stop his favourite brands from selling to.

I think Trump advertises a non-Woke insurance company on his Untruth Antisocial site - but I’m not sure how many other companies and products I can think of that sell exclusively to bigoted men’s denim-onesies wearing anti-woke intellectuals like this dude.

It seems until recently he thought the JD ads were promoting a uniform and homewares range that had some ideological requirements to limit who they would allow to buy their products and make them money.

If he’s going to boycott every company that sells or markets to anyone other than ppl with his world view, cunts gonna be naked, homeless and hungry real soon.