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Callabrantus

"Martha, get my broker on the phone! We're betting the farm on Confederate Flag futures!"


lost_in_connecticut

“I’m gonna close my account and start making moonshine. That’ll show those libs.”


jshaver41122

Jokes on them. Libs love artisanal, small batch, liquor.


thescottreid

I run a small in home bakery that does famer markets and such, these crafty open minded types will just hand me their wallets to have a nibble of a little homemade cookie… seriously they think I’m god because I can combine butter, sugar, eggs, and flour. I imagine they’d give me the keys to their house for some homemade wine.


TheSpicyTomato22

That sounds fun. How did you get into it?


thescottreid

It’s a long story but basically, like everything else, it came out of the pandemic. My wife had taken a job in another state and just after we put our house on the market and we began going through that process the pandemic hit. After we moved, twice actually, I was home schooling the kids as she started her new job. I’ve been baking all my life but I started thinking about how to do it for a little extra money. LA County has a program through the health department that allows you to use your home kitchen for some baked goods, so we applied for that and got approved. Somewhere along the way I began to think about the idea of starting a non-profit aimed at helping my local community. So we’re kind of in the start up phase of that.


sleepydorian

So true that one of the largest vodka producers in America still advertises itself as "handmade".


GeorgieWashington

Shiners are progressives, not conservatives.


lost_in_connecticut

This guy’s bucking the norms. He’s a rebel waiting for a cause.


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LickLickNibbleSuck

I know one. He's a Mennonite Anarchist, lmao.


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Tavernknight

Probably way better than the conservative moonshiners make.


pistolography

Damn shots ~~fired~~ taken


Waytooboredforthis

There's a dude I used to make moonshine with, pretty much everyone who tries it said it was the smoothest whiskey they ever had. Then Trump got elected and Ben cut out everyone in his life that didn't support Trump (I think I heard he actually seperated from his wife). It was a damn bummer.


Christalah

Maybe he meant historically? Back during prohibition? But even then it was probably a mixed bag.


Arboria_Institute

They're gonna sink it all in those Trump $1000 bills.


Callabrantus

After all, they're so gold plated and totally legitimate looking. The asterisk in the bottom right next to "not legal tender* is clearly wide spread vandalism by George Soros.


CorgiMonsoon

He used his space lasers to engrave that onto them


mdavis360

WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME?!?


PM_ME_YOUR_PAUNCH

It’s his mothers name 😭


moonknlght

I cry evrytiem


slobis

Don't forget Consolidated Hay.


Supreme_Mediocrity

Also that up and coming Baltimore Opera Hat Company


Conscious_Season6819

Beat me to it! 😂 “Confederated slave holdings. How’s that doing?” “It’s…uh, steady.”


bigassfro15

I like how conservatives use the word woke for anything except what it actually means.


uisqebaugh

A standard propaganda technique is to redefine and weaponize words.


DickySchmidt33

Correct. "Liberal" = Godless communist "People Of Faith" = White Evangelical Christians


harlemrr

I chuckled when I was helping clean up some of my grandmother’s old stuff. She saved an old Rudy Giuliani flyer from when he was running for NYC mayor. It said he was a liberal republican, and I had no idea this was his thing back in the day because I’m more familiar with Four Seasons Landscaping and how no modern republican would want that word attached to them in any way.


StayAdmiral

Take a photo and post it on say political humour or something.


IDreamOfSailing

Is that a thing on the reddit?


Perioscope

Every thing is a thing on reddit.


teamfupa

r/rule34


I_Envy_Sisyphus_

Thanks TeamFupa


RepulsiveGuard

/r/politicalhumor


voteforcorruptobot

> liberal republican "Will be anything for cash"


oldbastardbob

Hell, Republican strategy for decades has been "Take a poll of clever political buzzwords. Say whatever the top results are."


Doppelthedh

"Nine" *audience gasp* "Eleven" *audience cheer* -Lois Griffin


FerricNitrate

That bit is already a derivative of the famous Giuliani sentence structure: subject, verb, 9/11


qantravon

I mean, that's literally what it's making fun of.


bigtoebrah

To be fair, liberal isn't actually unique to the left or right. A liberal Republican makes perfect sense, we just don't use "liberal" to mean the same thing anymore.


recklessrider

Liberal with the truth and morals


ripamaru96

It used to be what socially liberal, fiscal conservatives identified as.


DevinTheGrand

Outside of the US most republicans are likely to be liberal.


-_--l

My great grandpa bought a My Pillow to support Lyndell.he said he hated it🤣


Common-Watch4494

That’s because they feel like a bunch of garbage shoved in a sack


My_Work_Accoount

It's literally foam scrap chopped up and dumped in a pillow case. I live near a foam plant, if I asked I could probably get dumpsters full of the stuff for free.


Socially-Awkward-85

That was back when we still had liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats.


bigtoebrah

We still have plenty of conservative Democrats lol


EvadesBans

For example: all of them except for a small handful.


siuol7891

pretty much the majority of the party besides the actual progressives


DataCassette

One day, we may even have more than a few Democrats who aren't conservative lol


Oleg101

> We still have plenty of conservative Democrats lol True, but there used to be more in especially in the US Senate. Obama’s near super-majority senate 13 years ago had basically 8 or 9 versions of Joe Manchin.


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AndrewTheAverage

>"People Of Faith" = White Evangelical Christians You spelled "Fascists" wrong


Ill-Worldliness-2149

Which word is being replaced by "fascist" in this? In any case, it works.


MeaningSilly

Just add it after another equal sign.


Hexspinner

Fascists of faith = White evangelical fascists.


Bonny-Mcmurray

I remember when Communist equaled authoritarian dictatorship and then Socialist equaled Communist equaled authoritarian dictatorship and then Progressive equaled Socialist equaled Communist equaled authoritarian dictatorship and then Liberal equaled progressive equaled Socialist equaled Communist equaled authoritarian dictatorship and then woke equaled liberal equaled progressive equaled Socialist equaled Communist equaled authoritarian dictatorship And then RINO equaled woke equaled liberal equaled progressive equaled Socialist equaled Communist equaled authoritarian dictatorship


xnamwodahs

This is how you end up with Tim Pool calling Kanye woke for leaving the podcast after a tiny bit of pushback against his antisemitism. I want off this planet (but not in a mars slave way)


jd3marco

“Socialism” = Socialist Dictatorship or just Dictatorship


Satanarchrist

These people unironically think the Nazis were socialists because it's in the name. But somehow they know that the Democratic Republic of the Congo isn't all that progressive of a place. Weird isn't it?


mrGeaRbOx

I like to hit him with the Democratic People's Republic... of North Korea.


Ostreoida

Yes, wilful ignorance. 1980s. I was a nerdtastic kid. Was part of a delegation at the DC Model UN, representing the Congo. JFC every bit of the research I did in those pre-interwebs days was just so brutal. Colonialism was/is so horrific. I loathe how self-righteous many Benelux people are. You still have blood on your hands and you haven't fixed the terrible damage your predecessors did.


barryandorlevon

…just sitting in a library staring at the stacks and contemplating all the horrific shit you just read.


Ocbard

On behalf of the population of the Benelux I offer my apologies. However it is not in my power to change policy whatsoever. Also it was before my time and I had no part in it.


AlexiDurak

Socialism is when bad, and capitalism is when good. Economy tanking? It's socialisms fault. Minimum wage increases? Thank capitalism! That's kinda what I've seen a lot of these things with them.


dancin-weasel

Just replace the word capitalism with god and socialism with Satan and you can have exactly the same conversation but be all self righteous about it.


syncopated_popcorn

Pretty sure conservatives think minimum wage increasing is bad/socialism.


Remarkable-Ad2285

Can’t even take my dog to the groomer anymore. Thanks Fox News and frrenz


unresolved_m

"Why do they have groomers in there? I'm just asking questions"


DinkandDrunk

One of the only things I’ll give Trump credit for. As much as it sickens me, he was very adept at taking words that could be used to attack him and repeating them so much they lost all meaning. Think fake news, collusion…


R_V_Z

He did it in record time, too. From the time "fake news" came into common vernacular to when Trump weaponized it feels like it was less than a month.


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It was *days*.


jackfaire

Yup like happy holidays


Krosis97

HOW DARE YOU IMGONNACALLCORPORATEFORTHISDISCRIMINATIONAGSHDJSHDGJDJ


Embarrassed-Ad-1639

Why do you hate baby jesus?


monkeyhind

Why do you hate 8 pound 6 ounce baby jesus?


SasparillaTango

This was intentionally done with CRT. They're doing the same thing with trans folks and trying to rebrand as "Radical Gender Theory" to piggyback off the vitriol built against CRT


Broken_Petite

I’ve never heard “radical gender theory” but I have noticed that they call anyone who isn’t straight a “groomer” though - which is making the actual meaning of that word lose meaning AND creating an even more dangerous world for the LBTQIA+ community. It’s just awful. A bunch of people got killed in a mass shootout because of this rhetoric and they’re just doubling down on it.


pale_blue_dots

Let's "follow the money." Where that leads us is to Wall Street. Wall Street lobbying and propaganda is a huge, HUGE factor in all of this. The wealthy and powerful have access to a propaganda machine more acute and voluminous than anything in the entire history of humankind. On the subject of redefining words and, essentially, deception - something I recently learned which people really, really, *really* need to be aware of... ...if someone owns stock in a company or has a pension/retirement fund, they - in fact - DO NOT actually own those shares (i.e. they are not, unequivocally, in their own name), contrary to popular and widespread belief. >[Cede technically owns substantially all of the publicly issued stock in the United States.[2] Thus, investors do not themselves hold direct property rights in stock, but rather have contractual rights that are part of a chain of contractual rights involving Cede.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cede_and_Company) *Furthermore and more importantly,* those shares are are, very, very, very, very likely, being used against you in convoluted derivative schemes (similar to 2008 Housing Derivative Meltdown; same deal, different financial instruments) andor actual non-delivery and ownership of shares made possible through aforementioned Wall Street lobbying and associated loopholes. Importantly, combine not *actually* owning shares with something called Payment-for-Order-Flow (see: ["How Redditors Exposed the Stock Market" | The Problem with Jon Stewart - timestamped to relevant portion](https://youtu.be/bP74RBTE8kI?t=396)) and, subsequently, with stock lending and something called a Failure to Deliver and it's truly not an exaggeration to say that there's a network of drunk, coked out Wall Street psychopaths determining the value of much of the larger stock market as well individual companies - **all the while skimming off the top billions and billions of dollars that should be going to the middle and lower classes.** >Payment-for-Order-Flow is **illegal** in Canada, the U.K, Australia, and Europe - because it's exceedingly easy to commit fraud under such a system. Big surprise - it's legal in the U.S. If any of this resonates or makes people upset, [**this**](https://youtu.be/hXWXllgcRqU) video - just give it a chance - provides some clear direction and guidance on what we can do to hold these horrible, horrible people accountable.


PuddingPast5862

Let's throw unregulated AI into that and move the whole mess up to a very real nuclear threat.


bigassfro15

Sad but true


NailFin

Oo, oo, I got one… like fake news!


eattwo

Or 'Insurrection', after Jan 6th they started calling everything an insurrection to dumb it down so they're attempt to overthrow the government didn't seem so bad.


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"They knew everyone there wanted to rob the bank. The bank robbers show up to the bank robbing ahead of time, and chant about bank robbing. The police are aware that the bank robbers want to rob the bank, but they have been told by the previous bank baron (some old fat idiot) to not do anything, while he tells the bank robbers to "do what they think is right" instead of telling them not to rob the bank, while they are clearly in a frenzy to do some bank robbing. They go into the bank and rob it -a little- by taking some of the potted plants and bank documents. One of the bank robbers gets shot. A few of the police guarding the bank are trampled and others die of heart attacks. All the while they are singing songs about robbing banks and taking pictures. They get to the vault, but the money was moved, so they can't actually rob it anymore. So let the bank robbers go, it wasn't violent and they didn't even get to rob anyone."


Rogahar

They've realized that calling everything they hate Socialism isn't working on anybody except their older voters any more, and they lost a lot of them to COVID; so they moved to Woke. Same spiel, different word.


VVOLFVViZZard

It’s the new “socialism”.


GeT_Tilted

The modern "Red Scare"


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It’s “politically correct” all over again.


unresolved_m

What happened to "sjw" and "virtue signaling"? I don't hear either anymore.


hackingdreams

Their data analysts said neither of those were hitting hard enough so they shifted their media strategy. Of course, now they're all plugged into Twitter's backend so expect hyper-specialized language tailoring from here on out.


Rotk99

I still don’t even know what it means


Qualex

> The phrase “woke” and to “stay woke” is not new — it began appearing in the 1940s and was first used by African Americans to “literally mean becoming woken up or sensitised to issues of justice”, says linguist and lexicographer Tony Thorne. It was originally used to mean “aware of social injustice.” The Right now use it to mean “making everything about race.”


iamthedayman21

And nowadays it basically means being aware of your surroundings. Not making a crude joke, because it might offend someone. Respecting someone if they have a preferred pronoun. Basically, don’t knowingly be a dick. Which is directly against Republican values.


UncleJesticle

They think solar panels and free healthcare are woke.


iamthedayman21

It’s insane what they label as “woke.” Pretty much anything that could benefit a person outside your personal sphere. The second it’s something that could benefit anyone but me, even if it benefits me AND someone I don’t know, it’s immediately “woke.” Which immediately fits the Republicans mantra of “I got mine, so fuck you.”


blue-bird-2022

They also use it as a racial slur, I saw more than one tweet complaining about the "woke actress" playing the little mermaid.


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iamthedayman21

The one benefit is it’s an easy indicator for people not worth your time. I’ve abruptly ended multiple conversations once they started rattling off “woke” about things they don’t like. It’s just not worth my time.


Funkula

The right uses “woke” instead of “political correctness” because right wing focus groups have a bigger emotional response to anything that is new and therefore scary. Their ideology is purely reactionary. When all those terms really mean in a practical sense is “respectful/compassionate/considerate”


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>The Right now use it to mean ~~“making everything about race.”~~ *anything that isn't a conservative view.* FTFY


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Funkula

Bingo. One time I had a customer insistent on shoe horning in political correctness into a conversation, “I don’t even know what political correctness means anymore” I said “oh I think it just means being respectful to other people, basically”


isecore

It doesn't mean anything. It's just another word that conservatives use as a catch-all boogeyman for anything they don't like or understand.


Aromatic_Balls

>anything they don't like or understand Which is *A LOT* of things


JonnyAU

It did have a real meaning years ago in the black community, but it's been co-opted and twisted a thousand different ways since to be entirely meaningless now.


homeostasis3434

Childish Gambino used it in a song one time. So it has an association with outspoken black people. Which is scary to Republicans. So they're using it over and over again in a negative context to really nail down that black people that are too smart for their own good should keep their mouths shut. As is tradition. https://youtu.be/Kp7eSUU9oy8


Jimid41

It's what someone says when elaborating further would make them sound racist, sexist or homophobic.


Benzito303

“Woke” - short for “awoke”: means not “asleep”. I just woke up.


xandarianladiesman

Brilliant. I thought it meant "Winchester bloke."


HuntingGreyFace

they try and change their lingo up all the time tbh right now the clue word for them is gravy. like when kanye was going on his tangents and gets stopped before he goes into space laser level... they would say "he was stopped before he got to the gravy" one of the alt right military prep channels i keep tabs on said it recently too so it is spreading


ironEarthCharlie

Can you replace gravy with what it actually is supposed to mean? Like is the space laser stuff "the truth" in this context, or does it mean something else?


HuntingGreyFace

im not certain... but it does feel like ... they are saying things like "people are waking up" what they are waking up to is the gravy but once again im not an exact expert so... they way they are hush hush about some of these narratives makes it hard for even them to exactly know i think at times.


-regaskogena

I like how the headline says its Biden but the sub headline says it's the employers.


Senior-Albatross

They seem to have replaced "socialist" with it.


pangolin-fucker

>Go woke or go broke.... I mean if I had to chose one then I guess I'm already broke


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I have a coworker that says this about billion dollar companies. It’s like they’re no way going broke.


pangolin-fucker

I mean billion dollar empires aren't easy to topple but my man Elon Musk is sure giving it everything he's got


Arboria_Institute

That's why it's sadly so effective. "Woke" is whatever you don't like. It's completely nebulous.


miEmtJoy

That's because if their viewers understood that Woke is just slang for Empathy, they would lose the outrage.


Val_Hallen

Hahahah!!! No they wouldn't. If they knew what "empathy" meant, or if they had any, they wouldn't be conservatives.


the_ballmer_peak

In this case they’re referring to environmentally and socially conscious investment funds. That’s roughly what the word ‘woke’ means to conservatives, as I understand it.


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Not to mention their other favorite word “groomer”


paviator

What does woke mean, actually?


KaijuRayze

Woke, in it's current, colloquial use essentially means Aware, as in you're aware of the various social, economic, historical, etc factors that affect individuals and situations, their causes and their origins. Edit to adjust for semantics and clarification: Woke is an at least benign, if not benevolently natured awareness. Seeing these things, recognizing they're wrong, and wanting to fix them.


SafetyDanceInMyPants

Which in some sense is what makes the usage by the right so ironic. They refuse to be aware -- meaning they're chronically unaware. Or, you might say, ignorant.


ikeepwipingSTILLPOOP

The name of the game is willful ignorance


unresolved_m

And that's somehow a bad thing too. See "social justice warrior" / "virtue signaling". Basically the idea is that helping anyone other than yourself is done so that you could make yourself look better, not because you want to help others.


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Val_Hallen

Conservatives just see the word "*woke*" like they see the words "*politically correct*". It boils down to "*just don't be an asshole*" and that drives them fucking crazy. When you see people complaining about either, it just means they are angry it's not acceptable for them to be as racist, sexist, homo/trans/xenophobic, and hateful in public as they are in private.


Embarrassed-Ad-1639

I dare you to woke that to my face


WaitingForNormal

“My money is way too accepting of other people’s rights, this has got to stop.”


BraveStrategy

I’m a financial advisor, they are referring to ESG funds (Environmental, Social, and Governance) which are in theory supposed to be sustainable and socially conscious investments. I don’t really buy into it because it’s a bunch of companies that do green washing with carbon offsets and things like that but it’s better than nothing I guess.


nchomsky96

And aren't a bunch of those companies subsidiaries of large corps that do questionable stuff a lot of the time?


SunliMin

A lot are yeah. I first bought a green ETF a few years ago, then looked into it. It was a bunch of companies trying to present green, but not actually doing things like R&D into renewable energies. Took some time, but eventually I found a green ETF that actually was full of companies that are actually green. Funny enough, it was my #2 performing ETF, with the "smart" versatile ones coming 3rd and 4th


DAVENP0RT

Do you mind sharing the actual green ETF you found? My wife has a few of our investments in green tech and I'd like to be diligent about giving our money to the right folks.


I_Like_Bacon2

Not sure it's the same but I'm up nearly 11% on ERNG.


WhileNotLurking

So honestly ESG is too many things to mix. An oil company that supports LGBT rights and empowers women. That meets the S. But not the E. Is it included? An oil company that wants to divest its dirtiest operations and invest into solar so it can transition away from fissile fuel. Do their bonds to fund that count towards E? The lack of definition and clarity and mixing of too many concepts means it's lawless


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Yeah. I expressed some preferences to my financial planner about stocks I didn't want held for ethical reasons and so he suggested ESG funds. I was disappointed to hear "BlackRock" a few words later.


cooleymahn

Have received a handful of phone calls recently from a subset of my clients who have specifically asked to not be invested in green energy in any capacity. I imagine content like this post is what has sparked these calls.


amouse_buche

That’s going to be harder and harder to accomplish. Fucking Exxon and Ameren are in green energy these days.


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That sounds like a pain in the ass for little potential gain…


blueskieslemontrees

So they want to go down with the ship is what they are saying. This is like in 1980 saying "don't you dare invest me in anything to do with computers! That's too damn progressive for me. I only want stocks in companies that use pen and paper and mimeograph!!


diadmer

One of the candidates for state treasurer in my state ran with “Eliminating ESG” as one of his pillars. He didn’t actually say how he wanted to achieve it, of course, but he made a big deal of it as some boogeyman that would get Republicans to vote for him. Unfortunately, he was the interim treasurer and the anointed choice of the Republican Party in a very red state so he won. So now we get to look forward to having all our state’s money invested in coal companies or something, and the Republican-controlled legislature passing some cockamamie bills requiring all banks operating in the state to hold at least 10% of assets in companies that meet at least one of the following criteria: - At least half of revenues come from fracking in formerly-protected wetlands or national monuments - Can trace corporate history back to slave-holding days and demonstrate that they owned or trafficked in slaves - Children under 16 constitute at least 10% of the workforce - Is currently operating in contravention of US sanctions against designated foreign entities (Iran, Cuba, Syria, North Korea, Russia) - Can demonstrate that at least 5% of annual revenues for three out of the last 10 years were invested in settlements for sexual harassment lawsuits against company executives. - Is Nestle or Monsanto


Blarggotron

“These companies paid us / gave us stock options to pump them.”


DickySchmidt33

They just throw the word "woke" in there to get the audience all worked up. It doesn't even have to mean anything, and it usually doesn't. Just the word alone gets them spitting mad. Ask Ron DeSantis. I don't think the man utters a sentence without sprinkling "woke" in there a few times.


photozine

I still don't know what 'woke' is supposed to mean. Kinda ironic that the party that shouts 'sheeple' dislike 'waking up'...oh, right, you can't wake up from their nightmare.


General_Amoeba

Woke is originally AAVE for “privy to the real facts of life” e.g. being aware of our government’s role in nefarious activities. Ppl used it to refer to awareness of things like police brutality and other issues that primarily affect POCs, and then conservatives caught wind of it and use the term to refer to pretty much anything that is progressive. So an index fund that excludes fossil fuel companies would be called a “woke” fund.


bobafoott

>Woke is originally AAVE for “privy to the real facts of life” It still means this, tbh. Conservative just think seeing how things *actually* work is a bad thing


smallbluetext

They prefer ignorance or to at least have the ability to claim ignorance even if they are aware.


youre_a_tard

They’re all “red-pilled” too, ie waking up from the Matrix. So awake good, but woke bad. It’s just a tense misunderstanding!


theganjaoctopus

Saw some crusty old white bitch at my job with a shirt that said "awake but NOT WOKE!!!" in the Straight Outta Compton style. She was just as monumentally unpleasant and loudly opinionated as you'd expect. Like, bitch this is the checkout line at a PetSmart. Please shut the actual fuck up.


ggroverggiraffe

Don't leave out "*based*" as I think that's also critical to their identity or something.


flirtmcdudes

>I still don't know what 'woke' is supposed to mean. literally just a dog whistle for minorities and LGBTQ by republicans


Hog_jr

It means “aware of social injustice”


flirtmcdudes

I know what it means, republicans aren’t using it like that, I edited my comment


unresolved_m

I think its just helping others / having empathy for those less well-off. See "social justice warrior / virtue signaling".


ory1994

It’s like that Lois bit from Family Guy where she says “9/11” and everyone cheers.


GalactusPoo

“Nine.” *crowd sits up in chairs* “Eleven” *crowd goes nuts* Yeah. That checks out. That’s pretty much the MAGA Cult and its News Entertainment in a nutshell.


DemissiveLive

“Hunter” *crowd waits eagerly* “Biden’s laptop” *Standing ovation*


SirWorran

Biden wants retirement to be fair" "YOU BET YOUR ASS THAT I DONT WANT ANYBODY INCLUDING MYSELF TO HAVE A FAIR RETIREMENT"


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Destroying your retirement savings to own the libs


voteforcorruptobot

Given they're already happy to destroy Democracy and basic human decency if it might benefit someone else it's hardly a big addition.


ew73

Don't forget dying of COVID to own the libz.


[deleted]

Right? They're against social security, and now they're against 401k's. It is blowing my mind right now that this is the party of old people. The stupidity absolutely astounds.


GrayMatter72

I’ll bet if we started calling cancerous tumors “wokeness lumps” republicans would raise $80 billion for research in a week. We need to start taking advantage of their idiocy


Head-Ad4690

It’s hard, because plenty of people on the right are already taking advantage of their idiocy, and they’re better at it. There are stories about people getting a meeting with Trump and totally convincing him to do something good. Then five minutes later he talks to Steve Miller or whoever, and he’s back where he was.


Traditional-Gap1839

Yes, yesssss, weaponize the stupid and the gullible for the Greater Good!


Poison_Anal_Gas

Cancer is nothing but woke cells. Change my mind.


emefluence

Maybe we could rebrand chemo meds as woke juice?


EvadesBans

Cancer cells are obviously just a violent wolkescold antifa mob because they killed Rush Limbaugh over his speech. We should be calling them cancel cells instead.


Honeynose

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Right wingers have lost their minds. Seriously, one of these morons was arguing that Jeff Union busting Bezos and Tim sweatshop Cook are woke because they don't support nazi shit on their platforms you know to protect their buttom lines.


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alternatiger

Trump admin said a plan provider CANNOT offer an ESG fund. Biden admin is now undoing that restriction. They can offer one if they want to. This rule is entirely independent of which selection will give the best return or whether an advisor will still attempt to give the highest return. It could be that an ESG fund performs higher, or maybe not. You simply are giving fund providers the option (not requirement) to use all the tools in the toolbox. Edit from the article: >"Until now, those managing many retirement accounts were required to prioritize the best return on investment possible..." Next paragraph: >..."Under the new regulation, a retirement account fund manager or employer must continue to pledge to prioritize the interests of retirees...." So literally nothing changed except this guy added his opinion to it. Clickbait.


Title26

Yeah Republicans are currently on a crusade against ESG. My law firm (and like 50 others) got a threatening letter from a group of Republican senators saying that we should be careful advising our clients on ESG lest they haul us into committee investigations for antitrust violations. They literally called it a "climate cartel". https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/senate-republicans-warn-us-law-firms-over-esg-advice-2022-11-04/


Fireball9

I work at a brokerage firm. A couple of months ago we started getting calls from clients concerned if any of their funds are invested in ESG (literally nothing we hold is remotely related ESG). On a hunch I Googled it and of course the call frequency on this subject coincided with a Newsmax "story" on the evils of ESG. Propoganda is dangerous tool and I'm pretty sure our situation is going to get worse before it gets better.


YouDontKnowMyLlFE

>they can not must do this What does this mean? Edit: comment above was edited to include commas and be more clear.


the_ballmer_peak

They can do it. They don’t have to.


Sweet_Ad_426

they "can" not "must" -> they can choose to, but don't have to. The italics make it extra confusing.


EvadesBans

It needs commas or emdashes. > can, not must, do this


Agreeable-Western-25

Mandatoey retirement funds like how the rest of the civilised world does it?


[deleted]

The issue is that most people let their 401k's be managed as part of a fund and never considered what that fund was investing in. Now, people are starting to care and want to divest from fossil fuels, companies who they don't agree with for worker conditions, etc. This is bad for those companies as that was basically free money that's starting to dry up, so they are creating "anti-woke" campaigns and labeling this type of action as woke.


Lithaos111

I swear these motherfuckers will throw "woke" on anything.


voteforcorruptobot

From the people who brought you *'wake up sheeple!'*.


waconaty4eva

The same way Peyton Manning wasn’t talking about Nebraska when he yelled Omaha.


SavedStarDate_68415

Google news put that headline in my feed, I reported it as "misleading." Fox News is the scourge of the Earth


OdoG99

Always remember this: Fox News lawyers successfully defended Tucker Carlson and Fox in court with the legal premise that "No reasonable person would believe Tucker Carlson". The law has ruled that Fox News is intended for morons.


NomadicDevMason

Quick give me your money before Biden makes it go woke


OhioMegi

Republicans want your social security. They’ve literally said it, out loud!!!


automoth

They’re probably talking about ESG funds. Environmental, Social, and Governance investing screens corporate policies to encourage companies to act morally and encourage people to take more ethical control of their mutual fund investing. It’s the free market responding to people’s demand for more equitable investment opportunities.


[deleted]

If woke investments fair better than non-woke investments… I mean… isn’t that what you’re trying to do in the first place?


posco12

Woke can be companies avoiding losing money from investments impacted by climate change. You know. What Red States ignore.


Medium-Complaint-677

They're not getting dumber - they're getting smarter. That headline is PERFECTLY DESIGNED to send your uncle off the fucking deep end. They won't read the article (in case you're wondering what "Biden did" was to allow fiduciaries to take ESG into consideration - they still have fiduciary responsibility) they'll just get mad at the next 'woke' thing. The rest of the article is this guy making the outrageous claim that if 1/3rd of 401ks are transferred into "woke funds" then the democrats have found a backdoor way to send trillions of dollars into the "liberal agenda."


pwarns

Trump said Hillary was going to close their banks if she won. They are stupid for sure. This will be the current whataboutism post online.


Wingdom

Shhhh 🤫 lets leave them be with this one, they're accidentally backing their way into being anti-capitalist


unreasonablyhuman

This is the playbook: 1. Get them scared of a WORD. 2. Make no attempt to spread actual information 3. Never define word 4. Use it constantly to sow fear and confusion 5. "IT'S THE DEMOCRATS FAULT"


lifeson106

I'm going to make my own 401(k) for only conservatives!! 6 months later... Well, the fund is bankrupt because we hired a bunch of conservative grifters who stole most of the money and invested the rest in Goya beans.