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[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 2 points 1 day ago

if it's not woke I'm not buying

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 131 points 6 days ago (14 children)

I liked RATM, but then they became political. No thank you.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I liked Motörhead but they also became political like 4 songs into their first album

[–] PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world 36 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

I liked Bruce Springsteen, but then even he became political!

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[–] Saint_La_Croix_Crosse@midwest.social 29 points 6 days ago (6 children)

They should have been Rage For The Machine!

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 112 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Superman is woke because he just helps people and doesn't charge a fee.

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 67 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Sounds like socialism to me. Are you saying Superman is a Commie?

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 52 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Probably nowhere near as bad as that hippy freak, what was his name... "Jesus"?

Jesus? That's Sounds like an immigrant. Better deport him before he rapes someone or eats a cat .

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[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 20 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Why do you think he wear red with a big S on the chest? It's because the S mean Socialism

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[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 74 points 6 days ago (14 children)

Star Wars: Fighting space Nazis

Superman: protecting people from Lex Luthor; evil billionaire

Star Trek: Post scarcity society where all humans are treated as equals and nobody “gets” to be a billionaire (Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism)

Doctor Who: had a woman Doctor once

Marvel: “Evil is bad, how about let’s not genocide” (ignoring the billionaire worship w/ Iron Man)

X-Men: always been an allegory for LGBTQ+ and disabled folks

RATM: I mean, it’s in the name.

Starting to see a theme here hmm

[–] funkyfarmington@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago

Babylon 5: Fighting Earth fascists. Hey, wait a damn minute...

[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I always thought X-Men was about civil rights...

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 38 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Imagine that you're awake, with your eyes open, aware of the issues in the world, and wanting to be part of making it better, and...

...there's a massive number of people who think you're a shithead for believing that, and should probably be murdered for it. Just do what they tell you.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Woke has become one of my favourite words. It's like when i was a kid, and everything was gay. Now it's woke. He's playing street fighters one woke controls. And same with the word gay, and how it was used, it was always funny when someone used it as an actual insult and you're just like: oh yeah, i actually don't care. Guess i'm woke then.

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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Uhh... aside from superman (which i haven't seen and can't speak to) most of those are fairly "woke"

Not that I have a problem with that.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

The point is that they've always been 'woke', and it's insane that people think that 'now' they've changed to 'become' woke.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 42 points 6 days ago (9 children)

If by "woke" you mean scientific intelligence, reason, truth, honour and compassion, then I'm all for it.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Conservatives are scared of literally everything.

It must be exhausting to be such pussies.

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[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 56 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Well yeah, they're all woke now. They used to be woke before too, but they're still woke now as well, as they should.

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Next they'll be complaining that Christianity's gone 'woke'.

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[–] derfunkatron@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Moore told NPR in an interview released Tuesday that multiple pastors had told him they would quote the Sermon on the Mount, specifically the part that says to “turn the other cheek,” when preaching. Someone would come up after the service and ask, “Where did you get those liberal talking points?”

“What was alarming to me is that in most of these scenarios, when the pastor would say, ‘I’m literally quoting Jesus Christ,’ the response would not be, ‘I apologize.’ The response would be, ‘Yes, but that doesn’t work anymore. That’s weak,’” Moore said. “When we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we’re in a crisis.”

If they think Christ is too weak and his words outdated, then maybe they should stop calling themselves Christians?

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[–] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Rage against the machine became woke? They were über woke before it was a thing.

[–] sfjvvssss@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago

That's the joke I guess?

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[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It would be a boring movie if the protagonist were asleep all the time.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago

Movies and TV shows are modern art forms, and as such are created by artists.

Artists have almost always been politically left of centre, usually wildly so.

Video games have likewise been ‘woke’ for a long fucking time too - but don’t you dare try to make that point to Gamers^TM^.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Oh No! Not Rage Against the Machine! How could they!

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[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago

Little babies getting their feelings hurt. If only they could read and understand that woke is a form of being awake/aware and their self owns by making fun of it is blatantly hilarious. Only the media and the right get all up in arms over woke, the rest of us just call it reality.

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 21 points 6 days ago

I'm shocked to learn that the band that wrote Wake Up might possibly be woke!

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hollywood didn’t go “woke” you just grew up to be a piece of shit.

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[–] ToadOfHypnosis@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago (4 children)

They can’t grasp that these things have not changed, but they joined the bad guys so their perspectives changed. They can’t see the billionaires gilded puppet strings manipulating them.

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[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 25 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Except Starship Troopers, that movie is taken at face value. Would you like to know more?

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[–] Kennystillalive@feddit.org 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (12 children)

Wait till they learn the matrix is about trans rights.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 18 points 6 days ago (7 children)

I'm convinced that that was just something that they decided to tack on to as an afterthought because it doesn't really make sense to view it in that context.

Especially if you include the sequels.

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[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It’s not about trans rights as much as it’s a highly metaphorical film about trans experience. So metaphorical in fact it could be argued it fails (failed) in its messaging. Even after the Wachowski sisters broke the news to everyone, the film still isn’t regarded that way. It’s a nice after note and I’m certainly not trying to rag on trans rights or issues here, it’s just that The Matrix didn’t do much of anything for trans people.

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[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Star Trek has always been woke. Since day one!

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[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Man, why cant anything be FOR the systems of oppression that prop up my fragile masculinity?

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

Seriously! I started listening to Rage Against the Machine specifically because they had songs like “Thank you, I’ll always do what you tell me” and “Wake Up (to the genocidal leftist conspiracy)”. This whole 180 they’ve made has been devastating.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 8 points 5 days ago

I thought when they said “Wake Up!” they were actually saying “Be passive! The status quo is totally fine!”

[–] capcool@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

How did you edit this? Please share, I am looking to edit a meme with this template.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 31 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

graphics person here - so what you want to get is krita or gimp, krita has better UI, gimp is more versitile. Or photoshop if you feel like uhh, borrowing it from adobe (don't give them money they have enough)

  • put them meme into the software or your choosing

  • now if you can find a tool that says something like "healing" "spot healing" "patch" or "clone stamp" you can use them to remove the text that's already there, all those tools work a little differently but can get you where you want to be, so play around with them and find your favourite

  • alternatively if that sounds too advanced you can brute force it, it won't look as seemless but it will get the job done. make a new layer, select a brush with soft edges and ~80% opacity, and then use the eyedropper tool (usual shortcut should be holding alt and clicking on the colour you want) and remove the text by covering it with the same colour that surrounds it. You'll notice how eventually the colour you sourced doesn't blend in, then what you need to do is grab a new colour that's nearby. Rinse and repeat until fully covered and blended

  • add text

  • if your text overlaps some parts of the image you don't want it to overlap you might find yourself wanting to erase a bit of it and not being able to. That's because the text is still text, fully editable. To change that you can either convert it to a normal layer (usually done by right clicking on the text layer and looking for something that says "convert") or (and that's the better option if you want to keep the text editable) you can apply a mask onto the text layer (should be a button for it next to "add layer" button), then as you have the mask selected draw with pure black over the elements you don't want the text to cover

i'm basing this mini-tutorial on photoshop so exact names and places of the tools you want might be different, but the process should be the same across most if not all image editing software

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[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 11 points 6 days ago

I just watched Alien (1979) and the damn democraps made it woke. When I was growing up in the 80's not everything had to be a social commentary. The cops saved people like in Robocop (1987) and the terrorists were stopped like in Star Wars (1977) because America are the good guys. MAGA!!

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