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 Wokeness is dying but not nearly fast enough 
 The symptoms of disease often linger long after the pathogen is gone. 
 It’s just funny.  A tiny cohort of edgy progressives used that word for about 5 minutes circa 2016. Ever since, that word has been entirely a fixation and obsession of reactionaries. 
 Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo it’s not a parasitic mind virus, it was a tiny fringe idea from 2016!! 
 That’d be the convenient way to view it. It’s bizarre and concerning to me. It’s probably virtually impossible to narrow down a definitive reason for how pervasive it’s become 
 Wrong. 
 Don't hurt yourself with those mental gymnastics. 
 It needs to be completely destroyed 
 I don’t know, I kind of want it to be slow and painful. Is that awful? 
 It's not enough for it to go, we have to reflect on what it was, how it came to be, and ultimately why it came to and end, otherwise we are doomed to repeat it in the future. 
 Can’t fall off a cliff fast enough. 
 It's like all of the fiat money printing, you can only escape reality for so long, and everything that the woke crowd espouse is divorced from reality, as is evidenced with their obsession on censorship, they literally can't win a fair argument on an even ground. 
 They are often afraid of argument and debate. 
 *visualizes a rifle being shot straight down off a cliff at 3,000 FPS* lol 
 I visualize speed of light 🤣 
 *creating a massive crater and disintegrating to dust* 
 That works! 
 It’s interesting too that that most woke are actually becoming more insufferable in the process of it dying 
 Like any dying beast... 
 Strong agree. 
 If I could drag woke down the street and out into the wilderness it would be fast I promise 
 Not in my neighborhood unfortunately…. 
 If you want to be UNWOKED, stop watching MSM.

When someone says woke to me, my response is "say the fuck what? "  
 It's only made to seem big because the media focuses on it so hard, but normal, day-to-day people you meet will tell you that woke stuff is batshit crazy. They are the loud minority  
 Hopefully soon ™ 🕊️ 
 Is it?  Do not mistake a tactical retreat for surrender. 
 Any idea on how to accelerate?  
 Be more outspoken 
 Right now mainstream media controls the narrative. It is up to us to take it back 
 Hope so