• SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
      23·
      2 days ago

      It’s never been about defeating those things, it’s about expanding power using them as an excuse.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
        14·
        2 days ago

        Exactly.

        1. War on Drugs - reduce minority voice in government
        2. War on Terror - PATRIOT Act, or whatever its current incarnation is
        3. War on Woke - probably government access to medical records and/or privacy generally, but I guess we’ll see
        • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
          7·
          2 days ago

          War on Drugs - reduce minority voice in government

          And increase incarceration of certain people to expand legal slavery under the 13th amendment.

    • umbrella@lemmy.ml
      7·
      2 days ago

      War on drugs - excuse to further oppress blacks and mexicans (successful)

      War on terror - excuse to violently expand influence in the middle east (mission accomplished)

      War on woke - 😟

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        2 days ago
        • War on Woke - war on privacy and access to undesirable (to the state) information

        As RATM says:

        Who controls the past now, controls the future.

        Who controls the present now, controls the past.

        It’s just Big Brother.

        • umbrella@lemmy.ml
          3·
          2 days ago

          that makes sense. to start utilizing their surveillance network more aggressively to their interests. trying to censor out “woke”, as in socialism and anticapitalism in general, activism etc…

          yeah this doesn’t look good does it.