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by ergot_vacation 1683 days ago
How long can a country endure if it continues to cripple learning, muzzle truth and persecute some of its most talented and capable individuals in the name of childish, incoherent ideology? Not long.

The stage of history doesn't care how many followers you have on Twitter, or how many people's lives you can destroy in the name of your religion masquerading as science. In the coming years, the US MUST LEAD. It must shake the slop from itself and rise to the role of world leader again, not just with guns but with minds, because the battlefield of the future is a battlefield of the mind. If it does not rise, China or Russia will be glad to.

Either "wokeness" dies, or the US dies. It's that simple.
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motioncuty 1682 days ago
"How long can a country endure if it continues to cripple learning, muzzle truth and persecute some of its most talented and capable individuals in the name of childish, incoherent ideology? Not long"

Are you talking about modern "wokeness" or are you talking about the while history of the United States as a primarily Christian state? Because I still feel more crippled, muzzled, and persecuted by us Christian morality/ideology than any recent up surgance in "wokeness".

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0des 1683 days ago
Society is a pendulum. Give it time. We move in decades.
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swiley 1683 days ago
We're rapidly running out of time.
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0des 1683 days ago
Interesting take, can you elaborate on that?
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CodeGlitch 1683 days ago
Not parent poster but I would guess that there's now hundreds of thousands of students going through institutions like MIT who are being indoctrinated, who will be coming to a work force near you real soon. They will be demanding (and I've seen this already first hand) for everyone to fall into line with the wokeness. Spineless leaders will listen to them and fear them, and as we have seen already, do as they demand.
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0des 1683 days ago
"Crises precipitate change" - Deltron3030
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CodeGlitch 1683 days ago
You'll have to educate me on who Deltron3030 are and what "Crises precipitate change" means. Is there something in the song's lyrics that is relevant here?

(I'm not into music)

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