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(07-28-2020, 04:44 AM)hollodero Wrote: Well, you used the term "the woke", which sounds sarcastic and hence critical.



I might be the wrong person to ask that question. Trump is front and center for me, without Trump I'd probably be posting something irrelevant in JN once a month, I am not looking for diverse topics honestly. Mainly because inneramerican affairs don't interest me that much. Trump and Trump supporters, on the other hand, fascinate me.
As non-American, I can report that even amongst my peers, Trump has become a prominent topic on nearly every occasion. Including with folks that usually are not that political or don't care as much about world politics. It's not because I bring it up either. It is because Trump is uniquely absurd and unfathomable, and he renews that impression weekly to daily. It is no surprise that this gets discussed plenty, and though I cannot exactly prove that, I'd wager that pretty much every comparable US message board looks pretty much like this one these days.
It's not about the "woke folk" and their questionable choice of topics imho, it's because of Trump's utter absurdity, and to an extent about the absurdity of folks trying everything they can to diminish or normalize that absurdity (which only adds to it). And it's everywhere, he's always the elephant in the room. Eg. how could one discuss corona without pointing to Trump? The US is ravaged like no other western country and the leader of the free world mutters falsehoods and sillyness about it every single day. I have never seen anything like that. And the same is true for oh so many other things, week in and week out, day in and day out. The lack of topic diversity is because of Trump, not because of woke people's contractedness.

For real? You look at this forum and your take away is folks trying to rationalize Trump? Hell there's a topic about John Lewis dying and HIS legacy. The 3rd post was about Mark Rubio and it took a total of 8 post honoring a Civil Rights legend before it turned to Trump. That's why I use the term "woke", because 95% of the threads in this forum are started to show how someone is not woke.