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[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 2 points 4 days ago

if it's not woke I'm not buying

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 1 points 5 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 4 points 5 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.

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 133 points 1 week ago (14 children)

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

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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

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[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

With a name like Lemmy, I would have never expected it.

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[–] Saint_La_Croix_Crosse@midwest.social 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They should have been Rage For The Machine!

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Hey, now that sounds like a nice Christian band we can all do some toe tapping to!

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 112 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 67 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 53 points 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago (11 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 1 week ago

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

[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Idk if it's in the comics too, but in first class or some movie, Magneto is depicted as a holocaust survivor. It's in fact a big part of his identity.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Star wars is also heavily influenced by the Vietnam war. This influenced is alleged to be non deliberate.

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[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 56 points 1 week 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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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 week 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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[–] BarneyPiccolo 38 points 1 week ago (4 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.

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait, they're not upset about their vacuum cleaner after all? Who knew?

[–] postnataldrip@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Always assumed it was a printer

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[–] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] sfjvvssss@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

That's the joke I guess?

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

Conservatives are scared of literally everything.

It must be exhausting to be such pussies.

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[–] ToadOfHypnosis@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

Wait zill they learn the matrix is about trans rights.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 18 points 1 week 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 1 week 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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[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 21 points 1 week ago

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

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

Star Trek has always been woke. Since day one!

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

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

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[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week 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.

[–] capcool@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

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[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

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

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

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