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[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 126 points 1 month ago (14 children)

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

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I liked the dead Kennedys before they got all political too...

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[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Saint_La_Croix_Crosse@midwest.social 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They should have been Rage For The Machine!

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago (2 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 106 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 65 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 50 points 1 month 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 18 points 1 month 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 73 points 1 month ago (7 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 month ago

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

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

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

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 13 points 1 month 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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[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Doctor Who: had a woman Doctor once

Also Rose, the first companion of the new series was constantly showing the viewers the working class's perspective throughout all their adventures, and fighting for those people at every chance.

Then there are also characters like Dr. River Song and Madam Vastra, who are always shown as strong women who can fight their own.

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[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 55 points 1 month 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 40 points 1 month ago (6 children)

If by "woke" you mean scientific intelligence, reason, truth, honour and compassion, then I'm all for it.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Honor's a sucker's game, but otherwise yes.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 35 points 1 month 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 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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

Always assumed it was a printer

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Conservatives are scared of literally everything.

It must be exhausting to be such pussies.

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[–] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] sfjvvssss@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

That's the joke I guess?

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[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 25 points 1 month 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 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

Wait till they learn the matrix is about trans rights.

[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month 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.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

The major theme of the film is awakening from a false consciousness. It’s an existentialist picture. This leaves it open to any of countless interpretations unrelated to gender. I think many more people have interpreted the film as Christian with Neo in the role of Jesus and with some of the names of characters and places having biblical themes. The film’s actual depiction of gender is rather conventional, including the action girl trope shown by the character Trinity.

Taken together, these two details make it very difficult to support the Wachowskis’ claim in the text. If anything, the opposite could be argued.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 18 points 1 month 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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[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Star Trek has always been woke. Since day one!

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[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 19 points 1 month ago

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

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

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

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month 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 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

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[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

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

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

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Seriously! I started listening to Rage Against the Machine specifically because they had songs like “Thank you, I’ll always do what you tell me” and “Wake Up (to the genocidal leftist conspiracy)”. This whole 180 they’ve made has been devastating.

[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you ain’t woke, you ain’t getting laid.

It’s basic science.

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