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[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 116 points 1 day ago (14 children)

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

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Saint_La_Croix_Crosse@midwest.social 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They should have been Rage For The Machine!

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 23 hours 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 102 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 45 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Probably nowhere near as bad as that hippy freak, what was his name... "Jesus"?

[–] KillerWhale@orcas.enjoying.yachts 11 points 18 hours ago

Jesus? That's Sounds like an immigrant. Better deport him before he rapes someone or eats a cat .

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Haha what a hippy name. There is actually a good comic series where Superman crashes in Russia. Red Sun I believe?

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[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 day 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 65 points 22 hours 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 19 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 9 points 14 hours 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 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 10 points 19 hours ago

Doctor Who: had a woman Doctor once

Don't forget about the wokeness of the 15th and 16th Doctors.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 10 points 21 hours 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 9 points 15 hours ago (2 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 52 points 1 day ago (1 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.

[–] lauha@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It wasn't woke then, because woke wasn't made up yet

[–] Denjin@lemmings.world 19 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Woken was first used in the 1930s to encourage black Americans and other minority groups to be aware of the prejudice and discrimination against them by white Americans.

It's more like the term hadn't become a catchall phrase for the right to dismiss all forms of injustice without having to engage with the actual issue.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 33 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

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

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 30 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] postnataldrip@lemmy.world 13 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Always assumed it was a printer

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[–] ToadOfHypnosis@lemmy.world 26 points 21 hours ago (3 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 22 hours ago (4 children)

Except Starship Troopers, that movie is taken at face value. Would you like to know more?

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[–] SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 25 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] sfjvvssss@lemmy.world 20 points 14 hours ago

That's the joke I guess?

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 23 points 8 hours ago (2 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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[–] Kennystillalive@feddit.org 21 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (10 children)

Wait till they learn the matrix is about trans rights.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 18 points 18 hours ago (1 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.

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

I think the confusing part is because the story of the movie doesn't fit with what most people, including myself, assume a trans-film would be.

The aesthetic and the environment I can kind of see are trans-coded. Jacking in to a fake world, and living in one where you're your true self fits. Even the plot as a whole of living under oppression to be your fake self I can understand. Getting away from the broad strokes it really challenges what I expected a trans-film to be and that's just confusing.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

it's not exactly a trans film in and of itself but it does use the those ideas at its core. it takes the vibes of the experience of being a trans person, and then builds a plot on those vibes

it's like a closeted trans film, hiding the true reason behind how it came to be. It had to be just broad strokes, otherwise it wouldn't have existed. Even today an outwardly trans film would have a very difficult time getting out of the "indi film with no budget not by choice, but becuase nobody wanted to fund it" hell

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[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 16 points 18 hours 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 16 hours 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.

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[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 19 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Star Trek has always been woke. Since day one!

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 17 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Conservatives are scared of literally everything.

It must be exhausting to be such pussies.

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[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 15 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] capcool@lemmy.world 14 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (4 children)

How did you edit this? Please share, I am looking to edit a meme with this template.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 30 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours 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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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 11 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

It’s basic science.

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