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Your raving against "wokeism" is so utterly meaningless that it is impossible to argue against. That is why you like the term so much. Instead of debating individual ideas which you could never defend you get to wrap up all your fears and hatreds into a bundle and give it a name. It is so vague that it is nothing more than a shadow.

I’ve been lucky enough to work in quite a few different countries and right now I’m sitting in a pub in Turkey, headed back to DFW tomorrow after spending a week with a CM here who’s building a product I’m developing at work. Being over here reminded me a lot of my time in South America, as in both cases I was working with some amazingly smart and talented people, and I was cognizant of the fact that they’re at least every bit as capable as I am and in many cases much more so, but we’re accustomed to very different standards of living purely due to me having the dumb luck of being born in Canada. I don’t feel guilty for what I have as I’ve worked hard for every bit of it, but I’m sure as fuck not cocky about it either

Really Bigun — adding actual information to an SC discussion? How gauche! Wendy P.

Oh I know - compromise is evil. Only a “my way or the highway” approach is strong; anything else is weak and shows that you really don’t care, right? I’m sorry, that’s utter and arrant bullshit. Wendy P.

Oh I know — everyone really wants to know more about Hillary! Wendy P.

Hey now that's COMPLETELY DIFFERENT because of this detail and that detail and look at this essay from this guy who's really smart and agrees with me. Not like woke which is a joke.

Sorry <hangs head>

Or Israel.

CRT and pretty much any *** Justice movement are pretty much in the same basket. Maybe the Justice League is an exception, but I haven't read a comic book in a while. I'm cool with equal rights and equal responsibilities - no more, no less. I take issue with anyone whose focus is one race at the expense of another, be it KKK or BLM. BSBD, Winsor

I believe the term I’m looking for is called ‘whoosh’

Acknowledging privilege doesn't mean giving up things you need. It doesn't mean giving up most of what you want but don't need. But that smug sense of satisfaction that you did it all? Yeah, that has to go. As does the feeling that others could do just as well as you did, if you can. Back in the 70's I put myself through a private college for the last two years. Yes, private. And came out with minimal loans. My level of sympathy for anyone not either disabled or raising a family who said they couldn't afford college was zero. However, the advantages that I did have didn't occur to me: I'd already started, had a guarantee of being able to return and was familiar with the atmosphere and how to navigate financial aid in a much easier climate I came from a family with a strong sense of college, and knew that if things didn't work out it'd be OK and they'd support me Finding a good-paying job was easy. Through no hard work of my own, I was an intelligent, good-looking 19-year-old woman with bilingual skills in Houston. Not to mention that I was a student at the name school in town I still think that too many people are unwilling to return to college-level living standards for things they care about, but then what's considered standard now is so much more than I had when I was a kid it's not even funny. And we were relatively well off (especially when we were overseas). Wendy P.

Jason Fenske did an interesting analysis of the Ford F-150 Lightning Pro and found that it is a bargain among EV's just based on the KWh capacity:

Give Ron Bell at USPA HQ a shout. He may have some data that isn't published. safety@uspa.org