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reminder that woke is only defined by whatever person at the time of whatever discussion and actually has no definitive meaning despite your best efforts. another made-up bullshit way of dividing the country with 'us versus them' mentality encompassing anything that you might disagree with knock off the horseshit. Even Ron Desantis' lawyers in court could not define 'woke' while they get sued over claiming they fired someone for being 'woke' BTW The State Attorney is winning that particular 'woke' case. https://www.fox13news.com/news/what-does-woke-mean-gov-desantis-officials-answer-during-andrew-warren-trial yet another conspiracy theory to hate on things that you know nothing about.

Woke is like obscenity. I can’t define it but I know it when I see it.

Probably resulted in more ketchup on the walls at Mar-a-Lago:

I reject your assertion. Woke is a recognition of equal validity for others to have their own points of view. It's not that I think they're all right (they're not), it's just that I'm not the sole arbiter. Being culturally or militarily dominant does not, in fact, mean one's right about everything Wendy P.

I like to think he was a skydiver pulling an elaborate version of 'Hey, hold my beer a sec. In fact, I might be gone a couple days, can you feed my dog?' He was special forces in Vietnam, an experience that left him a bit... eccentric. He jumped El Cap in the 60's and nobody knew about it. He used the money to rent a house by the beach, chase girls, party like a rock star, and skydive his butt off. His main goal in life was to have more fun than anyone else on the planet, but be low-key about it. He liked the fact that very few people had the slightest idea who he was. That's what I like to think. But I might be biased.

I’m not sure if he was a “career criminal” but I wouldn’t be surprised if he was a prior felon. Definitely don’t think this was a singular crime. All of the hijackers of that era who weren’t suffering major mental trauma or battling mental illness of some sort were small time hoods like McNally or Melvin Fisher. As for Cini being the inspiration…hell yes. 100% in my mind. It seems highly, highly improbable that two guys would simultaneously be developing this totally novel idea. I imagine Cooper saw the Cini story and a light bulb went off in his head. He had some sort of prior knowledge or experience with a 727 and everything clicked for him.