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Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by FooBarBizBazz on Thursday February 22, 2024 @07:55PM (#39475512)
Nah, America is past "peak woke".

If it gets Trump 2.0 there might be a hyper-woke backlash though (or double backlash?).

But if there's another Biden term, things will be chill, culturally.

Also, Twitter is dead, and that's where the spirals got out of hand.

Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by seanmcdirmid on Thursday February 22, 2024 @08:14PM (#39475661)
Trump 1.0 triggered the initial woke wave in the first place (he was a catalyst, not a proponent). Trump 2.0 would rather trigger double woke, which will trigger its backlash like woke 1.0 triggered its own backlash.

Biden as president is boring, which is how I like it. But if you want to rile liberals up, nominate or elect Trump president again, it will definitely drive voter turnout if anything else.

Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by wakawaka28 on Friday February 23, 2024 @12:26AM (#39477284)
No, what triggered Woke 1.0 was a psyop around Occupy Wall Street, years before Trump was even a candidate. It was a diversion used to break up the protest. Since then, corporations have embraced it as a shield against future protests. They engineered this strife and they are likely to lose control eventually as all the hatred they planted boils over.
Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by mostlysimilar on Friday February 23, 2024 @12:29PM (#39483551)
Any links for additional reading?

I think it's very likely the "culture war" is a distraction tactic so corporations and the ultra-wealthy can hide behind the real issues that divide us: they own the world and the levers of control while the rest of us work ourselves into the grave.

Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by wakawaka28 on Friday February 23, 2024 @01:42PM (#39484526)
This will keep you busy: https://newdiscourses.com/ He is really a great speaker. Jimmy Dore and Glenn Greenwald also cover a lot of stuff on their channels.
Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by wakawaka28 on Friday February 23, 2024 @12:24AM (#39477278)
Biden is letting a whole ass army of military-age young men into the country and burning all our money in expensive wars that might turn nuclear. He has to be voted out. Besides that, he's so obviously incompetent and senile, it would be a sick joke to keep him in. I figure either way, we're getting trouble. At least if we get someone else, we might have a chance to get our affairs in order, even if there are a few people freaking out about "far right" candidates (aka anyone the uniparty hates).
Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by Ferret7446 on Friday February 23, 2024 @03:44AM (#39478348)
In all seriousness, I don't think Biden can make it to another term. Even if we assume he gets voted in, he'll likely keel over walking up to the podium for the inauguration. Let the poor old man rest.
Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by barfingclouds on Friday February 23, 2024 @04:12PM (#39486159)
I agree with this. I don’t like new twitter but old twitter had a chokehold on society that did a lot of damage.

And yeah this is a lot of why I really hope trump isn’t elected. It’s going to bolster a far left movement like it did last time, to a really scary degree. That and undoing environmental policy, I feel like it will unravel this country

Re:Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after i... by throwawa14223 on Saturday February 24, 2024 @02:47PM (#39494593)
My perception is Biden is pushing the woke pretty hard. I'm not sure why it would chill under him.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/house-gop-fails-to-ove...