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I heard breathing is pretty woke these days. Pass it on.
hIghER ELEcTrIC biLL = FrEEDUmB! >

I never understood this. For 75 years, the quintessential manly frugal American dad was stereotyped by always being near the thermostat, putting it as low as possible, shutting off lights when people leave the room. That's what responsible, manly fatherhood meant.
If you try to do it on a nationwide scale, now it's some pansy weak liberal thing. >

Republican talking points don’t have to make sense, just cause outrage. >

Or in the case of Texas, cause outage. >

Bonuses for outage, outrage, and number of kills 🤣 >

Fellas is it woke to be energy efficient >

I just spent $9,000 on electricity last month, suck on that libs! >

People were doing this after the gas stove thing. I was just thinking how terrible their bill is going to be. Sucks to suck. >

And then they’ll literally blame Biden for it, because not understanding cause and effect is their superpower. >

“The libs made me rack up huge personal utility bills in order to own them from afar in ways they will never hear about!”
Remember kids, stupidity is a viable occupation now, but the health risks are significant. >

Things conservatives have done to own the libs:
- left gas stove on all day.
- destroyed their TVs, Nike shoes, and Keurig coffee makers.
- drank their own urine.
- buy huge, fuel inefficient trucks and then drive them like clowns to burn as much gas as possible, which they claim somehow supports coal mining.
- outed themselves to their employers as racists, homophobes, and neo-nazis (and been fired for it)
- outed their business as catering to racists, homophobes, and neo-nazis (and gone out of business for it)
- given their money to professional grifters like Trump, Ben Shapiro (hi benshapirobot!), Steve Bannon, Kyle Rittenhouse, and Jordan Peterson (why isn't there a JordanPetersonBot?).
- died of Covid.
- died of other easily preventable diseases for which vaccines have existed for decades.
- Gotten arrested for seditious conspiracy and gone to jail for years.
- alienated their entire family. >

This. List. Is. Accurate.
We should be embarrassed as a Nation. >

I've been embarrassed for a long time now. >

Same here. Easily for a decade if not longer. >

People who think energy efficiency is 'woke' are the same people who think that health and safety legislation is 'political correctness gone mad'. >

The Culture War Industrial Complex (aka the Moral Panic Industrial Complex)is the propaganda arm of international right wing political machinery. it's the same one as canada, USA, austrailia, france, italy, brazil, hungary, russia, UK, etc. 
the media grifters and shit stirrers dont believe any of what they say. theyre acting.
their base and the viewers, they are true fanatical believers. they greedily devour every morsel and crumb of grievance, fear, hatred, insecurity, and outrage. then they wait, passive and inert, for Tucker to spoon feed them their next dose of manufactured grievance.
none of their bullshit makes sense to normal people. none of it results in tangible material improvements to anyone's life--it hurts people and curtails rights, but it doesnt provide benefits. because it isnt supposed to make sense or improve. it's meant to provoke and distract from meaningful policy changes that would improve Americans' lives and upset the fragile capital owner class.
the supposedly left democratic party, MSNBC, CNN, etc ALSO play their part in distracting and sensationalizing. they dont want to talk unions, general strikes, and wages any more than Tucker does. the democratic party at least has a few good pieces, a future, and a plan. They can be redeemed and retooled for a second progressive era. The GOP otoh, is a rotten decaying corpse representing outdated modes of thinking that benefitted the ruling class only, >

Becoming more energy efficient is woke?  These conservatives are card carrying idiots. >

So gracious of them to wear MAGA hats and t-shirts so that we can stay tf away from these idiots. >

Yes!! And I love it when a business advertises its Maga credentials making it extra easy to take my business elsewhere and deprive them of my precious dollars. Fuck them and their idiocracy >

There are businesses that do that? >

Yeah lol I live in a red county of a blue state and there's quite a few places whose signage makes it clear they love the maga. >

Hell I saw a Trump sign in front of an auto shop in California. >

California has plenty of deeply red areas. California had more people vote for Trump than any other state in 2020, it's just that those Trump voters were dwarfed by all the people who voted for Biden. >

Yep I know. I suppose my point was, even though it'd be potentially unprofitable and deter many customers, they still opt to advertise their ideology sometimes. >

Fun thing is, that shop might lose customers but it's unlikely to be firebombed. The guy I saw driving through a a red town in the red section of a blue state, that had a giant decal on the back declaring 'Black Lives Matter (But Cop Lives Don't)'? He probably dead. >

They were forced to define "woke" in court >

Per the linked article, their definition is that "woke" is an acknowledgement of social injustices in America.  But, they deny any such injustices exist which is why "woke" must be stopped.  God I hate these people. >

You left out an important bit from their definition: “the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them.”
It's only woke if you can recognize the injustices in American society AND think they're a problem. >

I make it a point to let them know what they perceive to be rampant election fraud and voter fraud falls under that definition. >


I make it a point to let them know what they perceive to be rampant election fraud and voter fraud falls under that definition.

Don't forget they also believe in systemic racism in the form of considering race in a college application
edit: and a systemic anti-male bias in the media >

Oh no! It turns off when I'm not using it and saves me money! HERESEY! >

Let’s be clear here, it’s an energy saver option that can be disabled. >

Fair to be accurate... but pedantic since I'm not exactly writing a news article here. I'm making fun of their reactions with hyperbole.
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I mean... even if it turned off, it's still silly. Something turning off when you turn it off? Whaaaaaaat? >

Oh yeah, I didn’t mean to be pedantic :) I just wanted to point out the extra ridiculousness of a setting being flipped. >

Fair! PArdon my defensiveness then. It's the internet and the shields are reactive on this ship, lol. >

Oh I totally get that! >

Conservatives don't want to conserve energy. Or their own money to pay their power bills. Or the environment, but I guess that should be obvious by now.
I was ready to call this dumb clickbait generated by anonymous twitterers, but Ted Cruz himself has jumped into this nonsense. On one level, it's just Republicans stirring the pot of the culture wars. On another, it's astounding that anyone with a brain supports these hypocrites. >

Republican policies aren't even popular with Republican voters. Culture war bullshit is all they have. So of course they jump to join in at any opportunity. >

Conservatives confuse me.  How can they care and not care about electric usage at the same time? 

We cannot have electric cars because we will overload the grid.    
vs,  
Why worry about energy efficiency as we are not going to overload the grid. >

90% of their beliefs are self-conflicting, but if they had the cognitive reasoning skills to deduce that we wouldn't be here in the first place. >

Thanks holy bible for being riddled with contradictions over centuries of culture. 
Someone oughta rewrite the thing from scratch so it makes sense and isn't as replete with contradictions. >

Then it wouldn't have power anymore. It's power comes from the fact that it's a contradictory text that primes people to  
A= accept illogical contradictions  
B= base their lives on beliefs without evidence, aka faith  
C= hold moral absolutist views that are sacred and can not be compromised on, and that are always "supremely right"    
With those 3 elements you can get people to believe and do anything. >

Also Woke? Turning off light switches, closing your refrigerator door, turning your heat off when your AC is on, closing your front or back door, turning off any water faucets in your home, closing your windows.  You do any of these and you're so woke you are probably Trans-BLM-Antifa-Gaying-Up-The-Children-Groomer. >

The GQP are just such fragile snowflakes that an option to do something to help conserve electricity triggers them, truly ironic considering they're called "conservatives" but here we are.
*Edit: typo >

If they were conservatives, they'd be trying to maintain the status quo, not taking the status quo and ripping it to pieces.  These are regressives, not conservatives.  They'd turn America into a theocracy and punish anyone for pushing against them, for no other reason than the fact that they're perceived to be against them.  
Everyone else needs to not give leeway to such fools.  If they don't like XBox, they can choose not to buy one, that's within their right.  Beyond that is sheer ignorance and anti-intellectualism. >


These are regressives, not conservatives.

This is a good distinction.  You can see it in slogans like "Make America Great Again" -- when you ask them when the "again" was, you never get answers.  Just vague handwaving.
So let's extrapolate.  For many of the Boomers who might be saying that (and I just miss the cutoff on that group), it's 1946 - 1964 ... where America was the only world power left largely in-tact after WWII.  If you were born into such an economic boom economy during those times, of course you're going to think things were great!
But you know what else we had in 1946 - 1964?  Well, on the plus side - much higher tax rates.  Much higher union membership.  
But on the negative side - oh, those darker-skinned folks?  They can use a separate bus, water fountain, pool, etc. (and god forbid any of them want to marry any of the white folks).  Oh, and feel free to dump all your manufacturing waste into the Cuyahoga River, who cares if it catches fire (a dozen times).
So honestly, there wasn't anything "great" about it, and some of the things liberals would say were great (higher taxes / union membership) they definitely don't want.
So you're right, "regressive" is a better term. >


Oh, and feel free to dump all your manufacturing waste into the Cuyahoga River, who cares if it catches fire (a dozen times)

The Cuyahoga river is clean-ish again, no thanks to these morons.  It's home to a lot of birds and mammals now, and you can go boating and kayaking on it without your skin peeling off if water gets on it. I still wouldn't exactly drink the water though. >

So anyone attempting ANYTHING to possibly make things more energy efficient, inclusive, approachable etc is woke?  Boy, living in the hate infested bubble sucks so hard.  Pretty soon all they'll have is shopping on alexjone.com and eating survival meals while burning their weekly ration of petroleum. >

Letting all my batteries die to own the libs! >

There was an opening in the fake outrage calendar between Sunday night and Monday afternoon and this is what they found to fill it. >

They’re getting dumber. >

For them it's not a bug, but a feature >

Lol, conservatives. Some day, people will realize conservative is just another word for “selfish” and people who claim to be conservative will be ostracized. 
We live in a society. You can’t be selfish in a society. Doesn’t work. >

I’m convinced that anything objectively good is considered woke and that conservatives will hate it. Cruelty is the point. Saving money on energy bills? That’s a woke paddling for you. >

Thats not even cruelty, its just fucking stupid. >

They're so against being woke, they don't set an alarm in the morning. >

I still don’t understand their problem with it? >

It’s likely Ted Cruz trying to find some woke shit to dig in on, since he’s jealous of how successful being the “anti-woke white knight” has gone for DeSantis. I mean shit, anti-woke is literally the core of DeSantis appeal right now for the GOP. Ted is foaming at the mouth to be more liked by the base. >

The Xbox has been woke garbage ever since Microsoft changed it from its original name: the Christbox. >

Why govern when you can say ridiculous things that turn Americans against each other? >

Can conservatives stop finding marginal shit to worry about for once? >

But then what would they do? I mean, they'd have to actually govern and they don't have a clue how to do that now. >

So.. because a console has a low energy state that saves power and uses less electricity in your home saving you money and helping lower your "footprint" it's "woke" and something to.get up in arms about?
Man talked about outrage culture. Everyone gotta be mad at something and "call it out" in an effort to make themselves look like they are championing against "bad stuff" and therefore the good guys.
Dumbest shit I've ever heard. Crying over a low power state option on an electric device. 
Low power state to save money and electricity? Straight to Jail.
And a video game console too? Also, Jail. >

Reactionaries must react. >

Next they're going to accuse Ford of being woke for improving safety features in their trucks because real men don't need seatbelts or airbags, if they get into an accident they just die the way that white Jesus intended. /s >

I really think the left just needs to own being “woke” >

I remember when it was being a "bleeding heart hippie". My response then was, "so you're trying to insult me because I care?". 
Sure, I'm woke, I've pulled the wool from over my eyes. Why won't so-called "conservatives"? >

The cognitive dissonance required to simultaneously believe "woke" people are bad and that they need to "wake up the sheeple" is astounding. >

Just wait until they hear about energy star appliances! Scary wokeness!!! >

If I can't fuck sexy green M&Ms and not have my Xbox power down on me then that's WOKE Communism! >

How do people have the energy to be mad about things like this? >

They have no power save mode. >

Conservatives have no plan to help America so they distract us every day. >

Clearly, Microsoft needs to develop a coal fired Xbox >

Republicans are really the dumbest people in the room >

But if they don't play their Xbox, they will use less power and the left wins. >

Woah. >

Ironically, this is a case of being woke, as in, when the device is off, in power saving mode, woke to recharge, or just plain woke for gameplay. >

if only we could harness conservatives' stupidity as an energy source. >

And the GOP wonder why young people are massively more liberal than conservative. >

They heard that it would stop going to sleep, so obviously it is woke. >

Republicans create fake outrage because they are all secretly clowns in suits 🤡 >

PLEASE DONT LOWER MY ELECTRIC BILL. DONT CARE THE RATE WENT UP 30% THIS MONTH >

Jesus Christ the Xbox series X is a power sucking monster. Once turned the power saver option on I saved a bunch on my power bill. >

"Woke" is just anything a Conservative Politician can say to get their face on TV.  That's it. >

So now using less energy is 'woke'. Do any conservatives still pretend they have a real ideology anymore? >

Conservatives and at Microsoft for… conserving energy? >

What a bunch of fucking idiots. 
Microsoft: we're introducing changes to reduce the amount of power our console requires to operate. 
Conservatives: Derper Derper DEEERRRRPP muh freedom! >

I care as much for what conservatives have to say on anything as I do for the ranting homeless guy in the nearby alley. >

Anything remotely good is woke. >

The GQP is just rage-baiting their base with this manufactured rage-bait, and have been for decades now. You can't have the rubes paying attention while they rob from the poor and middle classes (and moderately upper class) and give to the super rich. >

I run my Xbox with a diesel generator. Love wasting money and hurting my lungs. Feels super macho anyway! >

Republicans are truly awful human beings. >

Holy fuck were doomed lol. Everything is woke and the woke are the enemy apparently. These people are fucking stupid >

I don't understand why this is a bad thing?  Even ignoring the environmental implications, wouldn't they want slightly cheaper electricity bills?  Seriously, these people hate liberals and progressives so much that they'll get mad about the dumbest things. >

Less energy use means less heat generated means less fan spin means less noise and longer product lifetime. How is it woke to produce a better product? >

You’re fucking kidding me, right? How is being able to save on your electric bill a bad thing to these people? >

you know it's a slow news cycle when the GOP wants to cover a setting in an Xbox update rather than the 32 mass shootings we've had this year. >

It's not a slow news cycle.  Republican politicians use these bogus culture war "issues" as misdirection and distraction for their followers.  Republicans complaining that the Xbox is too "woke" is just a shiny object meant to distract Republican voters from the fact that Republican politicians are the ones blocking every attempt to prevent mass shootings. >

conservatives:  picking imaginary battles since forever >

This is what happens when you have a political party that wins elections through inciting culture wars and has no interest in solving real problems. >

How long til they rolling coal on their XBox? >

"Check out the stacks I strapped to my Series X! Sure, the thing crashes constantly from the GPU overheating, but it's triggering all the libs!" >

Because Conservatives are idiots? 
That’s the answer to the question proposed by the headline. >

This is obviously selective outrage fodder designed to reinforce conservative fear of liberals and consumerism.
The imaginary scenario that Fox wants parents to think will happen:
* Their kids’ X Box is idle for a long time and turns off.
* Their child suddenly thinks “Must save energy! Must join the woke hive mind! Must destroy America!”
What will actually happen:
* Their kids X Box is idle for a long time and turns off.
* Nobody notices.
* If they do notice, they either don’t care or they turn the setting off.
* Life continues as usual.
This is not an actual problem. Conservative propagandists aren’t worried about this affecting anything or anyone. The story is designed to make conservatives afraid that liberals are trying to mess with their kids and their stuff, and to make them feel righteous for wasting resources for no reason. >

My dad who walked around the house yelling at us to "shut off the damn lights I ain't made of money" was very woke. >

lol, I know.  That was me with my kids too.  Turn off the lights when you leave the room.
Also, shut the door, we're aren't cooling the outside. >

They are so desperate to resist that everything in their world will be devoured by wokeness. It's become what CRT was turning into, a bucket of imagined grievances.
Some coworkers of mine were assigning woke to Biden yesterday for declaring flags fly at half-staff honoring Monterey shooting victims, because the racial component was discussed on Fox and the white-supremacy angle was mentioned. Never mind the precedent of honoring mass shooting victims this way. These people are lost. >

When will they go after Comcast?   Under settings, you can put a power saver on. It shuts the cable box off if no activity for 4 hours.  
Won’t someone think of the “low profits” of the power companies? >

In my day there was Mr Box and Mrs Box, none of this "X Box" nonsense! >

these crotchety geezers need to get outta office, NOW >

The GOPerLords have put out orders that all Republicans must deny climate change and fight against anything that might hinder extracting and profiting from all known reserves of coal oil and gas. The lemmings have lined up and are marching over that cliff even as we speak. >

Leave all the lights on in your house all the time to own the libs >

This is so stupid.  I can't believe that this is even a debate.  Conservatives really did dumb themselves down and expected everyone to follow.  Ironic that the ones being anti-"woke" are the biggest fucking sheep. >

Republicans: “Don’t be woke, that’s not a good thing. Once you go woke, you’ll start asking yourselves why we’re only focused on selling you hate to keep you busy so that you don’t question our special interest deals. Be basic and STUPID instead, that’s much better than being woke!” >

“tHeY aRE GrOoMiNg OuR ChIlDrEn ThAT cLiMaTe ChAnGe iS rEaL!!” >

Can we convince some of these idiots that "being alive" is woke? >

Saving money is now woke?... Well, then I am woke as fuck. >

Everything's fucking woke.  My car's woke, my sneakers are woke, my fucking cat's woke.  Every time one of these dipshits use the word, they need to be laughed at.  Just outright ridiculed like the fish sticks and Kanye. >

I can’t remember where i heard this, but those who think “woke” is a bad, desperately want you (the voters) to be asleep. >

When everything is woke, nothing is woke >

It's just so much noise. Sound and fury, signifying nothing. >

I hate it here.  It's just so stupid.  Conservatives constantly claiming everything is 'woke.'  Ugh, I need a drink.  haha >

Gunna take the fans and heatsinks out of my computer. Fuck yeah >

Conservatives are really in to being wastefull and rude, like as an identity. >

They're no longer conservative.  They are obstructionist. They're terrorists.  They're insurrectionist and seditious traitors. >

Imagine devoting energy to this. These people are pathetic. >

The only thing modern conservatives conserve is stupidity. >

Conservatives sure hate the free market if they’re compelled to attack a private business for giving their customers an optional energy efficient mode. >

It's woke to put the xbox in sleep mode >

What’s the opposite of woke? Asleep. >

In this issue of GOP Off Grid Living:
Cooking with Motor Oil
Plastics Make Better BBQ
Coal Fire Your Xbox
Dumping Toxics Right >

Conservatives are scared of their own shadows because they’re dark. They scream when they close their eyes. Just a bunch of cowards no wonder they role play with guns and punisher logos >

These fools use that word so often that if I meet someone new and they use it, they instantly lose all credibility. >

Ooooh, are we going to have angsty basement dweller /r/conservative folk smashing their XBoxes now, like they did their Keurigs?? >

“God made the earth specifically for me and my pals to destroy so we can get yachts.” >

Sigh. Conservatives — or st least the right-wing extremists and morons highlighted by Fox News — are just too dumb for words. >

I unplugged my phone charger when I wasn't using it and now I'm a drag queen. >

Wow. These idiots. It’s woke to be energy efficient. Imagine being so insecure and having no self identity other than what someone tells you to be. >

Don't they care how stupid this makes them look? >

I purposefully chose the energy efficient option because I only play my Xbox a couple times a month. I don’t need to waste energy and money justifying a couple seconds faster of boot time.
This is one of the more stupid controversies out there. It’s a choice that Microsoft is showing >

"Why conservatives are anti intellectual know nothings?" >

I’m so absolutely sick of morons >

If conservatives wanna battle Xbox fans, they can get their asses whooped In COD like the rest of them. Other than that, it’s a waste of time and money. >

Can we start using G-- D--- now in front of Christians cause that would be trying not to be woke? >

Cons are contrarians. It’s their one trick. >

It has nothing to do with Xboxes, gas stoves, or m&ms.  It’s all a shell game.  They’re coming after social security, Medicare/cade, and they want the poor to pay more taxes.  They’re already winning the freedom of choice war.  The more the can keep the right whipped into a frenzy and the left laughing at the stupid, but also on the defensive, the easier it is for them to get away with their bullshit.