Oh geez a Pentagon psy-op, now? Last I heard the theory was her partner's gridiron team got manipulated into the finals so they could win and she could give a speech endorsing Biden.

(Manipulated, I guess, by the infamously liberal...NFL...??)

[–] PetulantBandicoot@aussie.zone 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yep! They are working together to bring down conservative America as they are too woke.

(Him for telling his fans to get vaccinated, and her for telling her fans to vote.)

Bonus: Funny clip of an American conservative trying to define what "woke" means. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7iWEEcPKoQ

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 9 months ago

Ok that video actually comes across to me as not as bad as it might at first seem.

Like, I think she's obviously not very articulate when put on the spot, but that's not a sign of lack of understanding necessarily, it's a sign of social awkwardness. And I think she's right that yeah, "woke" is difficult to define. But from the little bits she did get out "total reimagine and redo society in order to create hierarchies of oppression", I don't even necessarily think she's wrong.

Woke, to me, is about being aware of intersectional oppressive systems, which necessarily comes with a desire to overturn those systems. A conservative would choose to deny that the systems are oppressive, or that there is any intersectionality to the oppression, and some more extreme reactionaries (which I suspect she might be) even pretend the ideas to overturn the oppression are actually creating oppression, but the basic idea that someone being "woke" wants to "redo society" and "[something something] hierarchies of oppression" isn't so bad, as a way of defining it.

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

NFL is woke unfortunately \s

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That headline is something...

They can't change the exam time of an exam they haven't scheduled yet.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Eh, I think this is splitting hairs. "change exam times because of" and "plan exam times with consideration to" are near enough to equivalent that I can't see any problem saying the former.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They are different though. Trying to avoid scheduling issues is a smart move. Booking in exams when you know students are going to miss them (whether they're "allowed" to or not) isn't going to help anyone.

But after the schedule has been set, when a best effort has been made to make it work for as many people as possible, "I'm going to a concert" won't cut it.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Did we read different articles?

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Education Queensland (EQ) said the exam schedule within the block has not been set and the Deputy Principal’ s email was gauging the possible impact of a Taylor Swift concert on student attendance and scheduling of exams so this “could potentially be factored in”.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, we read the same one.