ShortFatOtaku Doesn't Know What "Woke" Means

[@andrewkoster6506]

ShortFatOtaku: "let's pretend that every other struggle is exactly like class conflict" also ShortFatOtaku, after explaining this nonsense concept that he came up with: "as you can see, this concept doesn't work and it doesn't make sense"

[@hilliard665]

I work for myself, the business catagory i fit into here in Australia is "sole trader". I own and am my means of production. Im a gardener & mow lawns. If you can do anything to get away from being "under" a boss, do it, dont hesitate, just go for it. EDIT: Also please hire/use small independent/small business anytime you can 😊

[@Pensive_Scarlet]

What is woke? Baby, don't strawman, don't strawman, no more.

[@UberNoodle]

They're technically strawmaning themselves too, because the way he's representing his own politics and rhetoric and that of his buddies is a completely disingenuous post hoc rationale for regular, over-the-counter and banal bigotry.

[@BlueTyphoon2017]

What is woke? In the way reactionaries use it? it’s just another word for SJW. No really it’s the same thing, first it was PC culture, then SJW, now it’s woke, it’s all describing the same shit.

[@BlueTyphoon2017]

It’s just another word for SJW, nothing more nothing less.

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

@@UberNoodle Shut up SFO is not a bigot. There is no post hoc rational needed to say a piece of media is trash

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

@@BlueTyphoon2017 "It’s just another word for SJW," who cares if it is or not? I love how you people play dumb and act like these obnoxious leftwingers don't exist

[@Flower_Mom]

Her trying to define "woke" was like Principal Skinner trying to explain why they're called steamed hams when they're obviously grilled.

[@shayokami7410]

I used to drive for lyft and uber. I've had both trustfund 20 somethings and rich people in the back of my little 2017 camry. I drove people wearing nice clothes to clubs I couldn't ever hope to afford to even enter. I've also had ex-cons and addicts in the back of my car. All while I was working to afford my half on an apartment, plus groceries, plus fuel, plus auto insurance, plus utilities. Nothing will teach you quicker about the wage and class gap than being a taxi driver or a rideshare driver.

[@etenby699]

This makes me remember back in 2016 when I hung out with ShortFatOtakus who projected their bigoted insecurities on me. I have incredibly low expectations for this ShortFatOtaku.

[@RequiemNocturne1]

Ah yes, SFO, the guy who thinks punk rock is conservative. His opinions aren't worth taking seriously on anything cultural or political.

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

That is such a strawman it's not even funny. His point was that in a world where the far left is the mainstream you can no loner claim the "rebel" mantra. You spiteful idiots never understood what he said. Go back to vaush

[@BSU3000]

Stupid Friggin Oxygen-waster unironically thinks reactionary means "someone who reacts to stuff."

[@RequiemNocturne1]

​@@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster The far left isn't mainstream. The United States doesn't really have a true left wing party but something more liberal and the Overton window is so far right it's not even funny. Also the right can't claim to be rebels when they spend their entire time punching down on minorities, LGBT, trans, and poor people. Oh no we understood what he said, it was just so dumb that it really only deserved to be ridiculed because it made absolutely no sense.

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

@@RequiemNocturne1 "Oh no we understood" nah you didn't Vaush was a moron when he covered that video. "The far left isn't mainstream" peak into the art world, academia, and the entertainment industry there's not exactly alot of right of center people in there, is there..

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

@@BSU3000 "reactionary means "someone who reacts to stuff." that is what it means

[@wolfsraynefan]

Sorry I know it's a bit off the full video's topic, but "ugly produce" isn't necessarily "dogshit". It's just visually unappealing crops that are graded lower quality simply because of how the bullshit food acquisition of corporations go. Places like McDonald's and Lays get the first pick of the high grade potato crop, then smaller businesses/stores get the remainders, and the "ugly produce" is usually sent for scrap or just tossed. There's nothing wrong with it save for blemishes or uneven growth. In full agreement on your position that basic produce should be wholly accessible to everybody, but just wanted to say that the small places that sell the unwanted produce aren't just giving out bad stuff.

[@bleakautomaton4808]

24:35 Story time- I got a worker's permit in middle school and was rejected from jobs I applied to for years and years and years (still unemployed after graduating high school and my sister never counted very infrequent under the table work as a real job). And the hunk of concrete that is the "chip on my shoulder" from still being unemployed through college (my first, also very infrequent, work study program I had to beg for to have something on a dam resume) and being rejected for employment every summer and from fast food places and cashier jobs...Then there was thankfully some work study work when transferring to a 4-year college , which is why I tell anyone going into college that the custodial/facilities services work studies tend to be more available. But the last grades of my last year there plummetted at the sheer anxiety and fear that that resume and filling out so many applications would still yield no work just as it had before then. At the time I panicked that the stupid BA in journalism and communication, while it had been enjoyable, wouldn't bring any work (but I guess I wasn't devalued as hard as liberal arts degree holders..) That was nearly 10 years ago. I've sobbed in a Dept of Labor building filling out forms, I've had no reliable transportation only up until recently and had to walk or bus (when possible) to locations for work or filling out forms, I've only had positive interest from family when I have had employment (part time mostly when it something did finally happen, after several civil service exams and all that effort my sister thought I never did)...What message that leaves a person is your only value is when you have "job" because "job" is more important and without it no one should or will care. I hope my neices and nephews don't have to go through that and I'm also honestly not holding out hope that basic survival needs will be made universal in my lifetime - that while "unemployed" I will still be seen as lazy selfish entitled mooching all of that (my mom is nice but who could shake the feeling of being a disappointment? Not me.) It makes it sad when "oh what would you want to do more than anything" makes me answer that that isn't possible for me and while I've had hobbies I like those are never in comparison to "work or you will die" that has been especially plaguing since high school. There are those who have been through worse, I know, and those who are really struggling worse (as bad as I feel about it I am at my mom's paying what I had saved up before my last job had "jump before you're pushed" me, and there are those with no safe places to sleep or reliable food). The question of "if you could do anything" is buried under hundreds of never being contacted after applying to jobs and the many who at least contact me to let me know about the rejection. Sorry ya goofball "wokeism is so evil" crowd, but most of us have real problems outside yours.

[@shizuwolf]

You wanna know what woke means? "The Matrix". The first movie is about Neo WAKING UP (AKA becoming woke) to lies he's literally been force fed and seeing reality for what it really is, and how Fucked it is. Then what? Then, him and the other woke people spend the entire series trying to unfuck both realities.

[@broadcastbard]

SFO's pronunciation of bourgeoisie just makes me think of borg-jwah, resistance is futile.

[@mecha5409]

“Jew vs Palestinian” made me take intense psychic damage

[@kevin4061]

Woke means sjw means crt means dei... wait, what was that adage of the word nazi loosing meaning?

[@eryqeryq]

lol wut

[@kevin4061]

@@eryqeryq words that lost meaning because their used as meaningless buzzwords

[@ToxicAudri]

@@kevin4061 When it comes to conservatives, every accusation is a confession.

[@hilliard665]

Gottem

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

@@ToxicAudri So you don't think people on the left have ever misused words like Nazi or fascist, or alt-right, or racist, or sexist, or islamaphobic, or bigot, for homophobic, or transphobic, or xenophobic, or incel, or chud or ableist?" Do you I need to keep the list going or will you just keep saying everything is a confession even when you're objectively wrong cause you have an irrational hatred of conservatives?

[@thelakisleaf5503]

The title is a it redundant honestly. None of the dupes who go off about 'woke' knows what it means

[@vksasdgaming9472]

It is past tense of verb "wake". As adjective it has no meaning.

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

He literally gives a pretty solid definition if you actually watched the video

[@ToxicAudri]

@@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster It's A definition, but not one anyone goes by really. Woke is just about being aware of systematic injustice.

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

@@ToxicAudri Yeah but you can't pretend he doesn't give one which both Op and Jake do.

[@ToxicAudri]

@@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster Okay? and? Definitions are agreed upon by society, you can make up your own slang usage of terms, but that doesn't make them common definitions that are widely agreed on by society. Woke has a meaning, being aware of systematic injustice, if you can only recognize it when it happens to you or folks like you, you are clearly still asleep. If they can do horrible things to "them" (folks not like you) then they can easily do it to you too. This is the agreed upon definition of woke in its most simplistic form, even a chud like you can grasp the concept. What other alternative definition folks who clearly lack understanding of its common usage and only generally understand it through the nebulous way its often used in a pejorative sense, rather than a proper verb. In Jake's case he clearly has a rough understanding of its actual meaning, touching on it using different language to paint the same picture.

[@seraphonica]

if SFO feels he has to literally label socialism as "something he doesn't agree with"... that says a lot about how much media literacy he thinks his own audience has 😂

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

Media literacy is a empty buzzword

[@andrewkoster6506]

"woke is socialism" actually makes sense when you explain it this way, since "woke" is also "anything that we don't agree with"

[@eideticex]

@@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster Just because you don't understand something does not make it a buzzword. When people say media literacy they are referring to a set of skills that allows oneself to parse what it is they are hearing and seeing. Most important of these skills is one known as "frame of mind". Another the ability to perceive deception which extends into not being able to comprehend sarcasms, cynicism, and parody. I'm sure there are some people that lob it around as an insult with no understanding of what it means, most likely yourself at some point but that doesn't mean it's just an empty buzzword.

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

@@eideticex "I'm sure there are some people that lob it around as an insult with no understanding of what it means, most likely yourself at some point" I love how you conceive that it can often be used as an insult of a buzzword but only in such a way to make me look bad and get thumbs up. Like dude come on man we all know there are breadtubers who misuse the word. I have seen numerous long form videos made people who are deemed conservative even if they aren't where they provide plenty of examples, plenty of evidence yet despite all that because they have an interpretation of media that is not left wing they will be accused of media illiteracy by left wing idiots in the comment section and on twitter. Starship troopers comes to mind. People say it's meant to be fascism, they completely ignore the original book and ignore aspects in which the civilization radically departs from that of what a fascist state looks like.

[@BrandyBrans]

​@@thedarkmasterthedarkmasterno. People with media literacy, and who understand political theory, and who are familiar with the book know that starship troopers the book endorses fascist ideology, and starship troopers the film, which is only very loosely based on the source material, satirizes it.

[@reform-revolution]

sfo not knowing what a word means Im shocked ….

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

Says the guy who thought SFO was calling all Palestinian terrorists when he pointed out the objective fact that TheSerfs donated to a charity directly tied to Hamas

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

You're so smug and confident ignoring any videos made criticizing you

[@LuckerStomp]

​@@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster Get a life, pretty please

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

@@LuckerStomp It's a true statement there have been people who called out Reformed Revolution formerly known as ICraveTheVoid for his immoral behavior like engaging in rape apologetics

[@reform-revolution]

@@LuckerStomp bro has no life he is the person that will slowly shrink into nothing the day he losses access to the internet cause there wont be anyone he can whine at anymore and that is all that sustains him

[@andrewkoster6506]

SFO claims to oppose socialism, yet he brazenly speaks with a Canadian accent? Curious.

[@brodieorr5393]

"I don't want people to think I believe any of the following" proceeds to say the only correct thing throughout the entire video

[@kdjets]

Forgive my sins but I used to watch videos in this circle when I was an edgy and dumb young adult. I realized it was a way of holding myself back in that living as my real self. Totally leftist and non-binary now. Gamergate did some real brain damage to me 😢 Been really proud of all the change and growth I've been able to do. What sucks is I was on the right path in my late teens and then it literally was gamergate some prominent journalist blocking me on Twitter for just asking genuinely what was happening because I didn't know. Gamergate probably cost me years of self-discovery and understanding of my love for advocacy and LBGT+ Ally-ship, but of course now I'm a little bit more than just an ally. Omnisexual too!

[@bmw895]

Imagine thinking gamergate was this great evil.

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

@@bmw895 They really consider it their Vietnam. Imagine being so sensitive someone disagreeing on gaming journalism of all things is a mark against your character.

[@SLAUGHTERAMA]

Corn Weeb representation here, reminding you all that we in the weeb community DO NOT CLAIM this man.

[@unicornjibs2623]

1:02:07 Not everyone is Prof. Flowers SFO 😂

[@helicopterharry5101]

3 minutes in and he has invalidated most uses of the word if it doesn't involve race so his redefinition of the word is certain to be pointless.

[@kevin4061]

Sneako is to tate as sfo is to sargon.

[@sbushido5547]

_"So if wokeism is just the ethics and processes of socialism..."_ Well, it's not. So...good job wasting 17 minutes talking about something irrelevant, I guess.

[@galleryofrogues]

The funniest thing about being a centrist like SFO is both sides of the political aisle clown on him equally.

[@BlueTyphoon2017]

I guess that’s true, the difference being that reactionaries shit on him for all the wrong reasons essentially. While the left does it because most people who describe themselves as centrist make 2 billion anti left wing videos for every one anti right wing one, so they’re either just cowardly reactionaries, normal moderate conservatives who seem to hate the far left more then the far right, or cowards who unironically believe in horseshoe theory and that the left and right are exactly the same because, they both use violence and sometimes leftists use the state? Something that having massive censorship government isn’t even inherently leftist and it’s something they disagree on? Basically, they’re just cowardly conservatives or cowardly reactionaries.

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

@@BlueTyphoon2017 Why does someone have to make exactly the same ammount of anti right and anti left videos to be a centrist? He's stated multiple times he goes after the left is because what they say is more complex and thus likes to break it down more. Plus they have more power culturally and in academia. I cannot imagine how annoying it would be to have to make an anti right video after every anti left one. Just to uphold some bad faith actor's view of what centrism is. SFO is a moderate if you think he's far right you're insane

[@ghidxrah2102]

36:20 When the actions take place in a different context, they are not the exact same action

[@aureliodeprimus8018]

I don`t understand how ANYONE would take someone who calls himself unironically ShortFatOtaku seriously.....The guy is the definition of half-baked....

[@saininj]

Gotta love the unearned confidence of basement dwelling GamerGate nerds.

[@bmw895]

What a bunch of ad homes. You guys never really moved past gamergate. Heaven forbid people criticized unethical behavior

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

The guy owns a home and has a girlfriend meanwhile Jake dresses like a corn cob and does look like a basement dweller himself

[@agoo7581]

​@@bmw895 oh yes, the people bullying, harassing, threatening, and even assaulting women was definitely the way to "restore ethics to gaming" aka, "a woman won game of the year in a magazine, and that hurts my feelings" You goddamn clown.

[@agoo7581]

​@@thedarkmasterthedarkmasterI mean, Jake has a house and a girlfriend too, and unlike you, he bathes on occasion

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

@@agoo7581 Your childish ad hom means nothing

[@JodyBruchon]

I'm not watching one hour of you not proving the title, kiddo.

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

Jake has a initial point and won't budge. Conservatives can't define woke and will just repeat that as someone who isn't even a conservative defines it

[@GamePlayMetal]

SFO, also known as Sargon's lackey who will defend and agree with his master at all costs

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

Citation needed

[@ToxicAudri]

@@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster Hanging around with a literal nationalist is evidence enough to meet your citation requirements. People who are opposed to what nationalism stands for (fascism) would distance themselves from those who are firm proponents of the ideology.

[@bmw895]

​@@ToxicAudriAh so guilt by association

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

@@ToxicAudri Nationalism is not the same thing as fascism learn what words mean. Also you can "hang out" with someone and disagree with them on the things have you left the keyboard recently?

[@ToxicAudri]

@@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster Nationalism is the precursor to fascism. Curating the "us vs them" mentality.

[@stringman994]

He doesn’t even seem to fully understand Marxism. The idea behind the dialectic between bourgeoisie and the proletariat isn’t that they are eternal enemies, but rather that they are the sides of the current stage of human history. Human history has always been a battle between the haves and have-nots and then a “synthesis” is reached as humans progress to a new form of materialism. In the medieval times it was the landed elite vs the landless serfs, but when land ownership became more common and the Industrial Revolution changed how labor worked, history shifted forwards to the current bourgeoisie-proletariat conflict. So he didn’t even correctly define Marxism before trying to apply it to non-material matters, which by its very definition, is no longer Marxist, leading to the whole thing to fall apart

[@ianhurley4323]

2:02 I can change him...

[@zacharytrevino6321]

The crusades were used to stop European kingdom from fighting each other.

[@Kcoldraz]

Woke could have been to mean just overreach of social justice ideology. But conservatives just had to use it on everything they disagree with.

[@BlueTyphoon2017]

Idk about that, but you are right about one thing, woke is just another word for SJW, in 2014 and actually for centuries before it was PC culture, then it was SJW in 2015-2019, and now it’s woke. It all describes the same thing though.

[@deadinside8891]

The word woke has lost all meaning. It’s part of why I stopped being a center right person. If woke can mean “Stalin did nothing wrong” and “hey, maybe we shouldn’t restrict the rights of women and the LGBTQ+” then the word is meaningless.

[@-kurow-7113]

The people who say that stalin did nothing wrong are usually social conservatives that happened to be against capitalism. It's just that instead of woke they'll use other words.

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

@@-kurow-7113 Ah yes conservatives well know for liking Stalin

[@buttzlol]

"stop being a bigot" AGH TOO WOKE IM UPSET

[@buttzlol]

@@bmw895 who are "you guys" and what are the disagreements? sounds like cope from a bigot

[@-kurow-7113]

​@@bmw895If the disagreement in question is on stuffs like "is a black person on a fantasy movie something we should care about that much? " "Should we adapt society for disabled people" "Is attacking foreign civilians bad if they hate our country" "Is convertion theraphy good?" Then I can say that yeah,people who disagree with me are bigots. Orher than that it's fine I guess.

[@buttzlol]

@@bmw895 the vague ghost people haunting you daily must be rough...but if "sounds like" reads as "you are" to you, well maybe the shoe fits

[@FERAL_MECHANICAL_NOMATIC]

@@bmw895 lol cry harder sweaty

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

@@FERAL_MECHANICAL_NOMATIC I love the utter brain death of this comment. Buttzlol says "stop being a bigot" AGH TOO WOKE IM UPSET" BMW rightfully points out how your definition of bigot is so amorphous that you can call anyone it And the butt guy says, "sounds like cope from a bigot" you're doing the thing but are so arrogantly stupid you don't notice it.

[@Ookamiryoshi]

As someone into anime, know that you probably shouldn't trust someone who calls themselves an otaku unironically

[@wissen5410]

he is like maxisem is socalisem there for all socalisem is maxisem. this is the problem socialism existed before maxisem and includes more than just maxisem. therefor no he is not wrong the nazis are socalsit. and so woke can be perfectly defined as an extension of socialism. he just suffers from fixed idea this is why we cant understand him

[@ToaOfFusion]

Damn, to think I followed this clown back in 2016. I was a cringe-ass teenager

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

I doubt that

[@maxanderson8872]

I love it when right wingers explain socialism accurately, and it sounds pretty logical, but they hate it so they have to try and explain how getting out from under corporate control is a bad thing

[@HotDogTimeMachine385]

That's what it means! It doesn't mean anything! xD

[@Qbertqueso]

6:46 it's not a blurry definition in the slightest. The way the char are trying to define "woke" in this portion of the video is *eyeroll.

[@feistygheisty]

Wow this guy is actually worse at this than James Lindsay and that's saying a lot.

[@SocialLust]

Jake ❤❤❤!!! Can you cover Cuba 🇨🇺

[@UberNoodle]

The problem with auntie woke conservatives is that no matter how much they try to post-hoc rationalise their bigotry with rhetoric dressed up like logic and science, it's still a post-hoc rationalisation. They still by default get their knickers in a twist when they see women and minorities in their media and video games, and their public rationale for why they feel that way is just a smoke screen. It has absolutely nothing to do with core deep-seated reason why feel that visceral reaction. So whenever one of these conservative right-wing reactionary types tries to shroud their bigotry in logic and pragmatism, you know for a fact they are being dishonest. This is just part of the rhetorical game they play to win the Big Debate of Life that they are so determined to win.

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

Heaven forbid anyone dislike a piece of media, how evil

[@randomusername3873]

Don't you people freak out because in Italy there's a lot of white people

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

@@randomusername3873 They do

[@nemothenobody7859]

Woke being hard to define is not a bug it is a feature. It is a term that instructs right-wingers on what to hate. Hating a thing that is the right has deemed woke is a virtue signal.

[@randomusername3873]

So the fact that he defined that means he's not a right winger, right?

[@ValleyMansonOfficial]

I can't stand SFO; he should have stuck with reviewing anime

[@kenlee4356]

0:35 i haven't heard the name gothix since 2022....

[@ometta7]

Oh yeah... She was almost adjacent to being a thing back then, wasn't she?

[@nonreligionist]

Lucky

[@cockatoomagnet583]

Gothix must be a grifter larping as a poseur who barfs reactionary propaganda.

[@AgentForest]

Conservatives in 2008: "Wake up, sheeple!" Socialists after 2020: "Okay, I'm awake now and understand the system that oppresses us and I no longer trust the current systems." Conservatives after 2020: [angry NPC face]

[@alexanderthemagnifcent2573]

I’m I the only person who remembers back when he made good videos and was not a fascist.

[@aaendi6661]

He never was a fascist.

[@daymar3]

I’m going to need evidence for SFO being a f@scist before I take the claim seriously.

[@krybling]

What does he mean with "race and ethnecity" he doesnt know thats the same word

[@krybling]

Ethnicity*

[@krybling]

The difference is animals and humans

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

They're not. No one uses those word as the same thing. Why do you think whenever the law discusses things they say no government agency shall discriminate against Sex, Gender, religion, Race or ethnicity

[@LuckerStomp]

C'mon

[@DijijiyoRony]

im glad someone FINALY took the time to link socialism and human centipede

[@arcanumcoto]

Woke is Woke. Simple. Woke is not being a dumbfuck. Honestly, let's go marxists, if they want to give woke to us, let's take it lmao.

[@gutssenpaichan7286]

Decided to look at the comments on the original video, kinda funny, mostly lame. Basically all shadowboxing. The conclusions that otaku draws from marx and socialism are so disconnected it is hard to describe. At first I was surprised to see him describe lefite ideas pretty ok, but he basically went from yeah 2+2=4 is ok and makes sense but 4+4= starting a race war. He would have been better off to not define the terms in the first place. I was hoping for more but it really does seem like all their arguments hinge on shadowboxing a false conclusion, I am unfortunately and usually left with a similar thought of "are they just dumb guys?". But then the overwhelming disgust in their comments take hold and they just start farting out the weirdest concoction of edgy angst and bitter diatribes I've ever seen. Recently I have come to realize that it's all pretense, and that it never mattered to them. They just like the appearance of debate/ critical thinking. Not really surprising but always disappointing.

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

He literally defines the word, You guys take any explanation as not being valid if it's from someone you don't like

[@gutssenpaichan7286]

@@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster I said his definitions were ok but the conclusion he has are just silly just like the one you have about my comment.

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

@@gutssenpaichan7286 Then you're more reasonable than the Corncob man who made this video

[@0744401]

Intersectionality is not complicated. Say you're looking to move out from your parents. You need a job and an appartment. You want to find a boss and a landlord that won't discriminate against you. Because you don't want to be fired or yelled at for no reason, and you'd feel safer if there wasn't out there someone who hates you who knows where you live and has a key to your home. There is a pool of jobs and appartment in the city. And there is a pool of -isms distributed among the bosses and landlords. And you get a set of -isms that are working either in your favour or either against you. The more -isms you got going on working against you, the more difficult it is to find both a job and an appartment where nobody hates you. The more the pool of interesting options shrinks for you. This might make you take a job that pays less well, take an appartment that is more expensive, further away from work or interesting things. You might not have interesting safe options, so you might have to make sacrifices in terms of your job or housing quality or you make sacrifices to your safety. And the more people make sacrifices to their safety, the more hate crimes there are. This is extremely concrete, profound life impacts.

[@MazChuga]

While I agree that workers should earn more of the profits than they usually do, I always struggle when people say or imply there is no risk as an owner. Someone had to buy the tools that allow the workers to work, Someone has to do marketing, there is a risk of being sued, there is a risk of people getting hurt, there is a risk of failing, there are other areas of the business that are needed to operate that may not directly be a source of cash flow, etc. If all the profits go to the workers, then how do you reinvest to buy and upkeep equipment, etc.? If I invest $500k to start-up a business, do I not deserve to be compensated for this? The workers wouldn't have a wage if I don't create the infrastructure for them to work. For this, I think society should move more towards co-ops and employee owned businesses.

[@Campernicus]

How did you get the 500k, Todd?

[@adamplentl5588]

Yeah you aren't producing anything. You aren't doing labor. Without workers doing the actual labor that produces the actual thing of value, what you have is an empty building and a pile of useless tools. Ignoring that you magically somehow magically have 500k that I'm sure wasn't obtained by also not doing and not producing anything and definitely wasn't obtained by extracting wealth from actual laborers and producers.

[@adamplentl5588]

It is the transformative property of labor which generates 100% of the value of anything.

[@thenewapelles6448]

I don't think anyone denies that there's inherent risk involved in starting a business. It's a matter of how much that initial risk is actually worth relative to the work the employees do.

[@adamplentl5588]

@@thenewapelles6448 a lot of these people also fail to understand that the consequences for the laborer are often much more severe than they are for the capital owner. The capital owner merely risks having to become part of the labor class in the worst case, whereas the laborer risks health, homelessness, poverty, etc.

[@throughmyshadow]

Haters gonna hate

[@couranyx955]

How many commenters here love communism woooo yeah

[@bmw895]

Wow what a vaccuous video. Complaining that conservatives can't define woke as we see someone literally defining woke. Cornman not smart

[@agoo7581]

except he didnt, he hemmed and hawed until he started just making shit up.

[@bmw895]

@@agoo7581 he clearly defined it

[@nicholaswhite7056]

@@bmw895 what was the defintion, because i sure didnt hear anything that sounded like a clear definition of woke

[@bmw895]

@@nicholaswhite7056 Woke is the application of Marxism to the things other than class

[@lemon93]

​@@bmw895 sigh ill bite okay how is dei Marxist.