The disagreement over the use of British sites is behind the US president’s withdrawal of support for the Chagos Islands deal, The Times understands

    • Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      2 days ago

      That was always the point. Words have power, and woke was a powerful word emerging in the early-mid US referring to awareness of racial prejudice and discrimination. The Trump admin purposely co-opted the word to use in as much bullshit as possible to make it meaningless, and take away it’s power. It worked.

      • couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        2 days ago

        Well that’s mostly true but I believe that for Trump he’s now just adding it into his salad because he rememebers it works for his base, just like ‘Mexicans’ a few years ago, but thay doesn’t mean he’s able to connect it to reality anymore