[pmikesell]

Yes - I just meant that we're going to see a ton of comments here from people who want to let it be know that they think Uber, Postmates, etc are super evil and everything the government can do to shut them down is what they deserve.

It is samethink. A lot of people posting here hold these positions because they read them in the last story about these companies and they want to join in on the rabble. And discussion or nuance gets lost in this blizzard of conformity of opinion. It gets boring after a while.

[dang]

Yes, the repetitive angry comments, which get snarkier and snarkier to distinguish themselves, certainly get boring. But posts like this one and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21923259 are not any way to combat this–it just leads to second-order versions of the same thing. The only way to combat it is to post substantive, thoughtful first-order comments of your own. Or failing that, at least not to feed it by not posting.

[Waterluvian]

I think that's what bothers me about "woke". It applies a binary state to a considerably more complex concept. It's like being "in shape." It's not a yes or no state. You don't achieve "in shape" and move on to something else. It's an entire lifestyle that requires constant work.

The concept of being woke is a convenient cop-out to declare in a single word that yes you agree with all those things all those other people are saying.

Also get off my lawn. I'm cranky about fundamental principles I hold dear being distilled down to a slang word so that it fits Twitter culture conversations better.

[icebraining]

> The concept of being woke is a convenient cop-out to declare in a single word that yes you agree with all those things all those other people are saying.

As far as I can tell, woke is generally used as an adjective towards others (often pejoratively). Unironically claiming to be "woke" will generally elicit ridicule.