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a sad day when liberty and freedom are considered woke

Yep, and if that really is the case, and if they really do intend on 'preserving knowledge' in their own inner circles and special getaways, then they will be setting themselves up for a dark age. A popular backlash against all elite things will always be bad, but throwing in knowledge, liberty, and freedom into that mix will guarantee something even more terrible.

my thought on that is a lot of these folks are in for a rude awakening if they think their positions will be preserved in a society that transitions to an illiberal autocratic society. I flat do not believe they have what it takes to hang with eg the russian mafia, the saudi royal family.

They're not and "woke" people don't give a shit about liberty and freedom of people with differing views either.

This is untrue or those people with "differing views" wouldn't have a way to vote themselves into power after being so loud that it dominated significant parts of the social bubble.

But they were and they are in power now.

So this Self-Victimisation which became even more popular on the right then on the left, is outdated. It was false before but today its falsehood is reality.

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