"Current year" terms that piss you off

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Orwell's Duckspeak: to speak without thinking. Just bland corporate filler.

What pisses me is are headlines that start with "No". Double pissed if it's the headline to a "factcheck"

No, algebra isn’t necessary — and enough with STEM​

No, helicopter parents aren’t ruining kids after all​

No, the Constitution is not ‘neutral’ on abortion​

No, the Taliban did not seize $85 billion of U.S. weapons​

No, Republicans aren’t hammering Democrats in redistricting. They’re doing something worse.​

No, Democrats won’t ‘destroy’ the suburbs. But they will remake them.​

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LOL it evokes the same complex argumentation strategy of my toddler.
 
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Trad. Politically, the term ranges from a meaningless descriptor to a larp-y fetishization of the past. In regards to Christianity though, I absolutely hate the term. It's so often used as an arrogant term to describe oneself as innately better than "non-trad" people. It also feels like the term itself takes such a wrong approach to Christianity. It becomes a statement of politics, rather than of personal faith; it implies the faith/church is good because it's "traditional," rather than being good because it reflects the truth.
 
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“Global citizen”
Used by people that don’t see themselves as part of their own nation, or used in a way to coerce people into doing things that could be detrimental.

Example:
“As a global citizen, you have a duty to help people of X nation, if you don’t, you are helping increase suffering around the world. As global citizens, we can’t let these atrocities happen, so put pressure on Y politician to help us intervene on their behalf.”

Different example:

“As a global citizen, it is your duty to help everyone. Where is your humanity?”
 
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These are the ones I've seen otherwise normal people use:

"guidance" / "guidelines". If you're going to be firing / banning / suing people for breach of those, just say "rules", cunts.
L8 and gay but "unpack" and "ableist".
"essential" ("I recommend this")
"bullying" (both actual school bullying - instead, say what happened! - and adults)
(this is one of my original strongly held beliefs - school "bullying" incidents are crimes and should be referred to by the name of the crime - theft, robbery, assault, battery, etc, even if the crime carries no punishment due to the age of the suspect)
"abuse" of a human - smells of the great reset, as if there's a way to correctly use a spouse or child; "animal abuse" (the term, not the act) is fine by me
"dropped" (started sales) and "pick up" (buy)
"explore" (navel-gazing)
"navigate"
"therapy" (the psychology grift)
"trauma"
"POC" / "BIPOC" (I'd rather be called a nigger, and I'm not even a nigger)
"diverse" (in general, too, but especially about a single person / thing - even if you're a double nigger triple kike, there's still only one of you)
"care" (healthcare)
"on my radar"

Miss Chance said:
'I am based in'/'(insert name of town) based (insert useless service sector job) (insert Millennial sounding name)'. No, no you aren't. You arent paint or food colouring or the Hughes Aircraft Corporation. You LIVE in London or Berlin or Timbuctoo or wherever the Hell it is you claimed to be 'based'. Bleerch.
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"[Adjective] people". Shit, the word "people" became tainted to me. Seriously.
"Disabled". Seemingly normal word, also tainted by woketards.

Now that I think about it, many words I wouldn't give a fuck about in the past became canxerous to me after 2020 quarantine accelerated growth of all that woke shit. TikTok, Twitter and Tumblr porn ban were a mistake.
 
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"white" but as in a negative connotation. "You dress very white" or "you talk very white". I just hate all this blatantly racist crap and the worst part is the people I mostly see saying this stuff are usually white themselves.
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They just want to fit in. They probably think talking like they are part of Black People Twitter gives them street cred.
 
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Jewthulhu said:
Trad. Politically, the term ranges from a meaningless descriptor to a larp-y fetishization of the past. In regards to Christianity though, I absolutely hate the term. It's so often used as an arrogant term to describe oneself as innately better than "non-trad" people. It also feels like the term itself takes such a wrong approach to Christianity. It becomes a statement of politics, rather than of personal faith; it implies the faith/church is good because it's "traditional," rather than being good because it reflects the truth.
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Yeah I agree with you there. Trads can be really fucking obnoxious and I know people who genuinely only identify as Christian because of the politics.

Probably hookup culture for me, also the whole gender shit. That drives me crazy.
 
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Safir said:
"POC" / "BIPOC" (I'd rather be called a nigger, and I'm not even a nigger)
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I think the whole "the left are the real racists" shit is gay, but nothing feeds into that more than using "person of color" instead of "colored person." It's like saying niggerfaggot is offensive but faggot nigger isn't.

Also, why bipoc? I'm assuming it means bisexual person of color? What about all the other letters of the rainbow? Pretty exclusionary if you ask me.
 
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