"Current year" terms that piss you off

[Dambusters' Dog II]

Thoughts on these fellas?
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I heard some idiots on YouTube calling it "Super Mario Bros", with Bros pronounced as the plural of bro. The title screen clearly says "Super Mario Bros.", with a full stop, indicating that Bros. is the abbreviation for Brothers, which is what everyone called it at the time.

"Died by suicide" instead of "committed suicide".

This completely erases the horrifying nature of suicide in that it's self-inflicted.

Relatedly, "suicide victim" for someone who committed suicide. I have tried to reason with people that if "rape victims" are now to be "rape survivors", then logically "suicide victims" should be "suicide survivors".

That same person later claimed that the term meant "something someone in authority does to secretly signal to the alt-right that he supports them".

This is the original meaning of "dog whistle" in American politics, which I think dates back to Reagan (not signalling to the alt right, but to southern segregationists). However, in practice it started to mean "this innocuous phrase actually means racism" almost immediately, and by the time of George W. Bush it had lost all relation to reality.

 

[Smunchy]

Saying someone 'unalived' themselves. I understand it was used to get around censors but now young people are saying it in real life. Also anyone saying "my truth" is just trying to justify lying.

Not related but I want to bitch about it: I hate the term 'bad' meaning attractive. The first time I heard "she bad" I wondered what the woman did.

 

[WULULULULU]

At this point I've gotten so fucking sick of the term "content", because it simply devalues something like drama, action, romance, interactivity, into a sludge of "content", i.e shit to watch/do. The fact that people think that one has to be judged on "content" alone is honestly damning. Almost like a new form of Newspeak where movies, games and other stuff are judged by "content", or new "content" updates and whatnot. What the fuck does "content" even mean anyway?

 

[Scooter Kid]

Have I already mentioned how much I absolutely loathe the word, "Systemic"?

systemic porn addiction

"My brother in Christ"
"who hurt you"
"no bitches?"
I can not believe you would say that!
the "sure jan" meme.

All of this is standard Libshit twitter discourse. Its both offensively fake, and pseudo holistic(the pretension of being healthy and well adjusted)

Brotherin Christ comes from ifunny christians not wanting to say my nigga.

Guaranteed someone mentioned this already, but referring to people as “bodies”, like “bodies of color” or “plus sized bodies” is fucking creepy as shit.

DOD Propaganda

 

[DenseDeerFather]

So since phrases are okay, one that I stumbled upon a lot during the riots of Saint Floyd the criminal is "silence/indifference is murder/compliance"

Usually spat by little self righteous slacktivists trying to guilt people into believing their bullshit because they need a power trip. Or they are mentally incapable of thinking in extremes. Sounds like typical cluster Bs.

Heaven forbid people have their own beliefs or just don't want to be talked down to or even care that much.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

Brotherin Christ comes from ifunny christians not wanting to say my nigga.

Classic Christcucks

 

[Two Dollars]

Gaslighting and grooming. Just say “lying” and “being a pedophile”.

I heard some idiots on YouTube calling it "Super Mario Bros", with Bros pronounced as the plural of bro. The title screen clearly says "Super Mario Bros.", with a full stop, indicating that Bros. is the abbreviation for Brothers, which is what everyone called it at the time.

Plenty of people say “Mario Bros”. It’s easier than saying Brothers, and everyone knows what you mean. Unless they thought “Bros” was the official name, then that’s dumb.

 

[anustart76]

Gaslighting and grooming. Just say “lying” and “being a pedophile”.

Plenty of people say “Mario Bros”. It’s easier than saying Brothers, and everyone knows what you mean. Unless they thought “Bros” was the official name, then that’s dumb.

"Gaslighting" does get annoying but "grooming" has a more specific definition than just pedophile so I can tolerate that one.

"Whataboutism" gets on my fucking nerves. No, it's not a "le epic owned" comeback, you're just deflecting criticism of your own fucking hypocrisy.

 

[Crysocyan]

Dog Hardware; Cat Software

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

Dog Hardware; Cat Software

Hey, that's me!

 

[Cyberpunk Panatela]

Relatedly, "suicide victim" for someone who committed suicide. I have tried to reason with people that if "rape victims" are now to be "rape survivors", then logically "suicide victims" should be "suicide survivors".

"Suicide victim" dates from the times when suicide was a crime (any person who has a crime committed upon him is said to be a victim of said crime).

It is correct English to use "suicide" as a common noun, eg. "My aunt was a suicide", although this usage has become somewhat of an archaism.

Spoiler: Legal wordplay

I remember during the abolition debate one of the arguments in favour of abolition was that suicide is "the only crime where the victim, perpetrator and executioner are the same person" (additional concerns were putting the mentally ill in prison and removing the incentive of also committing murder to attract the death penalty in case of failure [some cops did this])

"Rape survivor" started being used in the '90s when a new school of thought regarding rape counseling developed, based on criticism of the then predominant method as being practically useless, inculcating a sense of helplessness in their clients and having unrealistically utopian ideas.

The new method was focused on decreasing clients' chances of being raped again by teaching self-defense (itself taboo in the then dominant approach), what activities/areas are hazardous in reality (as opposed to the idealistic "that should not be risky"), how to testify in court, and a completely different approach to psychological counseling (temporary instead of the other school of thought's ideal of the permanent patient/member).

They started using the term "rape survivor" instead of "rape victim" to discourage clients developing a perpetual identity of victimhood and conseqent immisseration.

 

[anustart76]

"Suicide victim" dates from the times when suicide was a crime (any person who has a crime committed upon him is said to be a victim of said crime).

It is correct English to use "suicide" as a common noun, eg. "My aunt was a suicide", although this usage has become somewhat of an archaism.

Spoiler: Legal wordplay

I remember during the abolition debate one of the arguments in favour of abolition was that suicide is "the only crime where the victim, perpetrator and executioner are the same person" (additional concerns were putting the mentally ill in prison and removing the incentive of also committing murder to attract the death penalty in case of failure [some cops did this])

"Rape survivor" started being used in the '90s when a new school of thought regarding rape counseling developed, based on criticism of the then predominant method as being practically useless, inculcating a sense of helplessness in their clients and having unrealistically utopian ideas.

The new method was focused on decreasing clients' chances of being raped again by teaching self-defense (itself taboo in the then dominant approach), what activities/areas are hazardous in reality (as opposed to the idealistic "that should not be risky"), how to testify in court, and a completely different approach to psychological counseling (temporary instead of the other school of thought's ideal of the permanent patient/member).

They started using the term "rape survivor" instead of "rape victim" to discourage clients developing a perpetual identity of victimhood and conseqent immisseration.

So it's okay that I call myself an "IBS survivor"?

 

[Cyberpunk Panatela]

So it's okay that I call myself an "IBS survivor"?

Do as you see fit. For diseases(and pseudodiagnoses) "sufferer" is more correct and more often used, though.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

"Toxic masculinity" - yet another buzzword meaning "not woke" in Clown World.

 

[Shard]

So since phrases are okay, one that I stumbled upon a lot during the riots of Saint Floyd the criminal is "silence/indifference is murder/compliance"

Usually spat by little self righteous slacktivists trying to guilt people into believing their bullshit because they need a power trip. Or they are mentally incapable of thinking in extremes. Sounds like typical cluster Bs.

Heaven forbid people have their own beliefs or just don't want to be talked down to or even care that much.

If silence is violence, then centrists are terrorists

 

[anustart76]

"Toxic masculinity" - yet another buzzword meaning "not woke" in Clown World.

Just like "incel"
It's just another term they use to shame men who don't do what they want

 

[ToroidalBoat]

It's just another term they use to shame men who don't do what they want

All the soy ways of saying the same thing - "wrongthink" - that I heard and can recall:

- alt-right
- bigoted
- colonialist
- conspiracy theorist
- disinformation
- fake news
- far right
- fascist
- incel
- Kiwi Farms
- marginalizing
- misinformation
- misogynist
- Nazi
- racist
- Republican (?)
- right wing
- science denier
- sexist
- toxic masculinity
- transphobic
- Trump
- Trump supporting
- vaccine hesitant
- white supremacist

(I heard the MSM and "social media" try to "program" or "socially engineer" by repeating such phrases. It can get tiresome.)

 

[74164978231]

"full stop"

 

[DenseDeerFather]

All the soy ways of saying the same thing - "wrongthink" - that I heard and can recall:

- alt-right
- bigoted
- colonialist
- conspiracy theorist
- disinformation
- fake news
- far right
- fascist
- incel
- Kiwi Farms
- marginalizing
- misinformation
- misogynist
- Nazi
- racist
- Republican (?)
- right wing
- science denier
- sexist
- toxic masculinity
- transphobic
- Trump
- Trump supporting
- vaccine hesitant
- white supremacist

(I heard the MSM and "social media" try to "program" or "socially engineer" by repeating such phrases. It can get tiresome.)

I'd like to add;
TERF
Trumpie (although that can easily be listed under Trump)
Truscum (tranny trenders use this to bash naysayers and argue why they should fuck up their bodies and minds with hormones they don't need)

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I'd like to add;

There's "anti-vaxxer" and "toxic" too.

(also maybe "dudebro" and "GamerGate")