"Current year" terms that piss you off

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Houseless, unhoused, and other cutesy euphemisms for "homeless."

During the downtime, the area paper's editorial section had a surprisingly based op-ed piece where the author said that such words neither address the root causes of homelessness nor do anything to help those capable of finding a new place to live.

In a similar note, "food insecurity" to describe those who don't have enough to eat.
 
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Kiwi Lime Pie said:
Houseless, unhoused, and other cutesy euphemisms for "homeless."

During the downtime, the area paper's editorial section had a surprisingly based op-ed piece where the author said that such words neither address the root causes of homelessness nor do anything to help those capable of finding a new place to live.

In a similar note, "food insecurity" to describe those who don't have enough to eat.
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I'll add to this any language that sidesteps the real issue and tries to refrain it; People who have a penis, persons with a uterus etc etc. It's a man and a woman, nothing else.
 
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I'll add to this any language that sidesteps the real issue and tries to refrain it; People who have a penis, persons with a uterus etc etc. It's a man and a woman, nothing else.
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As a general rule of thumb, if the euphemism has more syllables, it's bullshit. The more surplus syllables to say something normal that everyone knows what it means, the bigger the bullshit. So "person with disabilities" has way more syllables than "cripple" or "gimp." That's how you can tell that you're being fed a load of bullshit.
 
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The Great Citracett said:
"Profa" or "Pro-fa," because "fash" wasn't a stupid sounding enough name for internet commies to call anyone who disagrees with them.
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Commies really like to play the name games with Antifa, claiming that the name literally means they cannot do wrong and so anyone opposed to the communist paramilitaries rioting in the streets must be a fascist because "anyone opposed to antifascism must be a fascist or adjacent." It's up there with the "kill half" memes that claim that centrism is awful because clearly the choice is just between good and evil and not two different forms of evil.
 
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Local Fed said:
It's more like "Hear him out/let it play out and let him continue doing what he's doing/saying" usually said with tacit approval; sometimes though it's "Let him suffer the consequences" though. If you're on Twitter for any length of time you're bound to see someone reply with this image (to farm likes) to someone saying something controversial/doing something crazy.

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I've been hearing this more and more over the last month or so and I hate it.

Does anyone remember that one episode of Dan Vs. where a shadow government is conspiring to make the rest of the world dumber through ridiculous AI-generated slang and self-destructive trends? That feels less like a joke every day.
 
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I don’t know if this quite fits the bill, but tone indicators really piss me off as well as the faggots who insist that sarcasm is “literally undetectable” through text. Yeah, it can be harder to spot online than verbal sarcasm, but most of the time I’m pretty sure they just don’t pick up on it because of autism. Anyways, the only thing tone indicators are really useful for is to spot terminally online Twitter retards at a glance. Otherwise, it’s all performative and obnoxious bullshit like 99% of the other online trends that grow in popularity nowadays.

P.S. I noticed there’s a word filter to replace the sarcasm one (/ s) with /sneed which made me laugh really hard when I found out
 
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Kiwi Lime Pie said:
Houseless, unhoused, and other cutesy euphemisms for "homeless."

During the downtime, the area paper's editorial section had a surprisingly based op-ed piece where the author said that such words neither address the root causes of homelessness nor do anything to help those capable of finding a new place to live.
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It's another way to paint them as victims/not at fault for being homeless. He was housed at some point, then someone took that house away from him. It's not his fault he's homeless, it's because some evil person took his house away. He's a blameless victim, and therefore morally in the right. All of woke newspeak is like this, emphasizing that dynamic of oppressed victims and evil oppressors to absolve the oppressed of blame or responsibility for their predicament.

Nobody in the woke gives a fuck about any of their causes, they only see opportunities for moral entrepreneurship.
 
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"Unbanked" to refer to people who don't have bank accounts. This appeared in a recent article trying to justify a new local law requiring most businesses in a particular city to accept cash payments. It sounds just as cutesy, pretentious, and oversimplified like the other terms that piss me off such as "unhoused" and "houseless."
 
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"Unbanked" to refer to people who don't have bank accounts. This appeared in a recent article trying to justify a new local law requiring most businesses in a particular city to accept cash payments. It sounds just as cutesy, pretentious, and oversimplified like the other terms that piss me off such as "unhoused" and "houseless."
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On one hand, I support efforts to prevent the encroachment of the "cashless society," and I can understand why people would be wary of keeping bank accounts after things like the Canada Trucker Crackdown. On the other, it's obvious laws like these were made to protect those poor bums relying on panhandling money or drug dealers putting all their cash in mattresses so the bank can't trace it, and fuck those guys. It sucks having your genuine concerns grouped in with anti-social behavior when things like this come up. Makes everything seem worse because of it.
 
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In a similar note, "food insecurity" to describe those who don't have enough to eat.
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I'm gonna be the annoying one here but "food insecurity" is actually way older than all this other shit. I know this link won't work on Tor but it was created back in the 70s, so it's ~50 years old. That's hardly Current Year. also it's like two words vs. the 6 words of "who don't have enough to eat," it's not just passive voice'ing something that already has a term.
 
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Houseless, unhoused, and other cutesy euphemisms for "homeless."

During the downtime, the area paper's editorial section had a surprisingly based op-ed piece where the author said that such words neither address the root causes of homelessness nor do anything to help those capable of finding a new place to live.

In a similar note, "food insecurity" to describe those who don't have enough to eat.
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Bog-standard Poster said:
I'll add to this any language that sidesteps the real issue and tries to refrain it; People who have a penis, persons with a uterus etc etc. It's a man and a woman, nothing else.
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As a general rule of thumb, if the euphemism has more syllables, it's bullshit. The more surplus syllables to say something normal that everyone knows what it means, the bigger the bullshit. So "person with disabilities" has way more syllables than "cripple" or "gimp." That's how you can tell that you're being fed a load of bullshit.
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As laid out perfectly by George Carlin ages ago:
 
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I'm starting to get awfully annoyed with the word "woke" now.

Everything is being called woke by boomers and anti-woke ragebaiters, and I'm rather sick of it. It's made me realize that a fair portion of what has been called woke is not really woke (e.g. some newer films), it's all been greatly over-exaggerated to death.

"Pozzed" is a far better term that's relatively undiluted by these retards.
 
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Zoomers think they sound cool when they talk like niggers for some reason.
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That's not the new part, people have been thinking that for so long that Lord Buckley made a successful comedy routine of it in the 50s:
(Of course blackface is earlier, but the people in blackface didn't think they sounded cool.)

The new part is that it's communicated in text over the internet, so people are using nigger dialect without knowing who it comes from, and thinking certain slang is brand new when it's 20 or 30 years old, but was only recently used by somebody on Twitter or whatever.
 
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