"Current year" terms that piss you off

[Orion Balls]

"Rest in Power." Because it's only being used to describe criminals who evaded the law for long periods of time and ended up dying by the hands of the police while they were often in commision of other crimes at the time of death.
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Also yes the term "gaslighting" originates from a play called Gas Light (which was later made into film). The plot is about a husband intentionally causing his wife to question her sanity and reality so he can have her locked up and run off with their mutal friend (or maid, IDR). It isn't new, it just happens to be the current word discovered by *them* that they're overusing.

To be fair, the play existed in 1938. The film was produced in 1944. It's a fairly old term. Sudden popular usage doesn't render the phrase less accurate than "psychological manipulation and abuse." And the latter is a pain to say, over and over. Especially in TwitterLand.

 

[Tootsie Bear]

"Latinx"

Go down to Mexico City and try to use that shit. Try to use that shit on those Venezuelan shop owners that told Harris to BTFO.

This is one of the worst. I can imagine the people who support this don't live anywhere near Latino/Hispanic people or interact with them unless they're doing their yard work or bathrooms, and had this uncontrollable rage that both Hispanic men and women would be called "Latino" despite it being masculine while it can be gender neutral when describing both sexes.

 

[StevieLasVegas]

White privilege. Yes, some people are born into privilege, but race has fuck all to do with inheritance. I worked to get/afford my truck, my house and where I am in my career. It wasn't given to me because I'm a pale white mother fucker.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

White privilege.

Seems "privilege" in Current Year is just a way of trying to keep that delirious hierarchy of categorizing people as "marginalized" or "oppressor" based on identity - identity politics BS.

 

[[Redacted]-san]

I hate the term bootlicker still, and when people call others nazis for simply disagreeing with them on anything. I rather be a nazi, dumbass left/liberal cunts, thanks for isolating me more.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I can imagine the people who support this don't live anywhere near Latino/Hispanic people or interact with them

That's exactly the case with Phil (ADF). Uses "latinx", and lives in one of the whitest parts of the USA (Portland) - he claimed he's "in Mexico" because he thinks Oregon shouldn't be in USA.

 

[AnimeAvatard]

I despise the current definition of “science” that has especially been used this year.

Here is the real definition for reference

So many people especially our government in the US and the WHO especially this year have been spouting “trust science” as if science was one consistent religious belief. Many idiots are falling for that BS too.

Literally the whole point of science is to be challenged. Science is something that can have many studies and many changes and we have even seen that inconsistency with what is said about Covid-19 which is ridiculous yet a lot of people don’t call that out and continue to say “trust science” like some gay ass cult.

This has been used as a tool by our government to control the narrative they find fit, and don’t allow others to challenge it because“you are going against science.”

Nigga what?

These people studying on their own are real scientists half the time and have made their own discoveries yet you chose to ignore them because it isn’t the mainstream studies. They use “trust science” as a contradiction shield. If you guys can’t even get your own crap together in Covid-19 science then why should we trust 100% of everything they say?

Oh yeah, you know why? It’s because“trust science” is a hip and trendy disguise on what they really mean which is “trust the government.”

 

[Mr. Confederate Man]

On a lighter note, what the hell is “boom boom” sauce and why does it have to be everywhere? Sounds like something that came out of a trailer park somewhere

 

[The Last Stand]

When somebody screams out Wooooo! It's ear grating and unnecessary. Especially on a mic.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

like some gay ass cult

Cult-think seems to be everywhere in Current Year America.

This future sucks.

 

[AnimeAvatard]

Cult-think seems to be in just about everywhere in Current Year.

This future sucks.

Japan is the only place in the world that seems to be living in the future. They are literally working on flying cars and have created a real Gundam.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Japan

They still have coronapanic though. It's being "socially engineered" as the "new lifestyle". Just like in America, you see face masks everywhere. I really hope this "new normal" ends.

Although at least the coronapanic there isn't as bad as in other parts of the world. The government only shut down schools for awhile, and there wasn't the draconian response you see in "liberal" places like certain parts of Europe and the "blue states" of America - which is why they're doing "social engineering".

 

[The Decimator]

Not really a "term" per se, but I absolutely abhor the very smug, passive aggressive form of typing. You know the kind; when they start a post with "ummmm," spit out some retarded shit, and then end it by holding down their question mark key.

TL;DR, I cannot stand Twitterfags.

OMG, I hate when people do that! If you see somebody on Twitter who types like that, chances are they’re one (or all) of these things:

1. Leftist
2. Gay
3. Trans
4. Furry
5. Soy boy

 

[The Last Stand]

The term leftist.

 

[AnimeAvatard]

The term leftist.

I do to hate it ultimately tbh, I hate how life has come to this that we have to label everyone as leftists or right wingers.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

The term leftist.

random trivia: Ted Kaczynski used it a lot in that manifesto.

leftists or right wingers

I think I'm still "centrist", but to the "woke" I'm likely "alt right". And yeah, American politics are so divisive. Remember that "reaching across the aisle" thing? I guess that's no longer a thing. Talk of Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo is less crazy.

 

[Jeff Boomhauer]

I don't know if there's a specific term for it, but people that try to emphasize their points in the following ways:

MY. BELIEFS. ARE. BETTER. THAN. YOURS.

YOUAREOBVIOUSLYAWFUL

It's like the text equivalent to thinking, "Being loud=Being correct."

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Japan

Speaking of Japan again, I looked at a webcam of a public place to see what coronapanic looks like over there. Almost everyone wears face masks, but they're always the plain medical kind, rather than the "muzzle" variety usually seen in America.

 

[Happy Fish]

random trivia: Ted Kaczynski used it a lot in that manifesto.


I think I'm still "centrist", but to the "woke" I'm likely "alt right". And yeah, American politics are so divisive. Remember that "reaching across the aisle" thing? I guess that's no longer a thing. Talk of Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo is less crazy.

Unlce Ted's ideas on over socialization were pretty spot on. His manifesto is almost comical when you realize he was a canary in a coal mine when it comes to left wing politics in universities, and detailing the mental break of a someone continuously exposed to a hub of wokeness.

 

[Dick Justice]

Not exactly a term, but a trend.

Face. Masks.

They look like muzzles (symbolism much?).

How jerks, scumbags, and corrupt politicians force them on us.

It looks gross - and rather useless - when people just cover their mouths with them, letting their noses hang out.

It IS gross to repeatedly breathe one's own exhaling over and over, and the crappy "aftertaste" when the covering is removed.

How some wear them outside. Yes, outside.

How they now have logos on them, implying permanence.

How there's a chance they really could be the "new normal".

And this rot wasn't even a thing just a year ago.

Counter-point: it's finally socially acceptable to opt out of surveillance cameras and automatic facial recognition. Masks are a huge step back for 1984.