For me it’s saying, “we can’t joke about anything anymore”. Sirens go off immediately 🚨

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    “Actually, we’re a constitutional republic…” & “Our thoughts and prayers…” are both candidates, I could come up with way more.

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      I view it as the right wing equivalent of a soyjak. A derogatory name (and drawing) for someone who’s terminally online and politically obsessed.

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        Now see I did not know it was right wing and now I apparently know what a soyjak is even though its the first time I have seen this. Kinda funny that anyone moving in social media circles has a name for folks who are online all the time and politically obsessed and are not themselves. Its feels like one of those things in a cartoon where the clearly nerdy character is yelling nerd at a nerdier character.

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        well I mean some you can sus out from context and I sorta used that word intentionally because from context I used it like I did above to figure something out but I also have seen it used to mean something is suspect. chud though I have generally just seen it thrown out as some degrogatory noun which is really hard to figure out in context .

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        I mean I know the name from the movied it was more its modern usage. Honestly your def difers enough from another persons that now im less sure.

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      or saying they “arnt political” or saying YE isnt an anti-semetic nazi. or my favorite, ask them why they voted for trump and they get defensive, and cant explain it,

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      i cringed when i heard someone on yt say they, either him or BEN SHAPRIO, your a nutty right winger, and a little transphobic too.(referring to a white guy(ttashy) that reguarly goes on a asian poc channel who had a whole drama about a women getting fired from the channel because she stood up to them, whom are also trashy themselves. he would refer to these 2 “Gentlemen” as points he is making when referring to censorship, taking out of context.

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    Anyone who uses the word “elevate” seriously in a conversation not about elevators or construction.

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    For me it’s the term “that’s what’s wrong with society” and variations of it. There are a LOT of things wrong with society, and different countries, cities and regions have totally different problems. If you boil all these problems down to one thing, it’s probably because you’re obsessed with that one thing, not because it’s actually caused all these other problems.

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      I think it’s possible to use such an expression as shorthand for that one specific issue being emblematic of the kind of people/thoughts/values/etc responsible for more of society’s ills at large without literally meaning that one thing is the only thing that is wrong. It really depends on the context and the person using it, I guess.

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      Blame the military. In the 1980s to 2000s, probably up through 2010ish that’s all that was ever heard “that’s not a woman, that’s a Female Soldier”. It literally got drilled into a lot of heads.

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            you’re not a disgusting indoctrinated country or you’re not a fascist country?
            And why don’t you explain the point then.

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              The point is/was that soldiers are not male or female when in uniform … they are just soldiers.

              Dont throw “fascist” around so much, it makes you sound like a NPC bot and the word literally loses its bite.

              The older generations use the word female literally (as in by textbook definition) to describe a subjects gender. As examples; “The dog is female, there was a female police officer there, we could have had the first female president”. The younger generation wants to get offended by the usage of a clinical term. All in all its pretty fucking dumb … they should direct that energy into getting offended by billionaires tampering in politics.

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                So I got the point, not that hard.
                I wanted to make a more important point about the awful militarism in your example.
                And it’ s perfectly justified to describe the US banana republic as fascist, despite its over use it is not hyperbole in this case.

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                  It is hyperbole. The conservative “fascist” movement will be in your area soon. Its trying to spread everywhere. Racism is a very appealing to stupid people and it is being used by corporations as a rallying cry to spread rampant capitalism.

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    Anyone who says

    For me it’s saying, “we can’t joke about anything anymore”.

    Sirens go off immediately 🚨

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    “I’m a patriot!”

    Okay so, 1) I wasn’t questioning your patriotism until you said that. And 2) with zero exceptions, everyone I’ve ever heard say that turned out to be a Christian nationalist.

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      I think “patriot” is one of those titles that should only be given, and that ideally happens to someone who’s done something especially heroic or monumental for their country. I think of myself as patriotic, because I care a lot about my country despite its enormous, gangrenous flaws. I want to help it realize its potential. But to say “I’m a patriot” these days – I agree with you – really only connotes blind nationalism.

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      “im apolitical, or dont like to talk about politics” or instantly saying " anti-woke stuff", or when you say your supporting a nazi, they respond with" you have stop reading the news, or saying something to delfect/.

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    Any time someone gets a big old smirk on their face while they say, “Oh, I’ve got some controversial opinions,” that usually means they’re just a degenerate edgelord. Like, making a big show about how spicy your hot takes are is just the attention-grabbing behavior of someone who lives off of criticism because they are incapable of getting along with others.

    I mean, I have some controversial opinions. For example: let’s feed Peter Thiel to a shark, but a small shark, so that it takes a while. And sometimes you’re not in an environment where you can say that. But if that’s the case, then you just don’t bring it up. If you are in a place where you can say that, then have the confidence to just say it.

    But some people need to first make the conversation about them, and about how damn controversial they’re about to be, before they’ve even said something in the first place. They’re just enjoying the attention. Like they’re edging to how heterodox they’re about to be. And they’re probably about to tell you that we were better off before women had college degrees.

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      Controversial becomes a goal post for some people. Aiming to have ___ opinions with any adjective other than ones relating to how that opinion is formed (well thought-out, logical, hasty (bad for a different reason)) makes for some of the most vulnerable people among humanity.

      I said it very recently, and I’ll say it again. People obsess way too fucking much over labels. Labels are a conversational tool meant to briefly describe something. The more you use them to determine how you should act, the more bogus you are. There are a couple exceptions, but aside from children in the developmental stages where labels play a massive role (I’m not a psychologist, someone correct me here if I’m off base), these are always™ because how you are perceived is fundamental to said label, e.g. hero, leader, representative. Please note that I’m not saying labels are never useful.

      I’m open to debate on this.