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    6 hours ago

    Every day nazis and religious fascists make their opponents seem cooler than they really are. Nato is nowhere near this based.

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    Wait, people have to censor the word Nazi now? How far down the drain of fuckedness has the US swirled? Has anyone read 1984? This is as close to newspeak as you could possibly get.

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      I equated it to newspeak since the first day I heard about twitter. It’s gotten closer and closer to the rest of the narrative from the book since.

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      Its Twitter.

      Its run by a Nazi.

      And no, performative semi-censorship is not the closest thing to NewSpeak.

      That would be probably be corpospeak, the art of using a lot of vague yet fancy terms to say basically nothing of any precise meaning.

      Either that or what TikTok has done to psychology terminology, warping and misunderstanding so many phrases that we now have ‘therapyspeak’ as a similar set of vocabulary terms that have vague and undefined meanings, because so many people use them so innapropriately, so often, that they basically mean nothing in a general, non specialized context.

      As an example: Trauma bond.

      People seem to think this means that people who suffer together, grow a bond between each other, based in overcoming shared struggles due to external stressors.

      That’s not a trauma bond.

      A trauma bond is more like when someone is consistently mistreated and abused by another person, that first person cannot really imagine life without that second person, without being oriented around them, so the idea of totally disconnecting from their abuser is itself existentially terrifying, and they thus paradoxically begin to defend the relationship with abuser.

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        I don’t know, I don’t think you can be a language prescriptivist like this, and it hasn’t happened because of TikTok.

        To your point, the Dawn Wall feat. Tommy Caldwell came out in 2017. Even back then the marriage between Tommy and his first wife was described as the result of a trauma bond due to a terrifying kidnapping situation they survived together.

        It is fine to say, “Trauma Bond means X in a medical context” but if people use a word to mean something, the dictionary changes to reflect that.

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      In some parts of the world it’s considered a slur against fucking fascist shitheads.

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      No, they don’t have to. But brain rot rots brains… And people nowadays have to suffer through so much worse (‘unalive’, ‘grape’ or ‘pdfiles’ anyone) on social media that it definitely causes damage.

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        Voice module online.

        Audio functionality test… initialized.

        Designation: LGBT Prime. Mission: the Liberation of The Gays.

        …Obstruction detected. Composition: Pinheaded bigot supplemented by authoritarian propaganda.

        Revised stratagem: Initiate photonic resonance overcharge. Probability of mission hindrance: zero percent.

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    I remember seeing this on those nato music video style stuff - popular around 21, I dont think it was meant as a mockery then

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      It makes everyone who joins it safer from invading barbarians like Russia, how is that not a good thing?

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        Well, you see, it doesn’t let Russia invade Poland, which is next on his list. Or would be.