The narwhal bacons at midnight.
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I miss that. I genuinely do. Back when it felt like a community and things were fun. I know it's never gonna happen again, it was great to see it, but I miss spontaneous community fun online.
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"I have an appointment with a gentleman" is prostitute for "I'm going to shag a dude for money"
one shibboleth i noticed is that any mention of "race" strongly indicates that the person speaking is American, especially if it's conflated with nationalities. "I'm [number]% [nationality]", any use of "mixed race", and stuff like "I can drink a lot of beer because I'm German" or "this recipe offends me as an Italian" are dead giveaways (and quite racist in my humble opinion)
After the big protests in France there were a million bots posting racist stuff on Reddit. They kept referring to "liberals" but none speaks like that in France. Liberal is the word you'd use to describe corpo-centrists like Macron, never to describe leftists.
It was kind of like the 3 fingers meme from inglorious bastards.
Need to give Zelenskyy a few more drones to take out Russian datacenter troll farms.
I think it's because immigrants wanted to preserve their culture when they came to the US, and that got passed down but was diluted over the generations, so you have people who have a very specific pride and identity that has deviated from the original.
I hadn't heard this theory before, but it does actually make a lot of sense.
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I'm a self proclaimed crazy cat lady. I also work in a field that has a lot of interaction with the police. I used to have a pin attached to my work badge that said "All Cats Are Beautiful".
What? I just love cats ;)
Now I'm thinking about making badges that say "Assigned Child At Birth".
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I'll contribute. I refer to my wife as my "partner".
People on the left just continue conversation no problem. People on the right pause and you can see the wheels turning.
I'm a white not very masculine male.
“No, don’t worry, Mr. Conservative. I’m male, she’s female, your norms aren’t being broken yet.”
“…Yeh, but partner implies she’s your equal. That don’t sit right.”
EXACTLY 🙄
Very good example, thank you, whenever someone says "partner" I immediately assume they're at least somewhat woke.
They might just use the English language correctly.
Woke is in partners with grammar
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I always throw an occasional “streets ahead” in my conversation just to see if they’re a Community watcher. Most of the people around me are streets behind, though.
I've never seen "Community" and I've never lived in Great Britain but even I know what "streets ahead" means.
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Not quite related but in a lovecraft book “mountains of madness” I think…
He mentions a “war of resubjegation” which I loved. One phrase tells a story. There was a slave revolt. If the slaves won it would be called “war of freedom” or “the rebellion”
War of re-subjugation lets you know how that war ended.
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Probably the SportDOG Roy Gonia Mega Whistle. It's extra loud and works well.
The voters pamphlet was full of them. "Common sense family values" means they hate trans/gays. "Law and order" means they support ICE. "Activist judges have gone too far" means they want to be an activist judge but for the other side of the issue.
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