Yeah, actual English teacher here with all kinds of opinions about language.

The only good take on language is that it is function OVER form 100% of the time.

If there’s a linguistic twist that you don’t like, but that everyone does or uses, you are in the wrong. Languages grow.
It’s how we’re posting on kinja about…

This is a great counterpoint.

If Racism where solely a net negative, it would have been eradicated a long time ago. As it currently stands, it feeds in-group bias and creates a mandate for a whole host different groups, some formally racist (Pride Boys and White Supremes), some informally racist (The GOP and NIMBY Trum…

My Catholic in-laws now have made the impressive feat of backing Trump and #notmypope-ing the actual fucking pope.

Like. Got dayumn.

Hey guys.

I’m not sure that Tommy is actually a Commie.

Why would a government willingly poison it’s citizen and spend by now billions to rectify things? It’s counterproductive. If you wanted to kill a community or portion of the population, you certainly wouldn’t have drug enforcement.

Discredited is a weird way to spell assassinated. 

Somebody should go find Gary Webb and ask him to speak on this topic. He seems like he’d know a lot about it.

Oh.

Right.

“It’s a dick-swinging caricature without an ounce of irony that might make even the National Review blush.”

Somewhere, the ghost of William Buckley Jr. is laughing along with us.

He’d be disgusted by the current obvious racism, when we could have sneaky racism instead.  

I mean, I agree to a point.

But I feel like there’s room (at least for a Root article on the topic) to discuss how the irony isn’t irony. It’s weaponized linguistic stockholm syndrome.

They are getting their people used to the language of oppression and victimization, so when they go on the offensive and the left…

Well said

After all this time. I don’t see it as irony any longer.

It’s intentional use of the language that they will be called out with.

See, calling Antifa “the real Fascists” or claiming that Liberals want to “silence our voices.” While actively working to silence the voices of dissent through intimidation (silencing) and…

They’ve done some absolutely cool patent work that hints at something similar to the VIVE, but with their haptic feedback tech in the new controller... I’m thinking yes.

PSVR has sold so much during quarentine (i grabbed one on the “exercise” excuse and, straight up, I’ve lost weight. Apparently all my lazy ass needed…

I agree with everything but the intelligence point.

We wont be able to fight this sort of evil if we (progressives / liberals / what have you) keep playing off Trumpism as an anti-intellectual movement.

There are plenty of smart people who buy into Cults. This is not because they are dumb, but because the cult leaders…

Here’s my issue with this take.

The people who paid down their debt often did so while barely eking out a living and at the cost of getting out of rental properties and into homes.

The audiobook is 29 hours long.

This means that you can listen to a president speak for 29 hours, on and off, for the next few weeks (depends on how fast you listen).

Just grabbed it from audible and, straight up, I’m going to be listening to this as a counterpoint to the news until Jan. 20 (cannot come soon enough).

I…

I think the order of magnitude of difference in cost would be the rub here. But I like the thought.

I for one, plan to crack wise as I’m being loaded onto the “subversives bus.”

Joke and prepare. Prepare and joke.

Fascism abhors being made light of, and thrives on deadly seriousness both from within and without. 

We have the class photo sheet up on the fridge and our four year old points out the names of his friends from school and still tells stories about them.

He’s been home since the pandemic really took off (March-ish) because we have two new babies and we’re asthmatic.

It’s two emotions mostly.

Heartbreak. at his loss of…

This is a feature, not a bug.

The FBI is exceedingly good at stamping out Left Wing radical groups, because they threaten capital. Right Wing Militants groups, however, only tangentially threaten the status quo by making the White Supremacy at the heart of US systems blatant for a moment, before dissipating back into…

That’s the secret sauce. They have been terrified all year long by their news sources and their President.

The language used to describe their opponents (the American populace) is terrifying if you live in that echo chamber.

The “Trump Train” people see this as a last ditch effort to fight for their lives against some…