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captainjonnitkessler · 10 months ago

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If I could create a law of the internet it would be this: There is no word so specific or so well-defined that people online won't misuse it until it is absolutely meaningless.

That shelf is going to buckle under the weight of all the words we've had to put up on it and we are still finding new words to redefine into oblivion every single day

#so many people are so obviously using buzzwords they don't really understand #and it makes their point absolutely incoherent until you suss out the new definition they're using #and it's especially bad when they're using words for like. specific political ideologies #but they have NO idea what those ideologies actually entail are and are mostly just going off vibes and incorrect tumblr posts #anyway that's why i advocate so strongly for dropping buzzwords and labels from your arguments and just #VERY clearly stating the actual concrete arguments you're trying to discuss #because even if YOU are using a term correctly you are using it on the piss-on-the-poor website and people WILL misinterpret it

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