This is my own opinions and my own pet peeves, but honestly after seeing a post unironically titled “Democratic cum guzzling” I’m kinda just done.
This applies irrespective of content, good or bad. If someone wrote the best theoretical work since Lenin but wrote it with these terms, I’d still be miffed that I had to read it.
1.Sexual things
I’m not a puritan. In fact im very sexual [probably part of why I have such an interest in the French Revolution]. But goddamn do I hate the normalizing of terms related to it being used in an argumentative sense. “Getting clapped”, “glazing,” [note:although hearing “stop glazing me Zohran” was hilarious], cucking/getting cucked, “democratic cum guzzling,” etc.
It feels just like we’ve returned to Roman times and being a bottom is the worst insult known to man [although there’s probably a tinge of homophobia/misogyny to it to, because it’s the internet. (Not necessarily in communist spaces but definitely outside of them).
It’s not a personal thing either, I just find it really immature an unsubstansive.
- News argument terms like “blasts,” “slams,” etc.
This applies mostly to the news, but goddamn do I hate these terms. They mean nothing but they’re basically used anytime a person of interest says anything less than “I will personally beat you do death.”
“China SLAMS new US proposal”
“Trump BLASTS lawmakers”
Those two words get used so much in news articles and I hate it so much. Like before it’s just so immature. I can read a news article without some headline telling me how x person is DESTROYING their opposition or whatever.
- “Based” and “___-pilled”
I know its hypocritical, because I do used Based a lot. But honestly it’s just really boring, and I think im gonna stop using it. Also I don’t like 4-chan. This isn’t as serious as the other ones, I just wish we had better words. [Also based? Based on what?]
That’s all. I really did just need to get this out. I think for me I just really don’t like being treated immaturely, so a lot of this stuff grates me because it treats me as some form of child who needs to constantly be hyperbolic and has no sense of maturity.
I’m over “treats” just being a catch-all term for literally anything people enjoy.
I’m also over people stealing aave and it being rebranded as “internet speak”.
I saw someone refer to healthcare and housing for usians as treats once. I feel like the term has lost a lot of its meaning.
Lmao never have I seen words lose meanings and become bastardized so quickly like I have these past five years
Some people really said that “cake” and “sweets” are “high level treatler” because apparently medieval people did not have cake or sweets.
How does one even come to that conclusion smh
They think those weird tiktok food trend things is what the average person eats. Of course in Maoist China/Soviet Union they only ate flavorless gruel and that is good - given that this person also clowned on flavorless european food, I guess flavorless gruel is also not good? Babyleftist who wander through each contrarian hot take du jour are truly remarkable.