Permanently Deleted
anyone that unironically describes their criticism of art as “objective” needs a wedgie and to be beaten to death with a dictionary
If I’m allowed two, “common sense”. Rarely do good ideas get suggested when those words are said, and it’s particularly annoying because it’s obviously supposed to be an implication that an idea is not only good for no other basis than because a lot of people think it (or at least you’re trying to suggest that regardless of whether it’s true), but that an idea is actually superior to other solutions because of that fact. It’s the last bastion of somebody with no arguments as to why a thing should be.
Many other words that I dislike are the typical ones in a wordsalad when describing the positive attributes of America: “freedom”, “liberty”, “justice”, “truth”, “law”, “order”, etc. Again, relates back to the idea that something is good just because you’ve described it as being good without actually demonstrating why that is. How are we “free”? In what way is there “liberty” or “justice”? What is “truth” in a propagandized world? How is “law” and “order” good when seeing what the police do every single day? They’re just frustrating thought-terminators.
Graeber goes off on the idea of “rationality” in… one of his books… for the same reason. The implications is that if I’m making a rational argument the other side is irrational, and this is of course almost never true and defeats the whole point of discussing a topic and coming to a consensus.
the other side is irrational, and this is of course almost never true
Counterpoint: :liberalism:
Panties. To me it always invokes like patronizing slang you’d use to a child. “Pull your undies/panties/ up”. I dunno maybe I’m weird on this one but it’s always sounded funky to me. Bring back bloomers.
I get :epstein: vibes from it for sure. Society does get pretty uncomfortable around women all the time, look at the cheer leader or like catholic school girl costumes and fetishes that used to be all the rage with boomers :libertarian-alert:
undies yes, panties no. panties is some loli shit ive only heard used in america
It’s pretty much the common term for women’s underwear here in the USA, which, like you said, has serious lolicon undertones and makes me feel weird and gross. Dunno if lingerie would be better, but I just call them underwear.
I used to wear these tight boxer briefs and my ex called them “manties” which we used to laugh and enjoy but oh well maybe thats gone now, so’s she, fuck it.
Describing a song as a “bop” sounds like something :biden-troll: would say to a broad he’s dating at the milk bar
App
Maybe I’m old, but I remember when they used to be called “programs” on desktop computers
