• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      This is why I hate the oversimplification of language and distilling everything into buzzwords.

      Sure, it’s easier to have shorthand for the people who know what they’re talking about. But eventually people only learn the shorthand and the context it’s used in.

      It’s exactly like trump screaming

      Puppet! You’re the puppet!

      He didn’t know why people kept calling him a puppet, just that it was bad so he called them that back.

      Not to mention the huge PR gain from having to call “ecoterrorists” what they really are “people who put the environment over capitalism”.