• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Etymology is cool. Too bad it doesn’t have any effect on what a word meaning is today because when I say you’re being silly, I’m not using the original Middle English meaning, which is ‘blessed.’ I mean you’re being silly.

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      5 months ago

      Telling people that Trump is neurodivergent and his evil is caused by being disabled is also fucked up. It simultaneously garners sympathy for a fascist and villifies disabled people.

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        5 months ago

        And now you’re just being dishonest. He was called a narcissist, not someone with narcissistic personality disorder.

        It’s not a crime to say you were wrong, you know.

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          5 months ago

          You’re the one who brought up NPD. If it’s not a slur against disabled people it’s a slur against asexuals. You’re completely ignoring the influence of Christopher Lasch’s book on pop culture vernacular.

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            5 months ago

            Let me preface this by saying that when I tell you “stop being daft, dude,” I am not suggesting you cease to be a well-mannered city person who doesn’t know how things work around here.

            So stop being daft, dude.