"Current year" terms that piss you off

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Seven Costanza said:
Lately, "democracy" and all its variant phrases: "upholding democracy", "threat to democracy", and so on.
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The one specific variant of this that drives me up the wall is 'our democracy'. If you're unlucky enough to have to put up with npr for more than a few minutes a day, listen for it and pay attention to exactly how they use it. It's like a be-all end-all thought terminating cliche, something can be branded a threat to 'our democracy' and they'll never explain why they consider it bad or a threat in the first place.
 
ducktales4gameboy said:
The one specific variant of this that drives me up the wall is 'our democracy'. If you're unlucky enough to have to put up with npr for more than a few minutes a day, listen for it and pay attention to exactly how they use it. It's like a be-all end-all thought terminating cliche, something can be branded a threat to 'our democracy' and they'll never explain why they consider it bad or a threat in the first place.
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NPR has really been pulling a lot of that more and more in my experience. I expect biased reporting and topic choices but the number of times they state that <x> is a threat to 'our democracy' or 'our democratic rights' without qualifying grows higher all the time. Especially if it involves voter IDs or the like, you'd think having a driver's license is akin to being curbstomped.
 
ducktales4gameboy said:
The one specific variant of this that drives me up the wall is 'our democracy'. If you're unlucky enough to have to put up with npr for more than a few minutes a day, listen for it and pay attention to exactly how they use it. It's like a be-all end-all thought terminating cliche, something can be branded a threat to 'our democracy' and they'll never explain why they consider it bad or a threat in the first place.
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And the complete ignorance or perhaps willful ignorance that the US is a democratic republic and not a full democracy. The founding fathers knew that a full democracy would inevitably end badly. Yet the media wants to revert on that.
 
Agarathium1066 said:
NPR has really been pulling a lot of that more and more in my experience. I expect biased reporting and topic choices but the number of times they state that <x> is a threat to 'our democracy' or 'our democratic rights' without qualifying grows higher all the time. Especially if it involves voter IDs or the like, you'd think having a driver's license is akin to being curbstomped.
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What's funny is I remember them lambasting Fox News for saying that stuff. Politics truly is a horseshoe.

"Toxic" used in any context that isn't describing harmful substances. It has its use, but it's been run into the ground so much I'm sick if hearing it.
 
Calling everything a "space" as in: "Wow this parking lot is a really cool space."

Saying "I feel like" as a substitute for "I think". It sounds weak.
 
Calling someone breedable or saying that you have a "breeding" fetish legitimately pisses me off, we have fallen so low that actually using sex for its intended purpose is now considered a fetish.
 
I've gone through the last few pages and saw some words that I find annoying (Yeet, queer, COVID terms in normal conversations, BIPOC/POc and such).
One thing that irks me is when people use Twitch or streaming terms such as poggers, sadge, "lets go!", F for respect in normal conversations.
A friend of mine uses the term "sadge" despite knowing that other Twitch terms are dumb af and it annoys the crap out of me.

Even in streams, they're still dumb af.
 
I really just do not like how the way term "oppressor" has been used by leftists. The term just feels really off to me. You don't automatically oppress someone cause of characteristics you can't control.
 
"Infrastructure". I have to hear about it on the office TV every day. Congress needs to shit or get off the pot on that.
 
"Do better/ Be better" and any such moral grandstanding from dipshits who get their news updates from instagram stories and twitter. Especially the kind that if you were to challenge them at all in person they'd be prone to start crying cause mild to middling interpersonal conflict is the greatest hardship they've ever known
 
Legoshi said:
"Imma finna" just makes me irrationally cross because it's gramatically incorrect and it sounds ugly.
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I'm going to fixing to? Who the fuck even talks like that?

I'm guessing white twitter idiots from the North.

I say "I'm fixing to," because I'm a Southern white man with a fully functional Broca's Area, but I promise that when nogs say "finna," they mean the same thing. They wouldn't say "Imma finna."

But "allies" who don't even know any black people might.
 
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