"Epic" "awesome" "revolutionary" "never before seen" "once in a lifetime"

Everything is hyperbole, to the point where "epic"--something that should describe the most important events of human history--is reduced to pressing buttons well in a videogame made for children

Not to say the Protestant core of the USA hasn't had something to do with it (it's the END TIMES, you're going to burn in hell FOREVER, God's love is INFINITE, etc.) but it seems like mostly a market construction

Comical how liberals do the whole "newspeak is coming" don't realize it has; don't need to ban words if you make them completely meaningless

"Freedom" means nothing, "revolution" means nothing, "just" means nothing, "socialism" means nothing, "democracy" means nothing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_(politics)

  • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    It's not just advertising. The media turns politics into sports and entertainment. I made a short list of some headline words I kept seeing in r/politics...

    • blast
    • brutal & brutally
    • destroy
    • devastating
    • eviscerate
    • rip
    • savage & savagely
    • scathing
    • searing
    • slam
    • takedown
    • tear into
    • torch
    • trash [as a verb]
    • troll [as a verb]
    • unload

    And the opposite is true too. In mainstream media - Biden's brutal treatment of Haitians in Texas doesn't get such descriptors even though it's actually brutal.

    • DivineChaos100 [none/use name]
      ·
      3 years ago

      It all started with the "Ben Shapiro destroys leftist snowflakes" kind of videos which lib media for some reason thought would generate more clicks and now public discourse is a bar fight.

      • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        pretty soon we're gonna get shit like CHAD Joe Biden SAVAGELY DESTROYS COMMUNIST SNOWFLAKE Vladimir Putin in SCATHING speech TEARING INTO 2016 election interference. :agony-shivering:

        • Reversi [none/use name]
          ·
          3 years ago

          That's absolutely going to happen.

          On a review of White, AKA Bret Easton Ellis whining about no one appreciating his genius for 300 fucking pages:

          "Snowflakes on both coasts in withdrawal from Rachel Maddow's nightly Kremlinology lesson can purchase a whole book to inspire paroxysms of rage . . . a veritable thirst trap for the easily microaggressed. It's all here. Rants about Trump derangement syndrome; MSNBC; #MeToo; safe spaces."—Bari Weiss, The New York Times

          • LeninWeave [none/use name]
            ·
            3 years ago

            “Snowflakes on both coasts in withdrawal from Rachel Maddow’s nightly Kremlinology lesson can purchase a whole book to inspire paroxysms of rage . . . a veritable thirst trap for the easily microaggressed. It’s all here. Rants about Trump derangement syndrome; MSNBC; #MeToo; safe spaces.”—Bari Weiss, The New York Times

            shove these nerds into lockers lmao

            • Reversi [none/use name]
              ·
              3 years ago

              There's something quaint about people who see the 'culture war' as the most important thing in the world (Weiss, at least, has Israel in second place)

              It's really the indicator of First World Syndrome where Twitter and pop culture defines your life, and everything outside of that is meaningless