Here's an example from me

If you want to de-normalize a nation's state/government, call them

spoiler

a regime


Other examples include: hospital --> loony bin

Edit: the more I think about it, the more I realize dysphemism are insults?

  • pancake@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    "Socialism turns out to work pretty well and is beating our ass" --> “Now, no one — certainly not me — is discounting the power of markets,” Sullivan noted at the time. “But in the name of oversimplified market efficiency, a large non-market economy had been integrated into the international economic order in a way that posed considerable challenges.”

    • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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      9 months ago

      “Now, no one — certainly not me — is discounting the power of markets,” Sullivan noted at the time. “But in the name of oversimplified market efficiency, a large non-market economy had been integrated into the international economic order in a way that posed considerable challenges.”

      "Despite the best that has been done by everyone [...] the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage,"

  • EndMilkInCrisps [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    Popularism seems to just mean offering something actually appealing to the electorate.

    • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@midwest.social
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      9 months ago

      Populism typically means playing to the appetites of the electorate without any intent to actually benefit them. Empty promises are the heart of it.

      • EndMilkInCrisps [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        Yeah but it's used for things like Bernie wanting universal health care or Corbyn renationalising the railways. Which would benefit people.

          • GulbuddinHekmatyar@lemmy.ml
            hexagon
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            9 months ago

            What's the other?

            I mean come on, demagoguery and populism shouldn't be subsects of each other... they practically are synonymous, but one has a more neutral connotation...

            • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@midwest.social
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              9 months ago

              They're both negative. Scapegoating an outgroup is another form of demagoguery, so is decrying experienced political institutions as corrupt while claiming to be a reformer.

              • GulbuddinHekmatyar@lemmy.ml
                hexagon
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                9 months ago

                They’re both negative. Scapegoating an outgroup is another form of demagoguery, so is decrying experienced political institutions as corrupt while claiming to be a reformer.

                Pardon me if I find this confusing but this seems to be case of "There's actually zero difference between bad and good things." without context...

                Have you fully thought through your words to type this out? 😔

  • molave@reddthat.com
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    9 months ago

    So-so no Frieren (I actually think it's goated, btw)

    You'll see a lot of dysphemisms in the 2____4u communities as well.