Like yea Elon Musk deserves to be thrown into a mineshaft but these clowns want to do it because he wanted negotiations which would stop the fucking war.
Liberals are such clowns, in their weird world Putin himself invaded Ukraine just for the fun of killing Ukrainian civilians and wholesome Azov soldiers and not for their political interests.
Also the op name is AmericanVet304 lmao.
asset seizure against a billionaire
what country does she think this is?
This is pedantic as hell, but it always bothers me when people use "decimate" to mean "destroy" when it actually means "reduce by one tenth."
:ohnoes: Will no one stop Putin's brutal and extremely precise campaign of destroying 10% of the Ukrainian army?! :ohnoes:
it doesn't mean "reduce by one tenth" because no one uses it that way anymore
linguistic prescriptivism btfo
I will allow this instance of prescriptivism because it's often unintentionally funny.
Counterpoint: it's a cool sounding word and makes nerds frustrated when u use it wrong :meow-tankie:
You will use the word to mean exactly the same thing it meant 2,000 years ago or else! :angery:
The russian army used the clips in their guns to decimate their opponents. It was literally awesome.
I think the modern definition has absolutely changed.
The origin of the word though is elucidating, because it did always mean a disaster, it's just that 10,% swings were considered massive. People nowadays are so used to :stonks-up: :stonks-down: that a change of 10,% is almost blase, so people assume "decimate" means a much larger change than 10,%.
IIRC its association with devastation and tragedy was because it goes back to a Roman military punishment. As an extreme form of punishment for a group of soldiers, they would have to line up and every 10th man is killed, mostly at random.
didn't the rest of the unit have to do the killing as well or am I misremembering?
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Each group drew lots (sortition), and the soldier on whom the lot of the shortest straw fell was executed by his nine comrades, often by stoning, clubbing, or stabbing. The remaining soldiers were often given rations of barley instead of wheat (the latter being the standard soldier's diet) for a few days, and required to bivouac outside the fortified security of the camp for some time.
particularly brutal shit
As far semantic shift is concerned, the word just went from "reduced by tenth" to "reduced to tenth," which isn't that bad as far as semantic shift is concerned. It's like biweekly could mean once every two weeks or twice a week. Compare that with "terrific," which had the original definition of "pertaining to or having the characteristic of terror" or "manufacture," which originally meant "handmade."
decimate can also mean beheading in some languages. as in, reducing the upper 1/10th of the human body
These people are just horny for war lmfao. The further they are from the frontlines, the more belligerent they become. The US has never seen a foreign power bomb their country, decimate their infrastructure, kill their children inside bomb shelters, wipe out entire cities with Napalm, use depleted uranium against their people and so on, this is why war is something alien to them, war is something a few Hurrah Marines do in Afghanistan where they get to use the most modern weapons against farmers with AKs (and feel proud about it, but still end up losing lmao). They are completely unattached from the realities of war, their only connection they establish comes from the media (incredibly whitewashed) and movies, that's it. They even get to see a few of their vets desperately call for help and suicide, they don't care enough.
But, if the idea of seizing the ultra-rich properties gains traction because said people want to sue for peace.. well, I can't really complain too much. It wont happen of course.
Lmao LateStageCapitalism running point for CIA and Nazis. I wonder what do they think led to the war or who are fighting them.
critical support to the idea of this but it should apply only to billionaires of course :very-smart:
I've waited years to see public opinion turn against Musk and now the fucking Marvel Adults have ruined that for me too:rage-cry:
Modern western liberals are some of the worst people that humanity has ever had. I've wanted some suitable insult for them that captures the way they're fucking cowards but love to revel in wars and conflict they will never be harmed by because they feel vicariously empowered by it, but that word is simply liberal, isn't it?
We need a 21st century version of "chickenhawk" but infused with the vitriol of more modern internet insults
Lathe :sicko-speeeeen:
Musk's internet satellites have been hacked by Russia or Russian ally, making him an accomplice to traitorous acts.
Wait. No. Everybody slow down and lets hear this woman out. I like where this is going.
Jesus christ. I know for sure Musk said it to basically be his usual contrarian prick self but he did actually manage to sorta spew out a halfway valid and measured point.
If it's this and not the absolute fucking mountain of stupid, evil bullshit he has come out with that finally breaks public opinion of him for good I am taking it as cast iron evidence that reality is a carefully constructed artefact solely designed to piss me off.
freedom of speach means freedom of speach in the sense of the greek republics, freedom of slaveowners to yell racial slurs in voicechat
