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Words matter.

You aren't writing an academic paper. Always use simple direct language.

  • Help the poor
  • Healthcare for everyone
  • Good treatment at work.

Don't use complex words.

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[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 144 points 2 days ago (3 children)

One of many lasting “gifts” of Reagan.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 50 points 2 days ago (2 children)

We’ve got to get all those ~~welfare queens~~ 25 year old males playing video games back to work! They’re getting a free ride that they don’t deserve. People only have value when they are working!

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 28 points 2 days ago

He started that evil welfare queen idea back in California. It gained traction there so he continued to use it on the national side.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

dont you love the misogyny in that "queens" label? because who makes a better scapegoat than black mothers?

Currently? Mexicans and Middle easterners, it would seem. They’re all criminals and rapists apparently.

/s

[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Paula_Tejando@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not. I much rather he lived forever. Forever wasting away, seeing his loved ones perish, losing his sanity little by ever so fucking little, inhabiting a hell all of his own.

[–] Madagaskar_sky@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Regan

loved ones

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Wym? Just a few more decades, and the trickling down will surely start. I can already taste it on their boots