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I read the article and I completely disagree with her. ‘Oligarch’ means something different than ‘king’, and many Americans don’t have the same negative reaction to the word ‘king’, which is often romanticised in media, whereas ‘oligarch’ calls up images of nefarious machinations in authoritarian regimes – exactly what’s actually going on.

Also, being whiny that the bullies are calling us ‘woke’ is reactionary and misses the whole point. This is where we should be doubling down, not diluting our language.

e: also also, having spent decades in UxD and usability (which entailed a lot of surveying and analysis), I’d be hesitant to rely on surveys that show a population’s preference for one word over another, because word feels are affected by far more than knowledge of their definitions, and the reasons aren’t easily captured in a survey. The reasons are what matter, not necessarily the word, and I’m sure she didn’t explore this enough to understand the sociology here.

No, she can fuck off.

The oligarchy is killing us, and spinning language won’t change that. Meanwhile, ‘woke’ just means ‘social empathy’, which is ironically the solution to many of the problems the oligarchy is causing (and they’re not shy about this – Musk recently said empathy is bad).

We need more ‘woke’, not less. And being butthurt that the fascists are using ‘woke’ as a slur against us is childish and easy to ignore if you’re not too simple to get it.

Fuck this. I’m woke and proud of it. We all should be.

This sounds like literal wizardry to me. I love it, but I don’t get it.

That was NOT a rally.

In a February letter, Francis pointedly explained, “Christian love is not a concentric expansion of interests that little by little extend to other persons and groups.”

Since when? Looking at history, that seems exactly what it’s always been about.

I didn’t know this was possible. That’s crazy.

Dogs have 78 chromosomes (39 haploid pairs), while the Pampas fox, 74 (37 haploid pairs). Additional evidence of hybridisation was the presence of two different X chromosome indicating their origins from two species.

Neat. Unfortunately, my tiny violin was repossessed.

Fuck these people. She supported this , and now she’s going to pretend to have feelings. No, you don’t get to do that. We remember.

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Also demonstrated the placidity of the prey species (cookies) being oblivious to the threat and just doing their own thing.

I’m using this as a citation now. You can’t stop me.

Relevant XKCD

‘Look at the size of my ~~penis~~ parade!’

They both have a moustache, though.

It’s the guy looking at the camera.