This just seems like a lot. I’m tired of liberals.

As for AOC - she showed a lot of promise at first. A real member of the working class, aligned with social democracy ideas, and attractive and charming enough to get into office.

And then she - like the rest of the so called progressives - immediately focused on her career and playing insider politics.

I’d probably vote for her if she ran for president, but I wouldn’t trust her for a second. I doubt anything would change in any meaningful way under her or anyone else on the democrats bench right now. It’s beyond irritating that when republicans get into power they can do whatever they want but when democrats have power they don’t do a single fucking thing except paint rainbows in the road.

but the existence of etymologically related terms doesn’t give an “out” to people using them for offense and denigration in either case

Never said it did. I remember the first time I saw retard being used in a technical sense and being thrown by it’s usage in todays world. Ultimately though you can’t police language, people are gonna say whatever dumb shit they want, doesn’t mean you have to listen. And no, anyone using “dumb” or “idiot” today is not referring to disabled people, those words stopped being used to describe disabled people multiple decades ago and are far removed from being associated with disabled people. Retard is a lot more recent, but even as a kid growing up in the 90s where calling people gay, queer and faggots were acceptable, even retard used as a slur back then was frowned upon.

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What’s interesting about the word retard specifically is it’s still used as a technical term that has nothing to do with developmental disabilities - for example, fire retardant - to slow/stop something.

Really unkind in which threads? Yeah, I’m an asshole about politics, because I’ve had it up to here with backstabbing liberals who vote blue no matter who and scold the left while losing elections like it’s their job (because it is, they exist as a ratchet to prevent any kind of left wing reform). I’ve spent the last two and a half decades watching this country fall to fascism while there’s zero real opposition to it. As a queer neurodivergent I don’t have any more patience left for liberals.

🎵 Killing in the name of 🎵

Rages against the machine

With that theory, any word could become an insult.

I’ve got a bunch of neurodivergence myself and the holidays this year are especially hard for me. I’ve had a tough year and when I asked my millionaire family members for help (for the first time in my 35 years of being alive) they told me I’d figure it out.

I figured out I no longer need to speak to my family if they can’t be there for me when times are tough. See, I figured it out! 😭

It was a drone time traveling

$20 the truck has cooties

I’m autistic, adhd, and I had a brain injury. Triple neurodivergent. 🙄

Go ahead and block me, I don’t really care, I think without context you taking offense to calling someone who is gullible “neurodivergent” seems over sensitive. Autistic people in particular unfortunately can be gullible and people abuse that.

Without the context it doesn’t come off as insulting.

Neurodivergent isn’t an insult…