Yeah, so as expected, most of the words & phrases Democrats are being told to stop using... are things they barely, if ever, say (and some are things mostly used by the GOP to mock the made up Dems in their head). cc: @npub18tsp...x7z6
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Alternatively, it would be a huge step forward if all the people saying Dems need to stop saying these words could point out where these words are actually regularly used by Dem leaders.
Because otherwise this is a manufactured culture war that people keep playing into.
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The use of the term "NPC" to dismiss people as not just being not worth listening to, but not even *actual human beings with agency* is pretty fucking offensive, and it bugs me a bit how normalized it's become among some of the chattering class (not Jamelle, who is also criticizing its use here).
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I find this claim *particularly* telling (not in a good way) about TCW, the force behind The Harper's Letter. His complaint has never been about free speech, but about not being criticized so much for his own speech.
Is it really that it's "worse" on Bluesky? Or is it...
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