jackmarxist [any]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months agoLiberals are dumb as fuckhexbear.netimagemessage-square76fedilinkarrow-up1193arrow-down10
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minus-squareMovingThrowaway [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up54·2 months agoIt’s a normal part of speech in like half of statesian dialects, including AAVE Having grown up with it I honestly think it’s weirder not to have a gender-neutral second-person pleural pronoun.
minus-squarejoaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·2 months agoYeah! What drives me nuts is that some libs like using it as a kind of folksy affectation, but I might be reading too much into it
minus-squareRedWizard [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·2 months agoI get ya, funny enough, I feel the same way about “folks”. Maybe we just need to start saying “Comrade” publicly instead.
minus-squareAwoo [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·2 months ago Maybe we just need to start saying “Comrade” publicly instead. You should have seen the labour party conferences (televised) during Corbyn’s party leadership. Here’s a supercut https://streamable.com/vbi0l4
minus-squareAwoo [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoI’m more partial to comm rads but /shrug
minus-squarequeermunist she/her@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-22 months agoBut have you considered comm raid: shadow legends? wait no that sucks 😞
minus-squareHighalectical@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoSame. I just found it amusing how so many of them pronounced it comm raid.
minus-squareClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·2 months agoI feel the same way about “folks,” ironically it kinda feels like the liberal version of “comrade” in that they both feel like cosplay
minus-squareMovingThrowaway [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 months agoI like comrade having connotations of communist tho, I hope that doesn’t get generalized.
minus-squareFanonFan [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·2 months agoThere’s occasionally a tinge of white liberal urban superiority complex when people from the coasts use it, for sure.
minus-squareMovingThrowaway [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 months agoAgreed
minus-square420blazeit69 [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 months agoEmbrace your inner Philadelphian Embrace “yous”
minus-squareFanonFan [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 months agoSynthesis: Yous’ll
minus-square420blazeit69 [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoPaul “Yous’ll” Muad’Dib Atreides
minus-squareSoyViking [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoSome cunning linguist could definitely do something interesting investigating the “dialects” of political parties or movements, like a spiritual successor to Victor Klemperer’s LTI.
It’s a normal part of speech in like half of statesian dialects, including AAVE
Having grown up with it I honestly think it’s weirder not to have a gender-neutral second-person pleural pronoun.
Yeah! What drives me nuts is that some libs like using it as a kind of folksy affectation, but I might be reading too much into it
I get ya, funny enough, I feel the same way about “folks”. Maybe we just need to start saying “Comrade” publicly instead.
You should have seen the labour party conferences (televised) during Corbyn’s party leadership.
Here’s a supercut https://streamable.com/vbi0l4
Comm raids
I’m more partial to comm rads but /shrug
But have you considered
comm raid: shadow legends?
wait no that sucks 😞
Same. I just found it amusing how so many of them pronounced it comm raid.
I feel the same way about “folks,” ironically it kinda feels like the liberal version of “comrade” in that they both feel like cosplay
I like comrade having connotations of communist tho, I hope that doesn’t get generalized.
There’s occasionally a tinge of white liberal urban superiority complex when people from the coasts use it, for sure.
Agreed
Embrace your inner Philadelphian
Embrace “yous”
Synthesis: Yous’ll
Paul “Yous’ll” Muad’Dib Atreides
Some cunning linguist could definitely do something interesting investigating the “dialects” of political parties or movements, like a spiritual successor to Victor Klemperer’s LTI.