Loved your whole post. Completely on point.

Honestly, you know you’re hated when midterms have this much of a turnout. Most people seem to only turn out for voting every 4 years, and skip the midterms.

This was my thought as well. Republicans cheated in every way imaginable and still came up short.

I mean it is. It’s also because that’s what their masters want, so it sows discord amongst the working class.

Want to be heard? Want change? Getting organized, and getting armed is the only way it will happen. They don’t fear us more than they love money.

We can change that.

We’re already boned. We’ve been in a “Boned” state since the government started ignoring Due Process.

The only way to unbone us is to get organized, and get armed. Liberty can only exist when the government fears the populace.

Seriously. I imagine your downvotes came from the terminally naive.

Yes, I’m of the opinion that if Dems don’t perform, the government won’t be the only one ignoring “Due Process”.

You ever wonder what would happen if they just started dropping like flies? Because I do.

And thus, why the only real solution is becoming armed and organized. Either they end up fearing us enough to make changes, or we realize our own power as a populace and make those changes by force.

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I do that all the time lol. Sometimes you just stop at a comment, do your reply, only to find out someone else beat you to it lol.

So two things that makes this believable for me. One you grew into an adult so you weren’t as naturally aware of the younger generation’s lexicon.

And also you lived closer to the inception of the word. Its very possible that “Retard” met the specificity requirement in your time for a slur, and meant a very particular caricature in that time. Which, is what I think is need for a word to be slur. It needs two things Hate, and specificity towards a particular subset of humans. Think about all the other slurs, they very specific aspect to them when you think of the word, to the point you can’t mistake it for another subset of humans. Which is my problem with Retard being a slur, even in the medical diagnoses it was an umbrella term. It wasn’t like “Downs” that was bandied about in my childhood, and IMO is the real slur of my time for this subject.

So I think “Retard” may have just became generalized by the time it my generations lexicon, because I knew the definition as “Incredibly Stupid” before I had ever met a mentally disabled person. And when I had, trust me, I would have gotten my ass beat by my peers if I had even uttered “stupid” in there direction. Which, IMO, would have been the right call. Besides I would never have insulted Ronnie like that, kid was decent and kind.

Btw, this has been interesting to me, and I appreciate this discussion even though there are those that disagree. I hope you know I don’t have any ill-will towards you, and very much enjoyed this.

Lmao, sorry, sorry. I just wasn’t expecting to get told, wrongly, about history I lived through. Retard didn’t fall out of favor until the 2010’s, and gay as an insult only started wearing off towards the late 00’s early 10’s which is why you can still see it in media from the time.

Not sure how old you are, but I found it very funny.

Moron and Idiot were the original correlations. People adopted those words as insults and the medical community adopted new words, and then those words got used as insults, and then the medical community adopted new words…

And on and on and on. Moron equates you to someone with diminished capacity like someone with down syndrome, to use your example. So does Idiot, and Imbecile. As again they were medical terms turned into insults lol.

So like by all means hate Retarded as a word, but have some consistency.

I do understand the perspective, I just feel like going after “Retarded” as a slur is dumb on multiple levels. One, it diminishes actual slurs and what they represent. Two(which I’ve already covered) has actual uses outside of just being an insult. Three the devolution of our language due to censorship is an issue as a whole and this bothers me(Grape, PDFile come to mind as well). Four, its inconsistent with the other words of the same tier and meaning. And Fifth, it only became designated as a “slur” relatively recently which wraps back around to point one.

And last but not a viable point, there just isn’t a word that is as succinct as “retarded” for something so incredulously dumb that it defies belief, in my opinion.

With that all said, I hope you understand I wasn’t coming after you personally, you just triggered something that’s been bothering me. Again, sorry you got the brunt of that rant. Even that last part wasn’t for you. Please have a lovely day.

I just hope that if we do oust them we can get some real leaders and not more the same bullshit. Because I gotta be real honest, this shit has not inspired confidence, and has only further entrenched the idea that we need to scrub this government and rebuild with better foundations.

I like your thinking.

Alright, before we go into what I think a civil war is. Maybe its better to have you clarify what you think it is.

What is the definition of a civil war in your mind? No examples, only definition.

Edit: lol, yeah, I figured you’d run off once you had to actually define your stance.

Do you complain about the two I-Slurs, the M-slurs, as well?

I’m just going to say. Retarded has the most right to exist out of all the words that have been malformed from medical diagnoses that mean “has diminished capacity”.

It has an actual function outside of being used as an insult, unlike Moron, Imbecile, and Idiot. And should not be censored or have people in favor of its censorship as we’ve already seen the nanny state corporations are happy to implement.

If you’re wondering why I say this it’s because of words like “Fire Retardent” Or saying something slows things down is to retard it(older usage I know, but it does pop up from time to time in technical documents for things). There are more uses, but admittedly I’m tired today and don’t have it in me to dredge up more examples.

And yeah sorry that you personally are getting the brunt of this rant, but I’m so tired of censorship on words in general, but especially on words that have uses outside of the insult. I also hate how inconsistent people are with it.

It’s a fucking word. It’s a fucking word that means the same as stupid, idiot, moron, imbecile, it just hits harder for most. It’s not a real slur, imo. And if you’re using it as a slur, that’s on you and you’re a fucking moron for it.

Man I might be a wierdo here, but I don’t want to give him free data. His company has stolen enough as it is.