A mere 20 years ago we could sit in mixed company laughing and groaning during an impromptu “everyone’s best and worst pickup line” contest, that levity among friends. Levity is serious business re-learn it.

You still can. The discourse is because a large chunk of the male population doesn't understand how to do that without being creeps. Don't be a creep and women will like being around you

you believed the -oid suffix held the meaning of a slur that used it.

Not what I said. I'm saying it's used in reference to multiple slurs because it is. Unless calling me a natoid is supposed imply that I'm like NATO, but it's not. It's meant to imply that people who support NATO are mentally deficient, and so it's a reference to a slur

My assumed political ideology thus totally vapid

Damn dude, that was such a spot-on summary I feel like I don't need to log in to lemmy for a month lol

Already been addressed, keep up

Or - if you use your brain you'll realize it - vomiting personal insults means absolutely nothing when the other is anonymous online

Ah, well maybe that's why the link wouldn't work in the first place? Oh well, thanks for explaining. Edited to provide some context for those that can't use the link

Nah thanks, bigot

Tasty hexbear tears

Oh no baby was wrong and can't handle it

that gives a 404 error message with a picture of nixon.

Idk what's up with your browser then it's hatebase.org/vocabulary/mongoloid

Don't act like your infantile scrawl deserved anything but an equally infantile response

Edit: Since others can't see the link, suffice to say that -oid insults are based on outdated words for people with downs syndrome, and those of obsolete race "science."

Obviously the -oid suffix can also mean "like," but that is not the context in which it is used as an insult.

This is just one example

You are a fake leftist that simps for imperialist and colonialist organizations founded in collaboration with nazis. You are useless to the worldwide movement and no matter how hard you work, you will be doing so in the wrong direction, and would be as useless as you are right now. You use problems of people far worse off than yourself as a shield to help ignore everything you do wrong when you should be using it to look at yourself. You "don't care how anyone identifies" until it is used against you. You ignore the actual fascists and racists because they would not harm you, and you know it. Go take your nonsense to someone who would actually care, you sorry excuse for a leftist. Your liberalism will never be accepted anywhere that has anything more than surface level political knowledge, and that is completely fine by me.

LMAO!!!!!!!!

I don't care how anyone identifies, you're using bigoted language

The -oid suffix, as an insult, has a long history of ableism and racism. Maybe you should work on being better instead of projecting your bigotry by appropriating Marxist-flavored gotchas

In much of human behavior there tends to be a divide between what we say and what we do. This is no exception

Yeah I can get behind this, and I'd say you're right that it's the bare-bones definition of the economic left vs right divide.

But then you have people who will look at market socialists, anarchists, or some other brand of leftism and call them secret fascists or something like that. It's my experience (and yours may differ) that MLs are eager to insist that theirs is the only way and dismiss the rest.

Not all MLs are this dogmatic. But when a leftist is this dogmatic, they always seem to be ML

Some people treat politics like their identity and their main source of meaning in their life

Which sounds great until you realize that many of them define right wing nut jobs as anyone who's not a Marxist-Leninist

Edit: LMAO exhibit A below me. "We're not sectarian, they're just not real leftists." Yeah guys, you're doing exactly what I said

H O T D O G

This is such a spurious connection lol but I read the article anyway

The pattern probably emerged as a result of Darwinian natural selection: cicadas that naturally matured in easily divisible years were gobbled up by predators, and simply didn’t live long enough to produce as many offspring. Those who, by chance, had long, prime-numbered life spans fared best, survived longest, and left the most offspring, becoming the dominant variation of the species.

I'm glad the author actually took the time to describe the evolutionary process accurately. When I was an impressionable youngin' arguing against evolution, a big sticking point for me was how so many people described evolution as if there was some design or guidance behind it all. Nope, just common sense chaos and lots of death