• ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    When did weird start meaning bad again? I still hold the title of weird proudly no matter how hard people want to associate it with republicans, fuck all y’all.

    And EC comics ruled!

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      3 months ago

      I don’t think anyone is seriously using weird as bad. Just more so because weird bothers them and gets under their skin. I don’t think if you call yourself weird anyone is seriously gonna think you’re a republican.

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        3 months ago

        The reason it bothers them so much is because they want to claim the “silent majority”, who thinks like they do but don’t say it out loud.

        When they’re the outliers, they can no longer do that. That’s why it gets under their skin so much.

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          3 months ago

          The thing that bothers me though is I’m weird, I’m a goddamn outlier, they’re really not and they don’t deserve the title of honor, imho.

          The other person may be right that if I say I’m weird it won’t be associated, yet. But the second they buy in and spin it, like the OK symbol, it will be. I’m sick of them stealing shit and weird is where I draw the line, weird as that may be.

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            3 months ago

            I do get where you’re coming from, and this is why comedians like Jon Stewart have been so careful to seperate out “good weird” from “bad weird”, but unfortunately for you it’s a fabulously successful rhetorical line that strips away a lot of their artifice.

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              3 months ago

              You still see people on lemmy to this very day defending “it means WP.” When you correct them, best they can do is “well fine we were trolled but now it really does mean WP.” People are hopeless, they’ll let them take anything.