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entertainment
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"Do better"
sus
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Every time I log into this website someone has tagged in a post attributing the ills of the world to me... Dimes Square, Silicon Valley, rationalists, Brooklyn hipsters, pedos and nonces, alt right hucksters, indie rock, TikTok & Gen Z, Americans in general
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shiels
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Every forum needs a villain, you should be honoured. A couple of years ago it was the formerly fearsome @thirdform but now he's kind of tolerated, his routine has become enjoyable, cute, he's a lovable rogue and in a way.. toothless. you still have power
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Will I get a punch for saying "this!"?
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
What a bunch of grumps.
sus
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That's how I feel. They're getting this bounty of linguistic riches, novel speciation, discursive diversity — and all they see are weeds
shakahislop
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the dispersion of vocab and theories from US universities into everyday life is pretty fascinating i think. one of the key things that's going on with the internet is what it's doing to language, people increasingly modelling their speech on how things are written on the internet. the guardian front page this morning had a couple of things like that, i forget what.
there's the associated thing as well of concepts and terminology being totally unmoored from the reality of lives in a place. people in england ending up with these conceptual tools to think about their life and their world, when these tools are to a large extent a product not only of america, but of these weird liberal arts colleges in the middle of nowhere (there are caveats obviously, this is a generalisation, but this is one thread in the overall phenomenon. i've been through a fair number of these in upstate new york, new england, new jersey, attended one briefly, they are incredibly odd places, physically segregated from any other community, properly in the middle of nowhere, with what seems like a very market-based customer-client relationship between staff and students, and when they cost $60,000 a year in tuition fees obviously it's a very rich segment of US society who show up. and then out of that emerges concepts that like end up in the brains of people in i don't know, exeter or whatever.
i find a lot of those ways of thinking about things really unsuited to thinking about life in the UK, personally. there's a thing going on where people read american feminists for example and don't get that they're really talking about america, and that gender relations etc are structured a bit differently there. it's ripe for misunderstanding all of that i think. especially as the default way of thinking about the US from the UK is that it's pretty culturally similar to us, when really its really very different
Leo
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the fatal flaw in this argument is the implicit claim that “new” equals better. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t. oftentimes, it’s just different, and sometimes not even that different.
shakahislop
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shakahislop
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WashYourHands
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You know has replaced errm
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