I'll start.
I know there's nothing inherently wrong with "based" as a slang word and it's said plenty of times on Hexbear about good things, but when I see it in the online wild, it is 95% of the time about something bigoted or hateful.
:frothingfash: MECCA SHOULD BE GLASSED
:le-pol-face: BASED
:stupidpol: BASED
:jordan-eboy-peterson: BASED
:grillman: BASED
As weird as it may sound, people that say "vitriol" a lot in online discussions tend to be vitriolic themselves. It's commonly used among civility obsessed :LIB: s when they want to superficially follow the rules while baiting dissenters into getting selectively enforced bans.
:maybe-later-kiddo: "Um, what you just said about entrepreneurial philanthropists was so full of vitriol that I will not dignify it with a proper response. sigh I wish more of you ungrateful kiddos would stop LARPing as tankie fascists and would crack open an Econ 101 book instead. Maybe you would have less vitriol then. Vitriol much?"
:fedposting: "You have been banned for posting on /r/bootlicking. You may contact the moderators if you believe this was in error. No vitriol will be tolerated."
The last one is "human." Yeah I know, weird. But its most common online usage in my experience isn't far off from the usage (and users) of "feeemale" when referring to women (or girls). Also it tends to said a lot by creepy techbro types, both in advertising ironically dehumanizing and alienating tech products and when fanboys go to bat for the same.
:capitalist-woke: "Remember the human!" as a slogan, for example, instead of maybe "don't be an asshole."
Or my least favorite kind of usage:
:so-true: ":melon-musk: is just a better human that wants us all to be better humans! Humans must become an interplanetary species!"
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yeah, smh @ people other than me on this site calling each other comrade, I am the one true leftist.
fr though I don't think that one's a problem — if feckless libs and succdems want to launder historically communist terms to make them more main-stream palatable, that's fine with me. Makes it easier to talk to them and move them left, and I don't think they'll be able to change the meaning of "comrade" in any meaningful way the same way that they might water down or misuse terms like "imperialism" or whatever
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Lol yeah fair enough. In my experience, "liking communist aesthetics" is a pretty good gateway to "liking communism" so personally I find it easy to engage with that type of person, but finding that exhausting is super fair.
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