Can we have thread about words that sound positive and have a different meaning?
Neoliberal New-speak
My favorite growing up was being in a "food insecure" house as a way to dress up malnourishment
restructuring
Flexibility must be one of the worst.
Humanitarian war
sectarian violence
Surgical strike
moderate rebels
Extreme poverty. It is used by neo-liberals as justification for further expansion to capitalism but you never see or here of the statistics of anything above extreme poverty.
human resource
OK, it doesn't really sound positive.
Good point. Malnourishment implies market failure while food insecurity is something that only the market can fix.
‘competition’, ‘growth’,‘risk’‘welfare’, ‘stakeholder’‘diversity’‘reform’, ‘responsibility’‘stability’
When a neoliberal says we need more diversity it is a code word for we need more people in strip mall america buying fidget spinners
Implying a subjective failure of the individual rather than systematic crisis.
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Leftism
Liberalism
Multiculturalism
Radical Centrist
Obvious, but "race realism" takes the cake. It's a blatant attempt to disguise racism as just looking at the facts while ignoring material circumstance that doesn't fit the humans vs orcs narrative.
Job
Growth
Competition
Startup
Moderate
free speech
What's the difference between a centrist and a radical centrist?
Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship
Pro-business
Right to work
I don't think the terminology "food insecurity" is completely without value. In the U.S., malnourishment usually isn't eating 1,200 calories a day until you look like you came from Buchenwald, it's about eating 1,800 calories one day and 200 the next, not knowing where you're going to get the money for dinner or if you'll have to go to bed hungry tonight. Speaking as someone who has experienced this, "Food Insecurity" gives better insight to the type of physiological and psychological harm malnourishment causes.
That said, it's clearly used as a euphimism to dress up malnourishment and starvation so that petty bourg fucks can ignore the shockingly cruel reality of suffering proles
A centrist uses both left and right politics depending on circumstances. The end goal is profitability for the state. Which usually means some welfare to alleviate the dissatisfaction created by capital exploitation. It also usually means that you accept imperialism as a way to further your country while promoting freedom for all because that is what the people in your country want to hear. You are basically an incongruent mess who only serves capital.
A radical centrist is someone who opposes the radical left and right because they both are too extreme and don't understand the value of the balancing act. Their policies are the same, but while the centrist doesn't care about the far-left and far-right, the radical centrist is willing to insult people on the internet claiming that both sides are retarded.
neolibs don't use that term though
How Dialectical lmao
Their economic plans line right up with neoliberalism though.
Populism
Centrism - A more accurate description would be "The Ideology of Power." Centrism is implicitly defined by the Status Quo, which is in turn defined by the ruling class. Centrist ideology exists to maintain the Status Quo, whereas radical ideologies exist to fundamentally change it. It is not a fixed position, nor does it have any moral or philosophical basis, it is merely the dominant ideology of the time, as shepherded by the ruling class according to their needs, desires, and whims.
Radical Centrist - Centrism, but with a more nakedly forceful grip on power. The word itself is a paradox; radicalism is defined by its deviation from the Status Quo, while centrism is defined by its adherence.
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SHELL SHOCK
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BATTLE FATIGUE
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OPERATIONAL EXHAUSTION
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POST-TRAUMATIC-STRESS-DISORDER
this is getting out of hand, let me just peel back all these layers–
DADDY IS MENTALLY DAMAGED BECAUSE PORKY WANTS CANNON FODDER AND OFFERS DECENT HEALTHCARE OPTIONS AND FREE COLLEGE FOR SERVICE WHICH SHOULD BE AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE ANYWAY, BUT YOUR STANDARDS ARE SO LOW YOU'RE WILLING TO BE SHOT MULTIPLE TIMES IN THE FUCKING CHEST TO GET IT, AND WHEN YOU DO GET IT YOU'LL PROBABLY DIE WAITING IN A VETERAN CLINIC LINE.
there we go.
is that you, george carlin?
Veterans of the revolution will get free housing, healthcare, education, and genetically engineer catgirls for domestic ownership tbh.
Aren't we forgetting one of the earliest ones, now running out of steam in politics but still heard? "Free trade", anyone?
One of my personal favorites is international law and global consensus which really just means "whatever America supports"
Won't everyone else get those things too though?
Not all ofc, porky will recieve the punishment.
thought leader
Exactly
market rationality
rational economic action
equal inequality for all
post-transformation society
global intervention
value-neutral institutional respondents
underdevelopment
pareto optimum
informal empire