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  • man_in_space@kbin.socialtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*
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    11 months ago

    Linguistic elitists—for example, people who shout that “the Blacks don’t speak good English” or who get pissed off that “I could care less” is an idiom that exists.

    I was a linguistics major in college and, sorry not sorry, language is malleable and it changes over time. You can’t stop it. Look the French—the Académié Française can try to legislate the language all they want, but nobody says la coussin de sécurité, they just say l’airbag.

  • man_in_space@kbin.socialtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's your ideal version of a democratic system?
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    11 months ago

    Honestly…it isn’t. Democracy is just tyranny minus time. For an example of this in America, it gave us Jim Crow.

    Thanks to the elections of 2020 and 2022, I have legitimately become a monarchist. As long as there’s some way to receive redress when it is needed and something like the Bill of Rights, give me a king or some sort of witan-like council.

    I suffer from many and profound mental illnesses and maladies of mental health. My judgment is compromised (I was in a cult for a few years). People like me can vote. That’s a problem.