Also literally everyone in Europe

You either take all the tomato, or none of it

Just came across a profile of someone claiming to be a "veracious reader." Fun fact, veracious is actually a word. I'm guessing it's not what they meant, though.

I don't see a lot of Americans talking up their Second Amendment anymore? I guess because they all sat back and let fascists take over, they can't really say their guns are defending them against tyranny.

Oh no they definitely still do. They think that since their side is in power, they don’t need their armory right now, but those evil wokes are always trying to get them!

“No, don’t worry, Mr. Conservative. I’m male, she’s female, your norms aren’t being broken yet.”
“…Yeh, but partner implies she’s your equal. That don’t sit right.”

You know what's funny about that? A lot of my hetero friends also say partner.

I started using it because it removes the baggage that gendered terms carry. My wife is my best friend. I like to do everything with her. We split chores pretty evenly.

EXACTLY 🙄

The flag thing comes from the gay community, back when it was a more underground experience.

It doesn't work quite as well in English

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambo_(racial_term)

After the big protests in France there were a million bots posting racist stuff on Reddit. They kept referring to "liberals" but none speaks like that in France. Liberal is the word you'd use to describe corpo-centrists like Macron, never to describe leftists.

It was kind of like the 3 fingers meme from inglorious bastards.

...no, no it does not. wow.

I'm assuming they ironically misspelled "voracious," I've heard that used a lot to describe heavy readers

The narwhal bacons at midnight.

Now I'm thinking about making badges that say "Assigned Child At Birth".

Woke is in partners with grammar

In what way does this qualify as "indirect"

Where am I?

I've really only heard the phrase as "voracious". If that's truly an ironic use, I feel it would be lost on most people.

or I gues republiasian or something. maybe trasian. but yeah the republic would be like the united states. thinking about it its kinda wierder we use the united states often instead of america.

The Handkerchief code , used in gay culture to non-verbally tell what sexual practices you like

The next level is referring to women as "devices"

"I have an appointment with a gentleman" is prostitute for "I'm going to shag a dude for money"

I miss that. I genuinely do. Back when it felt like a community and things were fun. I know it's never gonna happen again, it was great to see it, but I miss spontaneous community fun online.

I think it's because immigrants wanted to preserve their culture when they came to the US, and that got passed down but was diluted over the generations, so you have people who have a very specific pride and identity that has deviated from the original.

Need to give Zelenskyy a few more drones to take out Russian datacenter troll farms.

Law & order = whatever orders they make up are the law of the moment.

Holds up spork

Oh, unintentionally ironic is what I meant, with the misspelling in the self-description of a heavy reader. You're right, much too subtle to be likely intentional.

Its not so much a dog whistle but in Quebec whether you say "sovreignist" or "seperatist" indicates your camp.

Like Caesar or Kaisar in Fallout New Vegas.

Online, at least, I've probably heard more hetero people than gay people use "partner." In some cases they were in fact perfectly conventionally full-blown married, they just weren't interested in sharing any more details than they had to to tell whatever story they were telling, because that detail wasn't important for the story.

Ceationists calling it "intelligent design" rather than creationism

I've never seen "Community" and I've never lived in Great Britain but even I know what "streets ahead" means.

Neil Peart and Keith Moon come to you in a dream. Your astral body will be tested far beyond the drumming limits of your corporeal body. Upon success, you will ascend to the next level of existence. It is better that you do not know what happens when you fail.

> Go to practice studio to get some exercise and maybe improve my bad drumming skills
> Ask for double bass pedal because I want to try to play some fast metal stuff
> Get sent on spiritual journey
> Fail
> Now I have to spend eternity being tortured by the Cenobites

Well shit.

I was banking on _NetNomad to pick up on my "yes and" and he delivered.

I hadn't heard this theory before, but it does actually make a lot of sense.

Dual to the death with Mikkey Dee from Motorhead

It is more of a shibboleth, but that is what I meant when I made the thread, I'm also from Québec and it was an example I had in mind when creating the thread, just didn't mention it because it seemed a bit niche.

Well, not like "I hate Americans" but moreso like "I dislike the country that is the US, I dislike it's influence and how it uses it's power". I am a francophone, and it's why I use the term, the one time I was in the US the people seemed very nice.

In many cases the "original" deviated even more. It's not like culture has been static in Europe for four hundred years.

"I dislike the government therefore I will be disrespectful to the people by refusing to use their preferred demonym." Alright bud.

"No courtesy left for the right" is now going into my back pocket for later. Love it.

And my axe.

I prefer electric cars, they're not as loud or stinky.

My favorite dog whistle (that went over my head, because I was not the audience for it) was the Subaru "Come out and play" commercial.

If I remember it correctly, the ad was mostly footage of Subaru SUVs driving over rocks and through streams while a voice over talks about the cars' off-road capabilities. The ads would always end with the narrator saying "Subaru invites you to come out and play.”

As a straight man, I always assumed that the commercial was about how much fun it is to drive a Subaru up a mountain. Apparently, I was missing the point. The nature footage was all a distraction to pacify the straights. The real commercial was just the sentence fragment "Subaru invites you to come out". It was meant to say that Subaru supports queer people. It was a resounding success in promoting the 'Subaru driving lesbian' stereotype.

A dog whistle is just a shibboleth for Nazis.

It's in french. You don't have a preferred demonym in french. It's like how the Dutch call themselves Netherlanders, but very few people say that. (Or how in french they're called Hollandais)

Also how is it disrespectful???

As someone who used reddit during that time, lemmy something feels exactly like reddit back then. Small communities and mainly consisting of a bunch of nerds

It's really not an issue.