RE: Square peg in a round hole? Much like how Authoritarians call themselves liberal? Regressives call themselves Progressive? Racists call themselves Anti-Racists?

[aggilingo]

I like tge topic and your energy! A couple of things came to my mind when reading this. First, words are words, we assigned meaning to them once, why not again. Take the word gay, for example; it's changed meaning at least twice - first it meant happy, then gay and now people are also using it to mean kind of lame. That said, should there be a line? Like at making the words have the opposite meaning? Maybe going forward we could distinguish between them by saying "the regressive progressive" or "the racist anti-racist"... 😄 Secondly, we have a saying where I come from and it translates something like "all new is the well forgotten old". You see it in music all the time and in fashion. Why not politics? Why shouldn't we reinvent the wheel again tome after time?

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[aggilingo]

Sorry for spelling mistakes, i have a toddler in my arms while writing this 😅

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[dwinblood]

There is a difference be reinvention and hijacking to control something. That is what they are doing and been doing for awhile. When I say "They" unless specified I am referring to the collective unknown "bad guys" which at this point is not one simple to identify group. It is more an organic almost living pseudo-living thing at this point. "The Blob"

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Take the word gay, for example; it's changed meaning at least twice - first it meant happy, then gay and now people are also using it to mean kind of lame.

What was the meaning of "happy", when "gay" meant "happy"?

[aggilingo]

I'm pretty sure happy meant happy; gay was just another word for it.