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Mysticism’s function
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Rome: Decline and Fall? Part III: Things
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America is running on fumes | In film, science, and the economy, the US has fallen out of love with the hard work of ushering new ideas into the world
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The Mexican state does not live up its inheritance
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Mers el Kebir 1940 - Britain attacks her ally
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13,000 pounds at 118 miles per hour: It was the deadliest wreck in years. And the man behind it was one of the FBI’s most notorious informants.
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Jordan Peterson’s resignation is about one thing: Money
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The SAT will go completely digital by 2024
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Why you're christian
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Stealing Britain's history: When metal detectorists go rogue
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UN's culture agency adds Nordic clinker boats to its list of traditions that represent the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
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Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen master, dies at 95
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What words would you want to see 'reclaimed'?
Reclaiming a word means stripping it of it's negative baggage and giving it either a neutral or positive meaning. The most common example is the word Queer going from a slur to a descriptive term...
Reclaiming a word means stripping it of it's negative baggage and giving it either a neutral or positive meaning. The most common example is the word Queer going from a slur to a descriptive term for non cis-het people.
My personal pick would be returning the term "incel" to it's original meaning of "involuntary/involuntarily celibate" or someone who wants a relationship but doesn't have one, because the word is currently associated with the few tens of thousands of extremists who occasionally commit terrorist attacks, consider the redistribution of women reasonable and created the black-pill, but the amount of men (and realistically also women) who would consider themselves as wanting a relationship but not having one is much higher than a hundred thousand violent extremists, and if they could all describe themselves as incels, I think that would help steer the conversation about wanting a partner and not having one away from the extremists and to the much more numerous pool of mostly young people, seemingly mostly men who just want a partner and can't have one and usually mostly just feel bad about it to varying intensities. It wouldn't completely detach the term from cringe online right tropes as a lot of the dudes who can be described as incels often tend to fuel the kind of "women aren't real"/"Girls don't exist on the internet" culture that makes complaining about dating so 'lame'. (As in, the default reply is "just do basic self-improvement it'll put you ahead of most people lol".)
Another term I would reclaim if I could is the Red-pill/Blue-pill dichotomy with becoming red-pilled either being a joke about some vaguely red pill used to transition or as a shorthand for adopting leftist beliefs, mainly because the creators of The Matrix were Trans women who intended the movie to have a strong Trans subtext, and red is usually a leftist color instead of a conservative one, so becoming red-pilled meaning becoming a leftist is more intuitive in most places.
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Rome: Decline and Fall? Part I: Words
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Scissor labels
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From respair to cacklefart – the joy of reclaiming long-lost positive words
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How ‘The Monster with 21 Faces’ terrorized Japan during the harrowing Glico Morinaga candy incident
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The illogic of logical positivism
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The Gävle goat
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Twitter, the intimacy machine
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Supreme Court weighs mandating public funds for religious schools in Maine
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Taming the Beast: The Inner Battle for Control
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