language and political marketing.

[Zay]

Some terms have become so negative, that even with good ideas behind them they just can't take off. Likewise, renaming a phrase or concept has done wonders for it, depending on whose side you're on.

Example: When the inheritence tax became the "death tax"

another example: when the war in iraq became the "war on terror"

another one: when global warming became "climate change"

According to a survey done by Frank Luntz' people, the majority of people voted against " welfare(images of niggers, crack, and welfare mommmas, oh my!)" , but asking those same people a seperate question, he found that the majority voted in favor of "aid to the poor"

The majority of people reinforce all snap judgements, and it takes tremendous effort to change their mind. Even if they actively know that the new name for something is the exact same thing, they have been affected at a subconscious level.

As such, I suggest we take it upon ourselves to rename some of the concepts in this forum, to help mitigate preconceived notions and give people a second chance to read certain things, maybe this time they wont read what they want but actually what's written? It doesn't have to be public though, I renamed a term for one argument, and it took a while for the poster to catch on(I C wut u did there)

Also, parallax seems to have a knack for it. Victim disarmament= gun laws.

I'll start.
"In the future we may live under a government-free society, where our economy is still based under supply, demand, and competition, but the population is educated enough and morally inclined not to exploit or be exploited, and violence is used only in self defense. Information would be available freely and instantly. Government would be eradicated not through violence but out of obsolescence"

If I had started the sentence with " In the future we may live in an anarchist society" , your stomach would have churned and you'd be quoting and responding with a knee-jerk reaction faster than I could refresh the page.

Anarchy: government-free
It by no means should be fancy. The simpler the better.

[Zay]

Come on.

[General Patton]

You're going to get butt fucked in prison.

Fellow inmates inside correctional facilities may violate your anal sanctity.

Americans love war because it's fucking awesome and they don't have to actually participate on the enemies level.

Americans derive pleasure from supporting our armed forces in their duties.

The CIA is funding Terrorist Organizations and 3rd world dictators with your tax dollars, sending them unmarked cash and weapons.

The Central Intelligence Agency is supporting economic and social development in impoverished regions of the world to help stabilize them from Terrorists and foreign despots.

[only black man in vermont]

Chomsky uses the phrase "libertarian socialism" to describe his anarchist views -- everyone should switch to this, because the average uneducated person can't get beyond the negative connotations of "anarchy". And anyway, that's the most precise & old school definition of anarchism, a mix of socialist ideas and ye olde Euro-libertarian anti-statist ideas. Yet in the US, everyone thinks of "libertarian" as referring to the laissez-faire capitalist Libertarian Party.

[General Patton]

The Iraq war gave us Time Horizons, because no one wants to have to keep to a Timeline.

The Abortion controversy reminded us that it's not a choice, it's a child.

But enough about those assholes, we need our own happy fun time words.

What about that guy that was talking about giving out pregnancy licenses out to couples based off of their IQ?

http://www.totse.com/community/showthread.php?t=2137793



Reproduction Licensing? No. Sounds like my car insurance and registration.

Propagation Management? Better, but sounds more like something you would hear in an engineering school.

Proliferation Accreditation? Even better. Proliferation is something that needs to be controlled, like Nuclear Weapons. Accreditation is what colleges and institutions give you.

We should enact laws that will support Proliferation Accreditation, so that accredited couples can join together and reproduce. Couples without credentials will not be allowed to proliferate without facing penalities. Individuals who possess a license can come together into government run singles meetings.

Ok Zay, your turn.

[Star Wars Fan]

Originally Posted by only black man in vermont

Chomsky uses the phrase "libertarian socialism" to describe his anarchist views -- everyone should switch to this, because the average uneducated person can't get beyond the negative connotations of "anarchy".

Erm...IIRC the joke is people who say that say it because they don't want to be called anarcho-communists given similarity and shit.

And that people know it's a similar system...or am I wrong. Probably.

Social Control....or Social Fabric.

Beating the shit out of your kids....or instilling values and discipline.

Youth expressing themselves sexually....or child porn.

The anal defenses crumpling to sustained invasion by phalluses....or getting ass-fucked.

Civilian Casualties...or...innocent men, women, children having their ass shot to hell and blown up

Digital Rights Management....or...not being able to buy what you download and only 'rent' it and have your own comp not really yours due to all sorts of backdoors and shit.

Autistic....or....Neurodivergent.


Fuck Society up its' hipocritical and stigmatizing ass. Especially given peoples' bullshit connotations. YES THE DEFINITIONS FIT JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE SOME STIGMA TO THE WORD AND WHAT IT TENDS TO BE APPLIED TO DOES NOT MEAN YOU FORCE IT ON EVERYONE.

no wonder the people at wrongplanet are so angry at "NT" society....

..on the other hand it can be understanding why they are that way...

...fuck

[Star Wars Fan]

Originally Posted by General Patton

Reproduction Licensing? No. Sounds like my car insurance and registration.

moar like your preggor license.

[SomeLowLife]

Today we killed a group of insurgents = Today we killed a group of civilians





No one gives a fuck about "insurgents" dieing because no one knows any insurgents.

[Star Wars Fan]

found this when doing work for International Relations class..

List of euphemisms


This is a list of euphemisms.
Contents [showhide] 1 Euphemisms for the profane

1.1 Religious euphemisms
1.2 Excretory euphemisms
1.3 Sexual euphemisms


2 Doublespeak

2.1 Corporate
2.2 Espionage
2.3 Military
2.4 Political
2.5 Social
2.6 Sports
2.7 Other



Euphemisms for the profane

Religious euphemisms

• God/God damn:
  • goldarn
  • golly
  • gosh
  • gadzooks, supposedly God's hooks, the nails by which Jesus hung on the cross
  • gawd
  • goldang
  • Godfrey Daniel, used by W.C. Fields
  • doggone
  • gosh darn
  • dad gum
  • gad
  • dog, an anagram for God used mostly in the phrase Oh my dog! or Oh My Feicking Dog. Also known in the internet world as OMD or OMFD.
  • (See also tetragrammaton for the taboo of the Hebrew name of God.)
• Damn/Damnation:
  • darn
  • drat
  • durn
  • dang
• Hell:
  • H-E-double-toothpicks (or -hockey-sticks)
  • heck
  • Sam Hill (What in Sam Hill is going on here?)
  • "The other place" (as opposed to Heaven, not used as an oath)
  • tarnation
  • the hot place (now archaic)
• Jesus/Jesus Christ:
  • gee
  • jeez
  • gee whiz
  • golly gee
  • jeepers or jeepers creepers
  • Jiminy Cricket
• The Devil:
  • the dark one
  • the deuce (The deuce you say!—archaic)
  • the dickens, in use before the era of Charles Dickens
  • Old Nick
  • Old Scratch or Old Scrotch

Excretory euphemisms

• urine/urinate:
  • gypsies kiss
  • number one
  • pee
  • piddle
  • tinkle
  • wee-wee
  • whiz
  • take a leak
  • relieve oneself

• feces/defecation:
  • number two
  • bowel movement or bm
  • droppings
  • dung
  • poo (and variations such as poop and poopie)
  • doo (typically in dog doo, but see below)
  • night soil archaic, but composted human feces are still so called
  • stool

• toilets / bathrooms
  • men's room / women's room
  • the little boy's room / the little girl's room
  • restroom
  • the porcelain god, often in connection with vomiting
  • the throne
  • the head, sailor's terminology. The facility was placed on the bow or head of the ship in case of falls while at sea
  • the john
  • the potty
  • outhouse
  • backhouse
  • donnicker
  • the big white telephone or the white courtesy phone, "talking to John on..."
  • W.C., short for Water Closet

Sexual euphemisms

• The term adult for sexually oriented for pornographic. For example:
  • adult film for pornographic movie
  • adult actress or adult actor for porn star
  • adult film industry for pornography industry
  • adult bookstore for pornography store
  • adult novelties for sex toys (often seen on signs)
• erotic dancer or exotic dancer for stripper
• sex worker for porn star, stripper, or prostitute
• The term eve teasing is used for sexual harassment in Indian English

• genitalia:
  • crotch
  • gonads (can also refer to the proto-genitalia of an unborn fetus)
  • groin
  • private parts/privates
  • intimate parts
  • vagina (an early euphemism from Latin in place of the English cunt)

• breasts:
  • mammets (archaic)
  • bosom
  • chest
  • bust
  • white meat (Victorian) circumlocution for chicken breast, to avoid association with human breasts)

• buttocks:
  • bum
  • fanny (A.E. only; means vagina in B.E. See: American and British English differences)
  • tush or tushy
  • bottom
  • posterior
  • rump
  • heinie (from "hind end")
  • keister

• Having sex:
  • feick
  • fuck (archaic, now a dysphemism)
  • mac
  • fornication
  • fudge
  • lay with or lie with. For example, Harry lay with Sally
  • know. Biblical Adam knew Eve; generally phrased know him/her... in the Biblical sense
  • sleep with
  • hook-up
  • make love
  • have intercourse
  • carnal knowledge
  • act of union
  • do. For example Harry did Sally

Doublespeak

Corporate

• layoff, downsize, rightsize, headcount adjustment, RIF (reduction in force), realign: firing employees
  • also made redundant, let go, dismissed, terminated, services are no longer required, et cetera, for firing in general
  • The Dilbert series satirizes this in one strip in which an employee is unable to figure out he has been laid off.
  • Interesting fact: in ancient Rome, headcount was the term used to describe the lowest class of workers, the ones just above slaves.
• job flexibility: lack of job security (where job security means an actual or implied promise of continued employment)
• outsource: firing local employees to hire cheaper labor elsewhere.
• replacement workers: scabs or strikebreakers in labour disputes

Espionage

[Star Wars Fan]

• classified: In general usage, "secret"; in governmental usage, information which has been evaluated and possibly assigned a security clearance.
  Since at least world war ii, united states military and governmental information has been distinguished into classes corresponding to increasing levels of security clearances required by those people allowed access to it, and has come to be called classified information (as in "classified for a particular clearance").
• unclassified: In general usage, "not secret"; in governmental usage, information which has not been assigned a security clearance.
  Information which has not been assigned a classification; most public information falls into this category, which is the default state of information. Stands in contrast to information which has been evaluated and classified as "public".
• declassified: In general and governmental usage, formerly but not presently secret
  information which had as some point been classified as secret, but has since been released to the public.
• intelligence: Information and sources of information (spies and spying)
• human intelligence: Information from spies and interrogated prisoners, and other information from human sources (such as weather reports or economic studies) used by a secret or military agency
• asset: A secret agency's recruited, clandestine human source in a foreign country (foreign spies)
• wet work: assassination
• physical persuasion or physical pressure: torture

military

• defense: war
  as in department of defense, formed by the merging of the department of war and department of the navy
• neutralize or service: To kill or disable a target
• friendly fire: Being inadvertently and mistakenly attacked by your allies
• collateral damage: Unintentional killing or damage; bystander deaths and injuries
• area denial munitions: landmines
• bombs which kill civilians are, according to the pentagon, "incontinent ordnance" [size=2](lutz)[/size]
• preemptive war: To invade a foreign country so that it would not be invaded itself or be subjected to an enemy strike early on
• pre-hostility: peace
• secure an area (or mop up): Kill remaining enemy soldiers
• aerial ordnance the use of bombs or missiles by air
• assymetric warfare local violence or unrest, suicide bombing; contained violence.
• terrorist or insurgent or freedom fighter: A rebel
• casualty: Death or injury
• post-traumatic stress disorder, a euphemism for operational exhaustion, euphemism for battle fatigue, a euphemism for shell shock. Used as an example of dehumanization of language (particularly by the american comedian george carlin). The terms were used in the vietnam war, korean war, world war ii and world war i respectively. Note, however, that post-traumatic stress disorder has occurred outside wars, e.g. Among rape victims
• engage: To fight the enemy head on
• engagement: A small battle, a brief firefight
• projectile: Anything that can be fired at the enemy, such as bullets, artillery shells, rockets

political

• regime: government (negative term)
• the nazi term endlösung ("final solution"): The holocaust
• final solution: the holocaust
  doublespeak was very common in the third reich. Goebbels' reichsministerium für volksaufklärung und propaganda (ministry of the reich for public enlightenment and propaganda) coined thousands of new german words. Other examples include: concentration camp (labor/death camp), "heim ins reich" (occupation of austria), the meanings of "volk" (people) and "rasse" (race).
• ethnic cleansing:genocide
• appeasement: To give in to aggression or, to negotiate an agreement
• freedom fighter: Armed political rebel (positive term) / terrorist working for us. This is a fine example of orwellian blackwhite.
• terrorist: Armed political rebel (negative term). / freedom fighter working for them.
• homicide bomber: suicide bomber (negative term)

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