No, I usually only say it out loud to myself if I’m angry at a game or stub my toe or something. Trust me, I said nothing bad in game.
I’m one year younger, but for me it was just a word that kids used instead of actual cussing as a general exclamation of being angry at something. I didn’t even learn what it really meant until like a decade later. xD
The think the tea party will become Christian Nationalists, personally. This type of person is cult-like in many ways, passing down this belief to their children. There’s already a strong base in the southern US. Religion absolutely did great things for their communities (no sarcasm), but the evangelists and religious zealots will fill that power vacuum. Louisiana is a good state for a temperature check on this topic.
And a great deal of the men invested in 40k will not like or want Female Space marines as the implications would tarnish the identities they’ve built around it for so many years.
I can understand that stance at the time of ignorance but now knowing its context, it’s probably best just to admit that’s how it’s always been used.
Using it as an angry pejorative toward an individual without intent doesn’t remove that context. Just like if you’d said any other slur, regardless of the letter it started with.
Compulsory voting and ranked choice voting are kinda neat.
It’s a pretty big overlap with the audience that would walk away if they ever figured out that you’re not supposed to actually want to live under the empire as it’s presented as a very terrible place and time.
Well, unpopular opinion here, I don’t care about the context the word has. For me, it’s a general purpose angry word. That’s all it’s ever been, and ever will be. I don’t feel bad about using it, but I get it makes people angry so I don’t use it in public really.
The onus is still on you to recognize that whether you care or not doesn’t have anything to do with your ability to operate in a society of people including those that do care.
Is religion really that on trend? I think that would alienate a lot of the voters on the right that only loosely subscribe to religion or not at all. The culture war mindset is great because you don’t have to say anything about real policy, you just point at people considered abnormal or weird and proclaim this is the problem in society for an easy win, that might be harder with religion.
I think once you get into religious nationalism it’s easier for a lot more people to go ok that’s too far.
I mean I’ve seen people get upset about being called boomer or even cis so it’s like… I’ll just try to avoid using the terms unless if I’m really asking for a fight lmao