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GaldraChevaliere wrote

Dumb has ableist roots, I never got why it was the 'polite' alternative to stupid. Stupid afaik only ever meant someone/something's active lack of intelligence or forethought. It's not the condition of being a 'moron', where it's an endemic trait, but of doing something stupid.

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rot OP wrote

Dumb has basically completely changed meanings. It hasn't meant deaf in decades.

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Faolinbean wrote

Right, now it just insults people of different levels of intellectual ability

the point is, it's ____ist to denigrate someone for something they can't control, and we are against all the ists

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ziq wrote

Maybe in the US.

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arduinna wrote

I continue to maintain that Americans asserting their language is the tongue of the universe is the worst thing that ever happened to the internet, and that they should have never been allowed to connect to the rest of the world.

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ziq wrote

Yeah. Let's build a wall around that place and cut their underwater internet cables.

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arduinna wrote

You think we could convince Trump that its a matter of national security?

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ziq wrote

He's already aiming for a wall on one border, now let's convince him Canada is a dire threat to fascism.

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Just_An_Author wrote (edited )

Hey! Don't you dare take away my ability to connect to people! I live in the USA (to mixed fortunes), and at least 40% of the people I interact with online (including beloved relatives) live elsewhere.

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ziq wrote

Was a joke. I don't have enough bricks.

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