Speaking of euphemisms, do you guys know of any common dysphemisms?

GulbuddinHekmatyar@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 71 points –

Here's an example from me

If you want to de-normalize a nation's state/government, call them

::: spoiler spoiler a regime

:::

Other examples include: hospital --> loony bin

Edit: the more I think about it, the more I realize dysphemism are insults?

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How are any of what I listed good things?

decrying experienced political institutions as corrupt while claiming to be a reformer.

Someone can just see a theoretical event happening like that and just write and TITLE the news as:

Man leads a pro-democracy movement against corrupt one-party-rule and its institutions...

That being said, scapegoating an outgroup is indeed a demagoguery...

Do you take me for bad-faith arguer?

No, I just think we're having difficulty understanding each other. Or rather, I know I'm not understanding you and thus can't tell whether you're understanding me.

Well, ykw, agree to disagree... I'll kill the convo right here, I'm sorry...