Krev wrote: Mon Nov 25, 2024 9:21 am It seems like it was picked up as a buzzword by right-wing chuds before it even began. The word (and idea) itself isn't crap, obviously.

This nails it, for me.

joelb wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2024 1:50 pm It's useful in the current U.S. context in that it signals something more about the speaker's character than the speaker can comprehend.

On this topic, I think "based" takes first prize for neologisms that are meaningless without the context of the speaker's alignment. It can be used to refer to anyone from Bernie Sanders to Donald Trump, and depending on who says it and what they mean, it can refer to any ideas or actions ranging from Ed Norton curbstomping that kid to Ed Norton getting woke and rejecting the skinheads. It's fucking meaningless.

jimmy spako wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2024 3:31 am I would like to be swolke, i.e. both swoll and woke.

salut

ChudFusk wrote: Tue Dec 03, 2024 8:33 pm

joelb wrote: Mon Dec 02, 2024 1:50 pm It's useful in the current U.S. context in that it signals something more about the speaker's character than the speaker can comprehend.

On this topic, I think "based" takes first prize for neologisms that are meaningless without the context of the speaker's alignment. It can be used to refer to anyone from Bernie Sanders to Donald Trump, and depending on who says it and what they mean, it can refer to any ideas or actions ranging from Ed Norton curbstomping that kid to Ed Norton getting woke and rejecting the skinheads. It's fucking meaningless.

the basedgod should have set the task force on those weirdos when they started doing that shit