"Dems need to stop policing language... and we should start by banning these 47 words."

August 22, 2025 - 14:22 UTC

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Third Way is literally the last thing the Democratic Party needs. That and reactionary centrist w a scam PAC, pal of Matt Y, Liam Kerr & all affiliated
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The Bitch Goddess, the White Board.
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Amazed they didn’t have 88 words to ban…
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There's some overlap with the verboten list the administration is using to gut funding too:

Allyship

BIPOC

Intersectionality

Latinx

Pregnant people

Privilege

I'm sure the other 39 words will soon be added. Thanks for doing their dirty work, Turd Way!
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with typical consulting efficiency we've boiled those down to just 14 that will really appeal to our kind of voters
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What the fuck is Third Way?
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"Both sides are wrong, and we're in the middle between those wrongs!"
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A way to stand for nothing.
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Fascists. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Position
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"dems don't remind Republicans how much they suck. instead be more like them!"
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This is the gist of what the actual memo is trying to say - which I think criticism of it is valid - but it's not "we're blacklisting these words because we don't want you to talk about queer people".
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the memo is ass/pejorative.

if people "don't understand" you educate them. SHOW THEM what's happening. they can't do that because they don't know nor do they care to learn.

this is such a bullshit situation and it's never worked.

and I don't trust these firms that are making them throw elections.
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"the part of the brain"
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Republicans have absolutely no problem teaching their base phrases like "DEI", "critical race theory", "socialized medicine", "politics of grievance" and so on. This is so patronizing.
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sure thing buddy. you know that people believe lies if they’re repeated because they crave comfort?
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Like it's still messagism, we're still searching for the right words to say to magically make people not racist, rather than aggressively promoting our viewpoints in every form possible and fighting for our ideological speech to drown out the rest of the electorate's media diet.
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they have repeatedly demonstrated they are in fact hostile to all of these groups through their policy proposals and scaremongering, the language policing is just the cherry on top
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My Life As An Autistic, Vol. 16
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maybe americans are just stupid as fuck and we shouldnt play to the dumbest people in this god forsaken country
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Ok but we don’t use 90% of those words so mostly it’s just the third way as usual being a bunch of pompous people in an ivory tower echo chamber making up liberals to hate.
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I didn't hear anything said re: "we don't want you to talk about queer people" & I'd say it's more abt the CONSTANT barrage of right-wing propaganda that influences some automatic response than not understanding some phrases. The right has PERFECTLY ORCHESTRATED the offputting "elitist" perceptions.
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I’m surprised queer isn’t on the list as it seems to trigger a lot of right-leaning LGB folks.
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🙄
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Third Way is not associated with the Dem Party FFS
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Chest-feeding, dumb. Unalived, dumber.
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100%
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Throwing the surest supporters under the bus in the service of bagging the mythical “persuadable voter”? We’re sure to win next time!
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Followers Demcent (Democratic centrism in Oldspeak) working doubleplus hard ensure next edition Newspeak Dictionary even thinner.
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Not that I would be mad to see it go, but isn't everyone saying "holding space" now after Wicked?
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Dems To Base: Drop Dead
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Nailed it
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Yep, precisely
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Third Way will only allow 14 words from here on in.
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3 of them must be Clinton
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I’ve been off for a few hours, but why does this sound like Yglesias
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Spot on.
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I do vote for killing "allyship". Anyone with me?
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Doesn't the word "alliance" do that work? People who make up words like that sound like they learned to read in jail.
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Government accounts are posting the 14 words and the 3rd way is scolding Dems for things they’re not even doing.
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Lieberman's zombie needs to die, too.
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This list feels like a 4Chan Nazi who was trying to sabotage the DNC made it
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I see the next edition of the Newspeak dictionary is coming along well
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Personally, I’d like to ban the word “deal.”
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Thoughts and prayers to the republicans suffering from imaginary Democrat language
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Also globalize the enchilada
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Leaving us with just 14 words to use in order for them to secure their existence.

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*What*listed??
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Is it okay to say "Go fùck yourself?"
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As we see from the last election, RghtWng disinfo doesn't need 2B consistent or non-contradictory to work.
It simply has to repeat the main memes (Dems bad; GOP good) 1000s of times til they wear a groove into ppl's brains.
Since most media are RWng, this is easy.

upine.medium.com/few-people-see-how-propaganda-works-heres-the-formula-fa8b9f51c01e
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This is correct and goddamn is it so fucking frustrating to see day in and day out in the media
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You should consider writing satire
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Which they’re mostly not using already.
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Tim! my subscription to your print edition is due now. Hmm, should I resubscribe, or not?
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You're right - why would we try to start winning elections now?
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if it's going to be the folks that ban half the words needed to discuss anything (the above list) versus the Trump folks who have banned the word "woman" (from scientific research anyway). Ugh, what a choice.
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Yeah, that’s why we lost in 2024 was because we just weren’t enough like Republicans. If we become more like them, then we’ll really win the next time! Just think if we become fascist ourselves how much winning we could do? Kamala 2028: We’ll Shoot Brown People!
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ah, yes. doing something meaningless will win elections, so don't pay attention to the fact that these people are full of shit
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John you seem triggered. Was it because reading this list forced you to remember that "the unhoused" exsit, or is that you are reminded of Newsome destroying their property or
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you’re doing the thing
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