Words that No Longer Have Meaning

[The Original Tree]

Of the 3 words in OP, the only one that goes in one ear and out the other is impeachment. It has been overused ever since Nixon The others make me take note, but only after questioning the sincerity of the speaker. Much the way "Benghazi" got 4 years ago.

Like I said, these words are all losing their meaning, because they are being overused and abused by The Radical Left.

 

[The Original Tree]

This has to be the dumbest thread all month.

You have got to be the dumbest blonde on The USMB.

 

[RealDave]

Thanks to The Left for watering down the words society uses to decry despicable acts, I bring you the top 3 words that No Longer have any meaning because of over use, abuse, and misapplication, in a "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" syndrome, sometimes confused with Trump Derangement Syndrome as the symptoms are nearly the same.

1.) Racism. Over used and abused. It's become just another slur like using The "N" word. It's abuse and misuse cause people to simply tune it out, along with other words such as bigot, White Nationalist, racist. When people hear this word, they think they are being conned or manipulated, and it is now associated with the word Hoax.

This does not bode well for the very few people in America who sometimes experience racism. Racism is becoming extinct in America while the allegations of it are becoming an all too frequent shrill, and desperate attempt at gaining political power through false allegations of racism.

2.) Impeachment. Over used and abused, and misused. People do not even know what this word means anymore let alone even understand why someone can be impeached. Are mean tweets an impeachable offense? Nope, not even close. It's actually very difficult to get impeached, and it is not a process to be taken lightly nor a term you should throw around just because you don't like someone's hair. Yet some throw this word around like they water their gardens.....ever day. It's lost it's impact.

3.) Rape - Sexual Harassment - #MeToo I feel bad for the victims of any kind of sexual assault or unwanted advances. The Democrat Party has utilized this word as a weapon against it's political foes, abandoning any principles of Due Process, or Presumption of Innocence. Other associated words like Sexist, Misogynist have also lost their meanings and no longer evoke shock at these acts, nor sympathy for the victims.

Once The Democrat Party decided to weaponize these words, they lost their meaning. Literally criticizing anyone of color for anything becomes racism, and the word then loses its power and meaning. Making a pass at a woman, if unwanted becomes sexual harassment instead of the pursue and catch game that has been played by the sexes for centuries, and Impeachment is just another way of saying I Hate You, and would rather spend my time in vitriol and hatred trying to undermine you and usurp you, than doing the job I was elected to do.

Changing the meaning of words, watering them down, and also adding in to the word salad bowl, political correctness which limits discussion, and effectively bans words, phrases and topics becomes a dangerous trend.

It's a trend that inspired George Orwell to write 1984, where he warns society of a future culture where thought crime and hate speech are literally anything you say and do according to the New Leftist Puritanical View.

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. . . . Even now, of course, there’s no reason or excuse for committing thought-crime. It’s merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won’t be any need even for that"

Orwell, 1984

To you, did they ever?

 

[Mac1958]

Socialism
Racism
Radical
Truth
Hate
Hitler
Nazi

All essentially meaningless now.
.

 

[DustyInfinity]

Conservatives have morphed into Contrarians -

anything controversial gets their dick hard - anybody lacking a moral compass can lead or join.

The Contras have arrived.

Something I find amusing is when Democrats say that Republicans have no ideas and that they just want to block progress. Then they dream up complete horsecrap and throw a fit when you tell them it is nuts. The reason Republicans block everything is because 9 times out of ten leaving people alone IS a policy solution.

 

[Siete]

Conservatives have morphed into Contrarians -

anything controversial gets their dick hard - anybody lacking a moral compass can lead or join.

The Contras have arrived.

Something I find amusing is when Democrats say that Republicans have no ideas and that they just want to block progress. Then they dream up complete horsecrap and throw a fit when you tell them it is nuts. The reason Republicans block everything is because 9 times out of ten leaving people alone IS a policy solution.

republican conservatives -

like controlling women's bodies
playing big brother to third world countries
their national debt hypocrisy
refusing to enforce laws = creating a larger government
yada yada yada

leave people alone my ass.

 

[The Original Tree]

Conservatives have morphed into Contrarians -

anything controversial gets their dick hard - anybody lacking a moral compass can lead or join.

The Contras have arrived.

Something I find amusing is when Democrats say that Republicans have no ideas and that they just want to block progress. Then they dream up complete horsecrap and throw a fit when you tell them it is nuts. The reason Republicans block everything is because 9 times out of ten leaving people alone IS a policy solution.

republican conservatives -

like controlling women's bodies
playing big brother to third world countries
their national debt hypocrisy
refusing to enforce laws = creating a larger government
yada yada yada

leave people alone my ass.

Pretty Sure the Word "Fascism" is becoming meaningless.
Pretty sure the left trying to enforce their morality on everyone is Fascist, but since the word is overused by The Left so much, nobody really cares, and the word has no actual meaning any more.

 

[Stormy Daniels]

This has to be the dumbest thread all month.

You have got to be the dumbest blonde on The USMB.

I'm honored that you think so.

 

[The Original Tree]

This has to be the dumbest thread all month.

You have got to be the dumbest blonde on The USMB.

I'm honored that you think so.

You're welcome

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

Socialism
Racism
Radical
Truth
Hate
Hitler
Nazi

All essentially meaningless now.
.

I did nazi that coming.

 

[The Original Tree]

Socialism
Racism
Radical
Truth
Hate
Hitler
Nazi

All essentially meaningless now.
.

I did nazi that coming.

Nazi is definitely over used. It's become more of a punch line for a joke. Hence my use of it "DemNazi" same as Them Nazis.

 

[justinacolmena]

sexual assault

And Helen of Troy was so beautiful she launched 1000 ships... set sail with guns blazing everything.

unwanted advances

And that's why mothers are holding their boys back in school. The girls have to date older boys and don't want the boys to get too far ahead in school.

 

[BlindBoo]

Reagan was not impeached for Nicaragua.
Mueller did not name a single crime

Trumpybear was not impeached over the aid Russia gave his campaign in 2016.

You're as goofy as ever.

 

[bendog]

Thanks to The Left for watering down the words society uses to decry despicable acts, I bring you the top 3 words that No Longer have any meaning because of over use, abuse, and misapplication, in a "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" syndrome, sometimes confused with Trump Derangement Syndrome as the symptoms are nearly the same.

1.) Racism. Over used and abused. It's become just another slur like using The "N" word. It's abuse and misuse cause people to simply tune it out, along with other words such as bigot, White Nationalist, racist. When people hear this word, they think they are being conned or manipulated, and it is now associated with the word Hoax.

This does not bode well for the very few people in America who sometimes experience racism. Racism is becoming extinct in America while the allegations of it are becoming an all too frequent shrill, and desperate attempt at gaining political power through false allegations of racism.

2.) Impeachment. Over used and abused, and misused. People do not even know what this word means anymore let alone even understand why someone can be impeached. Are mean tweets an impeachable offense? Nope, not even close. It's actually very difficult to get impeached, and it is not a process to be taken lightly nor a term you should throw around just because you don't like someone's hair. Yet some throw this word around like they water their gardens.....ever day. It's lost it's impact.

3.) Rape - Sexual Harassment - #MeToo I feel bad for the victims of any kind of sexual assault or unwanted advances. The Democrat Party has utilized this word as a weapon against it's political foes, abandoning any principles of Due Process, or Presumption of Innocence. Other associated words like Sexist, Misogynist have also lost their meanings and no longer evoke shock at these acts, nor sympathy for the victims.

Once The Democrat Party decided to weaponize these words, they lost their meaning. Literally criticizing anyone of color for anything becomes racism, and the word then loses its power and meaning. Making a pass at a woman, if unwanted becomes sexual harassment instead of the pursue and catch game that has been played by the sexes for centuries, and Impeachment is just another way of saying I Hate You, and would rather spend my time in vitriol and hatred trying to undermine you and usurp you, than doing the job I was elected to do.

Changing the meaning of words, watering them down, and also adding in to the word salad bowl, political correctness which limits discussion, and effectively bans words, phrases and topics becomes a dangerous trend.

It's a trend that inspired George Orwell to write 1984, where he warns society of a future culture where thought crime and hate speech are literally anything you say and do according to the New Leftist Puritanical View.

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. . . . Even now, of course, there’s no reason or excuse for committing thought-crime. It’s merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won’t be any need even for that"

Orwell, 1984

tell it to Franken and Cuomo

 

[Resnic]

It's also interesting that words are also used to their extreme measures even in non negative ways.

Like simply praising someone they are now a hero, unique, awesome, brave person etc etc. Even for things that done mean anything praise is heaped on using words that according to their definition very high and extreme.

Or even words in a negative way they go right to the extreme. If someone simply says they like trump then they are called a Nazi, a racist bigot, etc.

And everything is an emergency, everything is a major catastrophe, everything is always the most important thing in the history of mankind.

People don't know what kinds of words are appropriate, or know how to use language in moderation, or think about the actual meaning of words. Everything is always just an extreme when it comes to language.

 

[pknopp]

Constitutionally protected civil rights.

 

[The Original Tree]

Constitutionally protected civil rights.

The Left does not respect that.

 

[pknopp]

The Left does not respect that.

They aren't the ones telling people to just relent and allow a police officer to violate your rights.

 

[MarcATL]

Wrong OP.

The only words that don't have any meaning any more are "communism" & "socialism."

People who like to throw them around don't even know what they mean, they're as ignorant as the OP.

 

[The Original Tree]

They aren't the ones telling people to just relent and allow a police officer to violate your rights.

Sure they are. They advocate for that all the time. They are arresting preachers for daring to hold church services.