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The only thing closer to the bottom of this well than the enemy gate is my certainty "genocide" is a real word with how much I've seen it.
So you know how to invent memes about Ender's Game on the fly, but you don't think wiping out an entire species save a single egg is genocide.
I said I've seen the word so much it's started to look fake, you stick in the mud. And yeah, that is genocide, though in Ender's case it was unwittingly done. Bean is more to blame for realizing it and allowing it to continue without making sure Ender was aware by dissolving any remaining doubts he may have had about what they were doing.
That's funny, I see the word "the" all the time and that never made me think it was fake. How come you think words that are used frequently are fake?
What they're referring to is a fairly common phenomenon called semantic satiation, though in this case for visually seeing the word rather than audibly hearing the word.
Semantic satiation occurs on the order of minutes. But they make it sound like it's happened over months. I think they're trying to change the subject to Palestine for no reason and deny the genocide there. I think their thesis is that those are false allegations, and they have eroded this person's trust in the term.
No.
You're so fucking hard stuck on the idea that people must either always accept or deny it, and expect denial when there isn't a form of obvious, clear acceptance, that you immediately jump to the worst conclusions. Literally, as in LITERALLY: Word seen often. Word looks fake. Haha, funny thing, oop Ender Game reference.
This is why we fucking lose elections, I swear. Spending too much time playing smarter than thou to just accept the word of someone else. Better to attack and argue because your opinion is the only correct one.
Fucking of course the ACTUAL GOD DAMN GENOCIDE is bad, you sentient dildo. Oversaturation of a word when seen too much is a grossly common thing. By god your arms must be long for you to stretch reasoning that far.
"On Lemmy, genocide word seen a lot. Oh gosh, the oversaturation! Word look fake cause constantly used."
"HE'S DENYING THE GENOCIDE!"
Fucking correction: The only thing further down the list of shit I'm tired of dealing with than the enemy gate are people who make assumptions and twist logic to fit their narrative. Fuck. We deal with this enough from the MAGA idiots. Dealing with you is like having to wake up on a Monday in a society run into the ground by capitalism.
Funny. How many times have you overlooked the the trick when someone puts too much of a commonly seen word in a sentence?
Or did you miss that I put 2 "the" words in the sentence above?
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps you're taking what I said literally. Using fake in the sense of "does not exist", as opposed to "no longer appearing real". So, when the human mind looks at our world it perceives patterns in every environment we're in. Eyes. Seeing and perceiving. For most of us this is the most prevalent and important sense.
The processing of information is, however, not perfect. Because we are so good at identifying patterns, we quite literally trick ourselves. Sometimes it's because we can ignore a part of our environment safely, other times it's because there is something we identify and can't comprehend visually without more context. In the case of a repeating word, this is reactive inhibition, or to put into context: The brain recognizes that the same process is repeating over and over. It seeks to combat this stimuli by making the reactions from the neurons less responsive. It suppresses the usual reaction.
Thus a word, while real because it's a word, begins to feel as if it's somehow lost its meaning.