Depends. I’m not big on prescriptivism, and pedantry is fun but counterproductive, but at the end of the day, language is a tool of communication. If you let people fuck with it too much it breaks down, and you end up in a loop of “-No, socialism doesn’t work-Norway works-No, that’s not socialism-OK, let’s do that-No, socialism doesn’t work-”. Like, in this thread, you have a jackass who thinks “drug legislation”, whatever that is, is an inherently leftist position. One thread over, you’re talking to a jackass who thinks rent control is left wing economics, and doesn’t even read your reply if you don’t follow the Leftist owned-ass script he’s been rehearsing in his head since he saw Ben Shapiro do it. If you let people make up what words mean, they’ll build themselves a whole alternate reality and get lost in the sauce completely.
Depends. I’m not big on prescriptivism, and pedantry is fun but counterproductive, but at the end of the day, language is a tool of communication. If you let people fuck with it too much it breaks down, and you end up in a loop of “-No, socialism doesn’t work-Norway works-No, that’s not socialism-OK, let’s do that-No, socialism doesn’t work-”. Like, in this thread, you have a jackass who thinks “drug legislation”, whatever that is, is an inherently leftist position. One thread over, you’re talking to a jackass who thinks rent control is left wing economics, and doesn’t even read your reply if you don’t follow the Leftist owned-ass script he’s been rehearsing in his head since he saw Ben Shapiro do it. If you let people make up what words mean, they’ll build themselves a whole alternate reality and get lost in the sauce completely.