Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) urged her Democratic colleagues to stop attacking the "oligarchy," arguing that the word did not resonate with most Americans.
  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Yes they mean something different. If you go ask 5 random people what an oligarch is, at least one is likely not to know what it means.

    The “woke” reputation stuff is also a little weird, but there again, the people using it as an insult probably don’t have a good working definition.

    It’s easy to say “words have meaning” but lots of people, even left leaning ones, don’t always know what those meanings are.

    • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      I’m not saying ‘words have meaning.’

      I’m saying we create meaning and we should not just give in to the fascists’ definitions.

      They do not define us.