• came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    6 days ago

    nah, it totally applies to invidious in this instance. i wouldn’t use uncommon/archaic words to communicate to a broad audience in a press release about public policy. it defeats the point.

    i am certain this usage originated with some Carmine Lupertazzi Jr. type bozo dictating the press release, meaning to say “insidious”, but once it passed spell check / could be shoehorned in, they just went with it because what assistant in this shitshow wants to question the unqualified genius of any of these assholes.