this one was a banger

I don’t think he even shot, I think he was wandering around with a gun and the feds started blasting

Yeah the least those losers could do is give themselves a challenge

WE’RE DEPORTING THEM FOLKS, THE DIS-GUSTING CARNISTS, ALL OF THEM FOLKS

https://x.com/SerLava_gaming/status/1821213099711721772

I’m not kidding the corn has been boiling me like a sauna. When I go outside my glasses fog up.

I am being assaulted by exactly this

I am forced to spend much money cooling my place very aggressively at night, literally it is cold in here, but if I don’t keep the mass of everything as cold as possible, then the AC won’t be able to keep up and by 8-9PM the next day it will be 85 degrees inside.

“I can’t afford it” mean something else for other people???

Yes.

Some people have so much money laying around that they don’t really have an excuse not to help people, so they put an arbitrary amount into savings so they can pretend that they don’t have the money they are continually putting away. Just oh I have 1 million dollars and I put 999,999 into that one account, so I actually can’t afford to buy you this hamburger right now.

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The pig fucker himself I’m afraid

Hey well never stop the genocide but maybe robo calls will slow down 👍

One of these times it’ll fucking break, one of these times Boeing will embarrass the wrong people enough times that something will happen, something WILL happen it WILL

YES. The word “die” is being used figuratively to provide a completely alternate meaning, and the word “literal” is used to affirm that the alternate meaning literally happened. If the word “literally” HAS evolved a new definition, it’s “fr fr” and absolutely not “figuratively”.

The word “literal” gets people too wrapped up in the mechanics, and it makes them want to go all fucking Amelia Bedelia everywhere.

Die means to stop functioning, to become weak, to wither. A motor can die. That’s what it means there. In that sentence, the word “literally” is used to affirm that there was an actual shutdown, that the person was really stunned, that they really had some kind of crisis, and that they aren’t just looking back on it with growing embarrassment after the fact and embellishing.

There is some added confusion because most languages really don’t have many words for feelings, so people have had to just borrow words to describe them. Emotional states aren’t inherently figurative - “that literally hurt my feelings” doesn’t refer to like, damage to nerve endings in the skin- “feeling” is just based off a simpler, older word for touch.

And again, it’s exactly the same as the words really, actually, seriously, honestly, unironically, none of which are getting supposedly redefined. I can use the word honestly as part of a lie. I can use the word unironically ironically. I can use the word literally as part of a figurative sentence. The actual individual words don’t need to change at all. You don’t need to “fix” the definition of words people are saying so that you can imagine they are speaking more plainly than they are.

Nobody who says “I literally died” is including the word “literally” because they want to ensure the person that the death w as figurative, that they didn’t have some brief cardiac arrest. Even if they say “BRUH I literally went 6 feet under the ground and fucking ROTTED” they are basically just joking. The word literally itself doesn’t need to change here.

Why not change the word “rotted”?? Oh I guess “rotted” now means “continued living in good health” because otherwise they’d be lying.

And most of all, FUCK. Literally is often an important clarifying word. If people actually start using “left turn” to mean “right turn” you should stop them! That will cause actual problems. Not because it sounds funny to you. Sounding funny is the thing that bothers prescriptivists. If people believe the “literally” propaganda and teach it to enough kids, a very valuable word becomes absolutely unusable and goes to the fucking graveyard like “bi-weekly”

Barely on topic: The idea that “literally” has changed to mean “figuratively” is completely false and is the only instance I know of where people tried so hard to be descriptivists that they failed and did prescription.

The example “I literally died” is referenced the most, but “died” doesn’t even mean “got murdered” here- it means shut down, in an emotional sense.

If someone said “I dropped my pencil in front of everyone, I literally died” someone could say “really though” and the reply would be like “okay yeah not literally, I just got a little flustered over it.”

Literally died means yes, I actually had such strong embarrassment that it mentally incapacitated me, I didn’t just blush.

Actual dictionary writers have misunderstood this and included “figuratively” as an alternate meaning even though nobody has ever used it that way except when they’re talking about descriptivism. It’s actually embarrassing.

Notice that they did not redefine the words seriously, actually, immediately, really, for real, unironically, or honestly. Even though those can all be used in the same situation, “oh my god I seriously died”… Linguists you do not have to edit the dictionary to retroactively prevent people from lying or being imprecise, ok?

Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

AND AND that night was literally the last drink of his life. Absolutely impressive

The American press is even less honest about this shit than the Israeli press.