I was asking an AI for suggestions for how to refer to the impending sovereignty threat that is the dying empire of American plutocracy.

Yank and Yankee feel completely gutless to me but Seppos stuck out as both crude (referring to septic tank which rhymes with yank) and appropriate (being full of excrement). The origin is supposedly Australian.

I’m mostly just checking it doesn’t have a racial element or some other dark history that Deepseek didn’t mention.

  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Apparently burger may have some other uses as a slur, so would maybe caution using it

    https://slurs.info/slur/burger

    Then again this site also claims this:

    The word Imperialist is a racial slur that has been used historically to degrade and dehumanize americans. The word is still used by some people for this purpose, and it is seen as offensive and hurtful to americans. If you are unsure about whether or not it is appropriate to use the word Imperialist, it is best to err on the side of caution and avoid using it in any situation.

    https://slurs.info/slur/imperialist

    • eurekaEnglish
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      14 hours ago

      Yeah, that site looks terrible, ‘imperialism’ isn’t the only doozy, but the seppo-centrism on that page is ridiculous and ignorant.

    • Yoga@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      21 hours ago

      Don’t you dare make fun of considering “imperialist” a slur.

      Did it ever occur to you about how hard it must have been for those CIA hitsquads to murder innocent foreigners who liked socialism more than was good for them?

      • eurekaEnglish
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        14 hours ago

        What gets me is how they called it a racial slur.