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tishaLA

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10. I was just about to post something very similar
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 01:58 AM
Jul 2025

Call it the everglades internment camp or detention center. Journalists too willingly use their discursive paradigms, like the did with the budget bill that's gutting Medicare, Medicaid, and SNAP. Even our names for it, like big ugly bill or whatever, used the administration's name as a referent.

I know this is somewhat tangential but I feel like the reflexive use of their terminology puts us at an immediate disadvantage.

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When the press calls it by that name in quotes BaronChocula Jul 2025 #9
I was just about to post something very similar tishaLA Jul 2025 #10
Not tangential at ALL BaronChocula Jul 2025 #12
See also: Obamacare JonAndKatePlusABird Jul 2025 #13
Evidently it is official in Florida dalton99a Jul 2025 #16
Also official in florida BaronChocula Jul 2025 #22
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