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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by pessimizer on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @08:23PM (#32933374)
Or we need to stop banning words because people we don't like start using them (correctly, I might add.) It's annoying that once some people started saying that the country was run by a deep state populated by communist lizard child molesters, the reaction was to start insisting that there wasn't a deep state at all.

Maybe we can say military-industrial complex? Nice, venerable, well-established phrase, notably popularized by a president during his final words as a president.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad? by troutwine on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @08:46PM (#32933534)
> Or we need to stop banning words because people we don't like start using them (correctly, I might add.)

Who is banning words? At least in the US you have every right to say 'deep state' all you want but it probably doesn't mean in other people's minds what you might want anymore. I mean, it's the way of language evolution that when a phrase picks up a much different and negative connotation from what it had previously people stop using it.

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