The word degenerate doesn't have any meaning, and says more about the people saying it than the people it's being said about. It's too self involved. It's cringe. It implies self righteousness. Which implies taking yourself too seriously. Which implies that you're a nutter or at the very least a zealot. It suggests two classes of human beings and dehumanizes the second class. People are too complex now to buy into that type of rhetoric. This may have been a more useful word in the 1700s.
The reason that neo-marxist works is because it tells you that it's not the same marxism, but it's the same in principle. Don't think of it as that old-timey marxism you were taught in class, but some new thing. But the best part of it is that it associates marxism with nazism, and carries over that negative connotation. Simply because there was a neo-nazi phase back in the 80s/90s and any political term that has neo in front of it is going invoke the negative propaganda (real or imagined) associated with nazis that's been shoved down everyone's throat for the last 80 years now stop. However, this ruse may be too apparent and fail in the real world simple because people will immediately dismiss it.
Nonsense! The word degenerate is literally anything that doesn't generate the generations, which secures the future, and gives rise to civilization. People engaging in homosexuality, pedophilia, bestiality and whoremongering are degenerate because their activity produces no offspring.
These degenerates are selfish hedonists who want the benefits and pleasures of living in civilization without the hard work of investment through marriage, homemaking, stability...and children. Theirs is a world without a future; they live in a perpetual state of self-absorbed present.
I don't think you understand how words work. You just sound like some christian zealot. No one cares about Christian dogma, we care about not getting murdered by communists. This isn't about a giant circle jerk of your friends. It's about convincing people who don't think like you.
However, this whole conversation is dumb, because we're way past trying to convince anyone of jack shit. People are where they are and the numbers are large enough on either side. What we need now is leadership, planning, and action and less trying to be clever, make memes, and trying to show an imaginary third party the other side's inconsistencies.
neo-marxist is a great term.
degenerates is most accurate
The word degenerate doesn't have any meaning, and says more about the people saying it than the people it's being said about. It's too self involved. It's cringe. It implies self righteousness. Which implies taking yourself too seriously. Which implies that you're a nutter or at the very least a zealot. It suggests two classes of human beings and dehumanizes the second class. People are too complex now to buy into that type of rhetoric. This may have been a more useful word in the 1700s.
The reason that neo-marxist works is because it tells you that it's not the same marxism, but it's the same in principle. Don't think of it as that old-timey marxism you were taught in class, but some new thing. But the best part of it is that it associates marxism with nazism, and carries over that negative connotation. Simply because there was a neo-nazi phase back in the 80s/90s and any political term that has neo in front of it is going invoke the negative propaganda (real or imagined) associated with nazis that's been shoved down everyone's throat for the last 80 years now stop. However, this ruse may be too apparent and fail in the real world simple because people will immediately dismiss it.
Nonsense! The word degenerate is literally anything that doesn't generate the generations, which secures the future, and gives rise to civilization. People engaging in homosexuality, pedophilia, bestiality and whoremongering are degenerate because their activity produces no offspring.
These degenerates are selfish hedonists who want the benefits and pleasures of living in civilization without the hard work of investment through marriage, homemaking, stability...and children. Theirs is a world without a future; they live in a perpetual state of self-absorbed present.
Case in point, LN Degenerate.
See, you make me want to join the degenerates.
I don't think you understand how words work. You just sound like some christian zealot. No one cares about Christian dogma, we care about not getting murdered by communists. This isn't about a giant circle jerk of your friends. It's about convincing people who don't think like you.
However, this whole conversation is dumb, because we're way past trying to convince anyone of jack shit. People are where they are and the numbers are large enough on either side. What we need now is leadership, planning, and action and less trying to be clever, make memes, and trying to show an imaginary third party the other side's inconsistencies.