• VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    After guns were banned worldwide the word shoot became seen as a powerfully dark and terrible word while words describing normal body.functions lost shock value especially as improvements in health and diet made the substances themselves less disgusting.

    If it was a mild problem he might have said ‘shit’ like we’d say ‘oh god’ which was once seen as real swearing. the puritanism based around sexuality and misogyny is long since faded in their future so fuck, cunt, removed, are all out, but to evoke images of the bloody conflicts and brutal murders of the past is a real shock to the system like ‘wow this situation is so bad it makes me want to return to the psychotic olden days when people would shoot each other’