hnlmorg 14 hours ago

That doesn’t mean what everyone is familiar with it. For example I’ve been around since internet slang first developed a life of its own. And yet I wasn’t immediately familiar with SJW either.

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  • firesteelrain 13 hours ago

    By the time you commented you could have at least searched for the acronym or asked AI.

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    • hnlmorg 8 hours ago

      I wasn’t the one who asked.

      But even if I were, you’re not accounting for the cumulative benefit saving others from having to research the same acronym.

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      • firesteelrain 8 hours ago

        Let’s get real, they can search. HN doesn’t have a repo of acronyms and this isn’t a technical document where you need to spell out the acronym on first use

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  • barotalomey 12 hours ago

    In 2025, most online users have learned how to look things up using.. the internet.

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    • maigret 12 hours ago

      Of course, but if everyone does it, it is very inconvenient to read and in some case leaves unnecessary space for misunderstanding. Usually, acronyms are followed by the full wording the first time they are mentioned.

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      • barotalomey 12 hours ago

        > Usually, acronyms are followed by the full wording the first time they are mentioned.

        I'm sure they did at the time this (SJW) acronym got popular. That was maybe 10-15 years ago.

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        • hnlmorg 8 hours ago

          SWJ wasn’t a popular acronym 10 years (let alone 15) ago in the online communities I hung around in. ;)

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maigret 12 hours ago

Thanks. Seems to be a US-centric word from my understanding then.

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jijijijij 14 hours ago

While this is true, I don't think I have heard/read it once in more than a year, maybe five, actually. It's not used anymore. Pretty much anyone not MAGA has become "leftist", these days.

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ashoeafoot 11 hours ago

Usually hijacked and paid by quatar, russia or china. Its always fascinating how fast that im against injustice at home chute leads to "i support a monstrous regime abroad".

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  • jimmaswell 11 hours ago

    The cognitive dissonance can be disturbing. A frightening number of people never grew past a child's logic of "X has problems -> X is the worst thing ever -> if I hate X then that must mean I love the opposite of X" and suddenly they're a trans activist (which is a good thing, to be clear) frothing at the mouth in absolutist terms to defend people who want them dead..

    Someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I can appraise the situation, Israel sucks and has a somewhat higher incidence of committing war crimes than other western countries, but Palestine would suck even worse if you switched their places around, the only thing holding them back from committing much worse atrocities being lack of resources, going by their human rights record and direct statements from their leadership. Israel isn't executing anyone for being gay for example. But out of many factors, one being some left leaning people taking the mental shortcut that the anti-American option is always more intellectual and "owns the conservatives", we've ended up in this nonsense scenario.

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