• BruceTwarzen@kbin.social
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    Usually i play really dumb and ask what it means. Usually that’s enough, because they often have no idea, because they just heard it somewhere.

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      Same deal with woke, CRT, Marxist, or whatever thought terminating cliche is the lunatics’ flavour of the month.

      They use these terms as a means of avoiding thinking about what they’re saying - the meaninglessness is the point… and they’re too infected with brain worms to realise.

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        it’s been at least a year since I first encountered CRT

        it still reads as some cryptic gender reassignment technique to me

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          Cathode ray tube. It’s a type of monitor that’s popular among retro games now, but they’re hard to find after most people stopped making them