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We all know that the west uses two different words for the same thing depending on where it is happening.

e.g. Secret Police vs Plainclothes Officer
Regime vs Government

Can we have a compilation thread of these words? I am probably using many of them unconsciously without critical examination.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Paid volunteers vs mercenaries

White nationalism vs white supremacist

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

The Dictator's hand-picked successor.

The President's endorsement.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

our riots vs their protests for freedom

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

The various ways they avoid using "oligarch" for westerns. Western Billionaire, entrepreneur, etc, whereas it's always "Russian Oligarchs."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Defector/refugee - Illegal immigrant
Community service - Forced labor
Liberation - Occupation
Enhanced interrogation techniques - Torture

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Community service is not forced labour 💀

You mean prison labour is forced labour. Community service is when they make dumbass teens arrested for something like vandalism or underage drinking, go and work at a soup kitchen, or pick up garbage off the side of the road as punishment.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Their authoritarianism vs our law and order.

Their warcrime vs our collateral damage.

Their dictator vs our leader.

Their reeducation vs our rehabilitation.

Their state media vs our public media.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Their state media vs our public media.

you mean the free independent press (all 5 companies)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

The dictator vs our leader is huge. The way all westoid brained people talk about Putin, or Xi, or Kim like they have a personal relationship with them. They act like geopolitics is just based on these individuals personal whims

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

oligarchy - entrepreneurs

invasion - humanitarian intervention

indoctrination - common sense

surveillance - CCTV

attacking free press - defending national security

racial profiling/transphobia - stopping cultural marxism

freedom fighters - terrorists

united states - america

football - soccer

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

There's just a kajillion of them:

Their Stasi Vs our neighborhood watch

Their whataboutism Vs our providing important context

Their unaccountable regime security forces Vs our police officer who feared for his safety

Their re-education Vs our cult deprogramming

Their GULAG Vs our federal bureau of prisons

Their prison camps Vs our prisons

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

our 'hard-hitting journalism', their 'state-funded propaganda'

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Our prison, their prison camp

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

"internment camp" might be good to plug here

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'll start the thread.

Billionaire vs Oligarch
Custom vs Ritual
Freedom fighter vs Terrorist
Anime vs Cartoon

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anime vs Cartoon

It appears you have chosen violence.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

cartoon sounds derogatory like "its just a cartoon" but anime sounds like a legitimate genre, although I guess it depends on how old you are

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All cartoons are called anime in Japan. Same goes for comics and manga. It's literally just the Japanese words for the media. People outside of Japan just use the words to refer to Japanese and Japanese-inspired animation and comics.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a lot of loanwords that work the same way too. Katana is just the Japanese word for sword, so in Japanese, it's correct to say that Excalibur is a katana.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Katana is just the Japanese word for sword, so in Japanese, it's correct to say that Excalibur is a katana.

very-smart Actually, Excalibur is double-sided, so it is a 剣/tsurugi.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, but a tsurugi is a type of katana so it's both