If you had the power to administer small but mildly unpleasant electrical shocks to a user whenever they used a specific word, phrase, or rhetorical tactic on the internet, what would you target?
If you had the power to administer small but mildly unpleasant electrical shocks to a user whenever they used a specific word, phrase, or rhetorical tactic on the internet, what would you target?
My practical answer would be, of course, right wing shit, period. It wouldn't stop them but might slow their spread.
My fun/funny/unserious answer would be commission an algorithm to monitor Reddit so I don't have to that keeps track of exceedingly popular passive-aggressive and smug ways to start and end sentences and takes the top percentiles of them and makes them the shockers of the week. It would make Lemmyverse liberals a lot less redundant as a side effect, too. 
"Umm, I'm sorry, honestly, but let's be honest here. It's almost as if..."
"Wow, vitriol much?"
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Whenever someone misuses the word "logic" to mean "reason(albe/ing) because they don't know what logic is, which would make the word almost unused. Would be so nice.