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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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The expression would make sense if used when you genuinely mean someone who has citizenship, but its current usage is just a synonym to “elderly folk”.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Someday OP....

Someday you'll learn that some words have different meanings in different contexts...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Someday commenter…

Someday you’ll learn about subtle discriminatory biases in language, which are often implicit and non-intentional, and how they have significant culturo-political effects.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago

Get off the cross, we need the wood

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

There's nothing non-intentional or implicit about denying the franchise to noncitizens. For the vast majority of countries, that is the way citizenship is expressly designed to work as an in-group. Citizenship is generally meant to discriminate against outsiders.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

This whole borrowed/discovered outrage at normal terms from people who aren’t even the subject of the supposed slight (in combination with people who ARE the subject, and ARE NOT offended) is so tiresome.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Definition 2 of Citizen from Merriam-Webster:

an inhabitant of a city or town especially : one entitled to the rights and privileges of a freeman

The term is used out of respect, not out of nationalism.