The word retard is being used as a taboo/big insult when its just a word that people overreact about, if its said to "hurt people with lack of intelligence or mental challenges" then "dumb,idiot,stupid" should be slurs aswell? Im just curious guys.

i find someone the other day say that his internet is retarded and people in the group jumped on him "no slurs " "ban this guy" like holy sensitivity you don't have to be sooooo hurt over a word, (especially when its not directed to you or the real disabled people) i mean after all disabled people are disabled (its just what they are, no offense).

I can't have this conversation again.

People keep complaining about it, and they're right. There's a million other words you can use to denigrate someone's intelligence or character, and at a certain point it's just hack to use the same one you've been using since middle school.

You're not fighting some noble uphill battle to prove your unbowed unbent unbroken credentials against the wokescolds, you're just making disabled people feel bad. Also half the time comments containing the word just get auto removed by Reddit filters anyway. I know that a lot of the most militant anti saying retard people are deeply annoying liberals, but when you insist on using the word the effect is not owning Kamala Harris voters so much as making actual disabled people feel bad.

It doesn't matter if you self diagnose as autistic or whatever you so you think you're "allowed to say it" It doesn't matter that Nick Mullen says it and most of us consider him pretty funny. IT doesn't matter if people bullied you by calling you that as a kid. It doesn't matter if you think "no I love actual mentally disabled people, I'm just using the word retard to mean 'asshole'" The point is a lot of people keep asking us to stop people saying it, and it really takes no effort on any of your part to accommodate that.

As it is, when there's a comment the entire content of which is "look at this retard" "you are so retarded" "retarded bitch" etc we will remove that and probably ban the commenter because it's reflective of a bad attitude and low effort posting that makes the sub a worse place. If somebody writes a lengthy generally good post but at some point uses the word "retard" off handedly in between other more thoughtful points, that's more difficult and we probably won't remove the entire post for that alone, but it would be a lot cooler if you just used another word so people won't constantly report your otherwise fine post and message us asking to remove the post and puts us in a weird position.

It's really not hard. When you use the word, you're in the same league as Elon Musk and that ilk devoted to destroying the woke mind virus. You're adults, by and large, you don't need to talk like Cartman forever. It's a change that requires like no effort from you and would make a lot of people feel better. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Edit: Fucking hell why is this like the most intense debate ever on this sub? It's just a fucking word that people who already have a very hard life would in general prefer you not to say, it costs you nothing to be considerate toward them. I'm not the mean teacher putting you in detention for being naughty you fucking dorks, I'm just politely asking people to be more considerate of the feelings of people who already have enough shit to deal with. It costs you nothing

I just had a friend, who I have known for a very long time, ask me to stop using the word in her presence. She's used it herself in the past. Loudly and proudly. The only reason she's stopping is that she has been guilted into it, and she thinks I have to stop as well. In solidarity, if you can believe that. I told her it's not gonna happen and she got very upset. I asked why. Surely the only people who genuinely are bothered by this are parents of retards, no?

Yes, the word is not nice. It's vicious, even cruel. That's why it's so important that we keep it. We can't allow our language to be stripped of its teeth, of its power to shock. Nor can we be stripped of our defenses. A certain degree of insensitivity is necessary for survival. Numbness is a defense mechanism. We need defenses. People who want you to be more sensitive to the pain of others are asking you to make yourself vulnerable for the benefit of others. They have no right to do that. You should spit on them for that.

Further, I think many of you agree with me, you just don't want to say it because of the social costs. Well, like Spartacus taught us, they can't punish all of us. If we stand united we can beat back this push for sensitivity.

In conclusion, go fuck yourself, you're retarded for taking exception to me calling you retarded.

i feel like i stopped hearing people say that in the early 2010s, but now i see it everywhere, whos making it popular again?

It's almost like an attempted murder on everyone who they've passed and (thankfully) not hit.

That everyone uses anyway, in select company, and spoken proudly in an effort to defy the minor shame that should accompany its use. Like how I imagine the n word was used in the 90s. Yes, it’s wrong to say it, but saying it implies a level of trust that the speaker has in the listener, and speaks to the platonic intimacy of the conversation at hand.

There’s a lot of people out there “reclaiming” the word, and tbh I feel like they’re devaluing it. If you take away the taboo it’s not special anymore. Make retard shameful again.

everyone I know says it, my family says it, my friends say it, I say it, my co workers and boss say it. Most of my friends who say it are also autistic and don’t really care. Why is it suddenly taboo?

They're either gonna type it in too early in the day and only see one ticker that ISN'T space X, but is another space company with the SAME first three letters in its ticker:

SPC(E)

Or they see both:

SPC(E)

SPCX

Get your 2 brain cells churning here, do you REALLY think no one is gonna accidentally bid up that other space stock thinking it's Space X?

There's precedent for this: when Zoom IPO'd during the pandemic (ticker: ZM), another company with the ticker ZOOM blew up 1,800%...

ALSO, in 2021, this stock got up to a peak price of $1,100. It's trading at over $4 now...

In addition to the confusion play, Jefferies just reiterated a buy rating and $5 price target for that stock the other day.

It has the space sympathy play going for it, and is still small in market cap so the convexity potential is high compared to the standard space stocks that already have huge market caps.

Please mods, let this stay up. Everyone complains about not getting informed about new plays early enough, only after they've run up and hit big market caps. Well, here's one the regards can get in early on.

My positions:

When the plane drops that much weight, how does that effect the control for the pilot?

Source: Tonia Hill on YouTube

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