- Bribery/corruption vs lobbying
- Oligarch vs job creator
- Warlord vs leader/general
- Preventable deaths are social murder
- Propaganda vs public relations
- Terrorist/guerilla and freedom fighter just depends on which side of the violence you're on
- Any use of the term "extremist"
- And the worst is that they call their fascists "neoliberals"
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Prime minister and Supreme leader are literally synonyms yet have such wildly different implications.
I'll start the thread.
Billionaire vs Oligarch
Custom vs Ritual
Freedom fighter vs Terrorist
Anime vs Cartoon
Anime vs Cartoon
It appears you have chosen violence.
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
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.
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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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
our 'hard-hitting journalism', their 'state-funded propaganda'
Their regime, our administration
Our prison, their prison camp
"internment camp" might be good to plug here
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
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.
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Defector/refugee - Illegal immigrant
Community service - Forced labor
Liberation - Occupation
Enhanced interrogation techniques - Torture
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.
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Internship vs unpaid labor
security forces vs police
i like using that one about america, it makes liberals weirdly defensive lol
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The various ways they avoid using "oligarch" for westerns. Western Billionaire, entrepreneur, etc, whereas it's always "Russian Oligarchs."
On that note: "bribery" and "lobbying"
Immigrant vs Expat
our riots vs their protests for freedom
Assassination/targeted killing and mercenary/contractor legit make me furious. Up there with "enhanced interrogation".
Oh yeah mercenary/private military corporation contractor is insanity
The Dictator's hand-picked successor.
The President's endorsement.
Defence contractor vs weapons manufacturer
Used depending on who's buying weapons from whom
Paid volunteers vs mercenaries
White nationalism vs white supremacist
In terms of Israel: Skirmishes vs terrorist attacks
freedom fighters vs terrorists
Media really had a field day with these over the last 20 years.
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Our routine missile test vs their provocative missile launch
Terrorists vs freedom fighters
dictator vs president
First thing that comes to mind is "prison camps" vs just "prison." Will edit some more in when I remember them.
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