Over the last week I could swear I’ve seen way more 
types suddenly throwing around the word troglodyte left right and centre
Maybe it’s the latest way of writing us off
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You’re all bots!
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You may not be bots, but you’re all paid agents!
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You may not be paid agents, but you’re all blindly ideological tankies!
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You may not be blindly ideological, but you’re all terminally online basement dwellers!
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3 years into a global pandemic? You’re gall durn right I’m a shut in.
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I suppose it’s just another one of those words that makes ebic bacon redditeurs feel smart when using it
They’ll switch to something else next week lol
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Gaslighting disinformation whataboutism
Chinese bot.
Strawman.
Civil.
I love that Liturgy song though.
Empirical
Abhor
Vehemently
Lol true
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Why the fuck is “troglodyte” an offensive word anyways, seriously, underground dwellings are great for temperature, noise, security, energy efficiency, environmental friendliness, cost of construction, disaster preparedness, you name it, they’ve been used by countless peoples since the dawn of mankind because they’re a genuinely great form of housing, honestly we should fucking ALL be troglodytes instead of deforesting the world to build fucking suburbs killing the planet filling the sky with so much light pollution and actual pollution that I can’t even see the fucking stars half the time. The McMansion and its consequences have been a disas
troglodyte spotted
Well, the housing co-op where I live was actually built into the side of a hill, but not really in a cave dwelling type of way. So I guess I’m more of a half-troglodyte who spends a bizarre amount of time fantasizing about becoming a full troglodyte.
I’m pretty sure you’re describing a hobbit
Honestly, I kinda wish. Thatched roofs would be nice and aren’t too uncommon in this part of the world.
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I live in a below street row house and it destroyed my mood. Humans are meant to see light.
Cave dwellings throughout history have generally had pretty good natural lighting, incidentally, since ancient humans had an even greater need for natural light than modern humans do. Your below street row house having poor enough natural lighting to basically drive a man to depression I’m willing to guess is a lot more to do with cost-cutting on the housing market than anything, honestly.
With fiber optic cables directing sunlight miles underground, we could build a rad troggie community [edit: is troggie a slur? because it sounds bad but also I just made it up]
Our slur filter captures words I didn’t know before, if it didn’t catch troggie you’re safe.
idk man golum seems pretty happy
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It’s a conspiracy by big housing.
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Favorite part of federation was the one liberal who couldn’t contain their rabid racism anymore and started unironically doing the “Shling Shong Winnie the Pooh” bit
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I thought it was supposed to be a sound a gorilla makes. Anyway, whether it should be changed or not, “unga” currently sits as the standard term in the fgc for characters with excessively safe moves (who thereby enable button mashing, mindless offense, hence gorillas).
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The fgc is profoundly sexist, but it’s very multiracial, with a particularly large proportion of black members, including the NB person who is currently held as the best in the genre, sonicfox. It’s possible that I just don’t know the origin, but I wouldn’t guess that it was something anti-black because then there would probably be more pushback against it.
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Absolutely, and I’m glad for what they do. I would think since they are pretty outspoken that they or another community figure would say something if there was an issue, even if that lead to r/kappa using the term even more because their only belief is chauvinist contrarianism.
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I’ve seen it going around, but only in reference to video game strategies that amount to “forget strategy, just go hit it until it dies”
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Its common in fighting games for characters who have a simple strategy or are seen as “mashy”
To be fair, our go-to insult for reactionaries is C.H.U.D.
Trogged up and PROUD.
I never understood why they have one eye
Yeah, they’re nowhere close to how they’re described in the bible.
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There’s actually a early build of the arcade version floating around that plays pretty differently from the final iteration of the game. Interesting stuff.
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They look cool but their defining trait is smelling so bad it literally harms you
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same
Yeah that’s pretty bad ass tbh
While we’re at RPGs, trog as the short form of troglodyte is a racist slur used against orks and trolls in the Shadowrun setting. In-universe, it’s also n-word levels of offensive, particularly because orks and trolls are the main racialized other within the game world. So as somebody who’s not a first language English speaker and has never seen any use of the term troglodyte outside of TTRPGs at all, it comes off super fucking weird (to say the least) when half of the redditors on here are suddenly using what i know mostly as the cyber-tolkien slur as their favorite insult.
Sounds like a dog whistle for “sub-human” fascist language imo
They are clearly taking a radical housing modernization position, attaching negative connotation to cave-dwelling due to its vulnerability to earthquakes. In a word, psyop.
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I feel like it’s been a popular 10-dollar insult for a while - something that makes you feel clever because your interlocutor has to spend the 30 seconds a dictionary search takes these days to look it up. The higher prevalence is probably a sign that there’s more teenagers around and you should just respond by telling them that sesquipedalianism is a coital impediment.
Rpgs have poisoned my brain. I’ve always known troglodyte bc it’s a dnd monster from 40ish years ago.
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They apparently haven’t heard of the euphemism treadmill. Doesn’t matter what they’re saying as an insult now, because through enough use, it will become the new bad thing you shouldn’t say, and they will have been the ones saying it.
It’s just better to not insult and to use the right word for the right moment.
Chud is synonymous with troglodyte.
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Hits too close to home for them nowadays
I’ve been using it for a while in real life to refer to who we normally call ghouls. Maybe they all got it from me?
A few years ago the mexican president wacked the leader of the oposition on christmas eve. And while amlo has his flaws the otber guy was a genuine fascist. So i said good ridance and people called me a troglodyte
I think this makes the most sense.
When i was a kid i wanted to be like saint francis asis because he lived in a cave and could talk with woodland creatures. So in a way ive always wanted to be a troglodyte.
I’ve been using that word for ages. Aaah I’M THE LIB
Pretty sure it’s the same group of people who were saying sch*zo 2 weeks ago.
