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I like the idea of "hijacking words". For example, there's the word "Fascist". The Leftwingtards have been telling a lie for many years that that this relates to little more than a specific political or party affiliation ~ e.g. the Nazis, which was opposed to the Socialists (or Commies).

In reality the word "Fascist" refers to something other than a political party ~ instead, it refers to a behavior, and to a belief system underlying how rules should be imposed.

Because the term "Fascist" describes behavior and not political affiliation, it's fair to use it to describe the behavior of Democrats, Socialists, Communists and Shining Path! It can be applied to Royalists and traditional Moslems in non-democratic states.

We've pretty well "hijacked" the term here at FR to the degree that others outside the FR counter-conspiracy are beginning to adopt the term for the same purposes.

We probably need to work a little harder to nail down "teabagger", meaning "a winner", and I think the path to that salubrious eventually was shown with the expression provided by another Freeper yesterday ~ to wit: "Better a TEABAGGER than a TEABAGEE."

Muawiyah:
An excellent description of the origins of Fascism can be seen here on Free Republic by searching for “Sindicalism is alive and well in Washington.” Googling the same string of words will get you there too. The symbol chosen by Mussolini was from ancient Rome, and depicted a bundle of sticks tied around the outside of the handle of a battle ax. —— JWThinkwright

I would rather not “own” the term ‘teabagger’ nor turn its meaning around to be something good. Instead I’d rather point out how utterly coarse and cruel the leftists are, calling other people’s Grandmas and small children the equivalent of ‘c***suckers.’

They think it ‘cute’ to call our children and grandparents names referring to oral sex. THAT should be our response. Even liberals do not like their elderly and kids called such names. Their own grenade lobbed back into their tent at the last minute...